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Title |
Oral History of Bill Thran |
Collection |
Oral History |
Scope & Content |
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. |
Audio and Transcript |
Click here to hear recording. Click here to read the transcript. |
Dates of Creation |
1989-04-22 |
Interviewee |
Thran, Bill |
Interviewer |
Coleman, Bruce |
Extent and Medium |
Transcript: 13pp Recording: 00:50:32 |
Search Terms |
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 |
Object ID |
2017.072.001 |
Object Name |
Recording |
Copyrights |
Transcript and recording copyright Mill Valley Public Library, 1989. Materials are made available for research purposes only; all rights are reserved to the Mill Valley Public Library. Requests for permission to quote for publication or for any other usage must be obtained from the Library. |