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Title: 28 People in a Rooming House - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie recounts the living conditions and the various rooming houses from her childhood in the West End.
Extent: 00:01:32
Subject(s): Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Family
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Fruit Trees - Interview with Jack Ford
Contributor(s): Ford, Jack (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jack describes the shared housing he lived in as a child and some of the features of the Georgia Street area at the time.
Extent: 00:02:22
Subject(s): Family, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Houses of Suites - Interview with Glenn & Delaine Mackenzie
Contributor(s): Mackenzie, Glenn (Interviewee), Mackenzie, Delaine (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Two different houses converted to suites, and how the neighbourhood changed around them.
Extent: 00:04:02
Subject(s): Family, Money, Apartments, Housing, Living conditions, Yards
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Ocean Towers - Interview with Ed Hayashi:
Contributor(s): Hayashi, Ed (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Ed Hayashi describes the first home he lived in after he got married. He also talks about working on one of the first highrises in Vancouver in 1957.
Extent: 00:01:13
Subject(s): Carpentry, Apartments, Housing, Ocean Towers (Residence)
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Queer Culture in the West End - Interview with Atsumi Hashimoto
Contributor(s): Hashimoto, Atsumi (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Atsumi discusses her introduction to LGBTQ culture in Vancouver's West End.
Extent: 00:03:00
Subject(s): LGBTQ (Queer community), Apartments, Social interaction, Neighbourhoods
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1970s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Robson and Thurlow covered in snow:
Contributor(s): Timms, Philip (Photographer)
Type of Resource: still image
Date Created: 1916
Description: View (ground) looking North East from Robson and Thurlow. Manhattan Apartments at 784 Thurlow, and Manhattan Pharmacy at 1099 Robson are pictured, with the street covered in snow.
Subject(s): Winter, Apartments, Manhattan Pharmacy
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1910s
Collection: Philip Timms Collection

Title: A Walk in the West End - Interview with Gary Pennington:
Contributor(s): Pennington, Gary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: The old streets, the old places; likes walking through the old neighbourhood; points of interest are noted from Burrard Street, Davie Street, and more.
Extent: 00:03:39
Subject(s): Family, Apartments, Guardian angels, Fish and chips, Housing, Sylvia Hotel, Holly Lodge, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Working for the Carpenters Union and Self Employment - Interview with Ed Hayashi:
Contributor(s): Hayashi, Ed (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Ed Hayashi discusses starting his own business and his work ethic building houses in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:02:05
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Carpentry, Apartments, Housing, Carpenters Union
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City