Tape number: V38

Name: Chandler Luckham

Location: Irvington, VA

Date of Birth: 1928

Date of Recording: 7/06/07

Recorded By: Grayson Mattingly

Log Sheet by: Grayson Mattingly

Item	In Point	Category	Description
01	00/20	L,F,C	Talks about growing up in his grandfather's home.Father worked in the Thompson Store across the street. Talks about as a child going up to Mr. Haden's store buying hotdogs and cooking them under the bridge. Would swim in the Stevens pool. Would row all over Carter's Creek. Went to school in Irvington. 5th grade became janitor in the school to make extra money. Talks about the chores he performed as janitor. Times were tough.
02	5/00	W,M,C	Worked at the Irvington Fish and Oyster Company located where Marina is now. Worked there at night and on weekends - stacked up boxes of fish in cold storage also worked in the freezer plant at the same location. Was paid 40 cents an hour.
03	8/02	L,C	Describes riding the bikes all over town. Would go down past the Wilder house. Always would stop and talk to Mrs. Wilder - Delivered Richmond News Leader. Talked about playing in the Wilder Woods - down in the raven. Would trap some animals - muskrats.
04	10/50	L	Uncle, Bernard Willinger owned store where account office is today on Steamboat Rd. Had a soda fountain - ice cream. On other side of store was hardware store.
05	12/03	L	Old post office up on the Lane next to Crokett property. Small house on Steamboat Road across from Luckham property was built by Lee Williams mother to be used as an antique store.
06	14/25	L	Tells "arthritis" story
07	15/39	F,W	Talks about how he got into the barber business
08	19/00	SW	House was located right next to steamboat wharf. Father would take him to dock every Sunday - caves waiting to be shipped out on Monday morning. Watched boats come in and back around. Uncle was wharf agent.
09	21/37	SW	Wharf was always active place. Bill Long would drive truck that delivered items that came in on boat to various stores in town.
10	23/34	SW,M	Explains shipping agents in Baltimore that would sell shipped items in Baltimore. Sometimes you made money sometimes you didn't - good story
11	24/40	W	Describes how shucked oysters were shipped in tin with ice in the middle. Unshucked oysters shipped in barrels.
12	27/47	L,C	Talks about how the creeks would ice over in the winter - ice all over. Would ice skate all over the creek as a boy. Had "clamp on" skates. Bought used shoe skates.
13	33/00	W	Father used to haul herring in buy boat named Jumbo. Would take herring up to Leestown, Port Royal. Would stop at stores and lumber camps along the Rappahanock River. Tells about retracing fathers route in small boat with wife.
14	38/30	SW	Talks about carrying water to Adams Floating Theater. Would get tickets to the show. Recalls one performance.
15	41/50	SW	Tells story about how his brother would go out and meet Floating Theater in a skiff and get a job as a water boy.
16	43/00	SW	Irvington steamboat wharf had a cover over it.Used to go there to cool off.
17	43/42	L,SW	Story about how he "saved" the steamboat wharf.
18	45/00	W	Talks about working in the oyster house. Put up 3500 gallons of oysters in one night.
19	48/00	L,F	Describes house he built, family story