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Title
Parr Terminal : fifty years of industry on the Richmond waterfront
Creator
Bancroft Library. Oral History Center
Dunning, Judith K
Cox, John Parr
Date Created and/or Issued
1986-1992
Contributing Institution
UC Berkeley, Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library
Collection
California Revealed from Oral History Center of The Bancroft Library
Rights Information
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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.
Type
sound
Format
Original
Audio cassette
Extent
10 Tapes of 10
Identifier
BANC MSS 93/68; Phonotape 2682 C:1-10
cabeuroh_000102_t1; cabeuroh_000102_t2; cabeuroh_000102_t3; cabeuroh_000102_t4; cabeuroh_000102_t5; cabeuroh_000102_t6; cabeuroh_000102_t7; cabeuroh_000102_t8; cabeuroh_000102_t9; cabeuroh_000102_t10
Provenance
Oral History Center, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
California Revealed is supported by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian.

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