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181.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt G	Fishers; Fishing; Drying (Food preservation); Salt-curing;	Transcript: Well, my mother was involved in the drying. That was their job. The women had to spread the fish 'cause the men were off catching the fish in the cod traps, and bringing it in. But the women, they had to come down on a fine day and spread it on the flake and if it started to rain during the day or in the evening they had to come down and take it up again and put it in the yaffles like they used to put it on, so the rain wouldn't spoil it. They had to keep it covered.

182.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt H	Families; Fishes; Fishers; Fishing; Drying (Food preservation); Salt-curing;	Transcript:There's pictures over there when Dad were on the flakes picking up the fish with my family and my mother, my sister and my cousins and their parents also. That was one of the one things you had to do here at the Battery.

183.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt J	Photos (Material Culture); Modeling (physical objects);	Transcript: There's a model right there... and pictures on the wall showing flakes as it was in the 50's and 40's and 30's.

184.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt K	Commercial fishing; Fishing; Fishers; Fishes;	Transcript: That was your livelihood then. That's what you did to make your living. But nowadays it's not. You're only out there for five fish a day. We used to bring in thirty thousand pound a fish a day, in one load.

185.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt L	Fishers; Fishes; Fishing;	Transcript: St.John's to Petty Harbour, all around the shoreline. And then from St. John's to Torbay Point. That was the St. John's fishermens' area that they could fish.

186.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt M	Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: We had good years and we had bad years.

187.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt N	Commercial fishing;	Transcript: Two plants here. Harveys and Jobs. We used to sell it to the plants. ... Yeah, that was on the South Side. And Harvey's.

188.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt P		Transcript: Well, a person just came today and wanted to buy it and I wouldn't sell it for one million dollars!

189.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt Q	Families; Photos (Material Culture);	Transcript: There's only about four or five original families out here now. I only got this for sentimental reasons. I'm retired ... I only just come out and spend a day out here and any body that comes in ... I say yes, you can come in and see the pictures as it was in the 50's and 30's ... and look at memories is all it is.

190.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt R	Families; Houses; People; Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: Yes... if you had something [somebody else wanted or] you wanted ... and the next door neighbor got a lend of it and brought it back. Everybody was "aunt" this or "uncle" that. When I was a boy and grew up everybody's door was open you could go in different houses there and have a cup of tea or sit down and have a yarn... the men used to always get together on Saturday evening in one of the stores and yarn about different things... politics or different things like that, that was the thing of the day, those days.

191.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt S	Personal experience narratives; People;	Transcript: I'm out to Jack's everyday ... I go out to see how he is. I'm down here all the time. He knows that [if] he has something that I got ... if I got it, he has it and I get a lend of it and we bring it back and forth.

192.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt T	Families; Houses;	Transcript: It's only my memories out here now, that's all. There's only about five families out here now of about twenty families. All the rest of their children sold all the houses and moved ... 'cause there's nothing out here. People buy this for the scenery. But I mean it's only a natural everyday occurence for us. We just took it for granted.

193.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt U	Fishers; Fishing;	Transcript: I grew up here. There's not fishermen and there never will be as we knew it years ago. Them days are gone... there's no more fishing.

194.	Charlie Pearcey’s stage, from street	Architecture, building and construction;

195.	Charlie Pearcey’s stage, from water	Architecture, building and construction;

196.	Charlie Pearcey’s Twine Store - view from the other side	Architecture, building and construction;

197.	Charlie Pearcey's store, 27 Outer Battery Road	Architecture, building and construction;

198.	Charlie Pearcey's Twine Store - Bob Pearcey’s wood carving of a salt fish culling board and weight scales (1940) set against a black and white old photograph of the lower Battery	Folk art; Carvings; Woodworking;

199.	Charlie Pearcey's Twine Store - Bob Pearcey’s wood carving of Pearcey’s and Well’s stages and twine stores (1950’s) (closer)	Folk art; Carvings; Woodworking;

200.	Charlie Pearcey's Twine Store - Bob Pearcey’s wood carving of Pearcey’s and Wells' stages and twine stores (1950’s)	Folk art; Carvings; Woodworking;

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