Speaker 1 (female)
Well my father used to bring the skates home from the ah, Stelco
Speaker 2 (male)
From the scrapyard.
Speaker 3 (male)
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (female)
Scrapyard.
And they’d break em up. One here. Ya know. Split in half. Two in the front. Two in the back. On two boards.
Speaker 3 (male)
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (female)
An orange crate in front with your handles.
Speaker 3 (male)
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (female)
And they’d go down the street like…
Speaker 3 (male)
Oh yeah.
Speaker 4 (male)
What did we call those?
Speaker 1 (female)
Jiggers.
Speaker 3 (male)
Jiggers.
Speaker 5 (male)
A Jigger is [unintelligible]
Speaker 4 (male)
What the hell is the name..[unintelligible]
[General chatter. Laughter]
Speaker 2 (male)
Everybody had one.
[General chatter.]
Speaker 4 (male)
That was the main source of transportation, that was…
[General chatter.]
Speaker 6 (female)
[unintelligible]…you’d put something in the crate…
Speaker 1 (female)
Yah, yeah. We’d have like a basket for these Jiggers.
Interviewer 1 (male)
What street did you go down with these Jiggers?
Speaker 1 (female)
Oh...
Speaker 2 (male)
Every street.
Speaker 4 (male)
Birmingham Street…
Speaker 1 (female)
Right around blocks…
Speaker 3 (male)
Whatever street you lived on.
Speaker 1 (female)
...we did it. We’d meet other people on Sheffield, …
Speaker 2 (male)
Yeah
Speaker 1 (female)
We’re from Lancaster...
Speaker 4 (male)
Everyone had a Jigger.
Speaker 1 (female)
Everyone had one.
Speaker 4 (male)
Everyone had a Jigger.
Speaker 5 (male)
I don’t think we were able to bring them to school though.
Speaker 1 (female)
Oh no.
Speaker 5 (male)
Did we bring them to school?
Speaker 1 (female)
No
Interviewer 2 (female)
Sidewalks. Did you have sidewalks?
Speaker 4 (male)
Yeah, we had sidewalks.
[General sidewalk chatter.]
Speaker 1 (female)
We had sidewalks
[General chatter. Laughter.]
Speaker 4 (male)
We never used them.
[General laughter.]
