| Summary: | Dale Jarvis interviewing Janet Story at her home in St.John's on the topic of growing up in St.John's. Story was born in 1924 and grew up in St. John's, NL. The tape begins with Story providing background information about herself and her family/ Hoist your Sails and Run/ ice skating, hockey, tube skates/ street cars on Water Street, attending Holloway's School/ playing marbles in the spring/ sliding in the winter/ summer activities such as swimming and catching tadpoles/ memories of being a young girl in St. John's during WWII/ blackouts of the 1940s and the Air Raid Precaution Group/ playing field hockey and basketball as a teenager/ Girl Guides/ chores, domestic workers/ swimming in Bowring Park/ Rennie's River Pool/ Leaning to swim/ renting bicycles in St. John's/ working at Merchant/Navy hospital for a year after high school/ Knights of Columbus Fire/ memories of working as a nurse and attending nursing school on Forest Road in St. John's/ playing bridge and 45s/ walking the dogs in the late fall to 'harden their feet' for hunting.
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