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- 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
- Golden Summer - Interview with Bernard Rowe
- Contributor(s)
- Rowe, Bernard (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2016-05-12
- Language
- English
- Description
- Bernard recalls fondly the "Golden Summer" of Expo 86, and talks about how the Fair employed both union and non-union workers, and putting up with traffic on Lions Gate bridge.
- Extent
- 00:01:36
- Subject(s)
- Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Labour supply, Labour unions - History, Lions Gate Bridge, Pattison, Jim, 1928-
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1980s
- Collection
- Expo Retro
- Title
- Jimmy Pattison:
- Contributor(s)
- Schmidt, Marianne (Contributor)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Date Created
- 1986
- Description
- Jimmy Pattison poses for photograph with Expo 86 staff employee.
- Subject(s)
- Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Pattison, Jim, 1928-
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1980s
- Collection
- Expo Retro