Maytag, Frederick Louis "Fritz", III
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content: Johnson, Paula, Curator
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content: National Museum of American History (U.S.)
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content: American Beer Brewing Oral History Collection
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content: American Beer Brewing Oral History Collection / Series 1: Born-Digital Interviews
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content: 1,037.48 Megabytes (Total Running Time: 01:34:26, audio/wav)
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content: 2017-03-28
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content: Oral history interview with Frederick Louis "Fritz" Maytag III, former owner of Anchor Brewing Company in San Francisco, California. Topics covered include Maytag's childhood in Newton, Iowa, home to his family's Maytag Washing Machine Company; his early interest in science and literature; the influences of growing up in a family of entrepreneurs and manufacturers; his education at Deerfield Academy and Stanford University; San Francisco's culture in the 1950s and 1960s; Maytag's decision to purchase Anchor Brewing Co. in 1965; steps taken to teach himself to brew beer and revitalize the brewery; and the earliest years of the food, wine, and beer renaissance in northern California, in the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the beginning of the Silicon Valley computing industry.