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Title: Wing Sang Building - Interview with Larry Wong:
Contributor(s): Wong, Larry (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Larry Wong speaks about the history of the Wing Sang Building.
Extent: 00:01:03
Subject(s): Chinese Canadians, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Wing Sang Building (Vancouver, B.C.), Rennie Museum, Buildings
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1880s, 2000s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Wing Sang Building - Interview with Randall Yip
Contributor(s): Yip, Randall (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Randall Yip talks about recent history concerning the Rennie Museum, also known as the Wing Sang Building.
Extent: 00:01:38
Subject(s): Wing Sang Building (Vancouver, B.C.), Rennie Museum, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.), Chinese Canadians
Location(s): Chinatown
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: A Woman's Place - Interview with Jackie Byrn:
Contributor(s): Byrn, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-22
Language: English
Description: For a long time, women in Vancouver were excluded, partially or entirely, from the larger social clubs. Jackie Byrn remembers the feeling of exclusion, and a woman's place back in the 1960s and 1970s. Her time in the United States, as part of the women's movement, helped her find a place on her own terms.
Extent: 00:05:23
Subject(s): Sex discrimination against women, Women's rights, Women photographers, Women photographers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1970s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Woodwards' Famous Food Floor - Interview with Ron Pollock:
Contributor(s): Pollock, Ron (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-20
Language: English
Description: Ron gets your mouth watering with his story of the Smoked Alaskan Black Cod he and his family enjoyed from the "famous Woodward's food floor" when he was young.
Extent: 00:01:28
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Woodward's Stores Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Woodwards Picnic - Interview with Grace Boyd:
Contributor(s): Boyd, Grace (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Grace remembers working at Woodward's and taking her niece and nephew to the Woodward's picnic.
Extent: 00:01:24
Subject(s): Picnics, Woodward's Stores Limited, Employment
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Work and Helping Others - Interview with Marianne Schmidt:
Contributor(s): Schmidt, Marianne (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-05-07
Language: English
Description: Marianne talks about her experiences volunteering in the lead-up to the Fair, and later working at the Operations Office at 44 W Pender where staff shortlisted 20,000 people applying for work from over 200,000 applicants, and then recounts a moving story of helping an unemployed person "get out of [his] slump."
Extent: 00:03:00
Subject(s): Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Employees, Job postings, Volunteers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Expo Retro

Title: Working at Expo 86 - Interview with Brent Belsher:
Contributor(s): Belsher, Brent (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-09-08
Language: English
Description: Brent Belsher remembers trying to balance work, fun and crowds at Expo 86. Working his first job at the CN Pavilion, Brent still managed to attend events and performances. His greatest memory of Expo is the busyness of the pavilion and all the other exhibits.
Extent: 00:01:13
Subject(s): Expo 86 (Vancouver, B.C.), Employment, Shows
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Expo Retro

Title: Working at Woodwards - 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 experiences as a Woodwards employee at both the Downtown and Oakridge locations.
Extent: 00:01:20
Subject(s): Woodward's Stores Limited, Employment
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Story City

Title: Working Life - Interview with Tieu Tu-Johnson:
Contributor(s): Tu-Johnson, Tieu (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-11
Language: English
Description: Tieu Tu-Johnson shares his experience finding work after he escaped from Vietnam in the 1970s.
Extent: 00:02:05
Subject(s): Vietnamese Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Refugees
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Story City