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Speaker: ... they was bawling and (inc) the devil (inc) going on, and I said to them, "Well, you just stick the phone in the ground. It'll just reverse the charges, you-see." Interviewer: Mm-hm. Speaker: 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. Then their brother, he'd been a counsellor up here the year before, and ah she- they'd already got him on the phone. He talked to them. |
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And ah (inc) right there, she said, "Ah would you drive us home? We've got the money to pay you right now. (inc) if ah we can't phone home (inc)." I don't need to drive them right down to the States. |
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Interviewer: That's awesome. Wait so, what are some of the better coin machines that you've seen? Speaker: Um, right now, usually they would run, like- I went to the States in, every year like, when I go to, like, Buffalo or Niagara-Falls. Now the cool thing in Niagara-Falls I don't know have you gone to Niagara-Falls lately? |
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Interviewer: Where'd you guys used to go to? Speaker: Okay. Um, the farthest place I think, my dad drove. 'Cause I guess tickets were expensive. We drove to- once, I remember when I- talking in the States, and then, I think I (inc) Canada where we drove. The States we drove down to Boston, and then went to Las Vegas we drove down there. And we drove back up. To Buffalo, and then to Montreal, and then Ottawa and then go home. |
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Like I-don-'t- know, I'm just thinking 'cause like when I think of stuff as far like music and culture or like ah like trends and-stuff-like-that, I always think of like I-don-'t-know the- States and L-A and New-York and-stuff-like-that. And it's like that where you-know how like bands go over there to get like famous and-stuff-like-that? |
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Something that's popular in, in Hong-Kong will be popular in like London will be popular in the-States. Like it 'll- ... Like it 'll just- maybe not at the same time but everybody like kind-of influences each other? |
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Interviewer: Yeah. But that's what I think is so true what you say of like how America's and pop-culture-America is so influential right? You-know-what-I- mean? Like how Speaker: Yeah. Yeah but then it's weird 'cause when you think of The-States versus like Canada as far as to multiculturalism and-stuff-like-that it's like they kin- - states c--tr--they- they tend to keep stuff separate, I-don-'t-know like it just like seems like a different, a different thing going on there ... |
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Speaker: ... the orchestras used to come to Toronto. They'd come to the Palais-Royale, they'd come to the bigger places. Um, can't think of any of them. Interviewer: Were they like, local groups, or would they tour around from the States and stuff or-? Speaker: Once-in-a-while you'd get big bands from the States. You'd get um- I'm trying to think of their names. |
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Speaker: No we didn't see too- there weren't that many black people. ... But um, to- but it wasn't 'til they started to come from the States and from Ireland, from the islands- mostly the islands. Interviewer: And that happened in the fifties? Speaker: Well, forties, fifties, I'm not too sure about that. |
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... no, I don't think Can-- Can-- a lot of Canadians went to the States to work because they 're- the pay seemed to be better there, and as I told you they went- you had to go to England to, to for, to be a nurse sometimes you'd get a certificate there or um for university ... |
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