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Title: Growing Up in a Neighbourhood Full of Parks and Beaches - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann describes the simple pleasures of her West End childhood; being able to explore the parks and beaches while growing up there.
Extent: 00:00:58
Subject(s): Housing, Parks, Beaches, Bison, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Impacts of WWII - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In the traumatic time of WWII; rationing, blackouts, and wartime propaganda impacted young lives. We had the rationing, we had food shortages; you couldn't get a new tube of toothpaste unless you turned in an old tube of toothpaste.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Japanese Canadian Internment, Food supply, Blackouts in war
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: It Was a Good School - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann Frost talks about the activities of the students at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:03:48
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Dance, Sports, High schools, Schools, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Living in a Shared House - Interview with Ann Frost (Part 1 of 2)
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann shares her memories of growing up in shared housing and the living conditions of the times.
Extent: 00:03:19
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Living in a Shared House - Interview with Ann Frost (Part 2 of 2)
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ann shares her memories of growing up in shared housing and the living conditions of the times.
Extent: 00:03:19
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with Ann Frost
Contributor(s): Frost, Ann (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Storytellers recall what they remember from that eventful day on March 6th, 1945 when the freighter Greenhill Park exploded in Vancouver Harbour. There were glass windows all over Hastings Street. Half the windows in Spencer's Department Store blew out on to Cordova Street. It was a huge explosion.
Extent: 00:00:43
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories