Green, Gary 1. Interview about Crow's Nest Officer's Club.

• Main Author: Barrett, Terra
• Other Authors: Green, Gary
• Format: Moving Image (Video)
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Objects; Buildings; Wall hangings; Green; Gary; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/6002

Interview with Gary Green, past president of the Crow's Nest Officer's Club. Background history of the building, stories about gun shield art, and the wall décor. Introduction by Gary Green; Past president of Crow’s Nest Officers Club and past president of Crow’s Nest Military Artifacts Association; 00:28 – History of the Crow’s Nest Officers Club site; Description of The Ship public house; Description of significant people who visited The Ship public house; 03:05 – Description of the Crow’s Nest Officers Club renovations; Environmental changes for artifact’s safety and preservation; 04:01 - Donation of artifacts; People who were stationed in St. John’s; Lack of local knowledge of the Crow’s Nest Officers Club’s World War Two operations; 05:26 – History of the Crow’s Nest Officers Club as an officer’s secure room; 06:38 – Process of the restoration; Closure of the Crow’s Nest Officers Club in 1945; Reopening of Crow’s Nest Officers Club eight months later as a Newfoundland Officers Veteran’s Club; Changing membership with the Club; 9:16 – Decoration of the Crow’s Nest Officers Club after the war; Retrieval of artifacts from a mess Montreal, Quebec where the Crow’s Nest Officers Club’s artwork had gone in 1945; Redecorating after unification; 11:22 - Discussion of gun shield art; 12:10 – Story behind the H.M.C.S. Moosejaw gun shield art; 15:49 – Stories behind gun shield art; 16:21 – Traditions in the Canadian Navy which started in the Crow’s Nest Officer Club; Gun Shield Art; Story of the barber pole brigade; 19:58 – The story of the second fire escape.