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- Title
- 70 Mile House Hotel:
- Contributor(s)
- Timms, Philip (Photographer)
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Date Created
- 1931
- Description
- View of 70 Mile House Hotel. There is a gas station with one pump (Home Oil) at left of photo. Also exists as a lantern slide (67109).
- Subject(s)
- Hotels, Service stations, Log cabins
- Time Period
- 1930s
- Collection
- Philip Timms Collection
- Title
- Back When I Knew Them - Interview with Lorne Findlay
- Contributor(s)
- Findlay, Lorne (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-02-20
- Language
- English
- Description
- Lorne Findlay spent several years working in a lively service station in Fairview. His work brought him into contact with several future Vancouver celebrities including Jimmy Pattison and Jack Webster. He also met Frank Baker, a Vancouver alderman, collector and notable restaurateur. Baker is perhaps best known for The Attic, a West Vancouver landmark open from 1968 - 1989. Lorne takes pride in getting Frank one of his first catering jobs. Part of the South Vancouver Neighbourhood House program Inside Stories.
- Extent
- 00:05:26
- Subject(s)
- Service stations, Pattison, Jim, 1928-, Baker, Frank, Webster, Jack, Attic (Restaurant : West Vancouver, B.C.), Employment
- Location(s)
- Fairview
- Time Period
- 1950s, 1960s, 1970s
- Collection
- Story City
- Title
- The Family Business - Interview with Nikki Roussanidis:
- Contributor(s)
- Roussanidis, Nikki (Interviewee)
- Type of Resource
- sound recording-nonmusical
- Date Created
- 2017-02-01
- Language
- English
- Description
- Leo Balatsas ran his downtown service station for decades. His daughter, Nikki Roussanidis, worked there as a teen, and remembers it as a thriving small business and a lively hangout for Greek immigrants.
- Extent
- 00:01:15
- Subject(s)
- Immigrants - Experience, Immigrants - Employment, Teenagers, Service stations, Greek Canadians, Family-owned business enterprises
- Location(s)
- Mount Pleasant
- Time Period
- 1960s, 1970s, 1980s
- Collection
- Hellenic Stories, Story City