Hollett, Lynn Anne. Interview about growing up in St. John's.

• Main Author: McGuire, Andrea
• Other Authors: Dunn, Dave, 1941-, Dave Dunn was born in St. John's on November 20th, 1941. His family lived on Mullock Street in Georgestown until Dave was ten, when the family moved to Portugal Cove Road. Dave has lived in his house in Makinsons, Newfoundland for about forty years. During his career, he sold appliances and other items to business owners across the province. Dave has three children and seven grandchildren.
• Format: Audio
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Migration/settlement; Towns; Roads; Communities; Hollett; Lynn Anne; 1958-; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://collections.mun.ca/cdm/ref/collection/ich_avalon/id/6641

Lynn Anne Hollett shares her memories of downtown and growing up on Flower Hill, Barter's Hill, and Empire Avenue. July 24th, 2017 Andrea McGuire and Lynn Anne Hollett Introductions; Lynn Anne Hollett was born in St. John’s on October 29, 1958 to father Anthony Joseph Murphy, from Flower Hill, St. John’s, and mother Nina (Brown) Murphy, from Tack’s Beach, Placentia Bay; 0:53 – Flower Hill felt like a community unto itself; family moved to house on Barter’s Hill, but often visited grandmother Agnes Murphy on Flower Hill; Agnes was a widower with nine children; all the neighbours knew each other; 2:35 – playing games in the street, “it was hard to skip or do anything like that, because you were on quite the hill”; picnics in Victoria Park; mothers sat on step with the kids; playing jacks, marbles, “kick the can was a big one, because all you had to do was find a can”; 4:00 – going to Lars Fruit Store for a custard cone; describes Lars Fruit Store, “the smell of that place was unbelievable”; 7:10 – walking through Brazil Square; family walked everywhere; Lynn Anne had four siblings; 9:55 – describes house on Barter’s Hill; 10:50 – family moved to home owned by Newfoundland and Labrador Housing; house was located on corner of Grave Street and Empire Avenue, “what they would call Rabbittown now”; 13:06 – neighbourhood wasn’t referred to as Rabbittown at the time; describes differences between two family houses; 15:10 – father worked as a truck driver; Lynn Anne guarded her father’s truck on his lunch break; “the big highlight was that I could pick which friends could stand on the truck with me while dad ate his lunch”; 17:30 – describes lunches they brought to school; after awhile, walked from Holy Heart to Empire Avenue for lunch, because she was embarrassed about her packaged lunch; 19:20 – describes family suppers; 21:20 – describes downtown businesses; Bowring’s; buying pie at the Captain’s Cabin; maternal grandmother was from Chamberlain’s – “she spoiled me”; they went to Woolworth’s for strawberry shortcake; ...