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.

Like I 'd sit at the black steps or whatever and hangout. I never- like I s-- I came in at grade twelve, to that school, so I was- I came in at a total outsider from some place- from like Neverland basically.

... that we all go to Florida and we drove down there without any reservation- didn 't know where we were going and wound up finding some place in Pompano-Beach and then that beca-- became our summer for the next number of years

Ah they had looked at a- a house at Leslie-and-Yonge and they knew they wanted to be out of the downtown area to some place that they could afford and um when they came here I mean it was really off the beaten track so they were- ... Sort of looking ahead.

And um my- I don 't know we had like a coach and a manager. Two adults, basically volunteers, who (inc) ah it was a school team. It was like one of those organized leagues for kids. And this guy immigrated from I don 't- think Thailand or someplace like that. And he could really play soccer like no one could touch him.

Interviewer: Well, I mean, you always had your dad around then, right? Speaker: Well, he was never there because he was out playing cards some place, you-know? ... Yeah, he wasn 't around as much as most fathers were, probably. Because he- he sort-of went out at night.

And then they moved to Scarborough. Now they 've moved out to Pickering some place. But they kept getting bigger and bigger and bigger and bigger, of course, right?

Yeah, yeah. Well, Jack-Long's got a house, I think, up in Forest-Hill someplace. Now his son 's sort-of taken over, eh? But his son was just a young punk when I was there, right? He used to come around and (laughs)- and his father would tell him what to do. But now he 's sort-of running the whole show, eh?

And it turned out, later on, Edwin-Alonzo- Boyd just died. He was about eighty-some-odd. He ended up coming out under an assumed name. He broke his probation, went back, and ah got out again and lived ah in Vancouver or someplace-like-that until his death.

I 'm at a point heading off to college on a scholarship and so you-know she doesn 't always get a lot of attention but she- yeah sh-- her and I get along pretty well most of the time. We have our, our spats like all siblings do and yeah she 's, she 's probably actually the best athlete in the family in terms of who could go the furthest.

Right. So I 'm not saying, yeah we all have to go back to starched shirts and you-know, spats, that 's not the point, but- but there has been a real loss, and people will argue- they 'll say, "Good, because people are much more creative and they 're much more relaxed, and- and we need ideas and-" That 's correct as well...

So anyway, he said to me, um "Please come and see me." And I thought "Oh God. What have I done now?" So I learned German from um an Irish spinster lady and he said to me- he said "You're from um East-York-Collegiate aren't you?" And I said "Yes." He said "You had Fraulein Noble, didn't you?" And I said "Yes. How do you know that?" And he said, "'Cause you say, "Icken-micken-dick," instead of "ich-mich- and-dich."

There was- there have been like two sort of incidents like that, and it was basically about the same thing. But um, we have like little squabbles I guess. Like, he'll do something that like hurts my feelings. And it's like, he doesn't even realize. And I'm- so I'm kind-of pissed off.

Yeah. Everything is for, for them and for thems-- yes, Canada has a reputation of um, um, we get compliments of, in Toronto how well the um, city, how the nationalities have blended. I mean, I 'm sure there 's squabbles we don 't know about but by-and-large the communities, they do live together.

Oh yeah. You-know, I always say- as I say, there were four brothers of us, and we used to always say, "First out, best dressed," 'cause most of our- well between my oldest brother and my youngest, there was only seven years different, and you-know, when we got- you-know, and- we- we could wear one another's shoes or jackets or- but there was always a squabble, you-know, 'cause if you went to school earlier and you had your brother Tom's jacket on and he wanted to show off for this, he 'd be- he 'd be mad at you...

Speaker: As far as you-know violence was limited to children's squabbles and- Interviewer: Sure Speaker: And the odd driver was just driving a little too fast through the- the ball-hockey games.