if you look up here at the top you'll see this is a picture of gladys as a child, gladys bingham and right next to it, you can see that the vision was more about manufacturing in an industrial area than it was about oil production. >> i would say after the lucas gusher came in, their letterhead would have the oil barracks because the purpose changed very quickly when the well came in. >> why would this vision never come to fruition? when everybody wanted to make their dollar on this huge event that was coming in. and just a few months prior to the galveston hurricane. there were a lot of people that came from galveston when they heard about this because they were still trying to recover from that hurricane and so this was a chance for people to come and set up businesses and -- or work in the field and try to make some money. >> it doesn't, as i said, it didn't turn out that way to be the perfect city. this is a drawing that represents from a photograph that was done, and you'll see that it -- those buildings went up very quickly and looks very much like what we have here today. >> i

if you look up here at the top, you'll see this, this is a picture of gladys bingham. as a child. and then right next to it, you can see that the vision was more about manufacturing and an industrial area than it was about oil production. i will say that after the lucas gusher came in, their stock certificates and letterhead changed very quickly to have the oil dericks out there in the oil field because their purpose changed very quickly when the well came in. >> why didn't this vision ever come to fruition? >> well, i think when you had so many people rushing in and, you know, everybody wanted to make their dollar on this huge event that was coming, and if you think about it, especially in this area, just a few months prior, was the big galveston hurricane in september of 1900, a lot of people came from galveston when they heard about this because they were still trying to recover from that hurricane and so this was a chance for people to come and set up businesses and -- or work in the field and try to make some money. now it didn't -- as i have said, it didn't turn out that way

and her name was gladys bingham. and she was in his sunday school class, and he was very fond of her and kind of really bestowed an honor on her by naming the city for her. when it was originally -- when patillo originally envisioned the city, it was really what could be called an industrial utopia. by the time spindletop came in 1901, li like to say there was o more time to be perfect. and his other dreams really focused on this manufacturing part. and i think that's probably what some people wouldn't realize, is even they didn't know how much oil was under the ground out there. it surprised everybody when it came in. you know, beaumont at that time was kind of rough and tumble. and so he wanted something that was pristine and clean. and that's actually not what he got. but in the end. but that's the way it works sometimes. the gladys city oil, gas, and manufacturing company was the first oil company incorporated in texas. and they are still in operation today. they still have interests out in spindletop field. and