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Title: High School Memories: King George High School - Interview with Delaine and Glenn Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Delanie and Glenn Mackenzie recount their experiences at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:02:00
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Dance, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Horse and cowboy in barber shop:
Contributor(s): Jones, Art (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1949-05-06
Description: Horse and cowboy in barber shop [across from the Balmoral Hotel].
Subject(s): Horses, Cowboys, Barbershops, Barbers, Kelly's Barbershop
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Houses of Suites - Interview with Glenn & Delaine Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee), Mackenzie, Delaine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Two different houses converted to suites, and how the neighbourhood changed around them.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): Family, Money, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Yards
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: I Loved My West End Years - Interview with Glenn Mackenzie:
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: For Glenn, living in the West End was fabulous!
Extent: 00:00:11
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: I Wanted to Stay In School Forever - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie shares memories of her years at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:00:42
Subject(s): Sports, Teachers, High schools, Schools, King George High School [1913-1963], Teenagers, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Immigrating to Vancouver from Croatia - Interview with Lolita Sartorello:
Contributor(s): Sartorello, Lolita (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-06
Language: English
Description: Lolita Sartorello tells how she arrived in Vancouver from her home in Croatia. She had been slated to be sent to any number of cities as a refugee. She recalls how lucky she felt when she was sent to Vancouver. She moved to the Hastings-Sunrise neighbourhood.
Extent: 00:02:32
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees
Location(s): Hastings-Sunrise
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

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: Interior Chesterfield Salon, West Broadway:
Contributor(s): Jones, Art (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1948
Description: Interior Chesterfield Salon, West Broadway, upholstering chairs, cutting fabric, sewing machine operators.
Subject(s): Furniture workers, Upholstery trade, Upholstery trade - Employees, Furniture industry and trade, Factories
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Interior, Townhouse Beauty Salon:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1950
Description: Interior, Townhouse Beauty Salon, 627 Hornby Street, women under hair driers being served tea.
Subject(s): Beauty shops, Interior architecture, Women, Tea, Townhouse Beauty Salon
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Interior Vancouver News Herald Newspaper:
Contributor(s): Jones, Art (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1948
Description: Interior Vancouver New Herald Newspaper, Jim Kearney, Clancy Loranger in gag photo with golf clubs, telephone on desk.
Subject(s): Interior architecture, Portraits, Group, Canadian newspapers, Kearney, Jim, Loranger, Clancy
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

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: Jackie Boswell, girl shoe shine at Rainier Hotel polishing customer's shoes:
Contributor(s): Christopherson, Tom (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1948
Description: Jackie Boswell, girl shoe shine at Rainier Hotel polishing customer's shoes.
Subject(s): Shoes - Repairing, Shoe shiners, Rainier Hotel (Vancouver, B.C.), Boswell, Jackie
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Japanese Canadian Internment and Returning to Vancouver - Interview with Lurana Kikuko Tasaka
Contributor(s): Tasaka, Lurana Kikuko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Lurana Tasaka explains leaving Vancouver to live in Greenwood during the internment of Japanese Canadians and then returning when she was 17. She goes on to tell us some of her favourite activities as a teen.
Extent: 00:02:17
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, King Edward High School, High schools, Schools, Racism, Catholic Church, Dance, Teenagers, Schools
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japanese Canadian Internment - Interview with Sue Miyamoto
Contributor(s): Miyamoto, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Sue talks about her early life in Steveston and being sent to an internment camp in New Denver.
Extent: 00:01:25
Subject(s): Japanese Canadian Internment, World War, 1939-1945, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japanese Language School - Interview with Judy Hanazawa:
Contributor(s): Hanazawa, Judy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Judy talks about her experience as a child attending the Japanese Language School in Strathcona in the 1940s and 1950s.
Extent: 00:00:26
Subject(s): Vancouver Japanese Language School, Schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Japantown Was a Thriving Community - Interview with Grace Eiko Thomson
Contributor(s): Thomson, Grace Eiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Grace describes what Japantown was like before the Second World War and some of the issues facing this neighbourhood today.
Extent: 00:01:27
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Powell Street Festival, Gentrification, Volunteers
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Jersey Farms truck in accident:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Jersey Farms truck in accident.
Subject(s): Traffic accidents, Jersey Farms Ltd. (Delta, B.C.)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Keeping Home - Interview with Irene Maas:
Contributor(s): Maas, Irene (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Irene Maas recalls the early days of her adult life - settling into a Collingwood home with her husband, having children and then losing her husband while her children were still young. Widowed, she kept her home and added to it as a foster parent.
Extent: 00:02:20
Subject(s): Family, Children, Foster parents, Widows
Location(s): Renfrew-Collingwood
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Kitchen stove on display at the National Furniture Store:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1949
Description: Kitchen stove on display at the National Furniture Store. Part of a series 81050 + A.
Subject(s): Kitchens, Interior architecture, Stoves, Wood, National Furniture Store
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Kits Beach - Interview with Emiko Kordyback
Contributor(s): Kordyback, Emiko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Emiko talks briefly about swimming at Kits Beach.
Extent: 00:00:27
Subject(s): Swimming, Kits Beach (Vancouver, B.C.), Beaches, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

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