| Summary: | Gerald and Eliza French share reflections and stories about a life spent in Bay Roberts. Cable Avenue memories; Family information; Eliza French introduces herself; Gerald French’s father worked in Cable office as caretaker; 3:15 - Describing family home; History of property; Memory of watching father work at Cable Station; 6:05 - Childhood game of cowboys; Families on the avenue; Childhood friends; 8:30 - Hideout in the trees; Lean to in grass; 9:45 - Halloween tricks; Activities; 12:15 - Storytelling; Ghost story; Jack O’Lantern story; 13:30 - No street lights; Brigus fairy stories; 16:00 - Drummer’s rock; Gus Menchions; Digging up garden; Family garden and mug ups; Work history; 21:20 - Brookfield ice cream; Meeting his wife; EF’s school teaching experience; Work history; 26:40 - Emotional connection to properties; Cable Ave. gate; 28:00 - Locked for one day a year; People from Cable Ave.; Mr. Howard; The hut; Location of cable; House struck by lightning; 34:15 - Snow storms in past; Doctors in Bay Roberts; Father hired by Cable; 38:50 - Description of mother; Family gatherings; Liquor consumption; Buying groceries for mother; Description of father; 42:10 - Men gathering on Saturday nights; List of families; Sister Bellamy and family; 47:50 - Religious practice; Relationship with sisters; Brigus convent; Nuns taught piano; 51:30 - Family superstitions, black cats, crossing out crows; Mummering traditions and foods; Christmas celebrations; 56:00 - Local characters; Adrian Dawe; 58:20 - Story about man with “the bawl”; 60:00 - Story about Jacob going over a cliff; Change in Bay Roberts; Shops on Water Street; Funeral services, forge, clothing, supplies; Locations of churches and schools; 68:30 - Sense of community; Story about where babies would come from; Keeping animals; Father worked in mines; Passenger train; Women’s work; 74:40 - Clothes washing procedure; Hooked mat making; 77:00 - First family with radio; Lightning damage to house; Sewing machine and bible story; 80:40 - Family names and photos; ...
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