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Building and opening the Digney Speedway
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription85334
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1948 and 1949]
- Collection/Fonds
- Digney Family fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 film clip (10 min., 47sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.
- Scope and Content
- Item is a digitized silent film segment identified as Reel 16. The film footage shows land being cleared to make way for the Digney Speedway located near the corner of Irmin Street and MacPherson Avenue, one of the men seen in this footage clearing the land is named Lucky Fordham. The film continue…
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- [between 1948 and 1949]
- Collection/Fonds
- Digney Family fonds
- Physical Description
- 1 film clip (10 min., 47sec.) : digital, b&w, col., si.
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 562-003-16
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- May be restricted by third party rights
- Accession Number
- 2014-04
- Scope and Content
- Item is a digitized silent film segment identified as Reel 16. The film footage shows land being cleared to make way for the Digney Speedway located near the corner of Irmin Street and MacPherson Avenue, one of the men seen in this footage clearing the land is named Lucky Fordham. The film continues with footage of a press dinner in the garden of Andy Digney's home on Bonsor Avenue in Burnaby and is followed with footage of the Digney Speedway in operation for the grand opening on July 8, 1948. Midget cars and jalopies (stock cars) can be seen racing on the speedway. Some of the footage of the raceway pit and races switches to black and white.The film closes with colour footage of a truck moving Lucky Fordham's house from Bonsor Ave to the speedway.
- Subjects
- Sports - Automobile Racing
- Media Type
- Moving Images
- Photographer
- Digney, Andy
- Creator
- Digney, Andy
- Notes
- Title based on contents of film
- Geographic Access
- Bonsor Avenue
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Central Park (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Clinton-Glenwood Area
- Maywood Area
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Building and opening the Digney Speedway, [between 1948 and 1949]
Building and opening the Digney Speedway, [between 1948 and 1949]
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Jake Striefel's Home Gym
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37791
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 24, 1991 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 27.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby weightlifter Jake Striefel's home gym in the basement of 5489 Keith Street. Weightlifting equipment and award certificates are shown.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 24, 1991 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Image Bank subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 27.0 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 370-379
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby weightlifter Jake Striefel's home gym in the basement of 5489 Keith Street. Weightlifting equipment and award certificates are shown.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 b&w copy negative accompanying
- Negative has a pink cast
- Copied from col. photograph
- Geographic Access
- Keith Street
- Street Address
- 5489 Keith Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Clinton-Glenwood Area
Images
Jake Striefel's Home Gym
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37792
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 24, 1991 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 27.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby weightlifter Jake Striefel's home gym in the basement of 5489 Keith Street. Weightlifting equipment, award certificates, and a trophy case are shown.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 24, 1991 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Image Bank subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 27.0 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 370-380
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of Burnaby weightlifter Jake Striefel's home gym in the basement of 5489 Keith Street. Weightlifting equipment, award certificates, and a trophy case are shown.
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 b&w copy negative accompanying
- Negative has a pink cast
- Copied from col. photograph
- Geographic Access
- Keith Street
- Street Address
- 5489 Keith Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Clinton-Glenwood Area
Images
Jake Striefel's Home Gym
https://search.heritageburnaby.ca/link/archivedescription37793
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 24, 1991 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 27.0 cm
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a close-up view of Burnaby weightlifter Jake Striefel's trophy case in his home gym in the basement of 5489 Keith Street.
- Repository
- City of Burnaby Archives
- Date
- March 24, 1991 (date of original), copied 1991
- Collection/Fonds
- Burnaby Historical Society fonds
- Subseries
- Burnaby Image Bank subseries
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : b&w ; 3.1 x 4.6 cm print on contact sheet 20.3 x 27.0 cm
- Description Level
- Item
- Record No.
- 370-381
- Access Restriction
- No restrictions
- Reproduction Restriction
- No restrictions
- Accession Number
- BHS1999-03
- Scope and Content
- Photograph of a close-up view of Burnaby weightlifter Jake Striefel's trophy case in his home gym in the basement of 5489 Keith Street.
- Names
- Striefel, Jake
- Media Type
- Photograph
- Notes
- Title based on contents of photograph
- 1 b&w copy negative accompanying
- Negative has a pink cast
- Copied from col. photograph
- Geographic Access
- Keith Street
- Street Address
- 5489 Keith Street
- Historic Neighbourhood
- Alta-Vista (Historic Neighbourhood)
- Planning Study Area
- Clinton-Glenwood Area
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