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Photographer: Andrew Ruppenstein
Taken: April 5, 2009
Caption: D. F. Bernal Building Marker
Additional Description: Just two blocks from here, on First Street, stood the Livermore Brewery, owned by Wendell Jordan from 1875 until he met his untimely death in January 1901 when he fell into a vat of boiling malt. Dennis F Bernal bought the brewery from his widow in June 1901. The brewery lasted until November 1908, when it was destroyed by fire. Bernal and his family, who had been living above the brewery, survived the fire, as did Mrs. Bernal's savings of $2,000 in gold coins, which had been hidden in a receptacle behind the chimney. The brewery's bricks found a second life in the construction of this building.
Submitted: April 12, 2009, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p59092
File Size: 3.345 Megabytes

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