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Oral History Interview with Louise Travis, February 24, 1986
Interview with Louise Travis, a resident of Baytown, TX since approximately 1920. Mrs. Travis discusses the early history of Cedar Bayou, including businesses, commerce, law enforcement and recreational activities, and meetings of the Ku Klux Klan and early storms of the area.
Date:
February 24, 1986
Creator:
Mayo, Martha & Travis, Louise
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mrs. William H. Wade, December 8, 1976
Interview with Mrs. William H. Wade, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Hurricane Carla.
Date:
December 8, 1976
Creator:
Squyres, Amy & Wade, Mrs. William H.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clifford Warren, November 10, 1987
Interview with Clifford Warren, a veteran of World War II spending 3 1/2 years in captivity following the Battle of Corregidor. Warren answers many questions regarding his participation in World War II and shares his experiences of being held prisoner in Japanese prison camps.
Date:
November 10, 1987
Creator:
Mayo, Martha & Warren, Clifford
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jimmy Carroll, 1976
Interview with Jimmy Carroll, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX.
Date:
{1976-08-19,1976-09-29,1976-10-07,1976-12-01}
Creator:
McNeil, William J. & Carroll, J. W. (Jimmy)
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ella Williams
Interview with Ella Williams, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include a discussion about the 1915 hurricane on Hog Island in the San Jacinto River.
Date:
1975~
Creator:
Williams, Ella & Webber, Betsy
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lorraine Silva, November 28, 1976
Interview with Lorraine Silva, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Chambers County and Anahuac, Texas.
Date:
November 28, 1975
Creator:
Roland, Ann & Silva, Lorraine
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Norman Brooks Culver, September 19, 1979
Interview with Norman Brooks Culver, a hospital worker for Humble Oil Refining Company in Baytown, Texas. Culver tells of his experiences working for Humble and the medical are given for the company, as well as a few anecdotes concerning the history of Baytown such as Humble Day celebrations.
Date:
September 19, 1979
Creator:
Swofford, Sarah & Culver, Norman Brooks (Doc)
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Blanche DuPlantis, February 9, 1976
Interview with Blanche DuPlantis, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include 1923 through post World War II: Baytown in the 1920's and 1930's, the effect of World War II, banking business, the founding of Trinity Episcopal Church.
Date:
February 9, 1976
Creator:
Maroney, James C. & DuPlantis, Blanche
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Blanche DuPlantis, August 18, 1986
Interview with Blanche DuPlantis, a longtime resident of Baytown since approximately 1920. DuPlantis explains her work in creating a new Episcopalian Church within the city, and their ascension to parish status in 1936. Most of her stories revolve around the church and the original congregation from the early 1920's.
Date:
August 18, 1986
Creator:
Mayo, Martha & DuPlantis, Blanche
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Norman Brooks Culver, February 25, 1976
Interview with Norman Brooks (Doc) Culver, a Humble Oil Refining Company hospital worker, after World War One, from Baytown, Texas. Mr. Culver answers questions and describes his experience in Baytown working as a hospital worker for Humble, after he arrived in 1919.
Date:
February 25, 1976
Creator:
Webber, Betsy & Culver, Norman Brooks
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Barney Webber, May 5, 1986
Interview with Barney Webber, a resident of Baytown, Texas since 1920. Webber answers general questions and describes life in early Baytown including crime, schooling, transportation and social life.
Date:
May 5, 1986
Creator:
Mayo, Martha & Webber, Barney
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Roy Long, May 30, 1986
Interview with Roy Long, a longtime resident of Baytown after moving in 1929 from Houston, Texas. Long answers questions and details his early employment in Baytown at the Humble Refinery, and goes on to talk about his law practice, offices, and the growth of the town.
Date:
May 30, 1986
Creator:
Mayo, Martha & Long, Roy
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with L. Karl Grimes, September 25, 1979
Interview with L. Karl Grimes, born in Ellis County in 1895 and moved to Baytown, Texas in 1925. Grimes answers a few questions about his experiences and tells lengthy stories concerning his early life in Ellis County as well as his move to Baytown. Grimes covers his employment at Humble Oil and Refining Co. as well as issues concerning Mexican American children being allowed to go to school in Baytown.
Date:
September 25, 1979
Creator:
Swofford, Sarah & Grimes, L. Karl
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George Ellender, May 1976
Interview with George Ellender, a longtime resident of Baytown, Texas after being born in Cedar Bayou, Texas in 1888. Ellender answers questions about his early life as well as the early growth of both Cedar Bayou and Baytown, and the impact of Hurricane Carla in 1961.
Date:
May 1976
Creator:
Ellender, George & Fergerson, Elaine
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alice Fayle
Interview with Alice Fayle. Topics include her life in early Baytown, TX.
Date:
1975~
Creator:
Webber, Betsy & Fayle, Alice, 1895-
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Loris Williams Gunn, January 27, 1977
Interview with Loris Williams Gunn, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Mount Belvieu.
Date:
January 27, 1977
Creator:
Webber, Betsy & Gunn, Loris Williams
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Julia Lancaster Pierson, March 11, 1976
Interview with Julia Lancaster Pierson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown.
Date:
March 11, 1976
Creator:
McNeil, William J. & Pierson, Julia Lancaster
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bessie Jane Kilgore Busch, October 2, 1979
Interview with Bessie Jane Kilgore Busch, a resident of Cedar Bayou, Texas circa 1900-1925. Busch details her childhood and early life in Cedar Bayou as well as the oil boom and early days of Baytown, Texas.
Date:
October 2, 1979
Creator:
Swofford, Sarah & Busch, Bessie Jane Kilgore
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Millicent W. Bounds, November 22, 1976
Interview with Millicent W. Bounds, a longtime resident of the Pelly/Baytown, Texas area. Mrs. Bounds answers questions relating to her family history in Texas, noting that her grandparents arrived in Texas in 1875. She goes on to talk about her husband T. Hubbard Bounds, the former fire marshal of the Pelly and Goose Creek Fire Department.
Date:
November 22, 1976
Creator:
Tidmon, Grace & Bounds, Millicent W.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Freddy Rios, March 19, 1987
Partial recording of an interview with Freddy Rios, a veteran who served in the Vietnam War during 1967 and 1968. He discusses his experiences as a soldier, including being wounded and the events that led to him receiving the Distinguished Service Medal.
Date:
March 19, 1987
Creator:
Rios, Freddy
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jean Shepherd, Leon Warner, Fletcher Hickerson, 1983
Interview with Jean Shepherd, Leon Warner, Fletcher Hickerson, residents of the Baytown area during Hurricane Alicia. All three women answer questions and elaborate on their experiences during and after Hurricane Alicia causing major damage in the surrounding area.
Date:
1983
Creator:
Mayo, Martha; Shepherd, Jean; Warner, Leon & Hickerson, Fletcher
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles A. Young, August 31, 1988
Interview with Charles A. Young, who arrived in Baytown in 1916, but also grew up in Evergreen, Texas. Young discusses his growing up in Evergreen, moving back to Baytown and working in the oil fields during his career with the Humble Refinery.
Date:
1988
Creator:
Mayo, Martha & Young, Charles A.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with J. Bryan Stratton, August 29, 1979
Interview with J. Bryan Stratton, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the consolidation of the tri-cities into the incorporated city of Baytown, the depression, the beginning of life insurance business, his service in World War II as a staff member of General Omar Bradley's Headquarters Unit, the Charter Commission, and the adoption of the City Charter.
Date:
August 29, 1979
Creator:
Swofford, Sarah & Stratton, Joel Bryan
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jerry Traylor, Miller Casey, and Mike Prewitt, August 30, 1983
Interview with Jerry Traylor, Miller Casey, and Mike Prewitt, who were Public Works employees during Hurricane Alicia. Topics include memories of Hurricane Alicia and the aftermath.
Date:
August 30, 1983
Creator:
Mayo, Martha; Traylor, Jerry; Casey, Miller & Prewitt, Mike
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History