So, we went over there and I said to the girl, I said, "We're working up here and we're going to be here for about a week or so and we want some place to stay." And you-see, it wasn't in the tourist time. And I said, "We're not- we're- you-know, we're not millionaires, we're just workers." And I said "We want a place to stay if you've got room for us here."

We- we never stopped, just drove right on by and we was c-- the other taxi, I guess they had ah must have been stopped there some place, because they were just ahead of us, we had just caught up them ah a while ago and yeah.

... I said to them, "Well, you just stick the phone in the ground. It'll just reverse the charges, you-see." ... It'll phone away down into the States some place. So they phoned down into the States and talked to their mother for a while.

he's ah working for the League-of-Nations or-something over there. ... Ah, yeah, over and ah- they were in Jerusalem for a while, but she got this job with the League-of-Nations down there someplace or something like that. And she's working at that and gets three hundred dollars a week.

And ah I ha-- she gave me four sandwiches, and that was eight slices of bread. And ah (coughs) the moose-meat was just the same size as a sandwich; it was cut about that thick. And that was when (inc) got a moose up near the park someplace.

She's now going to some place in Nova-Scotia which is good 'cause I don't like her and the farther the better.

... um I-guess it 's similar to any sort-of mall that you 'll- that 's not downtown so something like Square-One in Mississauga it- you tend to see the same kind-of there 's usually some place to eat um around that area um they usually have a movie-theatre and you-know like some kind-of banking

Interviewer: Primarily subway? Speaker: Yeah, or walking. For a- while it was rollerblades that I took everywhere but they 're kind-of bulky when you get some-place and you-know if you 've- you 're going somewhere you got to hang around for the day and you 're not at someone 's house, the (inc) on rollerblades are keeping on your own bike is kind-of a pain.

It used to be downtown always, um just it 's a different feel downtown, a little bit more exciting, different people, stuff like that but now we get lazier, so maybe just Brydon's or Sharky's ... just in the area, maybe even a little bit more west ... some place in Etobicoke, but even Etobicoke feels, I don't like Etobicoke, it 's exactly the same as here but I don't like it.

And um, as you got older, ah, he would employ you down there, opening lockers. The girls had lockers when they came to swim and had to put their clothes some place. So you could be the locker girl and from the locker girl, you went to being um, selling the, the refreshments behind the counter like the candies and ice cream. So I worked my way up into there.

So ah, we went ah, they went different places for lunch, and I remember one Sunday they were going someplace and I was in church and of course the children we all sat in the front row. And there was a, a person who sat with us called ah Miss-May and she was always dressed in black and she was the queerest woman you ever wanted to see.

And everybody knew Miss-May and she would keep track of us you-see, and so ah, Allison's family, mother they 'd go out for some ride someplace and they 'd be gone for the day.

... we had our breakfast at the Western and then walked over, and walked home again. I never thought anything of it, now I wouldn 't do it. But I, it was rather amusing, I was out someplace one day and ah, somebody came up behind me and, I don 't know where I was, I was looking at something and this, this voice said, "How are your legs?"

You-know I've lived here all my life, and I have been away, so I've been able to see the differences but it's s-- some place in my- I don't know what you call, in my being or whatever, this isn't- even though I was born here it doesn't necessarily say to me that this is the place I should be.

... but it was- it was a place on your way to some place else. Either you were falling back or you 're going ahead. ... there's no lovely parks, there's nothing physically beautiful about it at all, so it's a- a sort-of a transitional area and then you can move on to some place else. If you 're Italian, you go to Woodbridge, if you're Portuguese, you may go to another suburb or (inc). If you're Jewish you 'd move to ah Thornhill.

It 's too expensive. It 's too- it 's- it- it 's too close to downtown. It 's got to be fixed. 'Cause Parkdale 's going to lose whatever it 's got. You-know, the hookers and junkies are going to have to find someplace else. ... And that 's sad because they 've been there for- for fifty years the hookers and junkies. ... They don 't deserve to be thrown out.

Um I- I just- I just like Mexico. Um and we 've been on- in- in the Mediterranean but mainly- I 'm the type of person, I like to go the same place all the time. My husband likes to go someplace different all the time. So we have to mi--meld that. (laughter) And depending on finances, as well.

I wasn 't able to go. No. Um, my sister and her husband went, of course, 'cause it 's their daughter but I wasn 't able to go. The timing was- I had tickets for something. I was someplace else before- it took awhile to get the date but- but anyhow, couldn 't go.

Sh, the same way, you- you 'd struggle through or (laughs) if- If it wasn 't fit for driving then might have been a- a horse and a sleigh someplace that would be able to- ... A horse and a sleigh that would- Could come and pick you up.

I think the Asian community got a horrible hit, undeserved. I still have a friend- I have a friend, every X number of months we get together for dinner. We go to her favourite Chinese restaurant. This is an educated, articulate person. She has said, "Ah you know what, let 's go someplace else," and she- she just, without coming out and saying it, she doesn 't wanna go there, 'cause it 's a Chinese restaurant. That bugs me.