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Recording Details: Vincent Elordieta T4 [Tape Four]:

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:54 Discussion about his family's fight against Franco during the civil war; Basques, Franco, Spanish Civil War, communism, execution, Joseph Elordieta, 1930s, nuns. 

SIDE A 00:02:54 -- 00:04:32 Discussion about his diplomas in marine engineering; marine engineering, marine engineer. 

SIDE A 00:04:32 -- 00:06:59 Discussion about traveling to China in the 1930s and a story about a doll; 1930s, China, Shanghai, dolls, Hong Kong. 

SIDE A 00:06:59 -- 00:15:39 A story about a Japanese bomb attack on Shanghai while he was there in the 1930s, with a discussion of the war between them; Japan, bombing, Shanghai, 1930s, 1936, poverty. 

SIDE A 00:15:39 -- 00:20:55 Discussion about the ports in Asia, with a story about an insect bite and the Governor General's house in Fiji; Tsingtao, Fiji, Suva, insect bite. 

SIDE A 00:20:55 -- 00:22:18 Discussion about food and smuggling in his travels through Asia; Asia, traveling, smuggling. 

SIDE A 00:22:18 -- 00:31:47 Discussion about Francisco Franco and the Basques, and a story about his mother and his sister meeting helping people at the airport; Basques, Francisco Franco, France, Spain, Liverpool. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:37.

SIDE B 00:31:55 -- 00:38:02 Discussion about his sister helping people at the airport continues, with mention of his Aunt Alice traveling from Basque to Newfoundland on a schooner; Newfoundland, Basques, Liverpool. 

SIDE B 00:38:02 -- 00:41:36 Discussion about his aunt dying of the Spanish Flu in 1920, his mother's life, and Basque culture; Basque boarding house, black clothing, mourning, Basque wedding, mandolin, fife. 

SIDE B 00:41:36 -- 00:46:00 Discussion about Basque immigrants; Basques, American Basques. 

SIDE B 00:46:00 -- 00:48:47 Discussion about bulls in Pamplona, St. Ignasius and St. Francis Xavier, Basque clothing, and jai alai; jai alai, Basque clothing, Pamplona. 

SIDE B 00:48:47 -- 00:51:44 A story about playing cricket in Liverpool, with mention of soccer and bullfighting; cricket, Liverpool, soccer, bullfighting. 

SIDE B 00:51:44 -- 00:55:08 Discussion about the Phillipines and a story about a Typhoon in San Salvador, with mention of Panama, marine animals, and sharks; typhoon, sharks, Panama, crocodiles, Phillipines, poverty. 

SIDE B 00:55:08 -- 00:56:42 Discussion about the Liverpool fish market; lobster, fish market, Liverpool, cod, whale meat. 
 ***The remainder of the tape, from 00:56:42 -- 01:03:07, is blank. Tape ends at 01:03:47.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Elordieta, Vincente "Vincent" Doroteo

Playing Time:
01:03:36

Interview Date(s):
1996-07-25

Interview Summary:
This is the last of four tapes with Vincent Doroteo Elordieta of Georgetown, P.E.I. In this interview Vincent talks about his family's involvement in the Spanish Civil War, his training in marine engineering, traveling to Asia during the 1930s, the Basque people and their culture, a story about his mother and sister helping people at the airport, and his life in Liverpool.

Place(s) Discussed:
Liverpool, England; Shanghai, China; Suva, Fiji

Time(s) Discussed:
1930s, 1920

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