2004-07-06

Center for Public History, University of Houston; University of Houston Libraries, University of Houston

This is an oral history interview with Charles Pearce conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Charles Pearce was born in the Atchafalaya Basin and grew up on a houseboat.  He is the son of a commercial fisherman who moved to Morgan City in the early 1940's to work in the oil field.  His father roughnecked for Humble Oil and then transferred to production at Duck Lake.  Mr. Pearce went to work at Chicago Bridge and Iron Works and learned to weld at age 16.  He went to work for Sun Oil's seismograph department in the early 1950's.  He was first part of a "water crew" that worked in south Louisiana and then he joined a "land crew" and went to Brownsville, Texas. He quit Sun Oil to stay in one location and went to work as a welder in Morgan City.  Mr. Pearce mainly worked for LeBlanc Welders and for South Coast Welders.  He did rig welding for Brown and Root, Kerr-McGee, Texaco, Shell, and other oil companies out of Morgan City. Interviewer: Jamie Christy.

interviews

Energy development; Petroleum industry and trade; Pearce, Charles

Morgan City, Louisiana

Oral Histories from the Houston History Project

University of Houston Libraries Special Collections

English

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University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Houston History Archives
Oral Histories from the Houston History Project

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