00:00:05 - Interview with Mr. and Mrs. Angello Angelette at their home in Golden Meadow on June 14th, 1973;
00:00:20 - Her grandmother came from Bayou Teche and traveled by boat to Cheniere Caminada; His great great grandfather came with Lafitte; Her grandfather on her mother's side also came with Lafitte; He washed the dishes in the boat when he was 12;
00:01:45 - Platforms at Basa Basa, Manila Village, Bayou Collas, Bayou Beullot (?), Bayou Rigo (?); Before 1893, there was an oyster shucking house; One room house made of plank and the roof was sheeting;
00:03:35 - After the hurricane in 1893, most of the people moved to Westwego, Larose, and Leeville; Before 1893, there were more people at Grand Isle, Cheniere Caminade, Leeville than at Golden Meadow and Cut Off;
00:04:20 - Gardens; Lumber came from the sawmill;
00:07:00 - Boats; Ice for shrimp; They would bring a load of ice from New Orleans;
00:09:35 - Chinese workers in Collas and Rogers; Timbalier; Atchafalaya Bay;
00:13:20 - Some people lived in Esquine (?); Fala; Bayou Blue; They say people prefer to be called Indian instead of Sabine;
00:15:20 - 100-200 people living in Esquine; Isle de Jean Charles; Terrebonne Bay had more platforms;
00:17:40 - Seine with floats; Scott Terrebonne recently passed away; He was 11 when he started a seine crew;
00:22:00 - They had a wood burning stove; No stores or churches; They had a cemetery in Leeville, Grand Isle, Cheniere;
00:24:15 - More platforms in Terrebonne Bay; Oyster houses in the marsh; He just worked shrimp, but his father worked oysters; They used to work in the cold weather;
00:25:38 - His main income was shrimping; He didn't trap much; The marshall came get him for trespassing; Trainasse;
00:30:18 - Her family trapped for a living; They claimed a place before leasing/rent became the common practice; They would hunt to make money; Keep things fresh by packing on ice;
00:32:25 - There were no lazy children during that time; They all worked hard; They would put moss in the duck to keep flies away, then gave the ducks to the shrimp man to put on ice; They would make mattresses and pillow with the feathers; She still has some pillows from 56 years ago;
00:35:15 - Her father would catch 50-100 rats (?) depending on the weather; Mink;
00:36:43 - Perdiac;
00:39:00 - The made their own seine nets; Twine; She makes cast nets; She makes one for all her grandchildren; Tar the nets;
00:43:30 - He caught 3,200 drum fish in one haul; His uncle would make the sails; People in Leeville made boats;
00:45:40 - There were a lot of seine crews;
00:46:10 - She made mosquito nets; She has a sewing machine; Center board on boats; Talking about boat designs;
00:49:50 - People smuggled in for work; Bootleg; Seine skiff with six oars; There were a lot of boats in Cheniere Caminada;
00:53:15 - Selling shrimp; Little Caillou;
00:54:30 - No law enforcement back then, except for trapping land; Building a trainasse; If you don't help build it, you couldn't use it;
00:55:40 - They would go to a dance hall for fun in Leeville; They had church in the school house and a priest would come every 6 months;
00:57:20 - You had to pay a toll to use a canal; Wooden bridges; Groceries came from a store in Leeville; Groceries and ice were delivered by freight boat;
00:58:55 - They had no doctor; They would make their own medicine; Story about the only time she saw a doctor; She misses the old times; People helped each other;
01:00:52 - They don't remember when the first platform was built; Her husband's uncle had a platform at the Fourchon; The kids would stomp on the shrimp for $0.10/day; In the summer, they'd work in the field (?) for $0.25/day;
01:03:00 - They would boil the shrimp at the platform; They could boil 20 hampers at a time (a hamper is about 65 lbs.); People used to live on houseboats/flat boats;
01:04:35 - Bousiller; Mud and moss; Her dad lived in Leeville and would trap everyday but return home at night;
01:05:20 - Discussing boat designs; 30 ft sail;
01:09:00 - There houses weren't built on stilts; Different routes to New Orleans; Lake Salvador;
01:13:45 - Catfish; Stingray; Muskrat; Bringing shrimp form Timbalier to Westwego; Wilkinson Canal; Myrtle Grove; Grand Caillou;
01:18:10 - Davis asks about where Basa Basa and other names come from; Diez Cheramie (?); Little Temple;
01:23:00 - He was the captain when he was 17 years old; Sternwheeler boat; People around there built sternwheeler boats; He had two skiffs;
01:27:30 - People would take oysters to New Orleans; A lot of them lived in Grand Isle and Cheniere Caminada;
01:29:35 - Last Island; People would get drunk at the dance and they had a hotel out there; No one lived at Lake Pelto;
01:30:50 - Changes in the marsh; There used to be different plants and animals; Now it's all saltgrass;