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Title	Chargois, J.C.
Creator (LCNAF)	University of Houston
Creator (Local)	Houston History Project
Contributor (Local)	Wiltz, Steven, interviewer University of Louisiana at Lafayette, project
Date	May 2, 2003
Description	This is an oral history interview with J.C. Chargois conducted as part of the Houston History Project. Mr. J. C. Chargois was born in 1924 in Lafayette and was the third child of Kezz and Louise Chargois. His father was the first city marshal in Lafayette parish in the late 1920s. His grandfather and later his father owned a plantation and opened 450 acres of land that included four springs, which serviced as Lafayette's only swimming pool. After graduating from Lafayette High School in 1942, he went work for the Southern Pacific Railroad where he started out as a clerk on the road and later became a crew caller and worked in the time keeping department. During that time he also went to college at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI). When his department at Southern Pacific was relocated to Houston in 1963, he went to work for Doutree's Furniture as a designer; he went into the decorating business for himself in 1968. He provides a detailed description of downtown Lafayette in the 1930s and 1940s. Then he discusses the influx of oilfield people (early on called "oilfield trash") and the departure of the railroad.
Subject.Topical (LCSH)	Energy development
Subject.Name (Local)	Chargois, J. C., 1924-
Subject.Geographic (TGN)	Lafayette, Louisiana
Genre (AAT)	interviews
Language	English
Type (DCMI)	Sound Text
Original Collection	Oral Histories - Houston History Project
Digital Collection	Oral Histories from the Houston History Project
Digital Collection URL	http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/houhistory
Repository	Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries
Repository URL	http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/special-collections
Use and Reproduction	Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner. For more information please see the UH Digital Library Fair Use policy on the "About" page of this website.
File Name	index.cpd

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Title	Chargois audio, 1 of 1
Format (IMT)	audio/mp3
Original Item Location	ID 2006-005, CD/DVD Box 1, HHA 00074
File Name	hhaoh_201207_018a.mp3