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Description
Bill Thran was a long time resident of Mill Valley. Bill opened two local businesses (Old Mill Market and, later, Bill's Fixit Shop) and, together with his wife Mina, raised seven children in Mill Valley. This oral history describes Bill moving to the area from Germany, working as a machinist and then in local grocery stores, and later running his own busineeses. Bill describes what it was like running a small-town store in the mid-Twentieth Century. Bill also discusses gardening and his well, dug in response to a drought in the late 1970s.
Identifier
D2CC7909-4410-4B92-8143-514429398829 2017.072.001
Subject
Bill's Fixit Shop Gardening Grocery stores Hikers Trail Map Immigrants Manufacturing Marinship Mill Valley Market MV history - Baby boom years (1950s and early 1960s) Old Mill Market Oral History - Local businesses Purity Market Repair Shops Springs Sulpher spring Tail Light Andy Thran, Minna Wells
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