Audio file
Contributors
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 plowing, horses, courting, cars, WWII, working as a taxi driver, dance halls and restaurants, Summerside, eggs, milk, wheat, ice, mills, fertilizer, picking potatoes, Christmas, school, sleighs, Art Linkletter, the 1956 ice storm, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:41
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:50
Discussion about plowing and horses; plowing, gang plows, horses, horse breeds, driving horses.

SIDE A 00:02:50 -- 00:04:53
Discussion about courting and cars; courting, cars, driving, Capital Tea Room, Joe Bun, 1940.

SIDE A 00:04:53 -- 00:09:25
Discussion about working as a taxi driver during WWII, with mention of A. Horne and Company; taxis, taxi drivers, 1941, Capital Tea Room, food prices, Joe Bun, WWII, mud roads, wages, A. Horne and Company, Lee Horne.

SIDE A 00:09:25 -- 00:11:21
Discussion about Reg Pope's dance hall, with mention of an airplane crash; dance halls, Reg Pope, plane crashes, airplane crashes, WWII, Regent Theatre, Wallace Harding, Herbie Mann, Summerside.

SIDE A 00:11:21 -- 00:14:06
Discussion about The Diner, the Perry and Gallant brothers, and the Soviet; The Diner, Perry, Gallant, The Soviet, Summerside, Clovie Perry, Andrew Perry, restaurants, Harry Gallant, Frank Gallant, Don Messer.

SIDE A 00:14:06 -- 00:16:10
Discussion about the Hindenburg and rationing during WWII; Hindenburg, rationing, WWII, zeppelins, sugar.

SIDE A 00:16:10 -- 00:19:37
Discussion about the egg circle, potato baskets, and milk; egg wagon, Wally Cannon, eggs, egg circle, potato baskets, Harry Cannon, milk, butter, cheese factory, egg grading, crocks.

SIDE A 00:19:37 -- 00:22:09
Discussion about ice houses, the iceman, and the milkman; ice houses, Summerside, iceman, ice, milkman, milkmen, horses, Ideal Dairy, Cairns, Alec Chappell, Elmer Linkletter, Boswell, George Harris.

SIDE A 00:22:09 -- 00:26:45
Discussion about gristmills, thrashing, and stationary engines; gristmills, Leard's mill, mills, wheat, grain, Coleman, custom thrashing, stationary engines.

SIDE A 00:26:45 -- 00:31:47
Discussion about tobacco, with mention of ; tobacco, chewing tobacco, Hickey and Nicholson's, smoking, tobacco prices, 1930s, 1950s.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:47.
SIDE B 00:31:54 -- 00:33:55
Discussion about mangles and sugar beets; mangles, beets, sugar beets, turnips.

SIDE B 00:33:55 -- 00:36:58
Discussion about mussel mud and other fertilizer; mussel mud, fertilizer, manure, seaweed, black mud.

SIDE B 00:36:58 -- 00:39:01
Discussion about his ancestors, wool, and mills; mills, ancestors, drugget, wool.

SIDE B 00:39:01 -- 00:42:06
Discussion about flour bags, barrels, and strong men; flour bags, flour bag clothes, barrels, strong men.

SIDE B 00:42:06 -- 00:43:45
Discussion about pigs; pigs, hog day, shipping pigs.

SIDE B 00:43:45 -- 00:45:54
Discussion about wheat and potatoes; wheat, barley, seed, alfalfa, potatoes, potato varieties.

SIDE B 00:45:54 -- 00:48:20
Discussion about fish; fish peddlers, codfish, lobster, fertilizer, herring, lobster bodies, fox feed.

SIDE B 00:48:20 -- 00:50:19
Discussion about picking potatoes on school vacation; potato picking, school vacation, wages, 1929, bicycles.

SIDE B 00:50:19 -- 00:53:47
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, Christmas dinner, Santa Claus.

SIDE B 00:53:47 -- 00:55:36
Discussion about concerts and plays; concerts, plays, 1930s.

SIDE B 00:55:36 -- 00:57:04
Discussion about school; Linkletter Academy, school, teachers, education, teaching.

SIDE B 00:57:04 -- 01:00:24
Discussion about sleighs; sleighs, pung sleigh, jaunting sleigh, Francis cutter, Marks sleighs, Bowness sleighs, Francis sleighs, McLaughlin wagons, sleigh bells.

SIDE B 01:00:24 -- 01:02:50
Discussion about Art Linkletter; Art Linkletter, James Fulton Linkletter.

SIDE B 01:02:50 -- 01:03:41
Discussion about the 1956 ice storm; ice storms, storms, 1956.

Tape ends at 01:03:41.