Interviewer(s): A. Anand. Houma, LA

Affiliation: University of Arizona

Mr Billy Bundy was referred to me by Mr James Dishman of Rainbow International Carpet Care in Houma (Mr Dishman's daughter Jamie struck up a conversation with me at Sunrise Fried Chicken in Houma when she noticed the Arizona license plates on Diane's car; upon hearing of the offshore history project, she suggested I look up her father). Mr. Bundy is also a notary public and is a friendly, talkative man. Mrs. Bundy made us some lemonade and also offered me some gumbo.

Mr. Bundy was born in Louisiana in 1930 and has worked many jobs in the oilpatch. He began with Halliburton Cement Company in 1948 and, beginning in 1951, worked for Texaco for six and a half years roughnecking on workover rigs. Then he shifted to Guiberson as a production packager and later a life serviceman fixing gas lift valves. From 1959 he worked for Otis Engineering (which had just merged with Halliburton). He worked several jobs with Otis until 1981, when he joined a friend's office. He became a real estate broker in 1985.