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Recording Details: William "Pud" Beer T2 [Tape Two]:

***Disclaimer - This interview contains language and subject matter some may find inappropriate.

SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:08:15 Discussion about restaurants and businesses in Charlottetown, with mention of fires; Charlottetown, restaurants, Ment Whitlock, Bud Whitlock, Edgar Whitlock, Morris Block, Fred Lambrose, fires, F. R. MacLean, Pete Kelly, cars, Market Square, Empire Theatres, bowling alley, jiggers, Hall and Staffert, Button and Bell, Pickard's, wharves, Large, coal yards, Powely. 

SIDE A 00:08:15 -- 00:10:20 Discussion about being named after Judge William S. Stewart, with mention of shooting pool on Sundays; Judge William S. Stewart, William Arthur Beer, Charlottetown, Sundays, pool. 

SIDE A 00:10:20 -- 00:12:10 Discussion about Chinese restaurants; Chinese restaurants, Charlottetown, Mentz, Roxy, Dominion, Chinese. 

SIDE A 00:12:10 -- 00:16:45 Discussion about buying produce for his restaurants, with mention of McCains and the Spud Hockey Tournament; restaurants, produce, potatoes, french fries, McCain, Spud Hockey Tournament, Claude Vive, the Forum. 

SIDE A 00:16:45 -- 00:20:59 Discussion about dances and movie theatres, with mention of liquor scripts; Robbie Burns Show, dance halls, movie theatres, Bobby Burns Show, Rollaway, Fitzgerald, prohibition, drinking, liquor scripts, Dr. Yeo, Dr. Smith. 

SIDE A 00:20:59 -- 00:21:53 Discussion about hockey; hockey rinks, hockey. 

SIDE A 00:21:53 -- 00:31:12 Discussion about how he started Peter Pan; Peter Pan, restaurants, drive-ins, Moore and MacLeod's, Frank Sherwood, Frank Sherwood Designs, Jack Hedgett, The Barn, 1940s, Elaine Murley, advertisements. 

SIDE A ends at 00:31:12.

SIDE B 00:31:22 -- 00:38:28 Discussion about running the Peter Pan restaurant continues, with mention of the Rendezvous and the Mt. Pleasant Airport; Peter Pan, restaurants, advertisements, Elaine Murley, Helen McInnis, Rendezvous, salt cod and pork scraps, meat, muffins, Mt. Pleasant Airport. 

SIDE B 00:38:28 -- 00:42:31 Discussion about gas stations, with mention of his uncle Pope Beer's restaurant; gas stations, Irving gas stations, Pope Beer, Towers Restaurant, gas pumps, Albert Middleton. 

SIDE B 00:42:31 -- 00:48:28 Discussion about his restaurants continues, with mention of fried chicken and cooking oils; fried chicken, KFC, restaurants, Chicken in the Rough, Alfred Roop, cooking oils, lard, french fries, 1949, 1950, Ernie McInnis. 

SIDE B 00:48:28 -- 00:51:24 Discussion about Chief Burtwhistle, Magistrate Martin, and local characters; characters, Chief Burtwhistle, Magistrate Martin, Ken Martin. 

SIDE B 00:51:24 -- 00:56:33 Discussion about joining the Air Force during WWII and working with Carl Burke; 1945, Air Force, WWII, pilots, airplanes, Harvard airplanes, Cornell airplanes, Carl Burke, MCA, businesses, businessmen, Charlottetown Hotel. 

SIDE B 00:56:33 -- 00:57:48 Discussion about the start of Peter Pan continues; Peter Pan, 1958, Scott Linkletter, Ken Jones. 

SIDE B 00:57:48 -- 00:59:56 Discussion about Drake the iceman and refrigerators; Drake's, ice houses, refrigerator, ice, Stewart MacKay. 

SIDE B 00:59:56 -- 01:03:29 Discussion about his first memories of restaurants, with mention of religion; restaurants, Milton's Old Spain Restaurant, wages, food prices, Milton Bell, Old Spain, religion, Rendezvous, Catholics, Protestants. 
 Tape ends at 01:03:29.

Overview:

Interviewee(s):
Beer, William A. "Pud"

Playing Time:
01:03:29

Interview Date(s):
2008-02-06

Interview Summary:
This is the second half of an interview with William A. "Pud" Beer of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Pud talks about restaurants and businesses in Charlottetown, fires, his name, Chinese restaurants, dances, hockey, running Peter Pan and other businesses, gas stations, his uncle Pope Beers, french fries and fried chicken, local characters, joining the Air Force, Carl Burke, refrigerators, and religion.

Place(s) Discussed:
Charlottetown, PE

Time(s) Discussed:
1958, WWII, 1945, 1949, 1950, 1930s, 1940s

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