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Waldemar Hansen was in his twenties when he decided to leave Illinois for Sacramento and take a position as a machinist. By 1925, he had broken out on his own, opening Hansen's Machine Works on 728 Twelfth Street. Pictured here in 1935, the business flourished in its attention to crankshaft cylinders and other machinery. In spite of Hansen's departure in 1939, the business kept the name, maintaining its role as an anchor of skilled industry in Alkali Flat until mid-1970s.
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