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Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Johnny Comeaux conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Comeaux was born in the early 1920s in Austin, Louisiana. His father was a farmer. He gra...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Leon Comeaux conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Leon Comeaux was born in Carencro, Louisiana in 1936. His father was a dairyman for a while and...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Alison Cook conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Alison Cook is the restaurant critic for the Houston Chronicle. She has been an active member of...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Holly Cooper conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Houston Pilot Holly Cooper discusses how she came to be a pilot, following her father’s suggest...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Tim Cooper conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Tim Cooper defined the damage done to the Anahuac Wildlife refuge. His commitment to the area and...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Edward T. Cotham conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Civil War historian Edward Cotham discusses the personal and military history of Confederat...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Couvillon conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. John Couvillon was born in 1920 in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. His father worked for Standard...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with William Craig conducted as part of the Houston History Project. William Craig earned a bachelor's degree in Petroleum Engineering at Louisiana State Universit...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Tim Creswell conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Tim Creswell responded to the article in the Baton Rouge Advocate. Born and raised in Abbeville...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Leland Culligan conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Leland Culligan is from Birmingham, Alabama, his father was the vice-president of a coal...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Born in Cut Off in 1951, Windell Curole is presently director of the South Lafourche Levee District, where he started in 1980. He was trained as a marine biologist. His father was a shrimper and ro...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Lawrence B. “Buck” Curtis graduated from the Colorado School of Mines in 1949 and promptly went to work for Conoco in its Wyoming oil fields. Curtis soon wound up leading a burgeoning engineering g...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Elmer “Bud” Danenberger III has a long and distinguished career as an offshore oil and gas expert in the U.S. Department of the Interior. Trained as an engineer at Pennsylvania State University, Da...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jim Danos and Todd Danos conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Danos grew up on a farm in southeast Louisiana on Bayou Lafourche. He got invol...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jamison M. Day conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Jamison M. Day was interviewed on June 20, 2006 at his office in Melcher Hall, Room 290B,...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Charles De Gravelle conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Charles de Gravelle was born in Thibodaux, LA. His father was a doctor and graduated...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Deblieux conducted as part of the Houston History Project. John Deblieux is the Human Resource Director/Risk Management Director for Chet Morrison Contra...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jesse Des Jacques conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Jesse des Jacques was born in 1934 in south Louisiana. His father was a truck driver. ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pankaj Desai conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pankaj Desai enjoyed an affluent childhood in Bombay where his parents had migrated in the 1930...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ronald Deshotels conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Ronald Deshotels was born in Kaplan, Louisiana in 1934. His father was the first person to ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Lee Dias conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Lee Dias was born in Paincourtville, Louisiana. His father worked as a truck driver and later o...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Velma Dickey conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Velma Dickey was born in Shereveport, Louisiana in 1948. She migrated to Houston after finishin...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Rev. Donald R. Dickson conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Rev. Dickson graduated from Yates High School in 1958. He was born and raised in the ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with A.G. Domingue conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Born in 1915, A. G. Domingue was raised in Carencro in a farming family. He began working as a...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Eddie Domingue conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Eddie Domingue was born in 1927 on the outskirts of present day Lafayette. He did not finish ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with J. David Dozier conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. J. David Dozier is the Director, Congregational Liaison Disaster Preparedness, Interfait...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ronald Dressel conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dressel was raised on a sugar cane farm in Loreauville, LA. Started in the oil field in 1964 ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Pat Dunn conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Pat Dunn graduated from Ohio State with a Masters in Civil engineering and began working for Shell ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Elmer Duplantis conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Elmer Duplantis was born and raised in Chauvin, Louisiana. His father worked for Texaco for ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jim Edmonds conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Edmonds has held the office of chairman of the Port of Houston Authority since 2000. His is ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with C.E. "Chuck" Edwards conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. C. E. "Chuck" Edwards served in the Pacific during World War II and received his de...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Tricia Elliot conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Dr. Tricia Elliott was born in Jamaica and moved to the United States when she was eight. Fol...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Judge Ed Emmett conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Judge Ed Emmett discusses his memories of visiting Westbury Square in the 1960s. At the time...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Gwen Emmett conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Gwen Emmett recounts Westbury Square in its infancy during the 1960s. Westbury Square provided a...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Charles “Chuck” Enze grew up in South Dakota, where he attended South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, graduating in 1975 as a civil engineer. Enze took on with Shell Oil at the start of 1976...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with John Estes conducted as part of the Houston History Project. John Estes worked for Bethlehem Steel from 1949-1982. He is a former manager and engineer at Beth...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bill Estevens conducted as part of the Houston History Project. One of three boys, Mr. Bill Estevens was born in New Orleans in 1948. His father was a salesma...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Orde Evans conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Orde Evans was born in 1922 in Basil, Louisiana. After WWII, he moved to Lafayette in 1947, to wo...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Sam L. Evans conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Sam Evans was a geophysicist/seismologist first with GSI in the 1950s, then with several other ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Warren R. "Dick" Farmer conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Warren "Dick" Farmer was born and raised in Lafayette, Louisiana. His father was...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Anthony Jude Obi conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Anthony Obi is a Houston native Nigerian-American rap artist that goes by the name “Fat Ton...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Daniel Alt interviews Rick Ferguson who discusses the Houston Film Commission, the film industry in Houston, and some of the films that have been shot in the city. Ferguson explains the economics o...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with R.L. Ferris conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. R. L. Ferris graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 1941 and started working for She...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Bill Hausinger dispatched Otis L. Owens and Glen Morris to respond to Houston’s first EMS call on April 10, 1971, at 12:30 a.m. The interview opens with a recording of that first call. They then sh...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Clyde Fitzgerald conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Clyde Fitzgerald is a native of Houston. His father and two uncles worked as longshoremen o...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jim Florstedt conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Florstedt was born in 1944 and his father was in the State Department, the family moved fr...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Doris Foreman conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Doris Foreman migrated to Houston in 1965. She was born in Bryan, Texas. At the age of 16 Dori...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Mark Foret conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mark Foret is yard supervisor for Chet Morrison Contractors (CMC) fabrication division in Houma, ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Mike Forrest conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mike Forrest got his B.S. in geological engineering from St. Louis University and joined Shell ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Robert Fournet conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Robert Fournet graduated in 1952 from Southwestern Louisiana Institute with a degree in geolo...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Steven Fox conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Stephen Fox is an architectural historian at Rice University, he discusses prominent Jewish archi...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Angel Z. Fraga conducted as part of the Houston History Project. The Felix Fraga Sr. came to Houston over a century ago. His six sons, known as the “Fraga Six...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Felix Fraga conducted as part of the Houston History Project. This interview with Felix Fraga starts with the story of Felix Fraga Sr. coming from Mexico to t...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Felix Fraga conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Felix Fraga was born in the Second Ward of Houston. This interview reveals his life in the barri...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Frank Frankhouser attended Lehigh University, where he earned a degree in civil engineering before serving as a company officer in the U.S. Army in the Korean War. Come peacetime, Frankhouser sign...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with W.D. Frazell conducted as part of the Houston History Project. W.D. Frazell was born in 1913 in Resell, Texas, a small town near Waco. He received a BS degree...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Larry Frederick conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Larry Frederick was born in 1938 in Abbeville, Louisiana. His father drove truck and lat...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Wagner Freire was born and raised in Brazil, where he completed five years of civil and nuclear engineering education in 1957. After graduation, Freire quickly joined up with Petrobras, the country...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Dick Frisbie was born in California but grew up in South Africa. He attended Virginia Tech, gaining a degree in mechanical engineering before working for Pratt & Whitney for three years. After seve...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Logan Fromenthal conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Logan Fromenthal was from Morgan City. He went to the University of South Louisiana in Laf...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Daniel Galván conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Daniel Galván was born in 1937 in rural central Mexico, losing his mother at the age of five....
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Lionel Galvan conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Lionel Galvan was born and raised in Texas. He went to Texas A&M for about a year and then...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ray Galvin conducted as part of the Houston History Project. A native of Cisco, TX, Ray Galvin graduated in 1953 from Texas A&M University and joined Gulf Oil...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ben Garacci conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Originally from Franklin, Ben Garacci first forayed in the oilfield as a roughneck with Humble O...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Since graduating from South Texas College of Law, Roland Garcia has practiced law and discusses the evolution of his career from his first job at Vinson & Elkins to the formation of Greenburg Traur...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Rogene Gee Calvert and Andrea Caracostis conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Rogene Gee Calvert speaks about her interest in the welfare of the ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ron Geer conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Ron Geer was born in West Palm Beach, FL in 1926 and received his B.S. in mechanical engineerin...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Al George conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Al George was born in 1928 in Alexandria, Louisiana. His father was a railroad man but lost his jo...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Jimmy Giblin conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Jim Giblin, a native of Virginia, lives in Friendswood, TX. He spent more than 40 years in the ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Glenn G. Chance was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1930, and enlisted in the Marines when he came of age during the Korean War. He returned in 1951 to work for the Lee C. Moore corporation, manufacturi...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Dan Godfrey moved to New Orleans in 1968 after completing a master’s degree in structural engineering at Washington State University. Godfrey soon signed on with Shell Oil. Some of his early engine...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Robert "Bob" J. Graebner conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Robert Graebner spent nearly all of his career at GSI, where he provided a crucial ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Shirley L. Granger conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Ms. Shirley Granger was born in Hungerford, Texas in the 1930s. She and her siblings grew...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Beatrice Green conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Beatrice Green was able to give a context to the Yates High School experience, Beatrice is a ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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John Gregory attended college at Stevens Institute before joining the U.S. Navy. Gregory’s career then took him to Boeing, to work on gas turbines, before working for the Naval Research Lab starti...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Ed Gremillion conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Born in 1930 in Port Arthur, Texas, Ed Gremillion was raised in Sunset, Louisiana. His father ...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with José Guerra conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Jose Guerra is a local business man, a graduate of Texas A&M University. He is active in the...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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Having lived on N St. Charles for sixty two years, Petra Guillen has seen her neighborhood change through her association with Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. She discusses why and how her family mig...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Nicholas Gutierrez conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Nicholas Gutierrez, son of Buddy Guindon (commercial fisherman and owner of Katie’s Seafo...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Vince Guzzetta conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Vince Guzzetta was born in Berwick, Louisiana in 1936, a small town across the Atchafalaya Ba...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Walter Hansen conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Walter Hansen is in charge of the restoration of the Danish Fishing Boat at Holocaust Museum H...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Bernard A. Harris conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Interviewers: Kathleen Brosnan and Timothy O'Brien.
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Henry Harrison conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. Henry Harrison was born in Arkansas in 1928. In 1936, because of the Depression, his fath...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Carol Hartgen conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Ms. Carol Hartgen received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University in foreign service...
Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston
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This is an oral history interview with Len Hartman conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Len Hartman is president of Burton Shipyard in Bridge City, TX. He has been in ship building for...