Abstract of James Gordon Ivon WILSON, 2024
Item — Box: 34
Identifier: H02720002
Abstract
H0272 James Gordon Ivon WILSON
Interviewer Rebecca Amundson
Abstractor: Barbara Gillam
Interview date: 31st July 2016
0.00 Introduction
0.21 Family moved to Invercargill 1936. Lived in THE CLUB HOTEL. GRAND HOTEL was well known.
1.45 JAMIE THOMPSON lived at the Grand Hotel. Owned THOMPSON's CORDIAL
2.03 HARRY BLAKE at Grand
2.50 FINE DINING at the Grand Hotel
4.00 Go to the Grand for meal when he was a boy.
4.30 CHRISTMAS DINNER
5.20 Marriage to a nurse. SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL
7.15 BAR
7.45 CHIMPANZEE and the bar
9.41 SITTING AREA of the hotel
10.40 Difference between FLIGHT DECK BAR and the Lounge
12.20 SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING
13.20 COLIN CAMPBELL STEWARD at the Grand Hotel.
14.30 10 O'CLOCK CLOSING
TRACK 2
0.31 Drinking at the Flight Deck Bar.
1.20 Building of the KELVIN HOTEL. ASCOT HOTEL.
2.00 Does not remember the date of the closing.
4.00 MARION enters.
4.45 Marion remembers Colin the steward.
8.00 NURSES.
9.50 Alcohol under the table.
10.00 Good management at the hotel.
11.50 Women did not go into bars much at this time.
12.40 MARION drinking in the bar when POLICEMAN arrived. She was underage.
TRACK 3
00.18 MARION decreasing popularity of the Grand Hotel
01.17 MOLLY O’GRADY'S
03.19 HARRY BLAKE and JOHN THOMPSON who lived at the hotel long term.
04.24 CLUB HOTEL 1937 SPRINGBOKS STAYED THERE.
04.50 PROTESTS 1981. Their daughter was involved with the protests
10.10 Lots of eccentric people associated with The Grand.
Interview ends
Interviewer Rebecca Amundson
Abstractor: Barbara Gillam
Interview date: 31st July 2016
0.00 Introduction
0.21 Family moved to Invercargill 1936. Lived in THE CLUB HOTEL. GRAND HOTEL was well known.
1.45 JAMIE THOMPSON lived at the Grand Hotel. Owned THOMPSON's CORDIAL
2.03 HARRY BLAKE at Grand
2.50 FINE DINING at the Grand Hotel
4.00 Go to the Grand for meal when he was a boy.
4.30 CHRISTMAS DINNER
5.20 Marriage to a nurse. SOUTHLAND HOSPITAL
7.15 BAR
7.45 CHIMPANZEE and the bar
9.41 SITTING AREA of the hotel
10.40 Difference between FLIGHT DECK BAR and the Lounge
12.20 SIX O'CLOCK CLOSING
13.20 COLIN CAMPBELL STEWARD at the Grand Hotel.
14.30 10 O'CLOCK CLOSING
TRACK 2
0.31 Drinking at the Flight Deck Bar.
1.20 Building of the KELVIN HOTEL. ASCOT HOTEL.
2.00 Does not remember the date of the closing.
4.00 MARION enters.
4.45 Marion remembers Colin the steward.
8.00 NURSES.
9.50 Alcohol under the table.
10.00 Good management at the hotel.
11.50 Women did not go into bars much at this time.
12.40 MARION drinking in the bar when POLICEMAN arrived. She was underage.
TRACK 3
00.18 MARION decreasing popularity of the Grand Hotel
01.17 MOLLY O’GRADY'S
03.19 HARRY BLAKE and JOHN THOMPSON who lived at the hotel long term.
04.24 CLUB HOTEL 1937 SPRINGBOKS STAYED THERE.
04.50 PROTESTS 1981. Their daughter was involved with the protests
10.10 Lots of eccentric people associated with The Grand.
Interview ends
Dates
- 2024
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Extent
From the Record Group: 1 folder(s)
Language of Materials
English
Creator
- From the Record Group: Amundsen, Rebecca (Interviewer, Person)
Repository Details
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