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Title: Actors Doing Normal Things - Interview with Julia:
Contributor(s): Julia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-09-22
Language: English
Description: Julia, who works in a Vancouver grocery store frequented by movie and TV actors, reflects on how actors look different when they're doing normal things like grocery shopping.
Extent: 00:00:24
Subject(s): Motion picture industry, Television, Actors, Grocery shopping
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hollywood North

Title: Buying "normal stuff" - Interview with Julia
Contributor(s): Julia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-09-22
Language: English
Description: Julia talks about working in a Vancouver grocery store and serving actors Julia Styles and Allan Arkin whom she made laugh when she assured him he was buying "normal stuff."
Extent: 00:00:31
Subject(s): Motion picture industry, Television, Actors, Arkin, Allan, Styles, Julia, Grocery shopping
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hollywood North

Title: Changes in Chinatown - Interview with Olivia Cheung
Contributor(s): Cheung, Olivia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: English
Description: Olivia discusses the stagnating aspects of Chinatown and possible solutions.
Extent: 00:02:36
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Chinese Canadians, Businesses, Chinatown (Vancouver, B.C.)
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Fairview is the Perfect Place to Live - Interview with Sharon Esson:
Contributor(s): Esson, Sharon (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-19
Language: English
Description: Sharon talks about Granville Island in the Fairview neighbourhood in Vancouver, and the things she enjoys doing in the area.
Extent: 00:01:19
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Tea, Traffic congestion, Walkability
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

Title: Food and Restaurants - Interview with Ms. Yung
Contributor(s): Yung, Ms. (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: Cantonese
Description: Yung says she goes out to eat with her daughter who comes to Chinatown for grocery shopping. She comments on the many store closures and the way in which this has affected Chinatown. Interview conducted in Cantonese. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:01:03
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Hon's Restaurant, Family, Bak Lok Restaurant, Chinese restaurants
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s, 2010s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, Story City

Title: Free Rein of the City - Interview with Ron Pollock:
Contributor(s): Pollock, Ron (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-20
Language: English
Description: Ron talks about the free rein he had as a child in the 1960s visiting Vancouver for family shopping trips to Woodward's.
Extent: 00:00:51
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Childhood, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Woodward's Stores Limited
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Neil Patrick Harris Comes Into the Grocery Store - Interview with Julia:
Contributor(s): Julia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-09-22
Language: English
Description: Julia talks about working in a Vancouver grocery store and serving the actor Neil Patrick Harris one day.
Extent: 00:01:09
Subject(s): Motion picture industry, Television, Actors, Harris, Neil Patrick, Grocery shopping
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hollywood North

Title: Shopping at Woodward's - Interview with Harjit Dhillan and Manjit S. Dhillan
Contributor(s): Dhillan, Harjit (Interviewee), Dhillan, Manjit S. (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-03
Language: English
Description: Harjit and Manjit discuss shopping for groceries at the food floor at Woodward's and the days of grocery delivery.
Extent: 00:02:39
Subject(s): Indo-Canadians, Woodward's Stores Limited, White Lunch (Restaurant : Vancouver, B.C.), Home delivery services, Grocery shopping, Family, Automobiles
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: The Station Wagon - Interview with Evelyn Economos:
Contributor(s): Economos, Evelyn (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Evelyn Economos speaks about how her father had one of the only station wagons in the community and used it to pick families up at the airport.
Extent: 00:00:58
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Immigrants - Experience, Grocery shopping
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Stores and Restaurants - Interview with Ms. Joe
Contributor(s): Joe, Ms. (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2015
Language: Cantonese
Description: Ms. Joe talks about how there were no restaurants when she first arrived in Chinatown. She talks about home cooking in the 1960s, when there were only two big stores. Chinese stores opened much later. Interview conducted in Cantonese. Video slideshow includes English subtitles.
Extent: 00:00:40
Subject(s): Grocery shopping, Dining out, Home cooking, Woodward's Stores Limited, Chinese Canadians, Chinese restaurants
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Chinatown Stories, 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: Working in Grocery Store Frequented by Stars - Interview with Julia:
Contributor(s): Julia (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2016-09-22
Language: English
Description: Julia talks about her experiences working in a Vancouver grocery store that is frequented by actors.
Extent: 00:02:28
Subject(s): Motion picture industry, Television, Actors, Wilson, Owen, Grocery shopping
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Hollywood North