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The Donut Wheel (then "Jack's Donut Wheel") was started in 1962 by Jack and Jean Weil. The Donut Wheel got its name from a suggestion from a man who worked with Jack at Stemple's. He said that he should call it the Donut Wheel because that is how people pronounced his name, “wheel” instead of Weil
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It is currently managed by Savanna Taing, the daughter of previous owners Mary Naryung Tang and Mok Kim Tang, who immigrated to the United States from
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with a zig-zag concrete roof extending off of the long side, facing a parking lot. It has large rectangular-shaped windows.
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in 1987. They learned donut-making from relatives who worked at Bob's Donuts in
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City of Livermore Historic Resources Survey Update Appendix B, 2021
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The building is single-storied and is shaped like a large
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Livermore
California
doughnut shop
Livermore, California
Purity grocery store
Googie architecture
Mandatory Palestine
Marin County
World War II
Quonset hut
Cambodia
Palo Alto, California





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