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Title: 28 People in a Rooming House - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie recounts the living conditions and the various rooming houses from her childhood in the West End.
Extent: 00:01:32
Subject(s): Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Family
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Fruit Trees - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack describes the shared housing he lived in as a child and some of the features of the Georgia Street area at the time.
Extent: 00:02:22
Subject(s): Family, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

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: 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: Mangia! Mangia! Feeding the Neighbourhood - Interview with Vince Chessa
Contributor(s): Chessa, Vince (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Memories of how food came from shop or truck or garden to table as one mother finds happiness in feeding everyone she is able to.
Extent: 00:03:04
Subject(s): Family, Animals, Food, Living conditions, Housing
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

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: 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