Flo Perkins discusses getting her glass from O. J. Gabbert. Oral history interview with Flo Perkins by Barb Elam, conducted via telephone, August 20, 2019, Bard Graduate Center. Clip length: 00:45.

Flo Perkins: So where did I get my glass? I use his [Dick Marquis’s] contact, which was O. J. Gabbert in West Virginia and Mr. Gabbert had been in the glass business his whole life and what he did was collect the cullet from the different factories, and I don’t think there were too many. And it came in cardboard barrels, and each one weighed, I don’t know, 300 pounds, 500 pounds? And so the glass came in these cardboard barrels with the ring that unsnaps, and you had to—I had to use a tractor with the front end loader that they—the semi-truck would show up with a ton of glass and we’d, like, unload them into the front end loader and get that over to my shop and put it down.