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Title: Changes in Vancouver - Interview with Gayle Logan:
Contributor(s): Logan, Gayle (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-11
Language: English
Description: Gayle Logan shares her observations about changes in Vancouver over the years.
Extent: 00:01:44
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Neighbourhoods - Safety
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s
Collection: Story City

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: 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: Local Businesses of Lower Dunbar - Interview with Shelagh Smith
Contributor(s): Smith, Shelagh (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-06-14
Language: English
Description: Small local businesses make good neighbours; Shelagh Smith recalls local retailers keeping an eye out for wayward youngsters.
Extent: 00:02:00
Subject(s): Small business, Grocery stores, Piggly Wiggly B.C. Limited, Neighbourhoods - Safety
Location(s): Dunbar-Southlands
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s
Collection: Story City

Title: Memories of Kerrisdale - Interview with Joy Stuart:
Contributor(s): Stuart, Joy (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Joy remembers family life in the Dunbar/Kerrisdale area and the pleasure she found in needlework.
Extent: 00:02:56
Subject(s): Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Creative community, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Needlework, Childhood, Shopping, Small business
Location(s): Kerrisdale
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: A West End Childhood - Interview with Herb Nolan:
Contributor(s): Nolan, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Herb describes his childhood exploration of his West End neighbourhood.
Extent: 00:01:05
Subject(s): Children, Neighbourhoods - Safety
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: West Side Schools - Interview with Marion Reid
Contributor(s): Reid, Marion (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-04-25
Language: English
Description: Marion describes memories of Queen Mary Elementary school and Lord Byng Secondary School.
Extent: 00:02:43
Subject(s): Schools, High schools, Elementary schools, Children, Neighbourhoods - Safety, Active life enthusiasts, Lord Byng Secondary School, Queen Mary Elementary School
Location(s): West Point Grey
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City