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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
- Exploring and Playing in the Magic Square Mile - Interview with Bob Adamson:
- Contributor(s)
- Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Description
- Bob describes the fun he and his friends had living on the sands of English Bay, exploring the trails of Stanley Park, learning to golf and swim and waiting for the nine o'clock gun to go off.
- Extent
- 00:02:33
- Subject(s)
- Playing, Sports, Swimming, Beaches, Golf, Active life enthusiasts
- Location(s)
- West End
- Time Period
- 1940s
- Collection
- West End Stories
- Title
- Fun at the Second Beach Playground - Interview with Ellen Gillis:
- Contributor(s)
- Gillis, Ellen (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Description
- Ellen describes the good times she and her friends had at the Second Beach Playground including learning the rules of the road through the Stanley Park Traffic School.
- Extent
- 00:01:31
- Subject(s)
- Stanley Park Traffic School, Playing, Parks, Active life enthusiasts, Children
- Location(s)
- West End
- Time Period
- 1960s
- Collection
- West End Stories
- Title
- Gordon House - Interview with Bob Adamson
- Contributor(s)
- Adamson, Bob (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Description
- In October 1942, the old Crofton House School becomes Gordon House; an important hang out and refuge for West End kids. What we would do in the evenings, we’d go to Gordon House where there was sports, there was boxing, there was basketball, there was arts and crafts, painting; that sort of thing.
- Extent
- 00:01:22
- Subject(s)
- Housing, Playing, Sports, Gordon House (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
- Location(s)
- West End
- Time Period
- 1940s, 1950s
- Collection
- West End Stories
- Title
- Living with the Monkeys in Stanley Park - Interview with Stan Brook
- Contributor(s)
- Brook, Stan (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Description
- Everything you ever wanted to know about growing up in Stanley Park in the 30s and 40s. Across the road from the yacht club they had buffaloes; and when we were kids, we used to bullfight the buffaloes, until they got within about 100 yards and then we'd be over the fence again!
- Extent
- 00:06:21
- Subject(s)
- Family, Housing, Animals, Boats and boating, King, William Lyon Mackenzie, 1874-1950, Nine O'Clock Gun - Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Marion Malkin Memorial Bowl - Stanley Park (Vancouver, B.C.), Vegetable truck, Royal Vancouver Yacht Club, Swimming, Street-railroads, Indigenous peoples, Active life enthusiasts, Playing
- Location(s)
- West End
- Time Period
- 1930s, 1940s
- Collection
- West End Stories