Port Arthur, TX
Author : Early Day-City of Port Arthur Letterheads
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Port Arthur History
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Author : Early Day-City of Port Arthur Letterheads
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Port Arthur History
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Author : Wanda A. Landry
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Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,28 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781571689177
By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the rampant vice and governmental corruption that supported it. And, at a time when such things were virtually unheard of, he and his committee played it out on live television. When the dust finally cleared, the local governments of Jefferson County were turned inside out.
Author : Michael Cate
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Port Arthur (Tex.)
ISBN : 9781886130067
A special centennial edition celebrating the history of Port Arthur, chronicling the city's story. It is filled with stories, information, and nearly one thousand photographs relating the economic, industrial, and cultural development of one of Texas' greatest cities.
Author : William McKissick Timmerman
Publisher :
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 15,77 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Port Arthur (Tex.)
ISBN : 9780971750104
Author : Holly George-Warren
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 28,48 MB
Release : 2019-10-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476793123
Longlisted for the 2020 Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence This blazingly intimate biography of Janis Joplin establishes the Queen of Rock & Roll as the rule-breaking musical trailblazer and complicated, gender-bending rebel she was. Janis Joplin’s first transgressive act was to be a white girl who gained an early sense of the power of the blues, music you could only find on obscure records and in roadhouses along the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast. But even before that, she stood out in her conservative oil town. She was a tomboy who was also intellectually curious and artistic. By the time she reached high school, she had drawn the scorn of her peers for her embrace of the Beats and her racially progressive views. Her parents doted on her in many ways, but were ultimately put off by her repeated acts of defiance. Janis Joplin has passed into legend as a brash, impassioned soul doomed by the pain that produced one of the most extraordinary voices in rock history. But in these pages, Holly George-Warren provides a revelatory and deeply satisfying portrait of a woman who wasn’t all about suffering. Janis was a perfectionist: a passionate, erudite musician who was born with talent but also worked exceptionally hard to develop it. She was a woman who pushed the boundaries of gender and sexuality long before it was socially acceptable. She was a sensitive seeker who wanted to marry and settle down—but couldn’t, or wouldn’t. She was a Texan who yearned to flee Texas but could never quite get away—even after becoming a countercultural icon in San Francisco. Written by one of the most highly regarded chroniclers of American music history, and based on unprecedented access to Janis Joplin’s family, friends, band mates, archives, and long-lost interviews, Janis is a complex, rewarding portrait of a remarkable artist finally getting her due.
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 29,61 MB
Release : 1953
Category : Port Arthur (Tex.)
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Author : Elton N. Gish
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2003-10
Category : Petroleum refineries
ISBN : 9780971277724
"The book details the 100-year history (1903 to 2003) of Texaco's Port Arthur refinery, Port Arthur Terminal, and Port Neches refinery. It contains 408 pages with more than 1200 photographs that show every aspect of running a refinery. Many of them have no"
Author : Port Arthur News
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Page : 48 pages
File Size : 14,4 MB
Release : 1905
Category : Port Arthur (Tex.)
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Author : Kansas City, Pittsburg, and Gulf Railroad Company
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Page : 38 pages
File Size : 17,57 MB
Release : 1900*
Category : Port Arthur (Tex.)
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Author : Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce (Port Arthur, Tex.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 22,37 MB
Release : 1951*
Category : Port Arthur (Tex.)
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