Wan Quong & The City Park Cafe in Kelowna
Bibliographic record
Abstract
[Here's a photo from 1949 taken at a skating party at Keloka Orchards in East Kelowna. On the right is Darby Hayes, 34, my father. He was the general manager of both Keloka Orchards Ltd. and the Occidental Fruit Co. Ltd. In the centre is Dick Benmore, accountant for Occidental Fruit and best man at my Dad's wedding. On the left is Wan Quong, owner of the City Park Cafe mentioned in the paragraph above. As a child, I was often at the cafe with my parents after hockey games, for example. Quong's idea of a hamburger was a lump of ground beef and a slice of dill pickle between two slices of white bread. I don't ever remember getting it in a bun. From Kelowna Public Archives: "Wan Quong was the owner of the City Park Cafe on Abbott Street in Kelowna. The family business was started by Tape Quong in the early 1930s, passed to Jim Quong after his father's death in 1938. Jim passed the Cafe onto Wan Quong when Jim returned to China. On January 11, 1954, the City Park Cafe shut its doors to the public and has since been torn down. The City Park Cafe, better known as "Quong's," had been a well-known restaurant in Kelowna for about 30 years. Noted for its excellent steaks, it was a favourite eating place after a local dance or party." It was a casual place. I was an avid coin collector at the age of 8 or 9, and I remember Wan letting me go through the change in the cash register while my parents were eating. Back then we had a small two-block-long Chinatown in Kelowna, my introduction to Chinese culture.] Chinese Canadian Stories media.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.507 | 0.137 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".