St. John's, Newfoundland: Rain, Drizzle and Fog

I remember this time. I miss it so much 1998 I was 16 years old It was the good old days for me. My Grandfather Opened The Ship Inn In the 70’s His Name was Peter Parnham he was originally from England. My Mother Susan Parnham also worked at the Ship Inn When I was growing up. Also I still talk to Andy Jones almost every day he is such an amazing person. St.John’s is in my blood until the day I die.😊😁😉🌃🌆

As the years seem to flit by faster it's such a joy to relive those magic moments, good and bad, I had growing up in and and around St. John's in the 50's and early 60's. Like so too many, we were gone by '63 but I had the good fortune to visit a few times since and reconnect with my heart. Thank you so much for this Rosemary and all who contributed. I do hope you are well.

This was brilliant 👏 thank god for youtube. Watching stuff I could never see if it wasn't for folk with historical information posting on a global platform.

It's funny to hear them talk about St. John's 20 to 30 years prior from when they grew up but I'm looking back on this video from over 20 years ago around the time when I grew up in St. John's.

Love it. Miss it.

From 1998 and like I have always said NFLD has always been and probably always will have the feel and look of being 20 years behind the times. Part of its charm I guess.

I do remember our speech class in the Faculty of Education in the early 1970s. It was taught by an older South African prof with, of course, a South African accent. Most of the students in the Faculty of Education in the early 1970s were from around the bay because teaching didn't pay that well and most of the youngsters were being born around the bay as well since St John's knew about birth control and the bay families didn't. One day we were doing our language tapes which featured a Mainland prof whom we had to imitate and one of the male education students asked the prof why they had to listen to and imitate this prof rather than the South African prof! The South African gave a wry grimace and said, "I think it's because they want you to imitate his speech. not mine." Since I'm from the Mainland, that class was a very easy A. Lord, at least, we didn't have to acquire received pronunciation. I think speech classes are an American thing and most of the profs in the Faculty of Education were from the states so we did these language tapes because speech classes were required in the U.S. The comments from Anita Best about students at Memorial being humiliated because of their accent took me back to that conversation in that class. (I don't think anybody was shamed, but we certainly were told how we were supposed to speak as teachers in that class. I doubt that it had any effect really though.)

I love this. So many people I grew up around and places I grew up around

Well Done

At 20:27 there are three men sitting on a park bench. The man on the right was Wally King (RIP). Does anybody recognize the other two?

. Surely lthe most aulthentic documentary on any special place I ever have seen. Here I see St. John's in all it's mix of draw and dross and I feel I too can love it anyway.

the reason I now live in Jamaica.....