George Ellinger, you told me that you were born
in Baytown?
I was George Ellinger, born in Cedar Valley.
Cedar Valley? Yeah.
What year? Huh?
What year? 1888.
Oh, that was the 23rd.
You've lived here in Baytown all your life?
All my life.
In Cedar Valley.
Could you tell me what Baytown was like, or
Cedar Valley?
I think that was Baytown when you were born.
Could you tell me what Cedar Valley was like
when you were born here?
Well, Cedar Valley was a place where they made
handmade bricks.
Most of the occupation was making bricks and folding.
Of course, the gallows and the cabins, which
gallows them and sold them.
When I was a kid, I worked on them.
Summertime, we'd start up in March, about
launch, and work until September or a little later.
If you can't make blood bricks in the
wintertime, it'll freeze.
And a closed brick is no good.
I worked all my life, but it was up until I was
16, 17 years old, on brickyards.
There was nothing but a farming country, and
all the freight, everything we had, came in
here by boat.
No roads.
If you went to Houston, you went down to what
they called Mr. Wright's place, and you got a skiff.
He pulled you over to Mortgage Point for ¢25.
You got in a hack, went to West the 4th, caught
a train, caught you another ¢25.
You bought a ticket to Houston, and you'd get
back that night about 8:00 to the 4th.
Then you'd come back to Mortgage Point, and he
would meet you, bring you back across.
You'd get on your horse, or you'd get in your
buggy and go home.
That's the way we went to Houston.
Didn't you tell me before when I talked to you
that Baytown, what we know was just nothing but woods?
What then?
Baytown was nothing but woods?
Cow pasture.
Cow pasture? Yeah.
Old Baytown, what they called Old Baytown, was
a regular thicket.
There was an orphan's home over there.
The Baytown was Baytown Landin' years and years ago.
What do you call it? Spanish.
Revolution, when they fought.
North or South.
North or South fought.
The Civil War?
The Civil War then went to the Army from
Baytown, Texas.
That's over here.
We lived over here close to where Baytown was,
the primary dock shore.
Used to be a Baytown Landin' there, folks would
land there.
There was a house on that island right across
from the dock.
That was a stoppin' place.
They had a store over there and everything.
Everything was smoked.
Do you remember what caused Baytown to develop?
Was it the refinery?
Well, most of it was oil fields.
The oil fields? Yeah.
They brought in the drill for oil in Goose Creek.
And Mrs. Gilliard, Minnie Gilliard, leased
property down there on the Bay Shore where
the old causeway is.
Two dollars a lot.
And you built your own house.
Just a little old shotgun truck to live in.
That was Baytown.
That was Goose Creek, Old Town, of course.
And they brought in that gusset down there and
run them all out.
They had Middletown and Newtown.
Old Town, Middletown, Newtown.
Didn't call it Goose Creek.
And I left here in 1917.
Went to Walmart.
That's when the first boom came.
But before that, my father was an administrator
on Mrs. Minnie Gilliard.
She was an old maid.
My father was an administrator on that estate.
Temporary administrator, of course.
We had to collect rent off of them houses down
there where those lots were leased, you know.
Well, who'd she lease the lots to? Huh?
Who'd she lease the lots to?
Anybody that wanted one.
People that worked for the oil field, you mean?
The oil field, yeah.
Oil field.
They had a store down there.
Arthur Fail and Curly Fail had a market now store.
They sold doses and clothes and almost anything
you wanted to say.
A country store?
Yeah, a regular old country store.
And the other fellas didn't sit down there.
In 1917, I run a freight boat, I run on a
freight boat from Houston to Cedar Valley and
delivered the doses and stuff all over the tables.
And the store came from Houston on those boats.
The other boats run into Goose Creek, but we
run into Cedar Valley.
We bought freight farms, bought all kinds of stuff.
Anything, pipe fittings and stuff.
Never did anybody know pipe, so the boat
couldn't handle it, the boats.
What happened?
We bought fittings and stuff for the machine
shop down there.
All kinds of places.
Well, how about Pelley? Huh?
Well, that was Middletown.
Was that Middletown? Yeah.
It used to have a pretty bad reputation.
When they organized and made a town out of it,
they called it Pelley because Mr. Pelley
lived there and he was most of that property
around there.
That's where Middletown was long ago.
They were connected.
I forget the population.
Were you here during World War I? Yes.
Do you remember the effects that it had on Baytown?
The effects that World War I had on Baytown?
No, I wouldn't know too much about it.
Just a lot of our boys was drafted out of here
and as far as the business part of it
was concerned, I couldn't tell you much about it.
I worked on shipyards.
Did it have any effect on the shipyards? No.
Not that I know of.
I wouldn't say it did because we were busy.
He had a bunch of boats and the shell business
was boom.
He was in the shell business.
I went in the shipyard and he had to handle his
own boats.
He did very little outside work.
Once in a while I'd haul out a shrimp boat in
between barges.
The waves, the marine railway.
But I couldn't tell you anything about the
business part of it.
That's the only thing that made our business
flourishing, the shell business.
Whenever you were a young boy, what sorts of
things did you do for entertainment?
I know you couldn't travel very far here in Baytown.
What's this?
What did y'all do for entertainment in your
teens, 19, 20, 21?
I know you couldn't go very far to do things.
19, 20, and 21.
When you were 19, 20, and 21, a young boy?
Well, they just got roads in here then.
They did have? Yeah.
19 and 9, 8 and 9 along in there, they got automobiles.
They didn't have those roads from the Houston,
but the road that they did have,
finally got it gelled, went but caused it.
What they called Highway United into Houston,
went in on the north side of Houston.
Then went across Pitt Lane Street up there and
then went right on across the town from
the Lower Ainsfield, I believe it was, and went
in on.
Of course, there were a couple of ways you
could go in.
Usually the main traffic was what they called
the residents.
Went down the railroad track where the railroad
guards crossed over and taken down that street.
Well, for entertainment, did y'all go to dances
here in town? Huh?
For entertainment, did you go to dances here in town?
Dances here in town or?
I don't know.
Not then.
Not then?
After I got married, I didn't go to much dinner
with her.
I married in 1940.
Oh, all right.
I wouldn't want to get you in any trouble.
Mr. Danford, were you here during the storm of
Carla, Hurricane Carla? Yes.
Do you remember anything about the hurricane? No.
Do you remember a lot?
We went away from home at night and come back.
I remember that I got up Kilgore's house and
went down there and moved all the furniture upstairs.
We were in California. However, I didn't move it.
But then we went to my son-in-law's daughter's
and spent the first night.
But the realest storm, we were here in this house.
And you're pretty close to the water, aren't you?
Oh, it's out of the lake. It's so brick in it.
It's so hard now.
Did it come up to the house?
Oh, no.
It came up 36 inches in Mr. Kilgore's house.
That old house down there was down on the pile
down there.
It was a two-story house.
On the left as you go down.
Just as you start down that hill, that's this place.
It was a two-story house.
It was nearly up to the road there.
On his driveway.
About halfway from his house.
Were there many homes that were flooded?
In Brownwood. Brownwood?
Brownwood. It was so old pieces.
Eighty-three homes were destroyed.
Eighty-three homes were destroyed in Brownwood?
Yeah. I never did go down anywhere.
I went down there before the storm.
Told the guy I'd seen six foot of water where
his house was.
He said, I don't know.
Never was in the water over this place, but he
got over it and called.
Well, let me stop.
Let's see. In 1942 during World War II, you
said there was another storm? Yes.
Do you remember anything about it?
Well, it was pretty rough, but it wasn't as
rough as college.
Water didn't get near as high.
But it pulled the tide out.
Just pulled it out to where it was.
There was barely no water in the boil at all.
It looked like a nozzle would flow.
It just pulled that water out.
Then it come back.
Then it rained.
Got the boil on the fresher.
Of course, we drifted all the lumber off and
stuff to yards.
We had to chase it down and went down to the
bridge down there.
Part of it somewhat got away from us.
Most of it would go in these flats.
I was working that morning.
I went to work while I told them to get
everything out of there and get the boats up
and bow.
Get the dredge and everything.
I happened to have the dredge in here working
on it.
They pulled around and never did get the dredge
up there.
They started with it down here in the bend.
About a quarter of a mile, a little better from
where she was at in the shipyard.
They had to drop the flood and stay there all
night and fight it out.
Of course, they had kind of a rough bank to
work against.
Did they have a crew on it?
Oh, yes.
Did someone stay on there and ride the storm?
Oh, yes.
A whole crew was on there and a crew on the boat.
It wasn't bad in there.
It just blowed, but then it wasn't what you'd
call rough.
It wasn't like being on the bay.
I come home and tried to protect the place here
and it sucked the winders out.
It didn't blow them in.
They just pulled them out.
So you've got to keep a door open.
You've got to keep an eye on your house.
The Lee side of your house, you keep it open in
the storm.
Keep everything you can open in any storm.
But they sucked these winders out.
And they had every one of them crumbled.
A fan would just pull out and just crumble up
right there.
Got all four of these, didn't it, Mama?
Six and two and one in the bedroom.
One in the bedroom?
I don't remember how many.
Were you lived here next to the bay on Kilgore Road?
Did this area get the worst part of the storm
of that year?
No, it was true.
It was all over the port, all in this area,
Baytown area.
If that wind had hit us broadside, our house
would have gone over.
But it hit us on the corner.
I said if that would have hit us, it was a 135
mile wind.
A 135 mile wind? Yeah.
Over on the other side of Baytown in that tiny
woods over there,
it broke those pine trees off above the ground.
Didn't blow them up to the roof.
Just broke them off.
Broke them off. Yeah.
Of course, lots of trees broke over the roof.
We had two here in the yard that broke over.
Had a board ark out there and wrote it over.
Brought the barn over too.
Brought the barn over on the farm.
We had to help the bed out. Right.
But it wasn't.
Nothing like Carlos could do the damage.
Didn't last as long.
But it was a pretty good wind.
What it did, we were right almost in the eye of
the storm.
When you got justice, still, calm, you could
never come back.
You said that you built ships during the war? Yeah.
Was that World War I?
World War I, not from World War I.
Whenever you were building the ships, were they
the ones that
was going to be used in the war? Huh?
Whenever you built the ships, were they ships
that were to be
used in the war? Yeah.
What's it called?
The shipping board.
We built the first Paris-type boat ship.
About 300 feet, 350 feet long.
What were they used for?
Forty-five to 50 feet wide.
About 40, 35 feet in the hole.
Do you know what they were used for?
Well, I can tell you that most of them they
didn't use.
They didn't use them?
Well, the war was over.
But we had to build them faster.
We wasn't the only ones building them.
We had to build them faster than the German something.
That's the way we wanted them more.
The one ship that we built, it was named after
an Indian.
Quall, Quall, Quall, Quall, something like that.
I built it.
She run 18 months.
She went to France.
That's the only one that I knew of that was
built in this area that was used.
There may have been some of the rest of it.
Right there in Beaumont, close to where I was working.
That river over there, they had a marine railway.
That was built there.
And these ships were there.
There was a whole bunch of them in there.
I think they're finally going to cost the government.
They made oil tankers out of some of them.
Well, you all were kept real busy then,
building these ships? Yeah.
It would take about a year for us to build one.
But they hand-labeled them.
What did you build them out of? Wood.
Wood and ships.
I'll be. Yeah.
I'll be.
And they didn't last.
Yours lasted 18 months? Huh?
The one you built lasted 18 months on the water?
Well, she run 18 months last Port Iowa.
I don't know what it was.
But I kind of tried to keep up with it and got
a report on it.
But she was in service 18 months that I know of.
That's what they reported to me.
The only ones I know of that ever went in service.
The other two, well, we built one other besides
that to Beaumont.
I don't know what was going on with her.
And I think she went in service.
But I don't think she ever went across.
And that ship business is just like every other
kind of business, you know.
People didn't know how to build one.
There wasn't but about six, seven ships caught
in this part of the country.
And that isn't.
That's the biggest mess you ever saw in your life.
The first two ships they built there in that joint.
What happened?
Oh, you see.
They didn't know nothing about Tristan Lumber
or how to take care of them.
How to do anything.
Of course, I could tell with somebody I don't,
Yuka wouldn't understand he got to what I'm
talking about.
Anyway, they done it backwards.
I ask that you run up the ship with a flier to it.
In other words, some of the fliers in the stern
and the bow hold up more than you really think.
But when they come back to that, instead of
taking off of the bottom part of that and
holding this level,
they're taking off the top part and rolled it
this way.
That ain't no joke.
When they put the shell streak, what they call
the shell streak in number one,
when they put the deck across, they had three
14 by 14s right together.
And then they had 10 by 12.
Two of them.
One of them was a lock streak.
The other one was all of them bolted to that 14
by 14.
And the deck beam laid on it.
When they laid the deck beam on there, they
left two inches in that 10-inch beam
and had to cut it down that much to lay it in
the bow of the boat.
Well, did you all make these mistakes here? Huh?
Did you all make the mistakes here?
At this one or at the other?
When they made it the other way?
I'm told that's the one I worked on.
Oh, the one you worked on. Yes.
See, I didn't get in charge of it.
The one that I...
I didn't get to take charge of it until they
had the same plane.
Now, they didn't do that in mine.
I changed it. Over.
A lot of arguments.
But anyway, the man figured it out, you know.
You had a Navy drastic.
You had plans to go by.
Whatever one of you did, anything like that,
he'd get back to it.
See, he'd take me out of the boat and take me
out to the top.
Well, whenever the refinery started up here, do
you remember when it did?
You don't remember?
I left you in 1917.
I was in Texas City.
We used to go down there and work ships in wintertime.
I went down there two years in the two winters.
1916, I went down there.
In 19... February 1917, I'd come home.
Come up to Goose Creek, oil fields all the way.
My father had passed away on the 24th day of April,
and I'd come in to Goose Creek.
And I'd come on home.
After his funeral, I worked in oil fields.
I worked four days, five days on a pipeline.
And I sold it to Humboldt Pipeline.
Now, Humboldt Pipeline and the Humboldt
Refinery was the difference, they said.
But they sold out.
And Lang told me, and my boss said it'd be
about three days
before they'd get things straightened up.
They just sold off.
In the meantime, I went down and went to work,
tank work, see.
I helped build a couple or three tanks down
there in the oil fields, steel tanks.
And I built two.
I thought I was there below this Methodist
church over there.
It's over there in Baytown now, right down on
the bank of the Bay.
So two, helped build two tanks.
Then we built two out in the woods somewhere
out there where the refinery is.
And I left.
Whenever you were working for Humboldt?
Sixteenth day, I believe it was the 16th.
Anyhow, it was in September.
I went to Beaumont, shipped into Orange.
I was on strike over there, and I wouldn't go
to work.
They shipped me back to Beaumont.
And I worked nine days courting, and I went in
this night gliding yard,
the old yard that was building these Paris-type
ships there.
Whenever you worked for Humboldt, do you
remember what your wages were?
Worked for who? Humboldt.
Didn't work for Humboldt.
When you was building the tanks.
It was built by one city tank and boiling up.
Were you working out there where Humboldt was?
No, out there in the woods.
Wasn't nothing out there but woods.
We went down through old Pelic, that road across,
went over past the orphan's home,
and built those tanks on the base over there.
The standard built them, standard clothes.
Remember what your wages were? Huh?
Remember what your wages were?
Two and a half a day, I believe.
Two and a half?
Bit worth.
I think it's two and a half, a bucker up,
heaters, $3 for corkers.
I believe they paid $3.
How about when you were working at the shipyard?
What were your wages there?
Well, the 1st time I worked 9 hours, dollar and
a half .
A day.
A day?
A hour and a hour.
I'm talking about this bit worth in the tanks
of two and a half.
You could drive 100 feet, hot work, and 140
feet, cold work.
That was what they said was piece worth.
How about during the Depression?
Where were you working then? Shipyard.
No, I was still working, still working.
What were your wages during the Depression?
I was getting $5 a day for 9 hours.
That unreal to him?
They put me on the monthly payment.
They did that in the 40s. Huh?
They did that in the early 40s. Yeah.
Well, I got before the, that was after the
Depression when they started up again.
They put me on monthly pay during the Depression.
$150 a month.
Did the Depression have much effect on your
ship work, on your ship building? Yes.
Not too much.
I worked, made one month, I made 50 hours.
50 hours a month?
I was on my hourly basis at that time.
But right after that, in 36, 35 or 36, they put
me on monthly basis.
$150 a month.
But I didn't sell it during the Depression.
How did you keep from it?
Had plenty to eat.
Didn't work too much at the time.
I didn't sell it then.
Well, was the food, your food stamps and things
like that, you found that they were...
I didn't, I never had no charity put in my
hands yet.
Well, they rationed your gas and things like that?
Didn't they ration your gasoline and things
like that?
Oh, yeah.
That was in World War II, but not in the Depression.
But they didn't...
How about during the World War II?
Well, you could buy anything you wanted in the Depression.
You had the money.
If you had the money.
The main thing, getting a hold of some money.
But during World War II, they rationed it.
We was allowed four and a half gallons a month,
wasn't it?
Or a week.
I can't remember.
Same way as ten a month.
Something like that.
I know that my mother and father lived out here
at Cedar Crest out here on...
Tri-City Beach.
A lot of fellas out of Houston had some homes
out there, caretakers.
And I went down there, and they were left in
age, 80 years old.
He was the oldest.
And I went down there and tried to get four
gallons of gas a month more.
They wouldn't get enough.
We can't throw that down.
We had to go out there once a month.
And you couldn't get the gasoline?
A guy come in and said he had a pig out in the country.
He had to dive out there and see the pig.
They gave him all he wanted.
The pig was worth more than my father's mother's.
You couldn't get gasoline to go to the hospital.
He had a big grandson, too, that he wanted in Houston.
It wasn't that they didn't have it.
It was just people running the thing.
Well, how about...
A preacher couldn't get gas to go from this
place up the country here to bury somebody.
Just because they wanted it to be.
They wouldn't let him have it.
What about your rations on your food during the war?
After World War II?
World War II? Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
They had stamps from World War II.
I don't remember too much about them.
They had to talk to the cook.
She said the only thing you all had a hard time
getting was coffee?
If you keep drinking them, well, it's not lots
of coffee.
My mother would...
They didn't drink much and she'd share her... Stamps?
Stamps, well, that's a stamp.
You'd find whatever they called her then.
I smoked cigarettes during World War II.
She used to stand in line to get me cigarettes.
I didn't get bacon.
Everybody else was getting bacon and we
couldn't get any bacon.
They'd open that cigarette gun, you know.
Lots of people in line? Yeah.
Sometimes it'd run out before they used to.
A fellow down there on the corner of Texas
Avenue had a...
Kind of a joint there.
Anyhow, I used to buy them from him in the garden.
While they was rationing...
I mean, it wasn't rationing them, but they just
opened up and sold you.
One pack at a time.
So many hours.
Wine garden...
I mean, ganators.
Sure was a paper.
Almost all of them.
Had certain hours.
Well, you went to school here in Baytown,
didn't you?
Elementary school and... Huh?
Didn't you attend school here in Baytown, in
Goose Creek?
Not in Goose Creek.
Where'd you attend school?
Cedar Vile.
That's right.
That's all that was here, right?
Tell me something about it.
I was at Masonic Lodge.
Cedar Vile, Masonic Lodge.
It was a school kept up with the masons.
Was it a public school? Yeah.
Public school.
Sister called that.
From the states.
Counties, whatever.
School days.
Well, tell me something about the school.
It was just an old country school.
Well, it was.
Didn't have any grades. Readers.
First reader, second reader, and so forth, you know.
Up to fifth, sixth reader, and then...
Seventh and eighth, you know.
Little different books.
I didn't know.
I don't know.
I never did get that type.
Well, was it all?
Did you have all the grades in one room? Yeah.
Your sister talked to?
Was one teacher.
Taught all of it.
Kids don't know.
They had two here at Cedar Vile most of the time.
And that was too many students. 50s.
About 50?
About 50.
How many? Huh?
About how many?
45, 50.
Maybe a little more sometimes.
I don't know just like this.
I was 1960.
I was going to school.
I can't remember that much way back then.
It was a long time. Yeah.
A fellow by the name of Crawford.
Him and his wife talked to him.
I think the last years he was there, I think he
talked by himself.
I'm not going to be positive about that, but I
think he did.
I just went three years.
You were here during the 1900 storm also? Yeah.
Can you tell me something about it?
Well, I lived back about nearly half a mile above
where Highway 146 crossed the Cedar Vile.
I lived in Harris County, almost about northwest.
Nearly due north where that road crosses the bottom.
That vial makes a crook like that that comes
around this way
and I live right over here on the bank.
An old box house.
Where I was born and raised.
That box and plank went up and battens on it,
you see.
I don't know.
Had a brother that used to be in the ball mart
and he'd come in home sick and he was in the bed.
The bed was up against this east wall in that house.
They placed his bed away from the wall about
six inches.
Almost six inches, that wall.
Come in that way.
Pushing it in, you know.
The wall bowed in?
Just single boards, you know.
Pushed his bed away from the wall.
About four or six inches.
But we rode it out.
Father was gone.
He'd gone to Houston.
Come in, supposed to come in on Saturday night
and this storm was on Saturday night.
He was supposed to come in Saturday evening sometimes.
And anyhow, they got to Morgan's Point on a
little river boat.
Annie, Doug Annie.
She wouldn't cross the...
She wouldn't come across the bay.
They went back up down the center river.
Bait down landing and tied up.
Do you have any idea how high the waves were? Huh?
Do you have any idea how high the waves were?
The water was on the back?
No, not on, I don't know.
But it was pretty rough.
How about the wind?
It's rough enough that they wouldn't come across.
From Morgan's Point to the mouth seat above.
And they broke loose at Baytown. Thought.
Bait down this little walkway out there, you know.
Fishing pier, something like that.
Where they were tied up.
And they went to drift it up.
They got up to steam and started up the river.
And they picked up the wire that they pulled
the Lynchburg Ferry
across the central river with.
Got it in a wheel.
Lay it right up against two cypress trees.
Just north of that ferry.
Tied it down and rolled it out. There.
Sunday morning, sometimes Sunday he'd come in.
Engineer went down and cut that wire, that wheel.
And they come on home on Sunday morning.
Well, the storm of 1900, was it very bad?
Well, it's what washed Galveston away.
It washed Galveston away?
Oh, yes.
Down to the mother hundreds.
6,000 people were drowned.
Something like that.
In Galveston?
In Galveston, yeah.
I don't know.
They hauled them out to sea and dumped them on.
The people? Yeah.
What are you going to do with them?
I'd bury them.
Then you went and put them.
The only thing you could have done was take them
and drag them on or something.
They didn't have them, man.
You could take the shovel and dump them in there.
You couldn't take one from the other.
You couldn't identify them.
You'd find them in that wreckage.
You talk about, they ought to have something
like that now.
You went to Galveston.
They put you to work.
You didn't have a job.
You didn't go down there sightseeing.
And if you did, you didn't get out.
You had a job.
You had businesses.
But they put you to work.
And you would go down there looking around
and reach down to something that put a bullet
in you that quick.
Who did that?
Martial law.
Martial law?
Sold them.
Oh, they declared martial law in Galveston.
Sold them.
They didn't ask you no questions about it.
They didn't ask you what you're looking for.
They just shocked you.
They stopped you from picking it up.
You couldn't touch nothing like that.
So when did they declare martial law?
Right after the storm.
They had to declare that.
They cleaned that town up.
Well, how bad did it hit Baytown?
Was it anything like that?
Oh, there wasn't nothing in Baytown,
but the old country homes in the 1900s.
Mr. Wright lived down there on the bay
and Bush down there and Gilliards and Jones
and two or three other fellas lived around down there.
Did it destroy their homes? Huh?
Did it destroy their homes? No.
What kind of homes?
Did it hurt any homes in Baytown?
It wasn't in Baytown.
Well, what view were here?
Well, in some places, where my sister lives,
she married a fellow by the name of Smith.
He had three children when she married him
and then they had young ones, I don't know,
four, I think.
But anyway, he lived out here in Chambers County
and it blowed the kitchen off of his place that
he lived on.
They went over to another house close there.
I forget the name of the people, butlers, I believe,
or something like that, lived close to them
and they went over there during the night,
during the storm.
But it didn't do quite well.
It was a few barns away and stuff like that,
you know.
But the water got fairly high in 1900 and 1950,
but like a little bit.
1915 was a little high.
1915 was about 24 inches less than Colorado.
About 24, 25 inches, 26, something like that.
More water than Colorado, but again, it wasn't 1950.
Now, 1942, back in there,
those little storms ahead didn't come up quite
as high as the others.
More, not so much backwater.
It was more fresh water.
The rain caused the rain.
It kept raining the second day.
Well, whenever the oil fields moved into Baytown,
the population at that time before they moved
in was fairly small.
Before the oil fields moved into Baytown?
The population of Baytown was fairly small?
I don't know Baytown. It was just old Baytown Landing.
Old Baytown Landing? Yeah.
Can you tell me about some of the people?
Worcester was sobering up then.
But then as far as Baytown, I don't know if you
can call it town.
They had an orphaned home over on the Bayshore.
I don't know how that originated, Baytown
Landing, years ago.
What kind of people did the oil boom bring in?
Oil kind.
Oil kind?
Yeah, good people, bad people.
I don't know if they brought many hijackers.
Well, just average roughnecks, you know.
Some of them pretty rough.
But there were lots of good people.
Did it bring in very...