SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:05:01
Discussion about working in his father's carriage shop as a kid, building ice boats, and a description of the shop; wages, ice boats, 1943, forges, horses.
SIDE A 00:05:01 -- 00:15:46
Discussion about the background of the Francis family business; John S. Francis, Francis sleighs, 1956, blacksmiths, steel, coal, blacksmith coal, welder, 1948, Jim Lutes, family business, sleighs, wagons, John T. Gill, Harry Francis, electricity, carriage builder, 1917, wood sleighs, forges.
SIDE A 00:15:46 -- 00:24:38
Discussion about his father's work with horses and sleighs; Harry Francis, horse and sleigh, sleighs, traveling, horses, horse trading, Western horses, Wellington McNeill.
SIDE A 00:24:38 -- 00:28:50
Discussion about the Francis sleighs; Francis sleighs, sleigh prices, sleighs, hearses, milk wagons, truck boxes, sawmills, wood, lumber.
SIDE A 00:28:50 -- 00:30:30
Discussion about painting the sleighs and wagons; painting, sleighs, carriage shops, moonshine.
SIDE A ends at 00:30:30.
SIDE B 00:30:32 -- 00:34:50
Discussion about painting the sleighs and wagons continues; painting, sleighs, carriage shops, CIL paint, cutter sleighs, Francis cutters, sleigh prices.
SIDE B 00:34:50 -- 00:37:46
Discussion about his father and their business with tractors; tractors, Harry Francis, farm machinery, 1946, horse trading.
SIDE B 00:37:46 -- 00:42:16
Discussion about famous people he knew; Elmer Harris, Colleen Dewhurst, George C. Scott, Captain Percy, actors, Fortune.
SIDE B 00:42:16 -- 00:43:03
Discussion about E. S. Johnston's store; Ernest Johnston, E. S. Johnston, E. S. Johnston's store.
SIDE B 00:43:03 -- 00:47:26
Discussion about cars and a story about delivery coal; cars, Jim Lutes, Graham Paige, 1930, Nash, driver's licence, coal, coal trucks, coal delivery, rum, long neckers.
SIDE B 00:47:26 -- 00:50:31
Discussion about his father and life in the 1930s, with mention of Christmas; 1930s, Harry Francis, Christmas, money, generosity.
SIDE B 00:50:31 -- 00:52:36
Discussion about school and his first job buying potatoes; first job, school, potato buyers, 1943, shipping potatoes.
SIDE B 00:52:36 -- 00:54:06
Discussion about foxes; foxes.
SIDE B 00:54:06 -- 01:00:10
Discussion about rum running; rum running, rum runners, Reg Alec MacDonald, Joseph P. Kennedy, rum, kegs of rum, boat rum.
SIDE B 01:00:10 -- 01:02:07
Discussion about the end of sleighs; Francis sleighs, sleigh.
Tape ends at 01:02:07.
