This is the third of four tapes of interviews with Charles Marvin "Charlie" Bell of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Charlie talks about the Spanish Flu, breaking the roads, his father and his illnesses, his mother and her work as a postmistress, Eaton's catalogues, electricity, indoor plumbing, washing machines, Sundays, his grandparents and the Pleasant View Hotel, cars, teaching in Hampton, winter traveling, his family, home remedies, and loading potatoes.
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:05:38 A story about breaking the roads for the doctor to get to a girl with the Spanish Flu; Marion Lea, Spanish Flu, Dr. Bouyer, breaking the roads. | SIDE A 00:05:38 -- 00:10:33 Discussion about his father's battles with pneumonia and polio; polio, pneumonia, 1924, 1927. | SIDE A 00:10:33 -- 00:13:26 Discussion about his mother's work as a postmistress, with mention of other postal workers; postmistress, postmaster, postal workers, mailmen, mail, post office, rural mailman, Charles MacNeill. | SIDE A 00:13:26 -- 00:15:12 Discussion about Eaton's catalogues; Eaton's, Eaton's catalogues. | SIDE A 00:15:12 -- 00:24:00?? Discussion about getting electricity, indoor plumbing, and radio; radio, electricity, power, lights, indoor plumbing, chemical closet, toilets, Leard's mill, Ive's power plant, power plant, 1930, Sterling Lord. | SIDE A 00:24:00 -- 00:27:45?? A story about a washing machine, with mention of Sundays; typhoid fever, washing machine, Sundays, Methodist, quiet Sundays, religion. | SIDE A 00:27:45?? -- 00:30:46 Discussion about his grandparents and the Pleasant View Hotel, with mention of the Harland; Speaker of the House, Walter Lea, Harland, Pleasant View Hotel. | SIDE A 00:30:46 -- 00:31:21 Discussion about the first car he saw; cars, Wooton. | SIDE A ends at 00:31:21. SIDE B 00:31:29 -- 00:33:16 Discussion about the Pleasant View Hotel continues; Pleasant View Hotel, Claudine Smith, fire, 1915, Taylor. | SIDE B 00:33:16 -- 00:44:00?? Discussion about teaching in Hampton, with mention of examinations, John Myers, seaweed, and politics; John Muers, MP, Member of Parliament, 1932, Hampton, teaching, teachers, teaching salary, teacher's salary, teaching supplement, school vacations, potato picking, seaweed, 1934, politics. | SIDE B 00:44:00?? -- 00:46:58 A story about traveling to Charlottetown in deep snow; deep snow, Charlottetown, horse and sleigh. | SIDE B 00:46:58 -- 00:51:22 Discussion about his mother and a story about her at a hockey game; hockey, hockey game, thaw, 1928, Victoria, postmistress. | SIDE B 00:51:22 -- 00:52:20 Discussion about loading potatoes; potatoes, boxcar, loading potatoes. | SIDE B 00:52:20 -- 00:55:11 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, Epsom salts. | SIDE B 00:55:11 -- 01:03:16 Discussion about the family home and his mother; indoor plumbing, Lower Tryon, septic system, wood heat, Christopher Smith, Crapaud Cemetery, Marion Lea, Helen Smith. | Tape ends at 01:03:16.
