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Parr Terminal: fifty years of industry on the Richmond waterfront : oral history transcriptCreator/Contributor:
Cox, John Parr, 1918-1998, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Dunning, Judith, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
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.
Date:
1992 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caWaterfronts -- California -- Richmond
Industries -- California -- Richmond
Fronts de mer -- Californie -- Richmond
Industrie -- Californie -- Richmond
Industries
Waterfronts
California -- Richmond
Parr Terminal Company.
Note:
John Parr Cox ; an interview conducted by Judith K. Dunning in 1986.
Audio tape recording of the interview also available. Classified as: Phonotape 2682 C:1-10.
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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Volume includes index.
Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library. Duplicate transcript.
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.
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Oral histories.Physical Description:
print
ii, 195 p. : ill., port. ; 29 cm.
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
AUDIO/VISUAL MATERIALS RESTRICTED. Requests for use of original must be approved by the appropriate curator. CU-BANC
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.