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Baytown-La Porte Tunnel Opening
Interviews with area citizens and speeches of prominent guest speakers, including Allen Shivers, governor, and Tommy Cook, president of Texas Junior Chamber of Commerce. Also, a recording of Edward R. Murrow's radio broadcast of "I can hear it now", recorded July 4, 1953 from station KREL, Baytown, TX.
Date:
September 22, 1953
Creator:
Murrow, Edward R.; Cook, Tommy & Shivers, Allen
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Stephen C. Hughes, February 28, 1960
Interview with Stephen C. Hughes, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include periods of the life of a 92 year old man who was visiting in Baytown. Most of his life was spent in the mid-west.
Date:
February 28, 1960
Creator:
Miller, Carter & Hughes, Stephen
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 Joan Johnson, 1976
Interview with Joan Johnson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX.
Date:
{1976-03-29,1976-04-15,1976-05-03,1976-05-12}
Creator:
McNeil, William J. & Johnson, Joan
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mr., Mrs. J. Rodger Read, 1980
Interview with Mr. and Mrs. J. Roger Read, residents of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include their life as employees of Humble Oil and Refining Co., the Depression, consolidation of the three small towns and the Minerva Club.
Date:
{1980-02-01,1980-02-15}
Creator:
Swofford, Sarah; Read, Roger & Read, [Mrs. Roger]
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sara Snyder, 1975
Interview with Sara Snyder, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include her coming to Baytown and Baytown history.
Date:
{1975-12-17,1975-12-22,1976-01-09}
Creator:
McNeil, William J. & Snyder, Sara
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wilburn L. Snyder, 1979
Interview with Wilburn L. Snyder, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include World War Two and the history of Baytown, TX.
Date:
{1979-08-09,1979-08-12}
Creator:
Chandler, Patricia M. & Snyder, Wilburn L.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William T. Busch, 1979
Interview with William T. Busch, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include his early life and youth in Cedar Bayou, his early employment, and his involvement in World War I, employment in banking institutions of Baytown, TX, development of Goose Creek after the oil field boom, and the effects of the Depression on Baytown, TX.
Date:
{1979-09-13,1979-10-02}
Creator:
Swofford, Sarah & Busch, William Thomas
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interviews with Don McLeod, February and March 1975
Interview with Don McLeod, who moved to Mont Belvieu in 1929 from Beaumont, Texas. McLeod answers questions and describes the growth of the oil business in Mont Belvieu and Baytown, including what companies were already here and how the business has changed from then until now.
Date:
{1975-02-19,1975-03-01,1975-03-03}
Creator:
Webber, Betsy & McLeod, Don
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interviews with Garrett R. Herring, February 1980
Interview with Garrett R. Herring, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include his early life in Humble and his subsequent arrival in 1917 to Middletown (Pelly), an account of the growth of the town, a lynching, origin of street names in Goose Creek, and the Herring Drug Store.
Date:
{1980-02-07,1980-02-14}
Creator:
Swofford, Sarah & Herring, Garrett R.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interviews with Margaret B. Davis, 1976
Interview with Margaret B. Davis, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Mrs. Davis talks about the Baytown area from 1915 to 1976.
Date:
{1976-01-16,1976-02-13,1976-07-07}
Creator:
McNeil, William J. & Davis, Margaret B.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interviews with Marjorie Eastwood, Mary C. Easley, and Mary B. Bonds, October 1987
Interview with Marjorie Eastwood, Mary C. Easley, and Mary B. Bonds from Baytown, Texas. These three women answer questions and describing their social and work experiences working at the Humble Oil Refinery during World War II.
Date:
{1987-10-15,1987-10-29}
Creator:
Eastwood, Marjorie; Easley, Mary C. & Bonds, Mary B.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Outline of Interview with Joan Johnson, 1976]
Outline of interview with Joan Johnson. The author highlights some important time of the interview and certain answers.
Date:
{1976-03-29,1976-05-03,1976-05-12}
Creator:
McNeil, William J. & Johnson, Joan
Object Type:
Text
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 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 Exxon Oilers Baseball Players, July 18, 1975
Interview with J. W. Carroll, B. B. Williams, Melvin Barry, and Bob Kalbitz, all members of the Exxon Oilers baseball team from Baytown, Texas. After a short introduction by Webber, these men all answer questions and describe their experiences before they arrived in Baytown and during their playing days for the Oilers.
Date:
July 18, 1975
Creator:
Webber, Betsy; Carroll, J. W.; Williams, B. B.; Barry, Melvin & Kalbitz, Bob
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Exxon Oilers Baseball Players, July 18, 1975
Interview with J. W. Carroll, B. B. Williams, Melvin Barry, and Bob Kalbitz, all members of the Exxon Oilers baseball team from Baytown, Texas. After a short introduction by Webber, these men all answer questions and describe their experiences before they arrived in Baytown and during their playing days for the Oilers.
Date:
July 18, 1975
Creator:
Webber, Betsy; Carroll, J. W.; Williams, B. B.; Barry, Melvin & Kalbitz, Bob
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with James E. Roche, May 1976
Interview with James E. Roche, a carpenter from Baytown, Texas after moving from New Britain, Connecticut the previous year. Roche answers questions concerning his moving to Texas in search of a job, the national economy, the overall job market, and if he knows others who are in his same situation.
Date:
1975-08/1976-05
Creator:
Roche, Christopher J. & Roche, James E.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mrs. R. W. Matthews, August 17, 1976
Interview with R. W. Matthews, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the Priscilla Club
Date:
August 8, 1975
Creator:
Roberts, Linda & Matthews, R. W.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ruth Mageors, November 10, 1975
Interview with Ruth Mageors, a resident of Baytown, Texas beginning in 1921 when the town was named Pelly. Mageors explains living in town during the early days of Baytown as being very tough, and also discussing the ferry boat and Herring's Drug Store.
Date:
November 10, 1975
Creator:
Knight, Karen & Mageors, Ruth, 1902-
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 E. C. Wood, Winter 1975
Interview with E. C. Wood, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX.
Date:
Winter 1975
Creator:
Webber, Betsy & Wood, E. C.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Grover C. Edge, December 30, 1975
Interview with Grover C. Edge, a resident of Baytown, Texas since 1921. Topics include the early history of Baytown and the Humble Refinery, the VFW and the Bayshore Rod, Reel and Gun Club
Date:
December 30, 1975
Creator:
Webber, Betsy & Edge, Grover C.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Notes on oral history interview with Norman Brooks Culver, February 25, 1976]
Interview with Norman Brooks (Doc) Culver, a Humble Oil Refining Company hospital worker and World War I veteran, 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:
1976?
Creator:
Culver, Norman Brooks (Doc)
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History