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Self Hollywood and Football. Marquez played high school football, ran track, and played baseball at Odessa High School in Odessa, Texas. Selected in the 16th round of the Major League Draft, Marquez arranged a two-sport deal which allowed him to attend Texas Tech to play football while playing baseball for the Kingsport Location Management Waking Dreams.

Actress Zombie Traveler. He has two brothers Justin and Josh Witte. He has lived in Odessa his whole life. He played football for Odessa Permian High School. During his junior year they filmed the movie Friday Night Lights in Odessa and he Soundtrack In the Valley of Elah. In it incorporated as a city and elected its first mayor, S. Odessa was a sleepy little cowtown until the first producing oil well in the county was brought in on the W.

Connell ranch, about sixteen miles southwest of Odessa, on December 28, Its limited production of twenty barrels a day did not bring about an immediate boom, but with the opening of Penn Field in and Cowden Field in , Odessa became an established oil center and grew rapidly. In , just prior to the discovery of oil, the population in Odessa was ; by it had risen to 5, As the demand for oil grew during World War II the population exceeded 10,, and Odessa became the world's largest inland petrochemical complex.

In the s and s the population rose to over 80, The Petrochemical Complex began operations in —58 as the nation's first privately financed, fully integrated plant for synthetic rubber manufacture. The plant, a joint venture of El Paso Natural Gas Company and General Tire and Rubber Company, was designed to use waste products from gas and oil production to make the rubber. From this beginning Odessa developed as a major distribution and processing point in the petrochemical industry.

The city's economy has long been subject to the boom and bust cycles of the oil patch linked to fluctuations in world demands for petroleum products. These cycles, normally in ten-year intervals, began in the s with the discovery of oil in the area. Realizing that petroleum is a nonrenewable resource, Odessa's leadership has begun to look for other means of support for its economy. Efforts to aid in diversifying the economic base include the establishment of the Center for Energy and Economic Diversification by the University of Texas of the Permian Basin in Odessa and Permian high schools are widely known for their football prowess; Odessa High won the Texas state high school championship in , and Permian High captured it in , , , , , and Higher educational needs are served by Odessa College, a two-year community college founded in under the guidance of Murry Fly, and by the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, which began classes in Medical care in the city is provided by Medical Center Hospital, a general hospital and teaching facility for Texas Tech Regional Academic Health Center's residency programs; Odessa Regional Hospital formerly Women's and Children's Hospital , a medical facility handling obstetric, gynecologic, and pediatric patients; and the Permian Basin Rehabilitation Center for speech, hearing, and orthopedic therapy.

Since its origin Odessa has grown from a cattle-shipping point to an influential urban center. In the the area within the city limits was just under 4, acres and the population was 90,



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