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Title: Teenage Life in South Vancouver - Interview with Arthur and Olave Schultz
Contributor(s): Schultz, Arthur (Interviewee), Schultz, Olave (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Arthur describes his teen years in South Vancouver; summer jobs, ice skating on 49th Avenue and joining the RCAF cadets.
Extent: 00:02:41
Subject(s): Youth - Employment, Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - 49th Avenue, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Royal Canadian Air Cadets, Teenagers, Skating
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: That Old Rock Building: King George High School - Interview with Delaine Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Delaine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Delaine talks about the various renovations made to the old high school and the tenderness she feels toward that "old rock building" that was the King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:01:48
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Teachers, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Trains During Strike:
Contributor(s): Croton Studio (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1956-01-12
Description: Part of series - includes 78880 and 78880B.
Subject(s): Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Railroad companies, Railroads - Trains, Strikes and lockouts
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Trains During Strike:
Contributor(s): Croton Studio (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1956-01-12
Description: Part of series - includes 78880 and 78880A.
Subject(s): Canadian Pacific Railway Company, Railroad companies, Railroads - Trains, Strikes and lockouts
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Canadian Pacific Railway Collection

Title: Vaudeville Vancouver - Interview with Byron Aceman:
Contributor(s): Aceman, Byron (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: Byron recalls theatre and vaudeville in Vancouver during his youth.
Extent: 00:01:55
Subject(s): Theatre, Vaudeville, Pantages Theatre
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Vibrant Chinatown - Interview with Gregory Helem
Contributor(s): Helem, Gregory (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Gregory Helem reminisces about his childhood growing up in Chinatown.
Extent: 00:01:31
Subject(s): Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Neon signs, Chinese Canadians, Chinese restaurants, Bamboo Terrace (Restaurant), Coin City Arcade, Comic books, strips, etc.
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Visiting the Carnegie Library and Chinatown - Interview with Rosemary Holman
Contributor(s): Holman, Rosemary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Rosemary recalls going to the Carnegie Library and Chinatown as a child.
Extent: 00:01:45
Subject(s): Vancouver Public Library - Carnegie Branch, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Books and reading, Bamboo Terrace (Restaurant), Newspapers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Wartime Entertainment - Interview with Lola Aceman Pawer:
Contributor(s): Pawer, Lola (Aceman) (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-19
Language: English
Description: Lola Pawer's father Jack Aceman, along with her uncle Hymie Singer, ran several Vancouver music and theatre hot spots, including the Avon Theatre and the Starlit Gardens, the latter located in Coal Harbour off Georgia and Denman. Lola fondly recollects the big band age.
Extent: 00:03:24
Subject(s): Starlight Gardens (Vancouver, B.C.), Big bands, Jazz, Creative community
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: We Were Street Smart - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Bob recalls his experiences growing up in the West End and seeing a number of significant changes over the years as the area developed from single family housing to rooming houses and high-rise apartments.
Extent: 00:04:39
Subject(s): Housing, Housing, Living conditions, Gentrification, Trees
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1880s, 1890s, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: A West End Childhood - Interview with Herb Nolan:
Contributor(s): Nolan, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Herb describes his childhood exploration of his West End neighbourhood.
Extent: 00:01:05
Subject(s): Children, Neighbourhoods - Safety
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: West End Shared Housing - Interview with Gary Pennington
Contributor(s): Pennington, Gary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Gary describes the shared rooming house he lived in as a child and the people who shared the house in the West End.
Extent: 00:02:09
Subject(s): Family, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: West Side Schools - Interview with Marion Reid
Contributor(s): Reid, Marion (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-25
Language: English
Description: Marion describes memories of Queen Mary Elementary school and Lord Byng Secondary School.
Extent: 00:02:43
Subject(s): Schools, High schools, Elementary schools, Children, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Active life enthusiasts, Lord Byng Secondary School, Queen Mary Elementary School
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: What a Swamp - Interview with Lorne Findlay:
Contributor(s): Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Kitsilano and Arbutus-Ridge of the 1940s and 1950s had places that were swampy and smoggy. Lorne Findlay recalls the treacherous driving conditions and the tricks locals used to get around. Part of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
Extent: 00:03:00
Subject(s): Bogs, Air quality
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Woodwards' Famous Food Floor - Interview with Ron Pollock:
Contributor(s): Pollock, Ron (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-20
Language: English
Description: Ron gets your mouth watering with his story of the Smoked Alaskan Black Cod he and his family enjoyed from the "famous Woodward's food floor" when he was young.
Extent: 00:01:28
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Woodward's Stores Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Working as a Seamstress - Interview with Mando and Christos Christodoulou:
Contributor(s): Christodoulou, Mando (Interviewee), Christodoulou, Christos (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Mando Christodoulou speaks about working as a seamstress doing menswear alterations at a dry-cleaner.
Extent: 00:01:36
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Employment, Tailors
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Working for the Carpenters Union and Self Employment - 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 discusses starting his own business and his work ethic building houses in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:02:05
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Carpentry, Apartments, Housing, Carpenters Union
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Working in the Lumber Business - Interview with Harjit Dhillan and Manjit S. Dhillan:
Contributor(s): Dhillan, Harjit (Interviewee), Dhillan, Manjit S. (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-03
Language: English
Description: Harjit Dhillan and Manjit S. Dhillan discuss their experiences working in the lumber business in the 1950s and attending night school.
Extent: 00:02:33
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Adult education, Indo-Canadians, Employment, Schools
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: You Paint What You Are - Interview with Wally Hebblethwaite
Contributor(s): Hebblethwaite, Wally (Interviewee), Kimbley, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1983
Language: English
Description: Wally talks about his early years as a budding artist and the support he received from his family, about his school experiences (including a year at the Ontario College of Art), his experiences living in the West End and the Downtown Eastside, exhibits of his paintings, and what inspires him to paint the images and topics that he was painting at the time of the interview.
Extent: 00:15:03, 00:15:03
Subject(s): Artists, Family, Education, Drug addiction, Painting
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s
Collection: Carnegie Stories