Rosie the Riveter


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Rosie the Riveter/World War II Home Front National Historical Park

Address:1401 Marina Way S, Suite C
Richmond, CA 94804
Phone:510-232-5050
Web: www.nps.gov/rori/
Size: 145 acres.
Established: Authorized on October 25, 2000.
Location:In Richmond, California.
Facilities:In early development stages. Includes unstaffed visitor center in Richmond's City Hall.
Activities:Interpretive tours (by appointment) and auto touring of City of Richmond's historic World War II sites.
Special Features:This Richmond, California park was created to commemorate the mobilization of the workforce on the home front during World War II, while specifically recognizing the contributions of women and minorities to this effort. The four Richmond shipyards, with their combined 27 shipways, produced 747 ships, more than any other shipyard complex in the country. Park will consist of five sites in the city of Richmond where the original buildings still stand that housed employees and provided services to those working at the shipyards. It will include various areas along the waterfront of Richmond where a World War II Home Front Education Center will be established.
See other parks in California.

Rosie the Riveter

popular WWII song romanticizing women workers. [Am. Hist.: Flexner, 395]
See: Mannishness
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And the Rosie the Riveter Memorial started out as a city project that eventually attracted the attention of the Park Service.
Remembering Rosies: the most famous symbol of domestic wartime, Rosie the Riveter, lends its name to a new park in California that celebrates the contributions of women and others to the home front efforts of World War II
During WWII she passed on the opportunity to go to the University of Chicago, to assist with the war effort as a "Rosie the Riveter." For the remainder of her life she acted as a caregiver to family and friends.
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I have had the honor and privilege of working with two real life Rosie the Riveters. Phyllis Gould has been a driving force behind the efforts to gain national recognition for all the Rosies, including herself and her sister Marion Sousa, who is an official volunteer at the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park in Richmond.
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The bomber in the background
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Parade veterans

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