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Miller: 



Baum: 

 Miller: 





I said I was looking for a job. 



"What do you know?" 



"I 1 * sorry | I don't know anything but the wine 

 business, the grape business, and the farming busi- 

 ness. w 



Then he had a letter written and he told me where 

 to go, to Third and Townsend Street to see Mr. A.R. 

 Morrow, general manager of the California Wine Asso- 

 ciation. 



I went in to see Mr. Morrow that day, started to 

 tell him my story, and he said, "Johnny Miller, I 

 don't want to hear your story, I know all about it. 

 But I can use you* so if you'll take the streetcar 

 out to Richmond and go over there, there is a job 

 waiting for you." He said, "Your wage will be $2 a 

 day and you will be a department foreman at $2 a day." 

 What year was that again? 



That was 1913- I took the streetcar with $2.20 in 

 my pocket, to the end of the line, which is now 

 where the Standard Oil Building is in Richmond, main 

 office. That was the terminus of the streetcar. I 

 walked over the hill and ran into a terrific snowstorm 



