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{SPEAKER name="WILLIAM BOURNE"}
You get the, you get um, nine dollars a gallon. It's not dead.

[00:18:49]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Um, what do you dislike about shucking?

{SPEAKER name="WILLIAM BOURNE"}
Uh, dislike huh?

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Yes [[Laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well, [[Pause]]

[00:18:55]
{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Uh, when you get them small ones,

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
[[Chuckles]] Okay.

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What, what changes have you seen come about over the years? Uh, anything anywhere from the way the oysters was put on the table, to, uh, delivered to you, to

[00:19:12]
{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Oh yeah, well, the, the way they're on the table, they're not put in there, they're put on the baskets.

[00:19:20]
And now they put on a conveyor. And it would come and all you'd gotta do is dump 'em, and come over to the table. And you'd dump 'em. They'd break and wheel 'em in with wheelbarrows, on a [[grade gain??]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Is there any, um, white workers there?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
In the packing room, yeah

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
In the packing room. About how many?

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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Three, and not many.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mm-hmm [positive] Okay.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Um, how had the arrival of the Mexican workers changed the environment around there, or is there a change?

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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Uh, No change at all that.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
No change?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Mm [thinking], nope.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mm-hmm [positive], okay. [[Silence]]

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Okay, um, let's get back to your home life.

[00:20:09]
{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Uh, what are some of the things you remember about growing up? What are some of the values that your parents have instilled in you? What do you remember most about what they've always told you? "Don't do this-- do that"

[00:20:20]
{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well, they had particularly [[??]]
When we all got home from school, we all had something to do.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mm-hmm [agreeing]

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
But now, children go home, and now, they don't have anything to do. Other than streaking around the street.

[00:20:35]
When we come home, we had to feed the chickens, get in wood, milk the cows, feed the hogs[[?]], and go down one of those roads to the butcher house and get into 'em.

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Now, children come home quick, eat the supper, or eat the lunch, [[?]]

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We had to work when we get home.

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
How had working at the Oyster House benefited your family?

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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well, talkin' for ourselves, I reckon, you know, of course now it is better because, [[providers]], we had to cut right [[?]] 10 to 15 years. But going to the [[provider?]] I had to admit it was awesome

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{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
OK. So working at the Oyster House had to help you maybe buy your home,

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
or send your kids to school

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Yeah

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
OK. What are some of the other... I think I might have asked you this before. What are some of the other jobs you have done over the years?

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{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well. I [[?]] Montgomery County worked for [[?]]. I worked there a whole winter. and Cattle Cliff, I worked Cattle Cliff a couple years.

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
What did you do at Cattle Cliff.

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Labor

{SPEAKER name="Shelia Montague Parker"}
Mm hm, okay.
Uhh, give me some more information in reference to working at the Oyster House, I mean, um, shucking or what you need to, other things that you might need, for example, me if I’m just coming in, what advice would you give me as a new shucker?

{SPEAKER name="William Bourne"}
Well I [?]