HGS General Dinner Meeting for May 12, 2025 NEW LOCATION
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HGS General Social Meeting for May 2025
Date: May 12, 2025
NEW LOCATION AND PRICES!
Place: Spanish Flowers, 4701 N Main St., Houston, TX 77009
Time: 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm
Price includes drinks and appetizers.
Presentation: The Challenges of an Oil Historian in the 21st Century
Speaker: Jeff Spencer
Industry practices of the late 19th and early 20th centuries were very different from the practices of today. Photographs of early oil gushers, earthen storage tanks, and oil field fires are abundant and cannot be ignored when presenting petroleum industry history, but they need to be placed in their historical context. The “shooting of a well” was successful if it resulted in an oil gushing over the top of a derrick. Early tourists would take weekend train excursions to picnic in view of a lit “gasser.” Early petroleum-related photographs were sold as stereoviews and cabinet cards. These were replaced with postcards. The early 1900s saw a craze in sending and collecting postcards. Postcard views of these early oil gushers, gassers, and fires were purchased and mailed throughout the world.
4701 N Main St.
Houston, TX 77009
United States
| General Dinner - Spanish Flowers | |
| HGS Members | $ 20.00 |
| Non HGS Member | $ 30.00 |
| Student | $ 10.00 |
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