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Title: 1960s Teen Hot Spots - 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 visiting folk clubs in Downtown Vancouver as a teenager in the 1960s - his introduction to the "cool scene."
Extent: 00:01:01
Subject(s): Folk music, Nightclubs, Teenagers, Inquisition Coffee House, Creative community
Location(s): Downtown
Time Period: 1960s, 1970s
Collection: Story City

Title: Bino's and Tuesdays - Interview with Nikki Roussanidis:
Contributor(s): Roussanidis, Nikki (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Nikki Roussanidis speaks about meeting up with friends at Tuesdays for coffee and Bino's for late night/early morning coffee.
Extent: 00:00:34
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Restaurants, Teenagers, Bino's (Restaurant)
Location(s): Kitsilano
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Caring Teachers: King George High School - Interview with Gary Pennington
Contributor(s): Pennington, Gary (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Gary recalls baseball, basketball, and many more memories of his time at King George High School [1913-1963]
Extent: 00:02:15
Subject(s): King George High School [1913-1963], Teachers, Sports, Dance, Teenagers, Active life enthusiasts, High schools, Schools
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Charity Work - Interview with Nikki Roussanidis
Contributor(s): Roussanidis, Nikki (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-01
Language: English
Description: Nikki Roussanidis speaks about being in the Maids of Athena as a teenager and raising money for charity with that group as well as the Daughters of Penelope.
Extent: 00:03:14
Subject(s): Immigrants - Experience, Charities, American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association (AHEPA), Teenagers, Greek Canadians
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 2010s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, 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

Title: From Syria to Canada
Contributor(s): Alodat, Hiba (Journalism Crew), Martel, Beck (Journalism Crew), Michaels, Kyra (Journalism Crew), Yu, Chloe (Journalism Crew), Yu, Mylo (Journalism Crew), House, Tina (Facilitator), Stewart, Karl (VPL Staff), Chan, Aaron (VPL Staff), Petro, Ingrid (VPL Staff)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2019-07-24
Language: English
Description: A young artist tells the story of her journey coming to Canada as a refugee with her family.
Extent: 00:07:21
Subject(s): Artists, Citizen Journalism, Drawing, Family, Family, Portraits, Mother and child, Muslims, Refugee Camps, Refugees, Syria, Syrian War, Teenage girls, Teenagers, War
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Capturing Vancouver

Title: Fundraising - 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 fundraising for the Hellenic Community Centre as a youth.
Extent: 00:00:55
Subject(s): Greek Canadians, Teenagers, Volunteers
Location(s): Arbutus-Ridge
Time Period: 1970s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Hanging Out on the Drive - Interview with Konstantin Nikolaou
Contributor(s): Nikolaou, Konstantin (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: Konstantin Nikolaou speaks about hanging out at Roma's Bar with the Italians during his high school lunch breaks.
Extent: 00:03:39
Subject(s): Teenagers, Restaurants, Family-owned business enterprises, Greek Canadians, Italian Canadians, Britannia Secondary School, High schools, Schools
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Hanging Out on The Drive - Interview with Michael Cuccione:
Contributor(s): Cuccione, Michael (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-03-15
Language: English
Description: Michael talks about hanging out on The Drive in the 1960s.
Extent: 00:01:35
Subject(s): Italian Canadians, Neighbourhoods - Historic changes, Restaurants, Communities, Teenagers
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: I Wanted to Stay In School Forever - Interview with Jackie Hooper
Contributor(s): Hooper, Jackie (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2014
Language: English
Description: Jackie shares memories of her years at King George High School [1913-1963].
Extent: 00:00:42
Subject(s): Sports, Teachers, High schools, Schools, King George High School [1913-1963], Teenagers, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: Japanese Canadian Internment and Returning to Vancouver - Interview with Lurana Kikuko Tasaka
Contributor(s): Tasaka, Lurana Kikuko (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-05
Language: English
Description: Lurana Tasaka explains leaving Vancouver to live in Greenwood during the internment of Japanese Canadians and then returning when she was 17. She goes on to tell us some of her favourite activities as a teen.
Extent: 00:02:17
Subject(s): Japanese Canadians, Japanese Canadian Internment, King Edward High School, High schools, Schools, Racism, Catholic Church, Dance, Teenagers, Schools
Location(s): Fairview
Time Period: 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
Collection: Story City

Title: Pool Hall Discipline - Interview with Konstantin Nikolaou
Contributor(s): Nikolaou, Konstantin (Interviewee), Hellenic Community Association (Sponsor)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-02-05
Language: English
Description: *Trigger Warning: Violence* Konstantin Nikolaou speaks about getting over excited playing pinball as a youth and being disciplined.
Extent: 00:01:45
Subject(s): Pinball machines, Teenagers
Location(s): Grandview-Woodland
Time Period: 1980s
Collection: Hellenic Stories, Story City

Title: Rock Music - Interview with Herb Torrance:
Contributor(s): Torrance, Herb (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-09-13
Language: English
Description: Herb Torrance gives a first hand account of the arrival of rock and roll in Vancouver.
Extent: 00:01:18
Subject(s): Rock music, Teenagers, Kerrisdale Arena (Stadium : Vancouver, B.C.), Orpheum Theatre (Vancouver, B.C.), Creative community, Music
Location(s): Shaughnessy
Time Period: 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: Teenage Life in South Vancouver - Interview with Arthur and Olave Schultz
Contributor(s): Schultz, Arthur (Interviewee), Schultz, Olave (Interviewee)
Type of Resource: sound recording-nonmusical
Date Created: 2017-05-12
Language: English
Description: Arthur describes his teen years in South Vancouver; summer jobs, ice skating on 49th Avenue and joining the RCAF cadets.
Extent: 00:02:41
Subject(s): Youth - Employment, Streets - British Columbia - Vancouver - 49th Avenue, Canadian Pacific Railway Company, British Columbia Electric Railway Company, Royal Canadian Air Cadets, Teenagers, Skating
Location(s): Sunset
Time Period: 1930s, 1940s, 1950s
Collection: Story City

Title: A Typical Summer Day 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: Gary describes a typical summer day of baseball, sun, and fun with his teenage friends.
Extent: 00:01:18
Subject(s): Beaches, Baseball, Teenagers, Sports, Active life enthusiasts
Location(s): West End
Time Period: 1940s
Collection: West End Stories

Title: A Young Rapper With A Message
Contributor(s): Alodat, Hiba (Journalism Crew), Martel, Beck (Journalism Crew), Michaels, Kyra (Journalism Crew), Yu, Chloe (Journalism Crew), Yu, Mylo (Journalism Crew), House, Tina (Facilitator), Stewart, Karl (VPL Staff), Chan, Aaron (VPL Staff), Petro, Ingrid (VPL Staff)
Type of Resource: moving image
Date Created: 2019-07-25
Language: English
Description: A young Indigenous rapper meets with her mentor JB The First Lady to lay down a track that is a message to her father that he needs to "wake up" from his difficulties with addiction, and return to her as a parent before it's too late.
Extent: 00:04:32
Subject(s): Musicians; Music - Rap, Music - Hip Hop, Mentoring in the arts, Song writing, Teenagers, Drug addiction - Treatment
Time Period: 2010s
Collection: Capturing Vancouver