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1964-1990

Shirley Romany

Donna Coombs-Montrose Shirley Romany of a large singe-parent family, arrived in Canada from her native Trinidad and Tobago with early hair styling training in 1963,

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1949-1964

Barrie Touchings

Barrie Touchings was two years old when his parents bought a house at 10450 154th Street. His paternal grandmother had come from England and grandfather

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1949-1964

Ken (Bud) Newman

Ken (Bud) Newman was raised and attended school in the Town of Jasper Place in the 1950s and 1960s. Both of his parents had grown

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City of Edmonton Archives EA-600-2489a, Black and White photo Starlite Theatre 1949 Empty lot with screen
1949-1964

The Starlite Drive-In

The Starlite Drive-In Theatre, Edmonton’s first outdoor cinema, was a staple in the Jasper Place neighbourhood that became Meadowlark Park for decades, from June 1949

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