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Title: Business and Pleasure in the Greek Community - Interview with Panayiotis Kavouras
Contributor(s): Kavouras, Panayiotis (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: Greek
Description: Mr. Kavouras shares his memories of the Greek businesses on West Broadway and other parts of Vancouver. Interview conducted in Greek. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:01:39
Subject(s): Bars (Drinking establishments), Immigrants - Experience, Small business, Orestes' (Restaurant), Greek Canadians
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Pubs and Clubbing - Interview with Maria Fiskilis, George Ghiouzelis, and Speros Ganatsios:
Contributor(s): Fiskilis, Maria (Interviewee), Ghiouzelis, George (Interviewee), Ganatsios, Speros Peter (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Maria Fiskilis, George Ghiouzelis, and Speros Ganatsios explain that their Greek Canadian friends still tend to move in cliques when they go out. The group talks about their thoughts on which nightclubs they prefer. They include a few pub recommendations in Kitsilano.
Extent: 00:01:37
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Bars (Drinking establishments), Nightclubs
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Second Narrows Bridge Collapse, 1958 - Interview with Gary Poirier
Contributor(s): Poirier, Gary (Interviewee), Kimbel, Laurel (Lead)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 1984-04-28
Language: English
Description: Gary, a former iron worker who grew up around Strathcona and the West End, survived the collapse of the Second Narrows Bridge in 1958, the present day Ironworkers Memorial Second Narrows Crossing, and volunteered at the Carnegie Centre.
Extent: 00:31:28, 00:31:28
Subject(s): Childhood, Bars (Drinking establishments), Family, Iron and steel workers, Carnivals, Second Narrows Bridge Collapse, 1958, Volunteers
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Carnegie Stories

Title: Starting a Business - Interview with George Chronopoulos
Contributor(s): Chronopoulos, George (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: Greek
Description: As a new immigrant George Chronopoulos went from working in a barbershop to starting and owning a Greek nightclub and restaurant in Vancouver. Interview conducted in Greek. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:02:14
Subject(s): Bars (Drinking establishments), Immigrants - Experience, Small business, Restaurants, Greek Canadians
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: UBC in the Sixties - Interview with Rob Browne
Contributor(s): Browne, Rob (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-25
Language: English
Description: Rob talks about student life at UBC in the 1960s.
Extent: 00:01:35
Subject(s): University students, University of British Columbia, Bars (Drinking establishments), Practical jokes
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City