Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Dean, Reg
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
1994-04-24
Date Digitized
2010-06-28
Abstract
This is an interview with Reg Dean. In this interview Reg talks about Trenton Car Works, coal, trams, schooners, school, his first job, baseball, hockey, his father's store, old businesses, WWII, meeting Babe Ruth, horses, and various other topics.
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Subject (Temporal)
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:50:16
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:14:05
The Trenton Car Works, being a Coleman, Acadian bus building, Royal Sweets, the Eastern Chronicle building, coal shutes, tram cars, and streets; Trenton Car Works, Acadian Lines, trams, Pictou County.

SIDE A 00:14:05 -- 00:21:45
PEI schooners at the wharf, and Indian hex, the hospital annex, having scarlet fever, school, his first job as a messenger boy with the union, working as a bell hop, meeting Babe Ruth, and playing baseball and hockey; schooners, hospitals, scarlet fever, Babe Ruth, baseball, hockey.

SIDE A 00:21:45 -- 00:31:38
His father's small corner store, Reg's store burning down, Westville Road, the old dump, Aberdeen hospital, Maritime Steel, the dairy, old railway station, the Vendome Hotel, the Dearborn Dairy, and Vail's Laundry; Westville, Maritime Steel, hospitals, dairies, Vendome Hotel, Dearborn Dairy, Vail's Laundry.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:38.
SIDE A 00:31:44 -- 00:46:10
Bob Porter's Funeral Home, Front Street, retiring as the Acadia Street School janitor, moving to Cottage street, housing, being stationed in Labrador in WWII, the Babe Ruth visit, and being a Western Union bicycle messenger; funeral homes, Bob Porter, Acadia Street School, WWII, Cottage Street, Western Union.

SIDE A 00:46:10 -- 00:50:16
The racetrack, Joe O'Brien, baseball fields, the Fencebusters, Reg and the horses in the 1960s, tracks closing and casinos; racetracks, Joe O'Brien, baseball, Fencebusters, horses, 1960s, horse racing, casinos.

Tape ends at 00:50:16.