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41.	Jack Wells Interview Excerpt B	Fishers; Fishing;	Transcript: Oh yes, I really enjoyed it. I enjoyed fishing. Fishing was my life. I wish I could go back again, but I knows I can't.

42.	Ernest Lucas Interview Excerpt L	People; Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: Lots of nice people... I don't think I've met a bad one yet... I don't think I did. Everyone's polite... foreigners are very very polite. Nobody's nasty anymore, I don't think. Not out around here anyway... They come from all over. The States, Europe, they... just about everywhere. Mainly from the island though of course... We have... oh, we must have at least 100 people a day walking back and forth up there. At least. A steady crack of people, every day. Even raining. Even in the rainy weather. In the mornings, you have the joggers going back and forth. 7 o clock. 5, 6, 7 o clock they're jogging or walking back and forth... there was none of that when I was growing up. None of it.

43.	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.

44.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt F	Fishing; Drying (Food preservation); Salt-curing;	Transcript: It [fish] was left in salt for about two or three months and then heavy salted, taken out, washed and then put out on what we call flakes and the sun dried it, cured it.

45.	Isabella St. John Interview Excerpt H	Houses; Architecture, building and construction; Water Sources;	Transcript: In 1974 we didn't have water and sewer services, as we are used to them now... The water was delivered by a truck... and the sewage was picked up with a truck. A different truck... but you could put your buckets of sewage out on the front deck to be removed, although a lot of people had their own systems... basically just pipes going into the harbour. And it wasn't until 1983 that the city took part in a federal program that paid 90% of the costs of putting in the water and sewage... they had to go down... six or eight feet... they were just blasting, blasting, blasting... all through the Battery they blasted. It took ages... They built a wooden bridge around the back of the houses here, because we couldn't walk up the street, so... we had to walk outside, for a period of time. But anyway, after that... since that time, our water is piped in, and our sewage is piped back up the hill and back into the harbour. A very costly circle.

46.	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.

47.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt C	Fishing; Salt-curing; Drying (Food preservation);	Transcript: I took my fish and I split it and heavy salted, then I sundried it.

48.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt E	Fishing;	Transcript: I just goes out for the five fish you're allowed per day, per person.

49.	Charlie Pearcey Interview Excerpt B	Carvings;	Transcript: I have this here [speaking of Twine Shop carving] just for sentimental reasons with his brother Robert, who could neither read nor write but he was an excellent carpenter who did all the carvings.

50.	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.

51.	Ernest Lucas Interview Excerpt L2	People; Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: Everyone talks to everybody, and smiles...

52.	Jack Wells Interview Excerpt C	Personal experience narratives; Population change;	Transcript: Everybody helped each other. I must say that. It was great spot to live boy, it was. So much changing, y aknow. There's only a few of us here now.

53.	Ernest Lucas Interview Excerpt K	People; Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: E - Right on the top of the hill. Paddy Wadden, used to have a jukebox in there... all the Portuguese, and all the girls and all the fellas get up there and dance... up there an' Paddy Wadden'd have the jukebox going... used to have a blast... that'd happen every night... oh yeah. J - He was right crooked. You didn't know when you were gonna get a birch bill in the head, or a bottle of pickles. But the young folks used to torment him. They used to tilt the machine and play all night... on five cents... He'd turn his back, and the young fellas used to steal stuff on him... some bad... but they, now, they weren't that bad, I suppose... the youngsters out here weren't that bad and they're still not that bad... used to get a hard name, but they weren't that bad...

54.	Dorothy Hussey Interview Excerpt E	Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: All the neighbours were alike right? ... They'd run in and out getting a cup of tea or coffee... y' know? Your neighbours would come in. Now there's none of that, no. There's none of that now.

55.	Jack Wells Interview Excerpt A	Fishes; Fishing; Fishing equipment; Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: After trapping boys, we'd go trawling and we'd [beg] 3000 hooks a night, every night, had a thousand peices of bait that went on every night. You had to cut up your own squid and you had to be ready for the next morning, right. So you put in a lot of hours in the day. We used to go down off Torbay, about seven miles down the coast, Torbay grounds, you know. We used to fish them. We had grounds and that right up to the Narrows, nearly. WE caught fish different times of year, some times of year they'd be no good [and we]... then we'd go further away. Or we could go up to Petty Harbour North... You couldn't go above that because you weren't allowed to use trawls in Petty Harbour, it was all hand line.

56.	Ernest Lucas Interview Excerpt O	Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: [We would] climb the hills, play cowboys and Indians, play tiddly, the girls would play hopscotch, play with the allies, marbles, and... ride your hook... or tin cans on your shoes... we always done something. Always climbing the hills. Always up on the cliff.

57.	Isabella St. John Interview Excerpt C	People; Personal experience narratives; Landscape;	Transcript: ...when I am in my garden, and out on the deck and so on, it's not open to the hundreds and hundreds of people that walk down the street, so in that way it is private... But when I talk about exposed, I'm not talking about exposed to humans. I mean that in the landscape this is a very very exposed spot. It's wide open to the wind, both from the harbour... and coming... in through the Narrows... It's open to the sky...

58.	Isabella St. John Interview Excerpt B	Houses; Personal experience narratives; People;	Transcript: ...what's important to me about living in the Battery is ... being on the water, and seeing the changes in the weather, and the, y'know, expansive, the expansiveness of the view. I can see right out over the ocean, and I can see way across the harbour down the Waterford valley, and so that's just a part of my day... it's constant, really.

59.	Dorothy Hussey Interview Excerpt B	Architecture, building and construction; Buildings; People; Personal experience narratives;	Transcript: ...the hotel they were fighting about up there. Why not? Progress.. those that are fighting about it are not Newfoundlanders. And they're not near the hotel. Sure, go ahead, do what you wants to do with it... Give people work... People butts in where they have no business at all, just for the talk.. I can't see why anyone makes it their business... the ones that are fighting about it, they're not Newfoundlanders. They're only here about 20 years, right? So the people that are here for years don't say nothing about it. They don't care what goes on... [as long as] they're decent people are around us.

60.	Isabella St. John Interview Excerpt D	Boats; Ships;	Transcript: ...the cruise ships, to me, coming through the Narrows, they look like giant tampons... 'plugging' the Narrows.

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