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Title: 1960s Teen Hot Spots - Interview with Ron Pollock:
Contributor(s): Pollock, Ron (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-20
Language: English
Description: Ron talks about visiting folk clubs in Downtown Vancouver as a teenager in the 1960s - his introduction to the "cool scene."
Extent: 00:01:01
Subject(s): Folk music, Nightclubs, Teenagers, Inquisition Coffee House, Creative community
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Al Jamia Masjid Mosque - Interview with Ihsan Malik:
Contributor(s): Malik, Ihsan (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-08-02
Language: English
Description: Ihsan Malik describes the first mosque in Western Canada and its significance.
Extent: 00:02:42
Subject(s): Muslims, Al Jamia Masjid (Mosque), Pakistan Canadians, Cultural differences
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Around Oakridge - Interview with Perry Seidelman
Contributor(s): Seidelman, Perry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-14
Language: English
Description: Perry Seidelman has lived in the Oakridge area since he was a child. He shares his thoughts and memories of the area and his community.
Extent: 00:01:16
Subject(s): Jewish Canadians, Jewish Community Centre of Greater Vancouver, High schools, Sir Winston Churchill Secondary School, Schools, Volunteers, Museums
Location(s): Oakridge
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Back When I Knew Them - Interview with Lorne Findlay
Contributor(s): Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Description: Lorne Findlay spent several years working in a lively service station in Fairview. His work brought him into contact with several future Vancouver celebrities including Jimmy Pattison and Jack Webster. He also met Frank Baker, a Vancouver alderman, collector and notable restaurateur. Baker is perhaps best known for The Attic, a West Vancouver landmark open from 1968 - 1989. Lorne takes pride in getting Frank one of his first catering jobs. Part of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
Extent: 00:05:26
Subject(s): Service stations, Pattison, Jim, 1928-, Baker, Frank, Webster, Jack, Attic (Restaurant : West Vancouver, B.C.), Employment
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Bad Boys of the West Side - Interview with Katherine Robb and Barbara Toews:
Contributor(s): Robb, Katherine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-07-23
Language: English
Description: Southwest Vancouver was pretty safe in the 50s and 60s, but there were still "The Dunbar Boys."
Extent: 00:00:50
Subject(s): Billiard parlours, Kerrisdale Billiards
Location(s): Kerrisdale
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Bakery Life - Interview with Lois Dick:
Contributor(s): Dick, Lois (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-03
Language: English
Description: Lois describes working for two East Van bakeries: Dad's Cookies and Weston Bakery.
Extent: 00:01:49
Subject(s): Small business, Bakeries, Dad's Cookie Company, Weston's Bread, Employment
Location(s): Hastings-Sunrise
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Blue Eagle Cafe and Roller Rinks - Interview with Rickie Ahlgren:
Contributor(s): Ahlgren, Rickie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-09
Language: English
Description: Rickie reminisces about the importance of roller-skating rinks and some of her favourite spots in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:02
Subject(s): Roller-skating rinks, Blue Eagle Cafe (Vancouver, B.C.), Roller-skating
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Bringing a Bit of Greece to Vancouver - Interview with George Tsoukas:
Contributor(s): Tsoukas, George (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: George Tsoukas shares his pride about the role of the Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (HEPA) in bringing a Greek style statue to Vancouver in 1969.
Extent: 00:01:52
Subject(s): Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (HEPA), Greek Canadians, Sculpture
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Bringing a Bit of Greece to Vancouver - Interview with Paul Michael:
Contributor(s): Michael, Paul (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-01-26
Language: English
Description: Paul Michael tells the story of two statues built in Vancouver that honour Greece and the Greek Canadian contribution to culture.
Extent: 00:05:15
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Monuments, Kougioumtzis, Pavlos Angelos, Olympic Winter Games (21st : 2010 : Vancouver, B.C.), Sculpture
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s, 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Building Your Community - Interview with Angelo Pappas
Contributor(s): Pappas, Angelo (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: As an immigrant to Canada, Pappas recognizes the importance of taking part in the building of one's new community.
Extent: 00:01:18
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Hellenic Community of Vancouver (Community Centre), St. George's Greek Orthodox Cathedral (Arbutus Street), Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (HEPA)
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Business and Pleasure in the Greek Community - Interview with Panayiotis Kavouras
Contributor(s): Kavouras, Panayiotis (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: Greek
Description: Mr. Kavouras shares his memories of the Greek businesses on West Broadway and other parts of Vancouver. Interview conducted in Greek. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:01:39
Subject(s): Bars (Drinking establishments), Immigrants - Experience, Small business, Orestes' (Restaurant), Greek Canadians
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Cave Theatre; Georgia Hotel; Rowan and Martin's Laugh In - Interview with Jeff Veniot:
Contributor(s): Veniot, Jeff (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-09-06
Language: English
Description: Jeff talks about the Cave Theatre Restaurant, where stars did shows before going to Las Vegas and Hollywood. In the 1970s, Rowan and Martin from 'Laugh In' were in Vancouver and Jeff recounts seeing them and getting the crew's autographs at the Hotel Georgia.
Extent: 00:02:13
Subject(s): Motion picture industry, Television, Actors, Comedians, Rowan, Dan, Martin, Dan, Cave (Nightclub : Vancouver, B.C.), Laugh In (Television program), Hotel Georgia
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Hollywood North

Title: A Centre for All - Interview with Angelo Pappas:
Contributor(s): Pappas, Angelo (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Angelo explains how welcoming the wider community into the Hellenic Community Centre fosters connection with neighbours and promotes multiculturalism.
Extent: 00:01:56
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Hellenic Community of Vancouver (Community Centre), Ethnic relations
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Changes in Vancouver - Interview with Gayle Logan:
Contributor(s): Logan, Gayle (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-11
Language: English
Description: Gayle Logan shares her observations about changes in Vancouver over the years.
Extent: 00:01:44
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Neighbourhoods - Safety
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Charity Work - Interview with Nikki Roussanidis
Contributor(s): Roussanidis, Nikki (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Nikki Roussanidis speaks about being in the Maids of Athena as a teenager and raising money for charity with that group as well as the Daughters of Penelope.
Extent: 00:03:14
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Charities, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), Teenagers, Greek Canadians
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Childhood in Kitsilano - Interview with Robin Crocker:
Contributor(s): Crocker, Robin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-19
Language: English
Description: Robin Crocker recalls the games of his childhood in Kitsilano.
Extent: 00:02:29
Subject(s): Childhood, Games, Active life enthusiasts, Parks
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: A Child's Local Market
Contributor(s): Derkson, Roland (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-20
Language: English
Extent: 00:06:14
Subject(s): Small business, Grocers, Family-owned business enterprises
Location(s): Riley Park
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Chinatown Prevails - Interview with Sue Lum
Contributor(s): Lum, Sue (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Lum talks about the freeway debates to demolish Chinatown in 1968-1970 and petitions from the Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants Association (SPOTA).
Extent: 00:00:40
Subject(s): Strathcona Property Owners and Tenants' Association, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Petitions, Communities
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Class Trips - Interview with Barb Mikulec
Contributor(s): Mikulec, Barb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-08
Language: English
Description: Barb remembers taking her Emily Carr Elementary School students to the future site of VanDusen Garden for free skating on the ponds.
Extent: 00:01:30
Subject(s): VanDusen Botanical Display Gardens, Skating, Emily Carr Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools
Location(s): Shaughnessy
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Coming to Canada - Interview with Fanni Ziakos:
Contributor(s): Ziakos, Fanni (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Fanni Ziakos' parents both came from Greece in the 1960s, where they settled in and worked hard to better their lives and the lives of their children.
Extent: 00:04:13
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Greek Canadians, Children of immigrants, Socrates Greek Cultural School, Education, Literacy, Schools
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1960s, 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City