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| Linda Kane and Terra Barrett. |
Back in December Kelly and I met up with Linda Kane at the Cupids Legacy Centre. Linda had given the ICH office a box of unidentified reel to reel tapes she had found in her father's collection of materials. Linda thought the materials were related to Terra Nova Motors where her father worked from the age of 16 or 17. Through our partnership with Memorial University's Digital Archives these reels were digitized and placed online.
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| Inside the Terra Nova Motors Showroom. |
Kelly and I met with Linda to do an interview about her memories of Terra Nova Motors. Linda brought pictures and memorabilia to jog her memory and this material was also digitized. This includes some advertisements including the one shown below as well as photographs of the building, the cars and the showroom. There is even a photo of Linda and her sister Marilyn seated in the back a car in the showroom. Linda's father, Clarence Reid, was a manager and as such the girls spent time in the showroom on Sundays when their father did the books. When I asked Linda what stood out the most about the showroom she said, "Probably the smell of the cars and the leather. Vinyl wasn't the prominent thing back then. It was nice clean cars with chrome."
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| Clarence Reid pictured in an advertisement for Terra Nova Motors. |
If you want to learn more about the showroom or Terra Nova Motors you can listen to Linda's interview
here or the reel to reel audio
here. I've also included an excerpt from one of the reels of the Terra Nova Motors from the 1970s as well as Linda singing the jingle she remembered from the 1950s.
1970s Terra Nova Motors jingle from digitized reel to reel tapes.
Linda Kane singing 1950s Terra Nova Motors jingle.
~Terra Barrett
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