... it ran parallel to Thirty-fifth Street, then it ran in beside our house, and then behind it and down uh, Longbranch Avenue uh, crossed Longbranch Avenue, there 's a big white cement bridge there, and then it went down and emptied ah at- in Longbranch Park and it- that ran pretty well all year long.

Interviewer: Um, when did it start becoming that you couldn 't swim there? Speaker: Well, um, by the time we were teenagers pretty well, it was getting contaminated. Interviewer: Yeah, right, just from the industry. Speaker: Yeah and there was (inc) like Impatago, and ah then there 's more industry coming in, and so, yeah. So uh, that 's when it pretty well ended.

Ah Kensington runs between ah Bathurst-and-Spadina and ah and College down to Dundas, yeah. So that whole perimeter through there that 's pretty well the Kensington-Market.

Interviewer: Ah so about that, ah do you find that there 's a certain way of speaking here in Toronto or within different communities in Toronto? Or do you find that we all sound the same? Speaker: Ah I think we pretty well all sound the same you-know, except for those that have come directly say the Asians or Russians or Italians and that you-know the- the authentics you-know.

You-know? You couldn 't do much without your parents knowing about it within a couple of hours time. Whereas now, everyone pretty well keeps to themselves. ... Yeah. Like I 've been in this building twelve-years. I know who the people are and we say "Hi", but we really don 't associate. I don 't mind that. I really don 't. Like I 'm busy now. I 've got my grandchild ...

So sometimes, it was very hazardous coming back. And a few kids got killed on the way back. But that was a- big deal was to ah just say, "Hey. Let 's go to Buffalo." And that was all pretty well spontaneous.

Speaker: And ah I think that 's about it. I 've written down a lot of stuff but I think I 've pretty well covered it. Interviewer: It 's great! I really enjoyed it. You had lots to say.

Yeah, yeah and they're metal houses. You can sell them pretty well, oh but all of that down there was the golf course wasn't it, and then a lot of it too belonged to the ah Parkers.

So that's about- about's where we live and ah actually we've- I've lived around here all my life pretty well, but I never knew Roy really until I was in high-school and ah we lived ah down um you-know where the (inc) church is really, down the highway?

Interviewer: ... was it forest or? Speaker: All forest pretty well.

Interviewer: The whole family? You were all interested in tennis? Speaker: Pretty well we were all- yeah my older brother Leonard was a real baseball-star so he didn't play as much tennis as- as Chris and I did, um he was- his summers were pretty well full of baseball-teams and travelling to tournaments and-things-like-that.

When we started out ah you went in and then you had a- you had a curriculum but ah you were left pretty-well on your own to interpret it the way you wanted to, and ah um you-know you still had final exams and what not and- and ah you were pretty-well expected if you follow the curriculum and made some changes that ah there weren't an awful lot of people looking over your shoulder.

We- my dad worked on the railroad. He was a second man on the railroad and we grew our own vegetables we had an acre of ground here. And that- that's pretty well everything ...

Interviewer: Did you make any good friends during that time or? Speaker: Oh yeah, everybody pretty well is- you guys are friend.

Interviewer: Yeah, what kind-of music and-stuff were at the dances? <051> Well, we were pretty well- ah back in the country. We were pretty well inter-- interested in square-dancing. Yeah. And uh- and the waltzes and-stuff-like-that. But ah- I- you- that stuff they do now a days I wouldn't do it. I'd break my neck.

Interviewer: Was it always like local bands and-stuff or? Speaker: Oh pretty well yeah yeah.

Well I used to help a bit. I don't help out now. Help out when my wife- she was in - pretty well in charge of the snacks (inc) it was her that got the- the new one built and- and she was pretty good at the bingo games we had too. Kind-of looked after them a bit so-

Interviewer: Is that what people did? They just went to go see the train or? Speaker: Oh pretty well. And they'd visit a bit- well they- they might get a bit of knowledge or bit of B-S floating around.

Well just- just the people who- in the village they more or less just had to sit and watch it burn for no fire trucks or- and the train came down- ca-- came back down and they used the fire-hose from it to try to put some-- but it was pretty well all burnt then.

Interviewer: So fire was a big problem (inc) I guess. Speaker: Yeah- yeah like there was no such thing as fire protection then. If- if a guy's house burnt down they just built it again. Interviewer: Did the community really come together or-something-like-that (inc) Speaker: Pretty well yeah. And the saying in those days used to be building barns eh? They'd have a big- all people from miles around came to- for this barn raising eh, it was a big day.