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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

Title: Language Non-Barrier - Interview with Veralena Casellato
Contributor(s): Casellato, Veralena (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-09
Language: English
Description: Veralena's family's experience with learning or not-learning English and how it affected their experience of Commercial Drive and Vancouver.
Extent: 0:02:53
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, English language, Italian Canadians, Children of immigrants - Education, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Lasting Strathcona Connections - 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 the strong and lasting connections she has with the Strathcona community.
Extent: 00:04:30
Subject(s): School children, Racism, Multiculturalism, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Learning to Carve - Interview with L. Gardner
Contributor(s): Gardner, L. (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Gardner speaks about learning how to carve and becoming a world famous sculptor. He also talks about debit cards and computers in the mid-eighties.
Extent: 00:40:47, 00:40:47
Subject(s): Carving (Decorative arts), Fishing, Mining, Family, Religion, Computers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1980s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life in Canada After the War - Interview with Milda Burkhardt
Contributor(s): Burkhardt, Milda, Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Milda speaks about her experiences during the period after WWII where her family experienced difficult times in Czechoslovakia and Austria. After a couple years she came to Canada by boat and worked for a long time as a waitress in Victoria, British Columbia. She had been in Vancouver 2 days at the time of the recording.
Extent: 00:20:54, 00:20:54
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Waitresses, Typhoid fever, Death, Discrimination
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life in Kitsilano - Interview with Bill Pantazis:
Contributor(s): Pantazis, Bill (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: Greek
Description: Bill Pantazis talks about moving to Canada, settling in the Kitsilano neighbourhood, and his experiences in the Greek community there. Interview conducted in Greek. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:04:19
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Greek Canadians, Family, Employment
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Life on the Blenheim Flats - Interview with Terry Slack:
Contributor(s): Slack, Terry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: After years of isolation on Iona Island and the Point Grey Booming Ground, young Terry Slack and his family moved to the Blenheim Flats, becoming part of a community deeply involved in fishing, farming and horses.
Extent: 00:04:27
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Greenhouses, Murray and Wood Greenhouses, Horses - Equipment and supplies
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 1 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1980-05-16
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of the DTES.
Extent: 00:31:42, 00:31:42
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 2 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1980-05-16
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of the DTES.
Extent: 00:29:29, 00:29:29
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Life's Seasons - Interview with Albert Emond (Part 3 of 3)
Contributor(s): Emond, Albert (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Language: English
Description: Albert speaks about the seasonal life of a logging work, spending winters in Vancouver DTES hotels, beer parlors, his relationships with women, as well as about different characters and situations in the various logging camps. A hit-and-run put him in the hospital and he became a year-round resident of DTES.
Extent: 00:32:44, 00:32:44
Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945, Logging, Man-woman relationships, Alcohol, Hotels, Hospitals, Pedestrian accidents
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Carnegie 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: Living in Chinatown - Interview with Randall Yip
Contributor(s): Yip, Randall (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Randall talks about his early memories of living in Vancouver's Chinatown and his family living in the Wing Sang Building.
Extent: 00:01:26
Subject(s): Nightclubs, Family, Hospitals, Ho Ho Chop Suey Ltd. (Restaurant), Chinese Canadians
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Living on the Beach - Interview with John Toochin
Contributor(s): Toochin, John (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Beach treasures fund the fun of kids who make the most of living near the beach.
Extent: 00:01:14
Subject(s): Family, Money, Beaches, Fish and chips, Housing, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: The Many Businesses of Dunbar Street - Interview with Eva Scherger:
Contributor(s): Scherger, Eva (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: A resident of Dunbar since the 1950s, Eva Scherger recalls a great many of the small businesses lining Dunbar Street through the decades.
Extent: 00:03:39
Subject(s): Small business, MacGregor's Dry Goods, Cunningham Drug Stores, Ltd., Liquor laws
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of a Marpole Childhood - Interview with Wayne Gatley:
Contributor(s): Gatley, Wayne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-27
Language: English
Description: Wayne remembers what it was like growing up in the Marpole neighbourhood in the 1940s and 1950s.
Extent: 00:01:41
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Fire stations, Church membership, United Church of Canada
Location(s): Marpole
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of Kerrisdale - Interview with Joy Stuart:
Contributor(s): Stuart, Joy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Joy remembers family life in the Dunbar/Kerrisdale area and the pleasure she found in needlework.
Extent: 00:02:56
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Creative community, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Needlework, Childhood, Shopping, Small business
Location(s): Kerrisdale
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of the Marine Building - Interview with Jackie Byrn:
Contributor(s): Byrn, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: One of Jackie Byrn's most enduring memories was attending a photo shoot at the landmark Marine Building at the age of 8. That one day had lasting effects on her life.
Extent: 00:03:18
Subject(s): Women photographers, Photography, Marine Building
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Ocean Towers - Interview with Ed Hayashi:
Contributor(s): Hayashi, Ed (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Ed Hayashi describes the first home he lived in after he got married. He also talks about working on one of the first highrises in Vancouver in 1957.
Extent: 00:01:13
Subject(s): Carpentry, Apartments, Housing, Ocean Towers (Residence)
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Pearl Harbor Changed Everything - 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 how everything changed for Japanese-Canadians after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Extent: 00:04:14
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, Schools, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools, World War, 1939-1945, University of British Columbia. Faculty of Medicine
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City