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Title: 28 People in a Rooming House - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie recounts the living conditions and the various rooming houses from her childhood in the West End.
Extent: 00:01:32
Subject(s): Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Family
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Barclay Street house:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: On the north side west of Chilco. There is snow on the ground.
Subject(s): Dwellings, Streets, Winter, Snow
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Bathhouse at English Bay:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Many people including a policeman and children on the beach in the foreground. This bathing pavilion was built in 1905.
Subject(s): Police, Children, Buildings, Bathhouses
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1900s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: Beach Afternoons - Interview with Herb Nolan
Contributor(s): Nolan, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Enjoying the beaches around Stanley Park can yield more than just a good time swimming. We would swim from English Bay right around to Third Beach by the bridge and back again, and it used to take about three hours of swimming, but easy swimming you know: breast stroke, side stroke, crawl.
Extent: 00:04:10
Subject(s): English Bay (Vancouver, B.C.), Swimming, Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Beaches, Second Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Third Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Beach Picnics - Interview with Alexandra Nicolas
Contributor(s): Nicolas, Alexandra (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2017-03-31
Language: French
Description: Picnics on Sunset Beach are one of the jewels of West End living. Skunks....not so much. Interview conducted in French. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:01:14
Subject(s): Sunset Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Beaches, Picnics
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Best Four Years of My Life: Memories of King George High School - Interview with Stan Brook
Contributor(s): Brook, Stan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Fond recollections of time spent in a special stone building.
Extent: 00:00:55
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], High schools, Schools, Teachers, Sports
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Business Sense - Interview with Raj Neely:
Contributor(s): Neely, Raj (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-19
Language: English
Description: Raj compares the three neighbourhoods she's lived in: West End, North Van and Kits; she talks about the friendliness of businesses.
Extent: 00:02:20
Subject(s): Small business, Social interaction, Neighbourhoods
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Car accident in front of A.B.C. Grocery, 1701 Robson:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Car accident in front of A.B.C. Grocery, 1701 Robson.
Subject(s): Traffic accidents, A.B.C. Grocery
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Car Tales - Interview with Lorne Findlay:
Contributor(s): Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: As a mechanic during the Second World War and for years after, Lorne Findlay developed a love for classic cars. Here he recalls a tale involving his very first classic car, the Hollow Tree in Stanley Park, and a historic photo shoot. From the South Hill Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
Extent: 00:02:45
Subject(s): Automobiles - Collectors and collecting
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 2010s, 1940s, 1930s
Collection: Story City

Title: Caring Teachers: King George High School - Interview with Gary Pennington
Contributor(s): Pennington, Gary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Gary recalls baseball, basketball, and many more memories of his time at King George High School [1913-1963]
Extent: 00:02:15
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Teachers, Sports, Dance, Teenagers, Active life enthusiasts, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Childhood Freedom - Interview with Akira Horii:
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about the freedom children had in Vancouver back in the 1940s to explore unsupervised, places like Stanley Park and Hastings Park (Pacific National Exhibition grounds).
Extent: 00:00:24
Subject(s): Childhood, Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Couldn't Find a Better Place - Interview with Vince Chessa:
Contributor(s): Chessa, Vince (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: For Vince, you couldn't find a better place to live than the West End.
Extent: 00:00:18
Subject(s): Fish and chips
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The End of the War - Interview with Jack Ford:
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: The end of World War II brought revelry and celebration into the streets of Downtown Vancouver. “Trucks where … every inch of the truck was full with people … they were blowin’ the horn and yelling and hugging and kissing”.
Extent: 00:01:11
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Exploring and Playing in the Magic Square Mile - Interview with Bob Adamson:
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Bob describes the fun he and his friends had living on the sands of English Bay, exploring the trails of Stanley Park, learning to golf and swim and waiting for the nine o'clock gun to go off.
Extent: 00:02:33
Subject(s): Playing, Sports, Swimming, Beaches, Golf, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Finding Language and Community - Interview with Gabriella Exarchoulis
Contributor(s): Exarchoulis, Gabriella (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Gabriella Exarchoulis speaks about going to the Parthenon Market for Greek foodstuffs, to Nelson Park to talk to other Greek immigrants, and the picnics at Peace Arch Park.
Extent: 0:01:58
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Parthenon Market, Greek Day (Festival)
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: For the Love of Tugboats - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: All my friends were teaming up with boys and I wasn't; I was down in False Creek, hitching rides on tugboats. I was crazy about tugboats.
Extent: 00:04:40
Subject(s): Boats and boating, Booms (Log transportation), Tugboats, Money
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Fun at the Second Beach Playground - Interview with Ellen Gillis:
Contributor(s): Gillis, Ellen (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Ellen describes the good times she and her friends had at the Second Beach Playground including learning the rules of the road through the Stanley Park Traffic School.
Extent: 00:01:31
Subject(s): Stanley Park Traffic School, Playing, Parks, Active life enthusiasts, Children
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Get Outdoors! - Interview with Siddharth Sadashiv:
Contributor(s): Sadashiv, Siddharth (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-14
Language: English
Description: Siddharth, new to the city, has already found surefire ways to increase his happiness by taking advantage of some of the unique characteristics of Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:05
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Social interaction, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Gordon House - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: In October 1942, the old Crofton House School becomes Gordon House; an important hang out and refuge for West End kids. What we would do in the evenings, we’d go to Gordon House where there was sports, there was boxing, there was basketball, there was arts and crafts, painting; that sort of thing.
Extent: 00:01:22
Subject(s): Housing, Playing, Sports, Gordon House (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Governer General Sauve at Stanley Park:
Contributor(s): Gluckman, Dr. John (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1986
Description: Governor General Sauve at Stanley Park.
Subject(s): Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Governors general, Sauvé, Jeanne Mathilde
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Expo Retro