Water Rails & Oil - Historic Mid & South Jefferson County

spiritual and moral needs. Retail business from
“Big Box” to Mom-and-Pop enterprises—though
now Mom and Pop were as likely to be
Vietnamese, Middle Eastern, or other Asians—
some in malls and some in stand-alone
structures, offered the food and fiber upon which
an urbanized people must depend. The color and
face of the community had changed, especially in
government and education, and labor unions no
longer wielded as much influence as in an earlier
time; business itself, especially heavy industry,
had a more corporate, less local focus.
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Left: Members of the Port Arthur
Centennial Commission pose for
publicity photograph in front of the
historical home, Pompeiian Villa.
From left to right they are: Ben and
Corrine Jones, Dorothy Ingram, Bob
Brammer, Hazel Baron, Dave Smith,
Yvonne Sutherlin, Dub Brown, Mayor
Bob Morgan, Verna Rutherford, Ed
Kestler, Edith Huber-Logsdon, Lonnie
Logsdon, and Sissy Wood.
COURTESY OF WINSTON B. LEWIS,
PHOTOGRAPHER, ORANGE, TEXAS.
Below: The winners in the 1954
CavOILcade hat contest.
COURTESY OF THE MUSEUM OF THE GULF COAST,
PORT ARTHUR, TEXAS.
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