SIDE A 00:00:07 -- 00:05:03
Discussion about a Model-T Ford he bought in 1917; cars, car prices, Model-T Ford, 1917, crank engine, tires.
SIDE A 00:05:03 -- 00:11:22
Discussion about the wharves and the waterfront in Summerside, with mention of Joseph Read and Co., mills, the circus, rats, and ferries; rats, garbage,mills, Joseph Read and Company, wharves, gristmills, Robinson's gristmill, elephants, Summerside, fires, Bedeque ferry, Prince Albert, 1920s, Bedeque wharf, brickyard, picnics.
SIDE A 00:11:22 -- 00:15:44
Discussion about Reg Gay losing his finger at the sawmill and Jimmy Mayhew's bealing, with mention of home remedies; Jimmy Mayhew, Reg Gay, Albert Gay, cabinetmaker, Schurman's mill, accidents, bealing, home remedies, cow manure.
SIDE A 00:15:44 -- 00:19:25
A story about Milligan and Morrison's fox barn and horse races; foxes, Chevrolet truck, Milligan and Morrison, horse races.
SIDE A 00:19:25 -- 00:25:10
Discussion about his father's work as a horseman for the Wyatts, with mention of animals in town; Wyatt, horseman, Clayton Schurman, horses, Summerside, wages, sleighs.
SIDE A 00:25:10 -- 00:28:08
Discussion about his brother Horatio, with mention of his race horses; Horatio Schurman, painter, paint, drinking, race horses.
SIDE A 00:28:08 -- 00:29:27
Discussion about horse sheds at the churches and livery stables; horse sheds, churches, livery stables.
SIDE A 00:29:27 -- 00:31:36
Discussion about the pest house; quarantine, diseases, diphtheria, scarlet fever, pestilence house, pest house, fires, Waugh.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:36.
SIDE B 00:31:41 -- 00:32:10
Discussion about the pest house continues; pest house, quarantine, pestilence house, pest house, hay, Waugh.
SIDE B 00:32:10 -- 00:35:10
Discussion about his friends going on the train out West for the the Harvest Excursion; 1930s, Harvest Excursion, trains, wages, Aaron MacDougall, 1920s.
SIDE B 00:35:10 -- 00:38:53
Discussion about his brother Ben and his work as a police officer; Ben Schurman, Boston, Sgt. Benjamin Schurman, policeman, police officers, policemen, paddy wagon.
SIDE B 00:38:53 -- 00:41:45
Discussion about John Holman's car and bootlegging; bootleggers, John Holman, LaSalle, cars, hearse, rum, Cecil Miller, Kier Mann.
SIDE B 00:41:45 -- 00:45:12
Discussion about dances at the Maple Leaf Club, the Regent Theatre, and taxis; Maple Leaf Club, Reg Pope, dance halls, Francis Perry, Regent Theatre, dances, airmen, taxis, Summerside, neon signs, Read's Corner.
SIDE B 00:45:12 -- 00:48:46
Discussion about Reg Pope's airplane and Herbie Mann's plane crash; airplanes, Reg Pope, Herbie Mann, Wings Driscoll, planes, plane crash, 1929.
SIDE B 00:48:46 -- 00:55:32
Discussion about April Fool's jokes at the post office; April Fool's, jokes, pranks, post office.
SIDE B 00:55:32 -- 00:59:16
Discussion about Dick Clarke and a story about bicycle soup; Dick Clarke, Chinese restaurants, characters, bicycle soup, Charlie Hum, Bicycle Soup.
SIDE B 00:59:16 -- 01:03:19
Discussion about Charlie Hum's Chinese restaurant and Chinese immigrants in Summerside; Summerside, Charlie Hum, Chinese restaurant, Chinese, immigrants, laundry, Water Street, Jack Steele's barbershop.
Tape ends at 01:03:19.