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Title: A Day in Coal Harbour - Interview with Bob Adamson
Contributor(s): Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: There was plenty of entertainment for kids when they ventured to Coal Harbour.
Extent: 00:02:15
Subject(s): Housing, Money, Boats and boating, Canneries, Railroads - Yards, Shipyards, Active life enthusiasts, Playing
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: For the Love of Tugboats - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: All my friends were teaming up with boys and I wasn't; I was down in False Creek, hitching rides on tugboats. I was crazy about tugboats.
Extent: 00:04:40
Subject(s): Boats and boating, Booms (Log transportation), Tugboats, Money
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
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: I Wanted That House! - Interview with Pia Tofini-Johnson and James Johnson:
Contributor(s): Tofini-Johnson, Pia (Interviewee), Johnson, James (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-20
Language: English
Description: Pia Tofini-Johnson's story of buying her first house in Vancouver's Little Italy shows how different Vancouver was in the 1960s.
Extent: 00:03:35
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Housing, Money, Loans
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: 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