Summary: | Terra Barrett interviews Joan Keating about growing up in St. John's, local shops, downtown shopping, and children's games. "Joan Elizabeth Keating (Barnes) was born March 29, 1942 in St. John’s at the Grace hospital and grew up on Cookstown Road and Kent Place; location of Kent Place; 1:35 – growing up on Cookstown Road; biking; local shops; 5:01 – Joan’s family; 6:57 – local shops -- Midtown stores, chip shop, shoe maker, Jackman and Green’s, Chinese laundry, Cross and Company; 9:55 – delivering presents by sled on Christmas eve; Christmas memories; 13:27 – Water Street memories; Christmas raffle; dressing up to go downtown; McMurdo’s; the Sweet Shop; Woolworth’s; 18:08 – Ayre’s; [phone ringing in background]; Bon Marche; the Arcade; The Royal Stores; The London, New York and Paris; 22:15 - Toyland; Valentine’s; Halloween; 27:35 – Harvey and Company; 30:02 – Bannerman Park; Bowring Park; 35:35 – Movie theatres -- Paramount, Capital, Majestic, the Star; 39:23 – games played; skipping rhymes; 42:45 – move from Cookstown Road to Kent Place; school; 45:15 – picking up Dolly dye; first job working with father at Stabb’s; teaching."
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