The driver would open two doors at the rear of the wagon and use a broom handle with a nail in it to reach in and pluck out the loaves and put them into a huge basket. [...] When this happened and the sea in the area dropped, the water in some areas drained away and the levels dropped a frightening thirty feet, exposing the bottoms of some harbours and leaving scores of fishing boats aground. [...] When the posse was chasing the bad guys, and this happened frequently, the tempo would be stepped up to suit the action on the screen, but often the stamping of feet and the shouting of encouragement to the riders would drown out the sound of the piano. [...] With the arrival of television in 1954 people began staying home for entertainment and as attendance dropped off, the nine theaters in the city, the Paramount, the Capital, the York (formerly known at The Queen), the Crescent, the Popular Star, the Majestic, the Cornwall, the Nickel and the Regal (formerly known as the Little Star), gradually closed their doors one final time. [...] In the theater, two projectors show the two films simultaneously and with special niters on the projectors and the audience wearing Polaroid glasses, the left eye sees what the left 22 FRANK], KENNEDY camera "saw" and the right eye what the right camera "saw".
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 971.8/103092
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-nf
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- 9781459302129 9781550810622
- LCCN
- F1124.5.S14
- LCCN Item number
- K46 2006eb
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- 1 electronic text (207 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
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- (CaBNVSL)slc00214571 (OCoLC)605711179 (CaOOCEL)415386
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- 1 Home Deliveries 8
- 2 The Earthquake and Tidal Wave of 1929 13
- 3 The Movies 17
- 4 Hindenburg Nearly Crashed in Newfoundland 25
- 5 Tales From School 33
- 6 Gunpowder and Other Amusements 45
- 7 The Viking Disaster 54
- 8 A Funny Thing Happened 65
- 9 The Riot of 1932 73
- 10 Duffy's Grocery 80
- 11 Aunt Mary Malone 90
- 12 Around Town 96
- 13 My Father, Capt. Nick Kennedy VI 109
- 14 Big Business and The Northern Lights 144
- 15 Wartime in St. John's 152
- 16 Before I Forget 179
- 17 Things You Never See Anymore 194
