| Summary: | Oral interview with Ronald Earnest Jewer, conducted by Dale Gilbert Jarvis, recorded at the College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville. 0:00 - brief family history, coming to Stephenville; 1:40 - temporary housing on the base (T buildings); 3:05 - family names; 3:40 - more on housing and rent; 4:20 - base privileges, Post Exchange/Base Exchange; 5:15 - civilian officers like Fire Chief and Red Cross officer; 5:50 - school in Stephenville, amalgamated school; 6:30 - recreation faciliites: recreation hall, gymnasium, bowling alley, woodcraft shop, leathercraft shop, learning morse code, baseball field, playing cards, 9:45 - black soldiers on the base; 10:50 - being a child, children, and games/sports on the base; 12:55 - making tips: bagging groceries at the commissary, selling newspapers, and setting bowling pins; 15:35 - spending pocket money and price of goods; 18:45 - Skipping school to sneak onto the base with an expired pass and getting caught; 21:50 - movie theatre, going to the movies and watching tv; 25:55 - American impressions of Newfoundland; 26:55 - Relationships between American soldiers and local women; 28:40 - favourite places on the base; 30:30 - Radio on the base; 31:56 - working on the base; 36:20 - NCO Club: visit from Eddy Cash, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley; 38:45 - closing the base, rank required to live on the base, staying in Newfoundland after the closure; 43:25 - buildings on the base; 44:30 - baseball and other sports on the base; 47:15 - old buildings on the base; 52:50 - Armed Forces Day; 55:15 - winning a dinner at the Dune Lodge; 59:05 - driving into a local barber shop
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