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Title
Parr Terminal : fifty years of industry on the Richmond waterfront : oral history transcript / John Parr Cox
Creator
Cox, John Parr, Interviewee
Contributor
Cox, John Parr, Interviewee
Dunning, Judith K, Interviewer
Date Created and/or Issued
1986
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/
Berkeley, Calif : Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library
Collection
California Cultures: selected documents from the Bancroft Library
Rights Information
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All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Access Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. Consent is given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of the physical items and does not constitute permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html
Description
Cox discusses his family background; industrialist Fred D. Parr; Parr-McCormick Steamship Line, and Port of Oakland, 1915; beginning Parr Terminal, Richmond, 1926; Richmond waterfront industries, 1930s-1950s: Ford Motor Co., Filice & Perrelli Canning Co.; Terminals No. 1-4; Pt. San Pablo: Winehaven, fish reduction plants, 1930s-1940s; World War II shipbuilding; containerization; Japanese ties; future for Port of Richmond
Part of the Berkeley/Richmond Oral History Collection from the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Type
text
Format
195 p
Form/Genre
Oral Histories
Identifier
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/hb329005h7
BANC MSS 93/68
Language
English
Subject
Parr Terminal Company
Waterfronts--California--Richmond
Industries--California--Richmond--History

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