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- Title
- Best Four Years of My Life: Memories of King George High School - Interview with Stan Brook
- Contributor(s)
- Brook, Stan (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Description
- Fond recollections of time spent in a special stone building.
- Extent
- 00:00:55
- Subject(s)
- King George High School [1913-1963], High schools, Schools, Teachers, Sports
- 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
- Title
- The SS Greenhill Park Explosion - Interview with Stan Brook
- Contributor(s)
- Brook, Stan (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2014
- Language
- English
- Description
- Storytellers recall what they remember from that eventful day on March 6th, 1945 when the freighter Greenhill Park exploded in Vancouver Harbour. There were glass windows all over Hastings Street. Half the windows in Spencer's Department Store blew out on to Cordova Street. It was a huge explosion.
- Extent
- 00:01:50
- Subject(s)
- Events, Boats and boating, Shipyards
- Location(s)
- Downtown
- Time Period
- 1940s
- Collection
- West End Stories