“It was ‘blorping’, like kind of swimming towards us. So we were running all over the ocean and screaming.” – Forest Zapf

“My connection with the downtown was primarily in the fifties when St. John’s Harbor was totally redeveloped. The entire cold water fund from what is now the wharf out in the battery.” – Tom Whelan

“…one incident that comes to mind when I was a kid was going down to Job’s Cove on Water Street, where the fishermen came in with their early morning catch of codfish.” – Gerry Whelan

“Little seaweed mossy stuff would grow on the pier and it was very slippery, and we would run down the hill and jump and slide on our behinds.” – Henry Jelinek, Oakville, ON

“As a child you were part of the waterfront, you walked it with your friends.” – Jane Adams Ritzy, Lunenburg, NS