Charlie Bell T2 [Tape Two]

Interview

Thompson, Reg "Dutch"

Bell, Charles Marvin "Charlie"

1995-12-07

01:03:26

This is the second of four tapes of interviews with Charles Marvin "Charlie" Bell of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Charlie talks about attending Prince of Wales College, the phantom ship, WWI and his uncle Fred Bell, The Great Depression, Holman's, radios, Jim Crockett, forerunners, his teaching career, and his work as a traveling salesman.

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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson

SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:03:05 Discussion about Prince of Wales College; Prince of Wales College, fire, school subjects, 1929. | SIDE A 00:03:05 -- 00:05:14 Discussion about the phantom ship; phantom ship, 4 masted schooner, 1929, Stanley Lord. | SIDE A 00:05:14 -- 00:06:53 Discussion about WWI and his uncle Fred Bell; Fred Bell, WWI. | SIDE A 00:06:53 -- 00:17:08 Discussion about The Great Depression, working at Holman's in the radio department, and radio stations; 1930, 1930s, The Great Depression, Holman's, radios, radio batteries, wages, food prices, room and board, room and board prices, table radios, CHGS, radio stations, Colonel Rogers, church services, Keith Rogers, CFCY, Summerside. | SIDE A 00:17:08 -- 00:23:28 Discussion about Jim Crockett, his furniture store, Holman's, and a tunnel to the mainland; Holman's, Jim Crockett, Crockett and Story, furniture store, Summerside, Carlton, tunnel. | SIDE A 00:23:28 -- 00:28:01 Discussion about teaching in Mt. Royal and dances, with mention of telephones; teaching licence, teaching, teachers, first class licence, Mt. Royal, teaching salary, teacher's salary, supplement, dances, house parties, entertainment, telephones, party line. | SIDE A 00:28:05?? -- 00:31:50 Discussion about forerunners; forerunners, Webster Bolter, Marion Lea, Walter Lea. | SIDE A ends at 00:31:50. SIDE B 00:32:00 -- 00:35:48 Discussion about forerunners continues; ghosts, forerunners, swamp gas, Catholics, Protestants, Robert Ferguson, Bertha Thompson, Ralph Taylor. | SIDE B 00:35:48 -- 00:40:40 Discussion about teaching continues; teaching, Mt. Royal, 1934, teaching jobs, gender roles, 1930s, class one teaching licence, teacher's salary, teaching salary. | SIDE B 00:40:40 -- 01:03:26. Discussion about his work as a traveling salesman, with mention of his route, goods he sold, driving and the roads, and trains; traveling salesman, A. M. Bell Company, Halifax, driving, roads, cars, trains, salesman, Model-A Ford, Leonard Trainor, ice travel, Wilkinson's store, Captain Perry, general stores, fishing gear. | Tape ends at 01:03:26.