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Joseph Perrelli was one of the founders of the Filice and Perrelli Canning Company. Born in the Italian province of Cosenza in 1899, Perrelli immigrated to the United Sta [...]
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Lewis Van Hook was a member of the gospel quartet the Singing Shipbuilders during World War II. Born in Nevada County, Arkansas in 1906, Van Hook was one of the many peop [...]
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M. M. Snodgrass was an employee of the Richmond-San Rafael Ferry Company from 1924 until the ferry’s last trip on August 31, 1956. Born in 1911 in Blackfoot, Idaho, Sno [...]
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Mississippi childhood; move to Richmond, 1942; shipyard welder, 1942-1945: daily schedule, training program; press operator, Treasure Island, 1946-1966; North Richmond re [...]
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Clifford Metz was a longtime resident of Richmond, California, who lived and worked on the waterfront during World War II. Metz was born in Madera, California, but spent [...]
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Ira Dale Mays was an ironworker born in Waterloo, Iowa in 1918. He moved to Richmond, California in the 1940s and began working as a greaser in the Kaiser Shipyards, beco [...]
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Selena Foster was one of the many people who migrated to California looking for work during World War II. Born in Cherokee County, Texas in 1916, Foster and her husband m [...]
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John Parr Cox was the former president of Parr-Terminal Ltd Ltd., an important developer of the Port of Richmond, California. Born in 1918, Cox began working at Parr Term [...]
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Harry and Marguerite Williams are longtime residents of Richmond, California. Harry Williams was born in 1920 in San Francisco, California and moved to Richmond in 1927. [...]
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John Vincent was a former Chevron engineer and Bay Area activist. He moved to California from Tupelo, Oklahoma with his family in 1921 and spent much of his youth in Rich [...]
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