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.

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.

And with my grandkids I taught them all to play euchre too. Brett and Lance and the whole works because I said, "You can always play euchre someplace. Everybody plays cards pretty well."

... she visited me. It was really nice. And she w-- I don't know where she was from, she did say and I- seems to me it was over near Bridgenorth or someplace or around, and ah she do-- she just does this for the Presbyterian-Church. And she had a prayer and I thought it was really nice of her.

Interviewer: What grade is that? Speaker: Um he's going in- yeah well he's going into ten ... So Sarah thought, "Well he better this year get into it." Because maybe next year he'll be working someplace so it's a good thing.