Entry/Object ID
110.69.103Description
Negative, sheet film. 2.25 x 2.25 b&w. No. 583. Francis X. "Shorty" Diemert. Shorty came to Olympia in 1899 as a crewmember on a sternwheeler. In 1910 he began working for the Olympia brewery until Prohibition, when he had to find other work in the area. When Prohibition was repealed in 1933, Peter G. Schmidt asked Shorty when he could come to work at the new brewery. Shorty answered "Right now." He eventually became, in his words, "chief engineer in one of the finest breweries in the world."Name/Title
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