Marceline Historical Society

Nov 22, 2022

Jack White – November 22, 2022

00:00:00 Dave Tavres OK so November 22nd, 2022 at 2:00pm in the Downtown Marceline Foundation offices. Jack White, I'm Dave Tavres. 00:00:10 Dave Tavres How old are you now? 00:00:15 Jack White Uh, 87. 00:00:10 Dave Tavres And how long have you been in Marceline? 00:00:15 Jack White Since 1939. 00:00:17 Dave Tavres And what brought you to Marceline? 00:00:19 Jack White My dad worked for the Sinclair Pipeline Company, and that is where Hurtt’s (Hurtt Fabricating) is now, and that was a pumping station. And back then they had a pumping station about every 50 miles, like there was one here, there was one at Carrollton and there was one at La Plata, and then Wakonda… was the next one. 00:00:49 Dave Tavres Got it… uh, pumping.. oil? 00:00:51 Jack White Uh huh, pumping crude oil, crude oil. 00:00:54 Jack White Yeah, they would pump it from the field to the refinery in Illinois. I can't remember the name of the town now in Illinois where the refinery was... 0…

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