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Title: Rotary dial office telephone
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1949
Description: Rotary dial office telephone.
Subject(s): Telephones
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: The Royal Canadian Legion in South Hill - Interview with Kevin Digby
Contributor(s): Digby, Kevin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Kevin Digby's grandparents were instrumental in opening of the South Hill Branch of the Canadian Royal Legion. Part of the Inside Stories program of the South Hill Neighbourhood House.
Extent: 00:01:53
Subject(s): Remembrance Day, Parades, Royal Canadian Legion. Branch 16 (South Vancouver), Volunteers
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Saving the Stained Glass Windows of King George High School - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack talks about the efforts to save and use in commemorations the windows from the King George High School [1913-1963] in Vancouver's West End.
Extent: 00:00:31
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: School Days - Interview with Herb Torrance
Contributor(s): Torrance, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-13
Language: English
Description: Herb talks about growing up in Vancouver during the years of WW II and just after.
Extent: 00:02:25
Subject(s): Childhood, Lord Tennyson Elementary School (Vancouver, B.C.), 1912, World War, 1939-1945, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: School Detention Helped My Math - Interview with Herb Nolan
Contributor(s): Nolan, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Herb's recounts many long remembered things from his time at the King George High School [1913-1963] in Vancouver's West End.
Extent: 00:03:42
Subject(s): Housing, Teachers, King George High School [1913-1963], High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Seymour River in flood:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1949
Description: Seymour River in flood, house behind sandbags.
Subject(s): Floods, Sandbags, Dwellings
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Shopping on West 4th - Interview with Dora Coutts
Contributor(s): Coutts, Dora (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Dora recalls the shopping on 4th avenue in the Kitsilano neighbourhood.
Extent: 00:02:45
Subject(s): Small business, Department stores, Spencer's Department Store, Grocery stores, Piggly Wiggly B.C. Limited, Streetcars
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Smells of Vancouver - Interview with Linda Lou Darbey:
Contributor(s): Darbey, Linda Lou (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-19
Language: English
Description: Linda Lou talks about the characteristic smells of Vancouver from her youth in the 1940s.
Extent: 00:00:51
Subject(s): Coal, Beehive burner, Stoves, Wood, Smog
Location(s): South Cambie
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Snow Time - Interview with Rita MacKay:
Contributor(s): MacKay, Rita (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-19
Language: English
Description: In the 1930s, Rita MacKay and her friends played many games. Sledding down Heather Hill was a thrill she still remembers clearly.
Extent: 00:01:04
Subject(s): Childhood, Sledding, Games, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): South Cambie
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: South Granville Memories - Interview with Elizabeth Gautschi:
Contributor(s): Gautschi, Elizabeth (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-28
Language: English
Description: Elizabeth recalls her early memories growing up in South Granville and reflects on the changes that have happened to the neighbhourhood over the years.
Extent: 00:06:25
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Stanley Theatre (Vancouver, B.C.), Gentrification, Orpheum Theatre (Vancouver, B.C.)
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

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

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (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: 00:01:47
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with John Toochin
Contributor(s): Toochin, John (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: 00:00:52
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with Stan Brook
Contributor(s): Brook, Stan (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: 00:01:50
Subject(s): Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Street billboard for movie, Son of Lassie, at Orpheum Theatre
Contributor(s): Jones, Art (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1945
Description: Street billboard for movie, Son of Lassie, at Orpheum Theatre, plus streetlight, telephone poles, wires, alleyway.
Subject(s): Billboards, Telephone lines - Poles and towers, Alleys, Orpheum Theatre (Vancouver, B.C.)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Street car overturns at Powell and Commercial:
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Description: Accidents – Street car overturns at Powell & Commercial, faded sign for Phillips Grocery on side of building, advertisement for Vancouver Sun on car.
Subject(s): Street-railroads, Street-railroads - Cars, Traffic accidents
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Summers in MacLean Park - Interview with Eva Scherger
Contributor(s): Scherger, Eva (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: During the summers, Ms. Scherger and her friends and siblings spent the greater part of their time at MacLean Park. Two favourite pastimes were baseball (noted opponents were Helen and Marge Callahan, who went on to the U.S. women's professional league during wartime and inspire the movie A League of Their Own) and end-of-summer performances given at Brockton Point by kids from all around Vancouver.
Extent: 00:03:38
Subject(s): Games, MacLean Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Parks, Baseball, Callaghan, Marge, Callaghan, Helen, Sports, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Sunset Memorial Organization, men playing poker:
Contributor(s): Jones, Art (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1946
Description: Sunset Memorial organization, men playing poker.
Subject(s): Men - Social life and customs, Sunset Memorial Organization
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Switchboard operators
Contributor(s): Artray (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1950
Description: Switchboard operators at McLennan, McFeely & Prior Ltd.
Subject(s): Telephone operators, Employees, McLennan, McFeely and Prior Ltd. (Vancouver, B.C.)
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Artray Collection

Title: Tailors in Chinatown - Interview with Larry Wong:
Contributor(s): Wong, Larry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Larry Wong talks about the Modernize Tailors business as well as his experience getting clothes made in Chinatown.
Extent: 00:01:29
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Modernize Tailors, Tailors, Suits
Location(s): Chinatown
Time Period: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City