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Title: Childhood Freedom - Interview with Akira Horii:
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about the freedom children had in Vancouver back in the 1940s to explore unsupervised, places like Stanley Park and Hastings Park (Pacific National Exhibition grounds).
Extent: 00:00:24
Subject(s): Childhood, Japanese Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver, B.C.), Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Five Cent Movies - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira remembers getting 10 cents from his mother as a child and how he'd buy a bag of peanuts for 5 cents and go to the Star Theatre on Main Street and watch a movie for 5 cents.
Extent: 00:00:36
Subject(s): Childhood, Motion picture theatres, Amusements
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Pearl Harbor Changed Everything - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about how everything changed for Japanese-Canadians after the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Extent: 00:04:14
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, Schools, Lord Strathcona Elementary School, Elementary schools, Schools, World War, 1939-1945, University of British Columbia. Faculty of Medicine
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Powell Street Public Bath - Interview with Akira Horii:
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira recalls using a public bath on Powell Street, part of the Japantown Business District.
Extent: 00:00:30
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Bathhouses, Central business districts
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Sansei Interracial Marriages - Interview with Akira Horii:
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira tells of how the Sansei, the third generation of people of Japanese descent born in Canada to Nisei parents born in Canada, have an almost 90% interracial marriage rate.
Extent: 00:00:31
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Interracial marriage
Location(s): South Cambie
Time Period: 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Uprooted Again, Japanese Internment - Interview with Akira Horii
Contributor(s): Horii, Akira (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-29
Language: English
Description: Akira talks about the experiences of Japanese-Canadians who were interned to camps during the Second World War and the experiences of Japanese-Canadians who had to follow their parents back to Japan when they were forced to leave Canada.
Extent: 00:02:04
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, Racism, War
Location(s): Strathcona
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: Story City