Harold Linkletter T3 [Tape Three]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Linkletter, Harold
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1997-09-30
Date Digitized
2010-12-21
Abstract
This is an interview with Harold Linkletter of Linkletter, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about the 1956 ice storm, electricity, the telephone, radio, quiet Sundays and church, Summerside, blacksmiths, the circus, ice races, livery stables, the Spanish Flu, the 1929 earthquake, his birth, traveling, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Summerside, PE
Linkletter, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1913
1945
1956
1920
1918
1929
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:36:00
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:05:40
Discussion about the 1956 ice storm; 1956, ice storm, storms, blackouts, Robert Linkletter, electricity, power, power outages.

SIDE A 00:05:40 -- 00:07:04
Discussion about electricity; electricity, power, 1945, power plants.

SIDE A 00:07:04 -- 00:14:17
Discussion about the telephone; telephones, Linkletter Phone Company, 1913, crank phones, central operators, telegraphs, party lines, cellphones.

SIDE A 00:14:17 -- 00:18:03
Discussion about radio; radio, 1920, CFCY, Don Messer, CNRA, KDKA, WGY, Charlie Chamberlain.

SIDE A 00:18:03 -- 00:21:36
Discussion about quiet Sundays and church; Sundays, quiet Sundays, church, cards, card games, Free Church of Scotland, Sunday shopping.

SIDE A 00:21:26 -- 00:23:09
Discussion about Summerside stores and wharves; Summerside, stores, wharves, pavement, paved roads, schooners, Read's.

SIDE A 00:23:09 -- 00:24:21
Discussion about the circus; circus.

SIDE A 00:24:21 -- 00:25:58
Discussion about local blacksmiths; blacksmiths, Jack MacNeill, Bert Woodside.

SIDE A 00:25:58 -- 00:28:41
Discussion about ice races, livery stables, and dog sleighs; Jack Holman, livery stables, dog sleighs, ice races, horse races, bootleggers, Jack Gallant.

SIDE A 00:28:41 -- 00:29:27
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; 1918, 1919, Spanish Flu.

SIDE A 00:29:27 -- 00:30:15
Discussion about the 1929 earthquake; 1929, earthquakes.

SIDE A 00:30:15 -- 00:31:56
Discussion about his birth; Dr. Sinclair, Dr. Ernest Sinclair, childbirth, doctors, midwives, 1918.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:56.
SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:36:00
Discussion about traveling and going to town for the exhibition; traveling, exhibition, ferries, Prince Edward Island ferry, experimental farm.

***The remainder of SIDE B is blank.
Tape ends at 00:36:00.