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California Packing Corporation

2026-04-11T20:24:25Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Francisco
| aliases = [[Del Monte]]
| brands = Del Monte and many others.
| predecessors = [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]]
}}
The '''California Packing Corporation''' (also known by its primary brand, '''Del Monte''' or by the '''CalPak''' nickname) was a major canner and dried fruit processor founded in 1916. The company dominated the industry and California from its inception through the 1980's. The company still exists.

The company was the brainchild of J. K. Armsby, who merged five major canners to create a single large canning conglomerate. The founding companies were [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[ J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and the [[Alaska Packers Association]]. The company a huge range of products: canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California, and vegetables from the midwest. Unlike the [[California Fruit Canners Association]], which created a similarly large merged company in 1899, Del Monte treated the merged organizations as a single company, often canning under the Del Monte name. The Del Monte brand was not used exclusively; there are stories of the San Leandro cannery still canning under the H.G. Prince label in the 1940's<ref>Personal communication, family member. My father remembers seeing H. G. Prince labels being used at the San Leandro Del Monte plant when he worked there in the late 1940's.</ref>. The unification of so many canneries under a single ownership worried the industry at the time<ref>$25,000,000 Merger of California Canneries: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5tExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3OMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1238%2C2158683 August 23, 1916 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Even after the founding, the company continued to buy other companies and expand its empire. Del Monte bought the [[Virden Packing]] cannery in Emeryville in 1927, bought [[H.G. Prince]] in Oakland and San Leandro around the same time.

Del Monte was also memorable because of the common building architecture used for many of its plants.
Philip Bush designed many of the Del Monte plants with a similar modernist brick style, usually in one or two story arrangements. The warehouses in Alameda on the Oakland Estuary were built in 1925 and show Bush's typical design<ref>Alameda Magazine.</ref>. Many of the CalPak buildings survive, often repurposed. The Alameda buildings have been reused for industrial space<ref>[http://laurendo.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/modular-del-monte/ Plans]</ref>, the San Jose dried fruit plant on Bush Street survives as condos, and various plants still can be seen in Oakland and Emeryville.

[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Del-Monte-Foods-company-company-History.html History] comments that earnings in 1930 fell from $6/share to 9c, 1932 were worst losses ever.

San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;f=false Western Canner and Packer]. The City of San Leandro also did a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOCWbSBACo video] describing the cannery.

Sacramento: See
[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]
[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
Comment on Sunnyvale historical document suggests that some dried fruit receiving houses closed in 1926 as receiving was centralized at Plant 51 in San Jose.
In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
Many 1920 references cited in
[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.

[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.

Kahului:
Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [[Alexander and Baldwin]] in 1934.

Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.

[[File:cal-pak-10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|
Santa Ana's Plant #20. First Street in foreground, and Southern Pacific Newport branch crossing image<ref>Photo, First American Title Insurance. found by Bill Messecar, shown on [http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Pacing Houses of Southern California] website.</ref>]]
Merced: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;amp;f=false Largest cannery in the world being built to handle 1924 pack from company's great peach and apricot orchard" "Western Canner and Packer 1922] December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes Del Monte is starting work on big cannery to handle pack of Planada-Tuttle orchard in 1924 season. Feb 1923 WC&amp;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
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| Alameda || || 1925, 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buena%20Vista%20at%20Sherman,Alameda Buena Vista at Sherman] || Former Alaska Packing Corporation salmon cannery. aka Encinal Terminal. Became warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment by 1968<ref>Alameda was one of the major distribution centers in the late 1960's. William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Monte Brand, 1982, Del Monte, p. 142</ref> Being repurposed for housing and retail<ref>From Waterfront Warehouse to Over 300 Homes As Proposed. [http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/06/landmark-del-monte-warehouse-redevelopment-moving-forward.html East Bay section, Socketsite.com].</ref>
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| Atwater || || 1922-1939 || || December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes city helping buy lot along SP tracks for California Packing Corporation to expand the present cannery. "The cannery closed November 27 after packing 160,000 cases of peaches and 7,400 cases of sweet potatoes. Arcadia Publishing's Atwater book says Del Monte left in 1939. The plant had started as the Atwater Cannery, a cooperative, in 1905.
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| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] || From Oakland City Directory, 1941. Former [[Sunlit Fruit Company]]<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/handbookofmanufa00merc/handbookofmanufa00merc_djvu.txt Handbook of Manufacturers in and Around San Francisco], 1910, The Merchants Association of San Francisco.</ref>.
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| Chico || Plant #64 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and apricots in 1919.
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| De Kalb, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas, lima beans, and corn<ref>From Bill Hirt: on Yahoo ry-ops-industrialsig@yahoogroups.com mailing list, November 25, 2017: "When I worked in the Del Monte cannery in De Kalb IL (just down the road
from Accurail) in the late 70's, we started canning peas and lima beans
by mid-June. We'd can for about 4-5 weeks before switching over to corn.
The cannery only had 8 full time employees - the rest being seasonal
(college students) and migrant workers. The cans were stored unlabeled
and then labeled when the need came to ship."</ref>
|-
| Dinuba || || 155 N. Merced Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Elmhurst|| Plant #58<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || Foot of 85th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory.</ref>. ||
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| Emeryville || Plant #35 || 1926-1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] || Former [[Western Canning]]. Now Pixar. Oral history with Stella Adoa Baptista describes working at the plant<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
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| Emeryville || Plant #7 || 1916-1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] || Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Had nursery school<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
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| Franklin, Idaho|| Plant #130<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || ||
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| Fresno || Plant #15 || 1916- || || Packing peaches in 1919.
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| Fresno || Plant #25 || || || Cannery
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| Fresno || Plant #66 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
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| Fresno || Plant #67 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
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| Fresno || Plant #68 / Plant #68A<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || || Tulare St. at G St. || Dried fruit. Former Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Plant #5 and 6. Becoming site for California HSR station<ref>Karana Hattersley-Drayton, M.A., [http://www.fresno.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41A0CEF4-3F8F-41AC-8E26-A21AEAE97C22/0/CommissionPacket04222013.pdf "Historic Property Survey Report for the Renaissance at Santa Clara Residential Development Project"], Fresno.</ref> Plant stretched along G Street from Mariposa to Kern St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref>.
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| Fruitvale|| Plant #37 || 1928- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3000%20East%209th%20Street,Fruitvale 3000 East 9th Street] || Now mall. Former [[H.G. Prince]]? Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
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|Gilroy || Plant #55 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit.
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| Hanford || Plant #18 || 1916, 1922 || || Packing peaches and grapes in 1919. Photo of workers at building in Paulson House, History Park, San Jose.
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| Healdsburg || Plant #56 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and pears in 1919.
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|Hollister || Plant #88 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit
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| Honolulu, Hawaii || Plant #29 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919.
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| Kahului HI || || 1926-1934 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=120%20Kane%20Street,Kahului%20HI 120 Kane Street] || See [http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=HI HAER Survey]
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| Kingsburg ||Plant #14 / Plant #25 || 1922-2012 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1101%20Marian%20Avenue,Kingsburg 1101 Marian Avenue] || Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years<ref>Del Monte's Local Plant to Close, 1000 Jobs Lost. [http://hanfordsentinel.com/kingsburg_recorder/news/del-monte-s-local-plant-to-close-jobs-lost/article_32de644c-9edf-11e1-ad35-0019bb2963f4.html May 15, 2012 Kingsburg Recorder].</ref>.
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| Lewiston, Idaho || Plant #28 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Los Angeles|| Plant #19 || 1916, 1922 || 900 Macy Ave. || Packing tomatoes, beets, and peaches in 1919. Plant was in operation through at least 1922<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/govuscourtsca9briefs1422 Angelus Sanitary Can Co. vs Los Angeles Can Co.], U.S. District Court of Appeals for Southern District of California, Southern Division. "That on the 16th day of Oct. 1922, at the request
of Ray O. Wilson, I carefully examined a Canning
Machine at the plant of the California Packing
Corporation, No. 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles,
California, which machine I am informed was
manufactured by the defendants; "</ref><ref>[Advertisement: Wanted Women for cannery work http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19180528.2.266.4]. May 28, 1918 Los Angeles Herald. "Apply California Packing Corporation, 900 Macy Ave. Brooklyn Ave. car."</ref>. Plant apparently out of commission by July 1925; a SP industry map of Los Angeles doesn't show a California Packing Corporation plant, but does show some unused tracks on Avila St. between Aliso and Macy<ref>Southern Pacific Railroad, [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10751/ Industry Map of Los Angeles]. July 1925. In Huntington Library.</ref>. Los Angeles 1906-1950 Sanborn map shows the California Fruit Canners Association plant #22 at the corner of Macy (now Cesar Chavez) and Mission Road, just north of the modern freeway, with the back side of the cannery facing the railroad tracks and L.A. river.
Building still in existence in 1932<ref>Film, [https://archive.org/details/LAWildrideCa1932H264?fbclid=IwAR2CZ3uIZjJCGGroRSO46PSc3QyotDkbPsvICuEU0cQf7_05INsY1s-eKlw Wild Ride Through downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1932]] From Prelinger Archives. [[http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170279&page=2467 Photo of cannery]] on postings on skyscraper.com on article about Noirish Los Angeles. Building was brick, single story, and appeared to be just under the Aliso St. bridge.</ref>.
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| Marysville || || 1921 || ||
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| Milpitas || Plant #21 || 1920's || Main St. near Alviso Road || Packing peas in 1920's<ref>Photo of Plant #21: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 John C. Gordon collection, San Jose State]. Note [http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2014/10/setting-scene-how-people-equipment-and.html sweet pea crates, pea vines, viners, and cans].</ref>1930 Sanborn map marks as "not in operation June 1930". Also warehouse on east side of tracks.
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| Modesto || || 1969 - ~2000 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4000%20Yosemite%20Blvd,Modesto 4000 Yosemite Blvd] || [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948 "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice"]
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| Monterey || || 1926-1962 || || Sardine cannery.
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| Mt. Eden || || 1931 || || Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
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| Oakland || Plant #6 || 1921, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 122 Filbert.</ref> || [https://goo.gl/maps/eZFWPGUE3HXWQFiN7 First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Linden and Filbert Streets] || Still exists, although brick false front above roofline has been removed. According to signs on photo by James Bungers and [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20433340, Howard Vawter], and 1941 Oakland City Directory. Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Former [[Oakland Preserving Company]].
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| Oakland || || || [https://goo.gl/maps/r2PzbLDimURjU7tj6, First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Filbert and Myrtle Streets] || Label printing plant. Buildings still exist, with "California Packing Corporation" and "Label Printing Plant No." signs cast in building faces.
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=742%20Saunders,Oakland 742 Saunders] ||
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2085th%20Ave,Oakland 85th Ave] || Foot of 85th Ave
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| Oakland || Plant #35 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1250 Park Ave..</ref> 1250 Park Ave. || ||
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| Oakland || Plant #237 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 3100 E. 9th. St</ref> || 3100 E. 9th Street || Part of Fruitvale cannery.
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| Oakland || Plant #34 || 1924, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1074 and 1100 29th Ave.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%281941%29%201100%2029th%20Ave,Oakland (1941) 1100 29th Ave] || Former [https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company] cannery, bought by Del Monte in 1924<ref>[https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company]. Oakland Wiki. "H. Jones & Company was a major Australian cannery which in 1920 completed construction on a "great plant" in East Oakland. One of the products that the cannery manufactured was their world famous I.X.L. jam... The company was unable to make any inroads into the U.S. market, and sold the plant in 1924 to Del Monte."</ref>.
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| Oakland || Plant #24 || 1916-1954 || 2744 East 11th Street || Former [[H.G. Prince]] cannery<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery]. National Register of Historic Places. Earliest building dates to 1916.</ref>.
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| Ogden, Utah || Plant #132<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Planada || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20120,Planada Highway 120] || Mentioned as Merced.
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| Rio Vista ||Plant #22 || 1921,1922,1953 || || Former Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ June 1921 Canning Age]: article on cannery</ref>.
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| Rochelle, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas and corn.
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| Roseberry || || 1921 || ||
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| Sacramento|| || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%203rd%20and%20X%20Street%20,Sacramento 3rd and X Street ] ||
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| Sacramento || || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2019th%20and%20R%20Street%20,Sacramento 19th and R Street ] ||
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| Sacramento ||Plant #12 || 1922, 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600%202nd%20Street,Sacramento 1600 2nd Street] || Front and P Street<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer] Description of plant</ref><ref>Western Pacific training manual - Sacramento Yard, R Street line. Map in Jeff Asay, "Track and Time:An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad", 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Sacramento || || 1925 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th%20and%20C%20Street,Sacramento 17th and C Street] || Now Blue Diamond.
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| Sacramento || Plant #11 || 1916- || "G Street" || Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
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| Salem || Plant #26 || 1916-1981<ref>Statesman-Journal Time Capsule: Del Monte Cannery. [http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery December 15, 2013 Salem Statesman Journal]. The first building at the site was built in 1890; a new building was built in 1918. By 1930's, it was a major green bean producer for Del Monte. The plant was expanded in 1971, but closed in 1981.</ref> || 1250 Mill St. SE] || Former [[Oregon Packing Company]], merged into Del Monte in 1916. In SP warehouse until 1935<ref>www.salemhistory.net:[http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm Salem Canneries]</ref> 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant. Packing blackberries, string beans, and pears in 1919.
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| Salem|| Plant #126<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| San Francisco || Plant #1 || 1907-1930's|| [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] || Now the Cannery. In 1919, was packing pears, port and beans, and tomatoes. Plant either dates to before earthquake<ref>FoundSF: [http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods FoundSF]: started as peach cannery and merged into [[California Fruit Canners Association]]</ref>, built for [[M. J. Fontana and Company]] before the earthquake<ref>[[http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm Rod Hadeland]]</ref>, or built on site of Selby smelter in 1907 for [[California Fruit Canners Association]]<ref>Michael R. Corbett, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010. 2012, San Francisco Architectural Heritage</ref>. Closed in 1930's<ref>Harwood Hall, "Eden Township: Its Agriculture", Hayward Area Historical Society, 1997, p. 163, from Del Monte publication.</ref>, and owned by the [[Haslett Warehouse Company]] from 1948<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z03dr5/entire_text/ Guide to the Hassett Warehouse photographs]. San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park collection. "The building was designed by architect William S. Mooser, Jr. and built between 1907-1909 for the California Fruit Canners Association. In 1916, the company merged with three other canners to form the California Packing Company, with foods baring the Del Monte label. From 1937-1948, the building served as storage space for the company's goods until it was purchased in 1948 by the Haslett Warehouse Company. The State of California purchased the building in 1963. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and in 1978 it was acquired by the National Park Service." Photos are dated 1928, perhaps indicating that Hassett operated the warehouse for Del Monte before the purchase.</ref>.
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| San Francisco || Plant #2 || 1919 || || Listed in September 10, 1919 "Lug Box" newsletter as "Specialty", packing preserves, jelly, and catsup.
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| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.
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| San Francisco || || || 234 Front Street || Food laboratory / Inspection and Service Department<ref>William Braznell, "California's Finest". Del Monte Corporation, 1982. Photo caption, pg. 60.</ref>. The lab had previously been in the basement of 101 California previously.
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| San Francisco || || 1950-1975 || 215 Fremont St. || Headquarters.
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| San Jose || Plant #52<ref>Patronize our advertisers: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IiENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5438%2C1093937 January 23, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref> || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cinnabar%20Street,San%20Jose Cinnabar Street] || Former Armsby plant<ref>Mentioned in want ads in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
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| San Jose || Plant #3 || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=849%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose 849 Auzerais St.] || Also listed as "West San Carlos Street" and "by the narrow gauge" in 1919<ref>Advertisements in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref> Former [[San Jose Fruit Packing]] plant.
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| San Jose || Plant #50 || -1927 || Auzerais Street || On site of Plant #3. Closed and consolidated with Plant #51 in 1930<ref>[https://historysanjose.pastperfectonline.com/photo/994974B8-E1B1-4A83-8CC4-735167176870 "Del Monte History"] document in "Del Monte Plant #51 Photo Album", History San Jose. "The J. K. Armsby dried fruit plant was located adjacent to the Dawson plant (on the site of Del Monte #3) and was numbered C.P.C. #50. Plant #50 was shut down in 1927 and consolidated with Plant #51."</ref>
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| San Jose || Plant #51 || 1919<ref>Advertisement: Wanted a Few Good Packing House Men. In [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DtgxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C3228542 September 19, 1919 San Jose Evening News]. "Plant 51, San Fernando and Bush Street".</ref>, 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=725%20W.%20San%20Fernando,San%20Jose 725 W. San Fernando] || Former [[Griffin and Skelley]]. South building built 1914, north building built in 1926. Brick sulfur houses built between buildings in 1930. East warehouse on south side of San Fernando Street built in 1950. West warehouse added in 1954<ref>[https://historysanjose.pastperfectonline.com/photo/994974B8-E1B1-4A83-8CC4-735167176870 "Del Monte History"] document in "Del Monte Plant #51 Photo Album", History San Jose.</ref>Closed 1990, moved to Fresno) Grading and processing on 2nd floors along with bins, warehouse on first. Sulfur rooms in south end of building. (Also plant #54<ref>Appears in 1931 [[Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]]</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1930 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Montgomery%20Street%20at%20Cinnabar.,San%20Jose Montgomery Street at Cinnabar.] || Former Richmond Chase plant.
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| San Jose || || 1936, 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Auzerais%20and%20Meridian%20Road,San%20Jose Auzerais and Meridian Road] || (pit cracker)
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| San Jose || Plant #39 || 1919, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1972<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Pickle Factory.
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| San Jose || Plant #153 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20and%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol and Auzerais St.] || By-products.
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| San Jose || Plant #4 / Plant #34 || 1901<ref>Edith Daley [http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=Edith_Daley_Seventh_Street_Cannery_article claimed] the "Seventh Street" cannery was opened in 1901.</ref>-1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Vinegar works. Location known as "Ruric" station on Southern Pacific
<ref>Southern Pacific. Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation. Western Division
drawing R172. Feb. 1926. In collection of California State Railroad Museum.</ref>.
|-
| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=734%20The%20Alameda,San%20Jose 734 The Alameda] || Sales office, fruit and vegetable purchasing office.
|-
| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hostetter%20Road,San%20Jose Hostetter Road] || Pit cracking department.
|-
| San Jose || Seed Farm #185 || before 1977<ref>Obituary: John R. Silveira. In February 5, 1977 Fremont Argus. "A supervisor for 45 years at the Del Monte Corporation Seed Farm #185 in San Jose."</ref> || || References exist to seed farm on Furlong Ave. in Gilroy as plant #185 in recent years.
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| San Jose || Plant #23 || 1931, 1932 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=868%20Auzerais%20Street,San%20Jose 868 Auzerais Street] || A 1932 Southern Pacific industry map shows the former [[Virden Packing]] building as "Calif Packing Corp."<ref>Southern Pacific Coast Division Drawing #18058, "San Jose Terminal District", dated January 27, 1932. Shown in Southern Pacific Trainline #157, Fall 2023, "The San Jose Line Change" by John Signor.</ref><ref>Shows up on <a href="Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]] document as "Lincoln Ave", which building also faces on.</ref>
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| San Leandro ||Plant #27 || 1928 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Thornton%20Avenue%20,San%20Leandro Thornton Avenue ] || Formerly [[H.G. Prince]] according to 1928 Sanborn map, plant #27.
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| San Leandro || Plant #8 || 1931 || 1401 San Leandro Blvd. || West of BART station, vacant as of 2005. 1899-1973. Cannery, dried fruit, agricultural research. Was a packing plant for dried fruit until moved to San Jose in...1960's?<ref>findagrave.com: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr obituary for Marie Fernandes]</ref>. Packing peaches in 1919. Also listed as 752 Saunders (Saunders at Martinez), but the street no longer exists. Originally [[King-Morse Canning Company]].
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| San Lorenzo || Plant #9 || 1916- || Hesperian Blvd. || Opposite SP station. December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes that the cannery will reopen early in 1923 to can spinach from 250 acres. Leonard Perillo superintendent. Packing peaches, pears, tomatoes, and grapes in 1919. Photo in Arcadia's "San Lorenzo" by Doris Marciel.
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| Sanger || || 1922 || || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]
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| Santa Ana || Plant #20 || 1919, 1921, 1937, 1960's<ref>Herman Schultheis, Photo of end of plant, , [http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/785232768 Los Angeles Public Library]</ref> || East First St. || Packing refugee beans and pimentos in 1917<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA20&lpg=RA2-PA20&dq=%22900+macy+street%22+%22los+angeles%22&source=bl&ots=zKfWHqAjDp&sig=B0TKjAsjyR6uhIbIIXMN80UNkYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4gbPf36bQAhVN-mMKHSGLAw0Q6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Santa Ana Cannery to be Re-opened]. January 1917 Western Canner and Packer. "Mr. R. H. McIntosh, whose headquarters are at 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles, has announced that the old cannery on East First Street, Santa Ana, will re-open in August 1917. The building will be repaired and new machinery installed. Operations will be confined to pimentos and refugee beans. Contracts will be let for 400 acres of pimentos and 300 acres of refugee beans."</ref>Packing chili peppers in 1919. Supposedly former [[F. P. Cutting Company]] plant<ref>[http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Packing Houses of Southern California]], Santa Ana page.</ref>, abandoned by 1960's.
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| Santa Rosa || Plant #5 || 1921-1932<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The major part of the cannery closed in 1932 when CalPak consolidated at its San Leandro plant. The West Third office building became a Nulaid egg packing plant. A smaller canning operation stayed in business a few years, producing mostly canned peaches, pears, and fruit cocktail along with some dried fruit."</ref> || Between West 3rd and West 6th Street || Cannery built 1894. Former [[California Fruit Canners Association]] plant, former [[Rose City Canning Company]]? Source for blackberries<ref>July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer</ref>. Packing peaches, blackberries, and pears in 1919. The 6th Street Playhouse occupies part of the former cannery; the 3ed Street side appears to have been destroyed, with the facade perhaps surviving<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The scope of the cannery and its importance to the economy was enormous, In the April-to-October season, workers processed a wide variety of crops, coming by truck and train — pears from Lake and Mendocino counties, apples, berries and cherries from Sebastopol, peaches and plums from Geyserville and Cloverdale. There were also vegetables. Cal Pack, as the company was known, leased fields in Valley Ford and Ignacio to grow spinach and peas...There were even tomatoes from the Sacramento Valley, although Cal Pack's predecessor at the Santa Rosa site, Hunt Brothers Cannery, had long since established itself as the premier tomato processor in the Sacramento area, on its way to becoming a national brand..."</ref> Superintendent was John Oliva in 1920, and Charles Carniglia after. Plant superintendent's house was on Sixth Street.
|-
| Smithfield, Utah || Plant #138<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Spanish Fork, Utah || Plant #136<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
|-
| Star Ray, Utah || Plant #34 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
|-
| Stockton || Plant #10 || 1975 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2716%20East%20Minor,Stockton 2716 East Minor] || Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch.<ref> Lawsuit in 1977 said that Del Monte had warehouses for canned goods out there, and they needed the space to hold the production from the Emeryville and San Jose canneries in the 1970's - there wasn't enough space locally.</ref><ref>December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes it'll reopen on March 1. In 1922, canned 125,000 cases of spinach, 200,000 cases of cling peaches, and 110,000 cases of tomatoes.</ref><ref>Served by Western Pacific. Western Pacific Training Manual, Stockton Yard: Scotts St. to El Pinal Track Diagram. In Jeff Asay, "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad". 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
|-
| Suisun City || || 1919, 1926, -1930s ||600 Kellogg St. (from USGS survey landmark<ref>USGS Landmark, Fairfield Del Monte Water Tank, 38 14'47"N, 122 02'22"W. Water tank in existence 1936, 1941. </ref>.) ||Dried fruit<ref>[http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html Frank Butterfield bio]</ref>. Packing pears and apricots in 1919. Water tank at southeast corner of plant, painted dark green with Del Monte logo in red. Described as former J.K. Armsby cannery in at least one document, thought it may have been confused with the dried fruit plant in town. Closed in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3-E0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT263&lpg=PT263&dq=fairfield+cannery&source=bl&ots=pF-kdJrOLF&sig=mbbeHolFSxpcQfY-3qgpM4anMzc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV4ojf5MvQAhUN6mMKHai_DlQ4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=fairfield%20cannery&f=false
Suisun Marsh Habitat Management, Preservation, and Restoration Plan]. California Department ofFish and Game, October 2010. Also notes that Del Monte's dried fruit plant in Fairfield also closed in the 1930's.
</ref>
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| Suisun City (Fairfield) || Plant #60 || -1930's || Union Ave. at Broadway St<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield. 1925. Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref><ref>J. K. Armsby Fruit Packing Plant. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&ots=Q2xf80BdMz&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Fairfield], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx. Photo shows a side view of the Armsby packing house, with the note that Armsby was one of the first packers or canners to locate along the railroad in Fairfield.</ref> || Dried fruit. Former J. K. Armsby plant. Photos exist of plant in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Del Monte dried fruit plant, 1930's.] In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, Fairfield.</ref>. Image of packing house in 1940's-era film background<ref>[https://archive.org/details/pet1006r3suisuncityca PET 1006 R3 Suisun City CA.] 1940's stock film of Suisun city area. California Packing Corporation plant visible at 8:25. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref>
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| Sunnyvale || Plant #184 || 1904-1926, 1930-? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=185%20Evelyn,Sunnyvale 185 Evelyn] || Dried fruit receiving house formerly owned by Madison and Bonner, merged into CalPak in 1916, turned into warehouse in 1926, used for corporate seed department after 1930. [http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm/ref/collection/sunnyvale/id/166 | photo]
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| The Dalles, Washington || || 1921 || ||
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| Toppenish, Washington || Plant #122<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] || Did not operate in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ 1922 Western Canner and Packer]: "Not operating this season"</ref>.
|-
| Vancouver, WA || Plant #27 || 1919 || || Packing preserves, pears, prunes, blackberries, and string beans in 1919.
|-
| Vancouver, Washington || Plant #127<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Visalia || Plant #17 || 1918, 1922 || 216 N. Tipton St. at Oak St.<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref> || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ Burned down in 1922]. H. G. Hohwiesner was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. Photo shows wood-frame structure<ref>Terry L. Ommen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl2PDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT37&ots=pEiCTaA79F&dq=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&pg=PT37#v=onepage&q=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&f=false Visalia]. </ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1918, 1922, 1934 || 425 N. Johnson Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>(also Johnson Ave. at School Ave<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>) || Former California Fruit Canners Association<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. C. H. Blochburger was manager in 1918. J. W. Dihel was manager in 1934<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Visalia || Plant #69 || 1918 || corner of School Ave. and East St. || G. A. Fleming was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Visalia || Plant #70 || 1918 || Johnson cor. North || C. W. Morrill was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Wahiawa, Hawaii || Plant #30 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919. On Oahu.
|-
| Wasach, Utah || Plant #32 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes and catsup in 1919.
|-
| West Weber, Utah || Plant #35 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Woodland || || -2000 || ||
|-
| Yakima, Washington || Plant #125<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Yuba City ||Plant #14 || 1916-1921, 1930 || || Packing peaches in 1919. Post card from 1930 shows low-slung buildings next to railroad track. Other photo shows wooden facade<ref>[https://calisphere.org/item/575d5c684fafaf002d8791d11b972cc2/ California Packing Corporation, Plant #14, 1930s.] California State Library, California history collection picture catalog, McCurry Foto Co., 1924. Listed as Del Monte peach cannery in Yuba City / Meridian.</ref>.
|-
|}

==Photos==
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]

[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gordon&CISOPTR=1242&CISOBOX=1&REC=20 CalPak (California Packing Corp. aka Del Monte) Plant 51 John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library]

[http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sunnyvale&CISOPTR=166&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 California Packing Corporation Plant No. 184 Sunnyvale Library]

[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3 Preservation San Jose]

[http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/8238 Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery]. Via Sonoma County library.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/40361283@N06/3708909019/ Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda]. From Flickr photos by MSClife.

[http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery Del Monte cannery, Salem Oregon]. From Willamette Heritage Center via Statesmanjournal.com.

[http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=1568 Plant #14], probably Kingsburg. California State Library, California History Room.

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California Packing Corporation

2026-04-11T20:22:13Z

Robert Bowdidge: Plant #50 notes

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Francisco
| aliases = [[Del Monte]]
| brands = Del Monte and many others.
| predecessors = [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]]
}}
The '''California Packing Corporation''' (also known by its primary brand, '''Del Monte''' or by the '''CalPak''' nickname) was a major canner and dried fruit processor founded in 1916. The company dominated the industry and California from its inception through the 1980's. The company still exists.

The company was the brainchild of J. K. Armsby, who merged five major canners to create a single large canning conglomerate. The founding companies were [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[ J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and the [[Alaska Packers Association]]. The company a huge range of products: canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California, and vegetables from the midwest. Unlike the [[California Fruit Canners Association]], which created a similarly large merged company in 1899, Del Monte treated the merged organizations as a single company, often canning under the Del Monte name. The Del Monte brand was not used exclusively; there are stories of the San Leandro cannery still canning under the H.G. Prince label in the 1940's<ref>Personal communication, family member. My father remembers seeing H. G. Prince labels being used at the San Leandro Del Monte plant when he worked there in the late 1940's.</ref>. The unification of so many canneries under a single ownership worried the industry at the time<ref>$25,000,000 Merger of California Canneries: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5tExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3OMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1238%2C2158683 August 23, 1916 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Even after the founding, the company continued to buy other companies and expand its empire. Del Monte bought the [[Virden Packing]] cannery in Emeryville in 1927, bought [[H.G. Prince]] in Oakland and San Leandro around the same time.

Del Monte was also memorable because of the common building architecture used for many of its plants.
Philip Bush designed many of the Del Monte plants with a similar modernist brick style, usually in one or two story arrangements. The warehouses in Alameda on the Oakland Estuary were built in 1925 and show Bush's typical design<ref>Alameda Magazine.</ref>. Many of the CalPak buildings survive, often repurposed. The Alameda buildings have been reused for industrial space<ref>[http://laurendo.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/modular-del-monte/ Plans]</ref>, the San Jose dried fruit plant on Bush Street survives as condos, and various plants still can be seen in Oakland and Emeryville.

[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Del-Monte-Foods-company-company-History.html History] comments that earnings in 1930 fell from $6/share to 9c, 1932 were worst losses ever.

San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;f=false Western Canner and Packer]. The City of San Leandro also did a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOCWbSBACo video] describing the cannery.

Sacramento: See
[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]
[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
Comment on Sunnyvale historical document suggests that some dried fruit receiving houses closed in 1926 as receiving was centralized at Plant 51 in San Jose.
In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
Many 1920 references cited in
[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.

[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.

Kahului:
Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [[Alexander and Baldwin]] in 1934.

Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.

[[File:cal-pak-10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|
Santa Ana's Plant #20. First Street in foreground, and Southern Pacific Newport branch crossing image<ref>Photo, First American Title Insurance. found by Bill Messecar, shown on [http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Pacing Houses of Southern California] website.</ref>]]
Merced: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;amp;f=false Largest cannery in the world being built to handle 1924 pack from company's great peach and apricot orchard" "Western Canner and Packer 1922] December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes Del Monte is starting work on big cannery to handle pack of Planada-Tuttle orchard in 1924 season. Feb 1923 WC&amp;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Alameda || || 1925, 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buena%20Vista%20at%20Sherman,Alameda Buena Vista at Sherman] || Former Alaska Packing Corporation salmon cannery. aka Encinal Terminal. Became warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment by 1968<ref>Alameda was one of the major distribution centers in the late 1960's. William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Monte Brand, 1982, Del Monte, p. 142</ref> Being repurposed for housing and retail<ref>From Waterfront Warehouse to Over 300 Homes As Proposed. [http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/06/landmark-del-monte-warehouse-redevelopment-moving-forward.html East Bay section, Socketsite.com].</ref>
|-
| Atwater || || 1922-1939 || || December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes city helping buy lot along SP tracks for California Packing Corporation to expand the present cannery. "The cannery closed November 27 after packing 160,000 cases of peaches and 7,400 cases of sweet potatoes. Arcadia Publishing's Atwater book says Del Monte left in 1939. The plant had started as the Atwater Cannery, a cooperative, in 1905.
|-
| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] || From Oakland City Directory, 1941. Former [[Sunlit Fruit Company]]<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/handbookofmanufa00merc/handbookofmanufa00merc_djvu.txt Handbook of Manufacturers in and Around San Francisco], 1910, The Merchants Association of San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| Chico || Plant #64 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and apricots in 1919.
|-
| De Kalb, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas, lima beans, and corn<ref>From Bill Hirt: on Yahoo ry-ops-industrialsig@yahoogroups.com mailing list, November 25, 2017: "When I worked in the Del Monte cannery in De Kalb IL (just down the road
from Accurail) in the late 70's, we started canning peas and lima beans
by mid-June. We'd can for about 4-5 weeks before switching over to corn.
The cannery only had 8 full time employees - the rest being seasonal
(college students) and migrant workers. The cans were stored unlabeled
and then labeled when the need came to ship."</ref>
|-
| Dinuba || || 155 N. Merced Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Elmhurst|| Plant #58<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || Foot of 85th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory.</ref>. ||
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #35 || 1926-1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] || Former [[Western Canning]]. Now Pixar. Oral history with Stella Adoa Baptista describes working at the plant<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #7 || 1916-1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] || Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Had nursery school<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Franklin, Idaho|| Plant #130<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || ||
|-
| Fresno || Plant #15 || 1916- || || Packing peaches in 1919.
|-
| Fresno || Plant #25 || || || Cannery
|-
| Fresno || Plant #66 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
|-
| Fresno || Plant #67 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
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| Fresno || Plant #68 / Plant #68A<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || || Tulare St. at G St. || Dried fruit. Former Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Plant #5 and 6. Becoming site for California HSR station<ref>Karana Hattersley-Drayton, M.A., [http://www.fresno.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41A0CEF4-3F8F-41AC-8E26-A21AEAE97C22/0/CommissionPacket04222013.pdf "Historic Property Survey Report for the Renaissance at Santa Clara Residential Development Project"], Fresno.</ref> Plant stretched along G Street from Mariposa to Kern St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref>.
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| Fruitvale|| Plant #37 || 1928- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3000%20East%209th%20Street,Fruitvale 3000 East 9th Street] || Now mall. Former [[H.G. Prince]]? Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
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|Gilroy || Plant #55 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit.
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| Hanford || Plant #18 || 1916, 1922 || || Packing peaches and grapes in 1919. Photo of workers at building in Paulson House, History Park, San Jose.
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| Healdsburg || Plant #56 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and pears in 1919.
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|Hollister || Plant #88 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit
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| Honolulu, Hawaii || Plant #29 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919.
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| Kahului HI || || 1926-1934 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=120%20Kane%20Street,Kahului%20HI 120 Kane Street] || See [http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=HI HAER Survey]
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| Kingsburg ||Plant #14 / Plant #25 || 1922-2012 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1101%20Marian%20Avenue,Kingsburg 1101 Marian Avenue] || Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years<ref>Del Monte's Local Plant to Close, 1000 Jobs Lost. [http://hanfordsentinel.com/kingsburg_recorder/news/del-monte-s-local-plant-to-close-jobs-lost/article_32de644c-9edf-11e1-ad35-0019bb2963f4.html May 15, 2012 Kingsburg Recorder].</ref>.
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| Lewiston, Idaho || Plant #28 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Los Angeles|| Plant #19 || 1916, 1922 || 900 Macy Ave. || Packing tomatoes, beets, and peaches in 1919. Plant was in operation through at least 1922<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/govuscourtsca9briefs1422 Angelus Sanitary Can Co. vs Los Angeles Can Co.], U.S. District Court of Appeals for Southern District of California, Southern Division. "That on the 16th day of Oct. 1922, at the request
of Ray O. Wilson, I carefully examined a Canning
Machine at the plant of the California Packing
Corporation, No. 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles,
California, which machine I am informed was
manufactured by the defendants; "</ref><ref>[Advertisement: Wanted Women for cannery work http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19180528.2.266.4]. May 28, 1918 Los Angeles Herald. "Apply California Packing Corporation, 900 Macy Ave. Brooklyn Ave. car."</ref>. Plant apparently out of commission by July 1925; a SP industry map of Los Angeles doesn't show a California Packing Corporation plant, but does show some unused tracks on Avila St. between Aliso and Macy<ref>Southern Pacific Railroad, [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10751/ Industry Map of Los Angeles]. July 1925. In Huntington Library.</ref>. Los Angeles 1906-1950 Sanborn map shows the California Fruit Canners Association plant #22 at the corner of Macy (now Cesar Chavez) and Mission Road, just north of the modern freeway, with the back side of the cannery facing the railroad tracks and L.A. river.
Building still in existence in 1932<ref>Film, [https://archive.org/details/LAWildrideCa1932H264?fbclid=IwAR2CZ3uIZjJCGGroRSO46PSc3QyotDkbPsvICuEU0cQf7_05INsY1s-eKlw Wild Ride Through downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1932]] From Prelinger Archives. [[http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170279&page=2467 Photo of cannery]] on postings on skyscraper.com on article about Noirish Los Angeles. Building was brick, single story, and appeared to be just under the Aliso St. bridge.</ref>.
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| Marysville || || 1921 || ||
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| Milpitas || Plant #21 || 1920's || Main St. near Alviso Road || Packing peas in 1920's<ref>Photo of Plant #21: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 John C. Gordon collection, San Jose State]. Note [http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2014/10/setting-scene-how-people-equipment-and.html sweet pea crates, pea vines, viners, and cans].</ref>1930 Sanborn map marks as "not in operation June 1930". Also warehouse on east side of tracks.
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| Modesto || || 1969 - ~2000 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4000%20Yosemite%20Blvd,Modesto 4000 Yosemite Blvd] || [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948 "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice"]
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| Monterey || || 1926-1962 || || Sardine cannery.
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| Mt. Eden || || 1931 || || Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
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| Oakland || Plant #6 || 1921, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 122 Filbert.</ref> || [https://goo.gl/maps/eZFWPGUE3HXWQFiN7 First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Linden and Filbert Streets] || Still exists, although brick false front above roofline has been removed. According to signs on photo by James Bungers and [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20433340, Howard Vawter], and 1941 Oakland City Directory. Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Former [[Oakland Preserving Company]].
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| Oakland || || || [https://goo.gl/maps/r2PzbLDimURjU7tj6, First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Filbert and Myrtle Streets] || Label printing plant. Buildings still exist, with "California Packing Corporation" and "Label Printing Plant No." signs cast in building faces.
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=742%20Saunders,Oakland 742 Saunders] ||
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2085th%20Ave,Oakland 85th Ave] || Foot of 85th Ave
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| Oakland || Plant #35 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1250 Park Ave..</ref> 1250 Park Ave. || ||
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| Oakland || Plant #237 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 3100 E. 9th. St</ref> || 3100 E. 9th Street || Part of Fruitvale cannery.
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| Oakland || Plant #34 || 1924, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1074 and 1100 29th Ave.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%281941%29%201100%2029th%20Ave,Oakland (1941) 1100 29th Ave] || Former [https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company] cannery, bought by Del Monte in 1924<ref>[https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company]. Oakland Wiki. "H. Jones & Company was a major Australian cannery which in 1920 completed construction on a "great plant" in East Oakland. One of the products that the cannery manufactured was their world famous I.X.L. jam... The company was unable to make any inroads into the U.S. market, and sold the plant in 1924 to Del Monte."</ref>.
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| Oakland || Plant #24 || 1916-1954 || 2744 East 11th Street || Former [[H.G. Prince]] cannery<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery]. National Register of Historic Places. Earliest building dates to 1916.</ref>.
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| Ogden, Utah || Plant #132<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Planada || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20120,Planada Highway 120] || Mentioned as Merced.
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| Rio Vista ||Plant #22 || 1921,1922,1953 || || Former Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ June 1921 Canning Age]: article on cannery</ref>.
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| Rochelle, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas and corn.
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| Roseberry || || 1921 || ||
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| Sacramento|| || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%203rd%20and%20X%20Street%20,Sacramento 3rd and X Street ] ||
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| Sacramento || || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2019th%20and%20R%20Street%20,Sacramento 19th and R Street ] ||
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| Sacramento ||Plant #12 || 1922, 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600%202nd%20Street,Sacramento 1600 2nd Street] || Front and P Street<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer] Description of plant</ref><ref>Western Pacific training manual - Sacramento Yard, R Street line. Map in Jeff Asay, "Track and Time:An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad", 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Sacramento || || 1925 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th%20and%20C%20Street,Sacramento 17th and C Street] || Now Blue Diamond.
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| Sacramento || Plant #11 || 1916- || "G Street" || Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
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| Salem || Plant #26 || 1916-1981<ref>Statesman-Journal Time Capsule: Del Monte Cannery. [http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery December 15, 2013 Salem Statesman Journal]. The first building at the site was built in 1890; a new building was built in 1918. By 1930's, it was a major green bean producer for Del Monte. The plant was expanded in 1971, but closed in 1981.</ref> || 1250 Mill St. SE] || Former [[Oregon Packing Company]], merged into Del Monte in 1916. In SP warehouse until 1935<ref>www.salemhistory.net:[http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm Salem Canneries]</ref> 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant. Packing blackberries, string beans, and pears in 1919.
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| Salem|| Plant #126<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| San Francisco || Plant #1 || 1907-1930's|| [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] || Now the Cannery. In 1919, was packing pears, port and beans, and tomatoes. Plant either dates to before earthquake<ref>FoundSF: [http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods FoundSF]: started as peach cannery and merged into [[California Fruit Canners Association]]</ref>, built for [[M. J. Fontana and Company]] before the earthquake<ref>[[http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm Rod Hadeland]]</ref>, or built on site of Selby smelter in 1907 for [[California Fruit Canners Association]]<ref>Michael R. Corbett, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010. 2012, San Francisco Architectural Heritage</ref>. Closed in 1930's<ref>Harwood Hall, "Eden Township: Its Agriculture", Hayward Area Historical Society, 1997, p. 163, from Del Monte publication.</ref>, and owned by the [[Haslett Warehouse Company]] from 1948<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z03dr5/entire_text/ Guide to the Hassett Warehouse photographs]. San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park collection. "The building was designed by architect William S. Mooser, Jr. and built between 1907-1909 for the California Fruit Canners Association. In 1916, the company merged with three other canners to form the California Packing Company, with foods baring the Del Monte label. From 1937-1948, the building served as storage space for the company's goods until it was purchased in 1948 by the Haslett Warehouse Company. The State of California purchased the building in 1963. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and in 1978 it was acquired by the National Park Service." Photos are dated 1928, perhaps indicating that Hassett operated the warehouse for Del Monte before the purchase.</ref>.
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| San Francisco || Plant #2 || 1919 || || Listed in September 10, 1919 "Lug Box" newsletter as "Specialty", packing preserves, jelly, and catsup.
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| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.
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| San Francisco || || || 234 Front Street || Food laboratory / Inspection and Service Department<ref>William Braznell, "California's Finest". Del Monte Corporation, 1982. Photo caption, pg. 60.</ref>. The lab had previously been in the basement of 101 California previously.
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| San Francisco || || 1950-1975 || 215 Fremont St. || Headquarters.
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| San Jose || Plant #52<ref>Patronize our advertisers: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IiENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5438%2C1093937 January 23, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref> || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cinnabar%20Street,San%20Jose Cinnabar Street] || Former Armsby plant<ref>Mentioned in want ads in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
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| San Jose || Plant #3 || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=849%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose 849 Auzerais St.] || Also listed as "West San Carlos Street" and "by the narrow gauge" in 1919<ref>Advertisements in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref> Former [[San Jose Fruit Packing]] plant.
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| San Jose || Plant #50 || -1927 || Auzerais Street || On site of Plant #3. Closed and consolidated with Plant #51 in 1930<ref>[https://historysanjose.pastperfectonline.com/photo/994974B8-E1B1-4A83-8CC4-735167176870 "Del Monte History"] document in "Del Monte Plant #51 Photo Album", History San Jose. "The J. K. Armsby dried fruit plant was located adjacent to the Dawson plant (on the site of Del Monte #3) and was numbered C.P.C. #50. Plant #50 was shut down in 1927 and consolidated with Plant #51."</ref>
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| San Jose || Plant #51 || 1919<ref>Advertisement: Wanted a Few Good Packing House Men. In [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DtgxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C3228542 September 19, 1919 San Jose Evening News]. "Plant 51, San Fernando and Bush Street".</ref>, 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=725%20W.%20San%20Fernando,San%20Jose 725 W. San Fernando] || Former [[Griffin and Skelley]]. Closed 1990, moved to Fresno) Grading and processing on 2nd floors along with bins, warehouse on first. Sulfur rooms in south end of building. (Also plant #54<ref>Appears in 1931 [[Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]]</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1930 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Montgomery%20Street%20at%20Cinnabar.,San%20Jose Montgomery Street at Cinnabar.] || Former Richmond Chase plant.
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| San Jose || || 1936, 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Auzerais%20and%20Meridian%20Road,San%20Jose Auzerais and Meridian Road] || (pit cracker)
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| San Jose || Plant #39 || 1919, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1972<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Pickle Factory.
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| San Jose || Plant #153 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20and%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol and Auzerais St.] || By-products.
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| San Jose || Plant #4 / Plant #34 || 1901<ref>Edith Daley [http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=Edith_Daley_Seventh_Street_Cannery_article claimed] the "Seventh Street" cannery was opened in 1901.</ref>-1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Vinegar works. Location known as "Ruric" station on Southern Pacific
<ref>Southern Pacific. Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation. Western Division
drawing R172. Feb. 1926. In collection of California State Railroad Museum.</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=734%20The%20Alameda,San%20Jose 734 The Alameda] || Sales office, fruit and vegetable purchasing office.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hostetter%20Road,San%20Jose Hostetter Road] || Pit cracking department.
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| San Jose || Seed Farm #185 || before 1977<ref>Obituary: John R. Silveira. In February 5, 1977 Fremont Argus. "A supervisor for 45 years at the Del Monte Corporation Seed Farm #185 in San Jose."</ref> || || References exist to seed farm on Furlong Ave. in Gilroy as plant #185 in recent years.
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| San Jose || Plant #23 || 1931, 1932 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=868%20Auzerais%20Street,San%20Jose 868 Auzerais Street] || A 1932 Southern Pacific industry map shows the former [[Virden Packing]] building as "Calif Packing Corp."<ref>Southern Pacific Coast Division Drawing #18058, "San Jose Terminal District", dated January 27, 1932. Shown in Southern Pacific Trainline #157, Fall 2023, "The San Jose Line Change" by John Signor.</ref><ref>Shows up on <a href="Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]] document as "Lincoln Ave", which building also faces on.</ref>
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| San Leandro ||Plant #27 || 1928 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Thornton%20Avenue%20,San%20Leandro Thornton Avenue ] || Formerly [[H.G. Prince]] according to 1928 Sanborn map, plant #27.
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| San Leandro || Plant #8 || 1931 || 1401 San Leandro Blvd. || West of BART station, vacant as of 2005. 1899-1973. Cannery, dried fruit, agricultural research. Was a packing plant for dried fruit until moved to San Jose in...1960's?<ref>findagrave.com: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr obituary for Marie Fernandes]</ref>. Packing peaches in 1919. Also listed as 752 Saunders (Saunders at Martinez), but the street no longer exists. Originally [[King-Morse Canning Company]].
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| San Lorenzo || Plant #9 || 1916- || Hesperian Blvd. || Opposite SP station. December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes that the cannery will reopen early in 1923 to can spinach from 250 acres. Leonard Perillo superintendent. Packing peaches, pears, tomatoes, and grapes in 1919. Photo in Arcadia's "San Lorenzo" by Doris Marciel.
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| Sanger || || 1922 || || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]
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| Santa Ana || Plant #20 || 1919, 1921, 1937, 1960's<ref>Herman Schultheis, Photo of end of plant, , [http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/785232768 Los Angeles Public Library]</ref> || East First St. || Packing refugee beans and pimentos in 1917<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA20&lpg=RA2-PA20&dq=%22900+macy+street%22+%22los+angeles%22&source=bl&ots=zKfWHqAjDp&sig=B0TKjAsjyR6uhIbIIXMN80UNkYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4gbPf36bQAhVN-mMKHSGLAw0Q6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Santa Ana Cannery to be Re-opened]. January 1917 Western Canner and Packer. "Mr. R. H. McIntosh, whose headquarters are at 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles, has announced that the old cannery on East First Street, Santa Ana, will re-open in August 1917. The building will be repaired and new machinery installed. Operations will be confined to pimentos and refugee beans. Contracts will be let for 400 acres of pimentos and 300 acres of refugee beans."</ref>Packing chili peppers in 1919. Supposedly former [[F. P. Cutting Company]] plant<ref>[http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Packing Houses of Southern California]], Santa Ana page.</ref>, abandoned by 1960's.
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| Santa Rosa || Plant #5 || 1921-1932<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The major part of the cannery closed in 1932 when CalPak consolidated at its San Leandro plant. The West Third office building became a Nulaid egg packing plant. A smaller canning operation stayed in business a few years, producing mostly canned peaches, pears, and fruit cocktail along with some dried fruit."</ref> || Between West 3rd and West 6th Street || Cannery built 1894. Former [[California Fruit Canners Association]] plant, former [[Rose City Canning Company]]? Source for blackberries<ref>July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer</ref>. Packing peaches, blackberries, and pears in 1919. The 6th Street Playhouse occupies part of the former cannery; the 3ed Street side appears to have been destroyed, with the facade perhaps surviving<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The scope of the cannery and its importance to the economy was enormous, In the April-to-October season, workers processed a wide variety of crops, coming by truck and train — pears from Lake and Mendocino counties, apples, berries and cherries from Sebastopol, peaches and plums from Geyserville and Cloverdale. There were also vegetables. Cal Pack, as the company was known, leased fields in Valley Ford and Ignacio to grow spinach and peas...There were even tomatoes from the Sacramento Valley, although Cal Pack's predecessor at the Santa Rosa site, Hunt Brothers Cannery, had long since established itself as the premier tomato processor in the Sacramento area, on its way to becoming a national brand..."</ref> Superintendent was John Oliva in 1920, and Charles Carniglia after. Plant superintendent's house was on Sixth Street.
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| Smithfield, Utah || Plant #138<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Spanish Fork, Utah || Plant #136<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Star Ray, Utah || Plant #34 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Stockton || Plant #10 || 1975 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2716%20East%20Minor,Stockton 2716 East Minor] || Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch.<ref> Lawsuit in 1977 said that Del Monte had warehouses for canned goods out there, and they needed the space to hold the production from the Emeryville and San Jose canneries in the 1970's - there wasn't enough space locally.</ref><ref>December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes it'll reopen on March 1. In 1922, canned 125,000 cases of spinach, 200,000 cases of cling peaches, and 110,000 cases of tomatoes.</ref><ref>Served by Western Pacific. Western Pacific Training Manual, Stockton Yard: Scotts St. to El Pinal Track Diagram. In Jeff Asay, "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad". 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Suisun City || || 1919, 1926, -1930s ||600 Kellogg St. (from USGS survey landmark<ref>USGS Landmark, Fairfield Del Monte Water Tank, 38 14'47"N, 122 02'22"W. Water tank in existence 1936, 1941. </ref>.) ||Dried fruit<ref>[http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html Frank Butterfield bio]</ref>. Packing pears and apricots in 1919. Water tank at southeast corner of plant, painted dark green with Del Monte logo in red. Described as former J.K. Armsby cannery in at least one document, thought it may have been confused with the dried fruit plant in town. Closed in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3-E0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT263&lpg=PT263&dq=fairfield+cannery&source=bl&ots=pF-kdJrOLF&sig=mbbeHolFSxpcQfY-3qgpM4anMzc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV4ojf5MvQAhUN6mMKHai_DlQ4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=fairfield%20cannery&f=false
Suisun Marsh Habitat Management, Preservation, and Restoration Plan]. California Department ofFish and Game, October 2010. Also notes that Del Monte's dried fruit plant in Fairfield also closed in the 1930's.
</ref>
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| Suisun City (Fairfield) || Plant #60 || -1930's || Union Ave. at Broadway St<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield. 1925. Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref><ref>J. K. Armsby Fruit Packing Plant. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&ots=Q2xf80BdMz&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Fairfield], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx. Photo shows a side view of the Armsby packing house, with the note that Armsby was one of the first packers or canners to locate along the railroad in Fairfield.</ref> || Dried fruit. Former J. K. Armsby plant. Photos exist of plant in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Del Monte dried fruit plant, 1930's.] In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, Fairfield.</ref>. Image of packing house in 1940's-era film background<ref>[https://archive.org/details/pet1006r3suisuncityca PET 1006 R3 Suisun City CA.] 1940's stock film of Suisun city area. California Packing Corporation plant visible at 8:25. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref>
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| Sunnyvale || Plant #184 || 1904-1926, 1930-? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=185%20Evelyn,Sunnyvale 185 Evelyn] || Dried fruit receiving house formerly owned by Madison and Bonner, merged into CalPak in 1916, turned into warehouse in 1926, used for corporate seed department after 1930. [http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm/ref/collection/sunnyvale/id/166 | photo]
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| The Dalles, Washington || || 1921 || ||
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| Toppenish, Washington || Plant #122<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] || Did not operate in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ 1922 Western Canner and Packer]: "Not operating this season"</ref>.
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| Vancouver, WA || Plant #27 || 1919 || || Packing preserves, pears, prunes, blackberries, and string beans in 1919.
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| Vancouver, Washington || Plant #127<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Visalia || Plant #17 || 1918, 1922 || 216 N. Tipton St. at Oak St.<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref> || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ Burned down in 1922]. H. G. Hohwiesner was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. Photo shows wood-frame structure<ref>Terry L. Ommen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl2PDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT37&ots=pEiCTaA79F&dq=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&pg=PT37#v=onepage&q=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&f=false Visalia]. </ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1918, 1922, 1934 || 425 N. Johnson Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>(also Johnson Ave. at School Ave<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>) || Former California Fruit Canners Association<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. C. H. Blochburger was manager in 1918. J. W. Dihel was manager in 1934<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #69 || 1918 || corner of School Ave. and East St. || G. A. Fleming was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #70 || 1918 || Johnson cor. North || C. W. Morrill was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Wahiawa, Hawaii || Plant #30 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919. On Oahu.
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| Wasach, Utah || Plant #32 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes and catsup in 1919.
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| West Weber, Utah || Plant #35 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Woodland || || -2000 || ||
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| Yakima, Washington || Plant #125<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Yuba City ||Plant #14 || 1916-1921, 1930 || || Packing peaches in 1919. Post card from 1930 shows low-slung buildings next to railroad track. Other photo shows wooden facade<ref>[https://calisphere.org/item/575d5c684fafaf002d8791d11b972cc2/ California Packing Corporation, Plant #14, 1930s.] California State Library, California history collection picture catalog, McCurry Foto Co., 1924. Listed as Del Monte peach cannery in Yuba City / Meridian.</ref>.
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|}

==Photos==
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]

[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gordon&CISOPTR=1242&CISOBOX=1&REC=20 CalPak (California Packing Corp. aka Del Monte) Plant 51 John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library]

[http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sunnyvale&CISOPTR=166&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 California Packing Corporation Plant No. 184 Sunnyvale Library]

[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3 Preservation San Jose]

[http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/8238 Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery]. Via Sonoma County library.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/40361283@N06/3708909019/ Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda]. From Flickr photos by MSClife.

[http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery Del Monte cannery, Salem Oregon]. From Willamette Heritage Center via Statesmanjournal.com.

[http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=1568 Plant #14], probably Kingsburg. California State Library, California History Room.

===References==
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Havens-Samaira

2025-04-01T17:10:18Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_years = 1935-
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = Campbell, CA
}}

'''Havens-Samaira''' was a cannery in Campbell located in the former [[California Canneries]] plant just north of the [[Ainsley Cannery]]. The company was organized with $16,000 in stock subscribed, with John. W. Havens of Oakland and S. J. Samaira of San Francisco as the controlling interest, with other directors R.R. Cullen of San Francisco, M. Harris Callum of Oakland, and M. Samaira of San Francisco<ref>February 27, 1935, Campbell Interurban Press.</ref>. The company was created to operate the former California Canneries in Campbell which had gone bankrupt at the beginning of the depression. Dempsey-Callon operated the cannery in 1933 and 1934<ref>December 31, 1935 San Jose Mercury News. "Havens-Semaira Bankruptcy Filed by Four Growers".</ref>.

According to a newspaper report when they occupied the building, Havens had been operating the Sebatina Canning Company at Sonoma. S. J. Semaira had been importing and exporting dried fruit and nuts<ref>May 16, 1935 Campbell Interurban Press.</ref>

In December 1935, four peach growers in the Central Valley filed an involuntary bankruptcy petition against the company. The growers in Sutter and San Joaquin County accused the company of paying the Pacific Can Company instead of giving them proceeds. Roy C. Burks of Sutter County was owed $1159, Nanda Singh of Sutter County was owed $1303, Kisen Singh of San Joaquin County was owed $673, and Juana D. Singh of San Joaquin county was owed $3,478<ref>December 31, 1935 San Jose Mercury News. "Havens-Semaira Bankruptcy Filed by Four Growers".</ref>.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Campbell || 1935 - || Hopkins Street ||
|-
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Cannery]]

Winchester Dried Fruit

2024-07-31T03:05:51Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1936-1940
}}
'''Winchester Dried Fruit''' was a dried fruit packer which was formed in San Jose in 1935<ref>Dried Fruit Company Becomes Corporation: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lVoiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6aMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=973%2C6143748 December 10, 1935 San Jose Evening News].</ref>. The principals were Bert Kirk, Jr., and Antonio Teresi, both from orchard families in the Santa Clara Valley, and Homer Hardin. Kirk's family owned much of the orchard land south of Dry Creek Road around modern-day Meridian Ave. Teresi's family owned the 220 acre Sorosis Fruit Ranch in Saratoga. Antonio also owned another 10 acres on the Santa Clara - Los Gatos road. Teresi wasn't just an orchardist; he'd also gone to business school. In 1938, Antonio Teresi was president, Harry Mitchell, Superintendent, and Ed Trojan, office manager. Winchester Dried Fruit's license was suspended around 1940 due to "claims of growers against the concern<ref>Winchester Firm License Suspended: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19400806&id=QmsiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rqsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5982,3468104 August 6, 1940 San Jose Evening News]</ref>

Even though the company appeared in the depression, it appeared they still had difficulties because of the economy. In 1938, Bert Kirk, as manager, declares that 90% of their fruit was going abroad because of the poor domestic market. In November 1938, they claimed to be employing 40 people to "fill the foreign orders as well as domestic"<ref>Winchester Packs Vaporized Prunes: [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CP19381124.2.61&srpos=4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22hyde+cannery%22------- November 24, 1938 Campbell Press]. "The Winchester company is now in the peak of its season, employing 40 persons to fill the foreign as well as domestic orders."</ref>

1930's city directories showed the firm occupying many different buildings. At first, the company was in packing houses off Sunol Street (and possibly including the former Hamlin Packing building),. In November, 1936, their packing house burned down after "a series of explosions which either preceded or followed a fire... homes within a radius of 1000 feet of the two story fruit plant were shaken by the blast and startled residents reported that when they ran to the scene they found the building a mass of flames." The fire consumed 200 tons of apricots, prunes, and peaches worth $25,000<ref>Seek Cause of Mystery Blash: Friday, November 27 1936 Berkeley Daily Gazette. The fire happened the previous night.</ref>. The plant was described as "just outside the city limits of San Jose."

In 1938, the company moved to Campbell in order to have more storage space<ref>Packing Company to Start Work: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tCQiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4aMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3822%2C6966364 September 10, 1938 San Jose Evening News]</ref>. A final move brought them to the former Inderrieden plant on Ryland Street.

The company announced a new prune process called "vaporizing" in 1938 which would make fruit ready for eating out of the box<ref>Winchester Packs Vaporized Prunes: [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=CP19381124.2.61&srpos=4&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN-%22hyde+cannery%22------- November 24, 1938 Campbell Press]. "Winchester Dried Fruit company, located in the old Hyde cannery, has devised an exclusive new prune process called "vaporizing", from which the fruit emerges practically ready to eat, and requiring no further cooking."</ref>
In 1939, the corporation sold 3,000 tons of prunes, apricots, pears, and peaches from plants in Campbell and Los Gatos. The value was $116,000<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref>.

There were several complaints and lawsuits from 1938-1940 concerning California's [[Agricultural Prorate Commission]].
The [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZqExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HqsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1068%2C6149794 May 31, 1939 San Jose Evening News] noted complaints that Winchester Dried Fruit was not following the "prune prorate" rules, and was dealing in prunes without obtaining "secondary certificates from the [prune prorate] commission." [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19400408&id=42siAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1asFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2924,3226135 April 8, 1940 San Jose Evening News] report complaint against Winchester Dried Fruit going forward because they were handling fruit without inspections and certificates, and weren't following the "prorate procedure". The prorate commission was taking more detailed control of the industry, probably in order to keep prices high. One of their rulings was that converting surplus prunes to alcohol and brandy was illegal. The commission was disregarding other laws, such as the state agricultural code banning growers from allowing fruit to drop and go to waste without the order of an agricultural authority.

A [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&dat=19390525&id=YqExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HqsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6166,5440783 May 25, 1939 San Jose Evening News] article gives more details about the prune prorate commission. According to the article, 25% of surplus fruit needed to be handed over to the commission, and Winchester was 150,000 tons behind in deliveries to the commission. Kirk complained that he had to ship the fruit in order to complete contracts when Hollister growers refused to deliver fruit. The Hollister growers hesitated because the prorate commission inspectors were only inspecting fruit at the packing house, and if so, they would have to pay to truck the fruit back to Hollister for re-sorting and re-submission. Kirk also charged that the inspectors were rejecting fruit which would pass inspection when delivered to other packers.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Campbell || 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F,Campbell ?] ||
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| San Jose || 1936 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1013%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose 1013 Sunol Street] ||
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| San Jose || 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=631%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose 631 Sunol Street] ||
|-
| San Jose || 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=200%20Ryland%20Street,San%20Jose 200 Ryland Street] ||
|-
|}
==References==
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[[Category:Campbell]]
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[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Consolidated Grocers

2024-07-24T22:52:34Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business=food processor, grocery wholesaler
| primary_town =
| primary_dates=
| predecessors=[[Sara Lee]]
| successors=
| brands=
}}
'''Consolidated Foods Corporation''' was a large American food producer and grocery wholesaler. The company started as Sprague, Warner & Co, a grocery wholesaler in Chicago<ref>Consolidated Foods Co: [http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2623.html Encyclopedia of Chicago].</ref>. The company changed its name to Consolidated Grocers in 1945, then to Consolidated Foods in 1953. The company bought Sara Lee in 1956. The company changed its name to Sara Lee by 1985.

The company owned many Santa Clara valley food processors, including [[United States Products]] cannery, the [[Drew Canning Company]], and [[Rosenberg Brothers]] dried fruit packing.
==References==
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Drew Canning Company

2024-07-24T22:49:23Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose, CA
| primary_dates = 1933 - 1953
| predecessors = [[Ainsley Cannery]]
| successors = [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company]], [[Consolidated Grocers]].
| brands = Drew
}}
The '''Drew Canning Company''' was a long-time San Jose-based canner operating from the 1920's through the 1950's. The principal for the company was Fred M. Drew; the superintendent of the Taylor Street plant in 1934 was J.E. Townsend; the secretary for the corporation was L. J. Campodonico. Drew had been manager of the [[Schuckl Cannery]] operations in Niles and Sunnyvale in 1928<ref>Niles Notes: July 20, 1928 Hayward Review.</ref>.

Drew operated in at least three plants during its lifetime. Drew started off in a former distillery at 400 East Taylor in the 1920's<ref>San Jose Planning Department document on [http://planning.sanjoseca.gov//planning/hearings/archives/2003Agendas/Hlc08-4Files/revised draft report.pdf Japantown history].</ref>. The plant operated through the depression, receiving some notice when Drew refused to sign on to a peach production limit in 1931<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948&dat=19310708&id=mq00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pn8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1890,506928 Modesto Bee on July 8 1931] mentions that Drew Canning in San Jose had not yet signed a plan to limit peach production.</ref> In 1934, Drew bought the former [[Ainsley Cannery]] in Campbell<ref>Deed dated March 13, 1934 (book 675, pg 554)</ref>, with the new cannery first processing prunes brought in from Brentwood<ref>June 20, 1934 Campbell Interurban Press article</ref>. In 1936, Drew was fined for selling substandard pear halves<ref>26237. Misbranding of canned pears. TJ. S. v. 25 Cases of Canned Pears. Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 87701. Sample
no. 69679-B. [http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/fdanj/bitstream/123456789/63310/2/319000620.txt Caught in 1936 selling substandard pear halves (cut up too much)] </ref>. Drew rebuilt the loading dock on the east side of the building in 1936 after a long back-and-forth with the Southern Pacific about liability for the dock<ref>Southern Pacific Lease L-19046. Stanford University Special Collections. The lease file starts by noting that the cannery changed owners, and the SP wants Drew to sign a new lease for the loading dock which is built on SP's property for $25/year. Drew protests because the new lease requires them to be liable for the dock, and they're unwilling. In November, 1936, Drew responds that they're willing to sign the lease after they rebuild the dock. The interesting detail in this reference is that the railroad tracks and loading dock were on railroad property.</ref>. By 1938, the Taylor Street plant no longer appeared in city directories. Drew operated through World War II, placing ads for workers<ref>2500 Cannery Workers Are Needed Now. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&dat=19440715&id=ByYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3646,1103676 July 15, 1944 San Jose Evening News] (Named as Drew Packing)</ref>.

By 1946, the Campbell cannery was sold to [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunts]]. Locals remember Hunts operating the plant<ref> train orders.com: [http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2395854 Southbay Railroading in the 1980's.] " I remember well the fragrance of the drying prunes and the roar or the dehydrator furnaces during the fall months. The school year started in mid-September to allow time for the many farm families in the area to finish the "prune picking." 0-6-0 switchers worked the Ainsley (later Hunt's Foods) cannery, Heavy Pacific 4-6-2's brought the Los Gatos commuter run through in the evening, and the Campbell Ave. Wig-wag got a good work out. Ah, for the way it was.". (Allan Blaine)</ref>

Drew apparently had another plant in Santa Clara. An SP engineering drawing showed Fred M. Drew Canning Co. near Lafayette Street, next to Pacific Can Co. and across a spur track from the Norton Company<ref>[http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=United_States_Products SP Coast Division engineering drawing #28117], "Track Serving the Norton Co., March 11, 1952. Courtesy of wx4.org / [http://wx4.org/to/foam/a_rrcontents.html Dome of Foam].</ref>

Drew Canning was taken over by [[Consolidated Grocers]] by 1953<ref>Gen. Mark Clark on Grocery Board: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51857243/ December 10, 1953 San Mateo Times]. " California subsidiaries of the corporation include Rosenberg Bros. & Co. and Union Sugar, San Francisco; U. S, Products corporation and F. M. Drew Canning company, San Josei and Gentry, Inc., Los Angeles, Oxnard and Gilroy."</ref>; Drew was mentioned as the former president of the [[United States Products]] cannery in 1961<ref>September 10, 1961 New York Times: "Paul V. Rea has been elected president of the United States Products Corporation, San Jose Calif. canning unit of the Consolidated Foods Corporation, it was announced. He succeeds the late Fred M. Drew. Mr. Rea was formerly executive vice president of United States Products."</ref>.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Campbell || 1934 - 1946 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Harrison%20Ave.,Campbell Harrison Ave.] || Former Ainsley cannery.
|-
| San Jose ||~1920 - 1934 || 400 East Taylor || 1934 San Jose City directory, [http://planning.sanjoseca.gov//planning/hearings/archives/2003Agendas/Hlc08-4Files/revised draft report.pdf Japantown history]
|-
| Santa Clara || 1952, 1956 - || Walsh St. near Lafayette St., next to [[Pacific Can Company]] || Building permit for steel building for use as warehouse. Completed November 1956.
|-
|}

==Photos==
[http://vintageadsandbooks.com/drew-canning-company-vintage-1946-quality-california-canned-fruits-ad-q979.html 1946 era ad]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Campbell]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Santa Clara]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Drew Canning Company

2024-07-24T22:47:28Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose, CA
| primary_dates = 1933 - 1953
| predecessors = [[Ainsley Cannery]]
| successors = [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company]], [[Consolidated Grocers]].
| brands = Drew
}}
The '''Drew Canning Company''' was a long-time San Jose-based canner operating from the 1920's through the 1950's. The principal for the company was Fred M. Drew; the superintendent of the Taylor Street plant in 1934 was J.E. Townsend; the secretary for the corporation was L. J. Campodonico. Drew had been manager of the [[Schuckl Cannery]] operations in Niles and Sunnyvale in 1928<ref>Niles Notes: July 20, 1928 Hayward Review.</ref>.

Drew operated in at least three plants during its lifetime. Drew started off in a former distillery at 400 East Taylor in the 1920's<ref>San Jose Planning Department document on [http://planning.sanjoseca.gov//planning/hearings/archives/2003Agendas/Hlc08-4Files/revised draft report.pdf Japantown history].</ref>. The plant operated through the depression, receiving some notice when Drew refused to sign on to a peach production limit in 1931<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948&dat=19310708&id=mq00AAAAIBAJ&sjid=pn8FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1890,506928 Modesto Bee on July 8 1931] mentions that Drew Canning in San Jose had not yet signed a plan to limit peach production.</ref> In 1934, Drew bought the former [[Ainsley Cannery]] in Campbell<ref>Deed dated March 13, 1934 (book 675, pg 554)</ref>, with the new cannery first processing prunes brought in from Brentwood<ref>June 20, 1934 Campbell Interurban Press article</ref>. In 1936, Drew was fined for selling substandard pear halves<ref>26237. Misbranding of canned pears. TJ. S. v. 25 Cases of Canned Pears. Default decree of condemnation and destruction. (F. & D. no. 87701. Sample
no. 69679-B. [http://archive.nlm.nih.gov/fdanj/bitstream/123456789/63310/2/319000620.txt Caught in 1936 selling substandard pear halves (cut up too much)] </ref>. Drew rebuilt the loading dock on the east side of the building in 1936 after a long back-and-forth with the Southern Pacific about liability for the dock<ref>Southern Pacific Lease L-19046. Stanford University Special Collections. The lease file starts by noting that the cannery changed owners, and the SP wants Drew to sign a new lease for the loading dock which is built on SP's property for $25/year. Drew protests because the new lease requires them to be liable for the dock, and they're unwilling. In November, 1936, Drew responds that they're willing to sign the lease after they rebuild the dock. The interesting detail in this reference is that the railroad tracks and loading dock were on railroad property.</ref>. By 1938, the Taylor Street plant no longer appeared in city directories. Drew operated through World War II, placing ads for workers<ref>2500 Cannery Workers Are Needed Now. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&dat=19440715&id=ByYiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-qMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3646,1103676 July 15, 1944 San Jose Evening News] (Named as Drew Packing)</ref>.

By 1946, the Campbell cannery was sold to [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunts]]. Locals remember Hunts operating the plant<ref> train orders.com: [http://www.trainorders.com/discussion/read.php?11,2395854 Southbay Railroading in the 1980's.] " I remember well the fragrance of the drying prunes and the roar or the dehydrator furnaces during the fall months. The school year started in mid-September to allow time for the many farm families in the area to finish the "prune picking." 0-6-0 switchers worked the Ainsley (later Hunt's Foods) cannery, Heavy Pacific 4-6-2's brought the Los Gatos commuter run through in the evening, and the Campbell Ave. Wig-wag got a good work out. Ah, for the way it was.". (Allan Blaine)</ref>

Drew apparently had another plant in Santa Clara. An SP engineering drawing showed Fred M. Drew Canning Co. near Lafayette Street, next to Pacific Can Co. and across a spur track from the Norton Company<ref>[http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=United_States_Products SP Coast Division engineering drawing #28117], "Track Serving the Norton Co., March 11, 1952. Courtesy of wx4.org / [http://wx4.org/to/foam/a_rrcontents.html Dome of Foam].</ref>

Drew Canning was taken over by Consolidated Grocers by 1953<ref>Gen. Mark Clark on Grocery Board: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51857243/ December 10, 1953 San Mateo Times]. " California subsidiaries of the corporation include Rosenberg Bros. & Co. and Union Sugar, San Francisco; U. S, Products corporation and F. M. Drew Canning company, San Josei and Gentry, Inc., Los Angeles, Oxnard and Gilroy."</ref>; Drew was mentioned as the former president of the [[United States Products]] cannery in 1961<ref>September 10, 1961 New York Times: "Paul V. Rea has been elected president of the United States Products Corporation, San Jose Calif. canning unit of the Consolidated Foods Corporation, it was announced. He succeeds the late Fred M. Drew. Mr. Rea was formerly executive vice president of United States Products."</ref>.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Campbell || 1934 - 1946 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Harrison%20Ave.,Campbell Harrison Ave.] || Former Ainsley cannery.
|-
| San Jose ||~1920 - 1934 || 400 East Taylor || 1934 San Jose City directory, [http://planning.sanjoseca.gov//planning/hearings/archives/2003Agendas/Hlc08-4Files/revised draft report.pdf Japantown history]
|-
| Santa Clara || 1952, 1956 - || Walsh St. near Lafayette St., next to [[Pacific Can Company]] || Building permit for steel building for use as warehouse. Completed November 1956.
|-
|}

==Photos==
[http://vintageadsandbooks.com/drew-canning-company-vintage-1946-quality-california-canned-fruits-ad-q979.html 1946 era ad]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Campbell]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Santa Clara]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

J. M. Dawson Packing Company

2024-07-12T19:16:42Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| successors = [[San Jose Fruit Company]], [[Golden Gate Packing Company]]
}}

The '''J. M. Dawson Packing Company''' was a second company formed by [[James M. Dawson]], the father of canning in San Jose. Dawson's initial canning experiments in the early 1870's were done under the name of [[San Jose Fruit Packing | J. M. Dawson and Company]], which became the [[San Jose Fruit Packing| San Jose Fruit Packing Company]] in 1874. Dawson stepped back from the business in 1878, but restarted his new business, again behind his house, in 1879<ref>Jacklyn Greenberg, "Industry in the Garden: A Social History of the Canning Industry and Cannery Workers in the Santa Clara Valley, 1870-1920." Ph.D. dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles, 1985. Greenberg declared that "the new corporation became too large to big and too complicated to control. Preferring a cannery that they could manage themselves, the Dawsons withdrew from that large corporation in 1878 to continue operations on their old small scale."</ref>. Dawson was joined by his son in 1880, and stepped down from the business in 1883, dying in 1885<ref>[http://www.mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/jmdawson.html J. M. Dawson]. In "Pen Pictures From The Garden of the World or Santa Clara County, California, Illustrated". Edited by H. S. Foote. Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1888. The article documents the several businesses that Dawson conducted.</ref>.

The company did well, packing 140,000 cases of fruit in 1891 and moving to a new plant on Cinnabar at Montgomery Street in San Jose. An 1891 Sanborn map<ref>[http://digitalcollections.ucsc.edu/cdm/fullbrowser/collection/p15130coll3/id/1595/rv/singleitem/rec/186 San Jose 1891 Sanborn Map page 60]</ref> shows Dawson having almost the whole block ,with J.Z. Anderson having a small packing plant at the railroad tracks on eastern corner.

By 1895, the company was out of business and sold. J.B. Dawson, the son, eventually went to the [[California Fruit Canners Association]]. The San Francisco Call for May 8, 1895 mentions the sale of the cannery at Cinnabar and Montgomery:
<blockquote>
"SALE AT AUCTION KLIT CAMERY. The J. M. Dawson Packing Company of San Jose, Cal., will offer for sale at public auction at its packing-house, Cinnabar and Montgomery streets, on the 17th day of May, 1895, at the hour of 2 p.m., and will sell to the highest bidder for cash or bankable paper, all of its property, consisting of a large galvanized warehouse. 200x6;, office building, office fixtures; cannery: engine and boiler, other machinery, labels and goodwill, with the leasehold upon which the buildings stand. This is a fine opportunity to invest in a well established business. The fruits packed by this company are well known and have always commanded the highest prices in all the markets of the world, and the goodwill of this cannery is valuable. This property can be bought very cheap. Railroad track into factory. delinquent sale notices."
</blockquote>

The location matches the site of a [[J. K. Armsby]] dried fruit packing house in 1896.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| San Jose || 1870,1880 || 1700 The Alameda at Polhemus / Taylor<ref>[https://twofeet.weebly.com/walking-blog/home-canning-and-the-birth-of-del-monte Home Canning and the Birth of Del Monte]. Two Feet Walking blog. Stephen highlights a plaque set into the sidewalk in front of the existing bank building marking the spot as the origins of canning in California in 1870. The plaque celebrated the 100th anniversary of the canning industry.</ref> ||

|-
| San Jose || 1892, 1893, 1895 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cinnabar%20and%20Montgomery,San%20Jose Cinnabar and Montgomery] ||
Northeast corner.

|-
|}
==References==
<references/>

[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Fruitvale canning

2024-05-28T16:10:38Z

Robert Bowdidge: Created page with "{{Infobox_Industry | primary_business = Cannery | primary_dates = 1941- | brands = Hillcrest<ref>Trademark registration: [https://uspto.report/TM/71540661 Hillcrest].</ref> }}..."

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_dates = 1941-
| brands = Hillcrest<ref>Trademark registration: [https://uspto.report/TM/71540661 Hillcrest].</ref>
}}
'''Fruitvale Canning''' was an Oakland-based cannery operating in the mid 20th century. The company was founded by A. D. Pogetto in or before< 1941<ref>[https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/59149c14add7b0493463ee7c Pogetto v. United States ]. United States Court of of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Jul 30, 1962. "Appellant A. D. Pogetto, a dominant figure in the corporation known as the Fruitvale Canning Company... conceived the idea of forming a partnership for the principal purpose of selling the canned products of the Company." </ref> The Pogetto family also held orchards in Loomis and the Suisun Valley<ref>[https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/sfgate/name/william-poggetto-obituary?id=6727853 William Pogetto obituary ]. San Francisco Chronicle. July 2, 2005.</ref>. In 1956, the company canned apricots, cherries, fruit cocktail, peaches, pears, and spinach.

The company may haver been acquired by [[Tri-Valley Canners]]. William Pogetto, one of the principals, eventually was a vice-president at Tri-Valley.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Fruitvale || 1941, 1956, 196t2 || 905 66th Ave., Oakland. || On Western Pacific railroad
|-
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Fruitvale]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

California Associated Raisin Company

2024-03-03T17:55:06Z

Robert Bowdidge: Created page with "{{Infobox_Industry | primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer | primary_town = Fresno | primary_dates = 1912-present }} '''California Associated Raisin Company''' or '''Sunmaid G..."

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = Fresno
| primary_dates = 1912-present
}}
'''California Associated Raisin Company''' or '''Sunmaid Growers of California''' is a Fresno-based co-operated dried fruit packer. The company was founded in 1912 by a set of local growers, managed by H. H. Welch<ref>[https://sunmaid.com/about-us/our-history/ About Us]: History of Sunmaid Growers. At [http://sunmaid.com].</ref>. By 1915, the company claimed 6,000 growers.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Plant !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Fresno || 12 || 1912- || East Hamilton Ave. ||
|-
| Kingsburg || || 1960s - || 13525 S. Bethel Ave || Modern plant.
|-
|}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]][[Category:Fresno]]

Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List

2024-03-03T16:57:34Z

Robert Bowdidge:

This list, dated August 1, 1931, shows the industrial sidings on the Southern Pacific in the San Jose area.

[http://www.vasonabranch.com/railroad/timetables/index_assets/1931%20SJ%20Track%20Directory.PDF Original document ] from the collection of History San Jose.

== Zone 2 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 224 || [[Teresini Brothers| Teresini Bros. Co]] || Ryland St. || 10 || 4 ||
|-
| 225 || [[J. B. Inderrieden | J.S. Inderriedden]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 226 || [[Warren Dried Fruit Packing | Warren Dried Fruit Co.]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 227 || [[Pacific Fruit Products]] Co || San Pedro St. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 226 || [[American Fruit Growers]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 228 || [[Levy-Zentner]] || San Pedro St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 228 || [[B. Moceo | Ben Moceo]] (later buyer Greco) || San Pedro St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 229 || [[Pacific Fruit Exchange]] || N. First St. || 4 || 4 || (former Sunsweet / Warren)
|-
| 230 || [[Goldenripe Fruit | Golden Ripe Fruit Co]] || N. First St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 232 || [[Borchers Brothers | Borchers Bros]] || N. First St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 233 || [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunt Bros]] (inside track) || N. Fourth St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 234 || [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunt Bros]] (Outside track) || N. Fourth St. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 235 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 6 || 6 || (non-perishable)
|-
| 236 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 6 || 6 || (perishable)
|-
| 237 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 3 || 2 || (perishable)
|-
|}

== Zone 3 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 302 || [[Barron-Gray Packing Company]] || 5th and Martha || 9 || 6 ||
|-
| 303 || [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] Plant #4 || 4th and Virginia || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 303 || C.J. Vath Warehouse (beer) || 4th and Virginia || 2 || 2 ||
|-
| 303 || [[Shaw Family Cannery | Shaw Family Inc.]] || 4th and Virginia || 5 || 3 ||
|-
| 303 || [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] Plant #17 || 4th and Margaret || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 304 || [[Beech-Nut Packing Company |Beechnut Packing of Calif]] || 4th and Martha || 6 || 3 ||
|-
| 305 || [[American Can Company]] || 5th and Martha || 23 || 23 ||
|-
| 306 || [[American Can Company]] || 5th and Martha || 23 || 23 ||
|-
| 307 || [[California Canning Peach Growers]] || 4th and Keyes || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 307 || [[Pacific Coast Canners]] Plant #1|| 4th and Keyes || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 307.5 || [[Pacific Coast Canners]] Plant #1 || 4th and Keyes || 6 || 4 ||
|-
| 307 || Gladding Bros || 4th and Keyes || 18 || 10 ||
|-
| 308 || Work Track || South 4th St. || 13 || 13 ||
|-
| 309 || Valbrick team track || Monterey Road || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 309 || Prentiss Paving Co. || 4th and Keyes || 6 || 6 ||
|-
| 310 || Western Pac Interchange || South 4th Street || 13 || ||
|-
| 311 || Southern Lumber Co. || South 1st St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 312 || [[Bisceglia Brothers]] Canning || Monterey Road || 22 || 17 ||
|-
| 313 || Calif Concrete Products || Monterey Road || 8 || 6 ||
|-
| 313 || McVean-Raine Oil Co. || Monterey Road || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Luther Spur Team Track || || 15 || ||
|-
| 314 || Geo Buzzell Lueher || || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 315 || Alpine Oil || Luther || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Frank Di Salvo Oil Co. || Luther || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Sierra Oil Co. || || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 315 || Richfield Oil Co. || Monterey Road || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|}

== Zone 8 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 823 || Work track || || || ||
|-
| 825 || Pac Gas Elec. (Poles) || Otterson St. || 7 || 7 ||
|-
| 826 || Team track || || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 827 || Team track || || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 829 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #51 || San Fernando St. & Bush || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| 830 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn ]] #51 || San Fernando St. & Bush || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| 831 || Pacific Shingle and Box || 654 Park Ave. || 6 || 2 ||
|-
| 832 || San Jose Paving Co. || West San Carlos St. || 15 || 3 ||
|-
| 832.5 || San Jose Paving Co || West San Carlos St. || 6 || 2 ||
|-
| 833 || [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Co ]] || West San Carlos St. || 4 || 4 || Former [[Pacific Fruit Products]] packing house.
|-
| 834 || Work track || West San Jose || || ||
|-
| 834.5 || [[Pacific By-Products Company]] || Sunol St. || 10 || 5 || Southwest corner of Del Monte cannery property.
|-
| 835 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #3 || || || ||
|-
| || (whse) (w/WP) || West San Carlos || 9 || 9 ||
|-
| 835.5 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #3 || West San Carlos || 9 || 9 ||
|-
| 835.8 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] Plant #54 (w/WP) || West San Carlos || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 836 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] #3 || West San Carlos || 6 || 6 ||
|-
| 837 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] #3 || West San Carlos || 7 || 7 ||
|-
| 838 || [[Tilden Lumber and Mill]] || West San Carlos St. || 13 || 6 ||
|-
| 839 || [[ Tilden Lumber and Mill]] (w/WP) || West San Carlos St. || 12 || 10 ||
|-
| 840 || [[Standard Oil]] (w/WP) || Sunol St. || 9 || 7 ||
|-
| 841 || Peninsular Railway Exch || San Salvador St. || || || Future Auzerais St. team track.
|-
| 842 || [[Del Monte | California Packing Corp]] Plant #23 || Lincoln Ave. || 8 || 8 || Possibly [[Virden Packing]]?
|-
| 843 || [[Del Monte | California Packing Corp]] Plant #23 || Lincoln Ave. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 844 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 || Lincoln Ave. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 845 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 (w/WP) || Lincoln Ave. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 846 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 || Lincoln Ave. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 847 || [[Hershel California Fruit Products | Hershel Cal Fruit Prod]] || Race and Moorpark || 7 || 5 ||
|-
| 848 || [[United States Products | U.S. Products]] || Race and Moorpark || 10 || 5 ||
|-
| 849 || [[United States Products | U.S. Products]] || Race and Moorpark || 13 || 13 ||
|-
| 850 || San Jose Brick Co. || Foyle Station || 18 || 17 ||
|-
| 851 || San Jose Brick Co. || Foyle Station || 15 || 15||
|}

== Campbell ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| || [[Ainsley Cannery | Ainsley Packing Co.]] Plant #1 || || 11 || 11 ||
|-
| || [[Ainsley Cannery | Ainsley Packing Co. Plant #2]] || || 6 || 6 || Probably "box factory" on east side of tracks.
|-
| || [[California Canneries | California Canners Co.]] || || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #1 || || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| || [[ George_E._Hyde_%26_Company | Hyde Co. - Geo. E]] || || 10 || 9 ||
|-
| || Pac Coast Aggregate || || 28 || 1 ||
|
|}

== Vasona ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| || [[ Sewall Brown and Company | Sewall S. Brown]] || || 7 || 7 ||
|}

[[Category:Document]][[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]

Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List

2024-03-03T16:57:07Z

Robert Bowdidge:

This list, dated August 1, 1931, shows the industrial sidings on the Southern Pacific in the San Jose area.

[http://www.vasonabranch.com/railroad/timetables/index_assets/1931%20SJ%20Track%20Directory.PDF" | Original document ] from the collection of History San Jose.

== Zone 2 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 224 || [[Teresini Brothers| Teresini Bros. Co]] || Ryland St. || 10 || 4 ||
|-
| 225 || [[J. B. Inderrieden | J.S. Inderriedden]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 226 || [[Warren Dried Fruit Packing | Warren Dried Fruit Co.]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 227 || [[Pacific Fruit Products]] Co || San Pedro St. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 226 || [[American Fruit Growers]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 228 || [[Levy-Zentner]] || San Pedro St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 228 || [[B. Moceo | Ben Moceo]] (later buyer Greco) || San Pedro St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 229 || [[Pacific Fruit Exchange]] || N. First St. || 4 || 4 || (former Sunsweet / Warren)
|-
| 230 || [[Goldenripe Fruit | Golden Ripe Fruit Co]] || N. First St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 232 || [[Borchers Brothers | Borchers Bros]] || N. First St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 233 || [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunt Bros]] (inside track) || N. Fourth St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 234 || [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunt Bros]] (Outside track) || N. Fourth St. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 235 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 6 || 6 || (non-perishable)
|-
| 236 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 6 || 6 || (perishable)
|-
| 237 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 3 || 2 || (perishable)
|-
|}

== Zone 3 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 302 || [[Barron-Gray Packing Company]] || 5th and Martha || 9 || 6 ||
|-
| 303 || [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] Plant #4 || 4th and Virginia || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 303 || C.J. Vath Warehouse (beer) || 4th and Virginia || 2 || 2 ||
|-
| 303 || [[Shaw Family Cannery | Shaw Family Inc.]] || 4th and Virginia || 5 || 3 ||
|-
| 303 || [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] Plant #17 || 4th and Margaret || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 304 || [[Beech-Nut Packing Company |Beechnut Packing of Calif]] || 4th and Martha || 6 || 3 ||
|-
| 305 || [[American Can Company]] || 5th and Martha || 23 || 23 ||
|-
| 306 || [[American Can Company]] || 5th and Martha || 23 || 23 ||
|-
| 307 || [[California Canning Peach Growers]] || 4th and Keyes || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 307 || [[Pacific Coast Canners]] Plant #1|| 4th and Keyes || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 307.5 || [[Pacific Coast Canners]] Plant #1 || 4th and Keyes || 6 || 4 ||
|-
| 307 || Gladding Bros || 4th and Keyes || 18 || 10 ||
|-
| 308 || Work Track || South 4th St. || 13 || 13 ||
|-
| 309 || Valbrick team track || Monterey Road || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 309 || Prentiss Paving Co. || 4th and Keyes || 6 || 6 ||
|-
| 310 || Western Pac Interchange || South 4th Street || 13 || ||
|-
| 311 || Southern Lumber Co. || South 1st St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 312 || [[Bisceglia Brothers]] Canning || Monterey Road || 22 || 17 ||
|-
| 313 || Calif Concrete Products || Monterey Road || 8 || 6 ||
|-
| 313 || McVean-Raine Oil Co. || Monterey Road || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Luther Spur Team Track || || 15 || ||
|-
| 314 || Geo Buzzell Lueher || || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 315 || Alpine Oil || Luther || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Frank Di Salvo Oil Co. || Luther || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Sierra Oil Co. || || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 315 || Richfield Oil Co. || Monterey Road || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|}

== Zone 8 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 823 || Work track || || || ||
|-
| 825 || Pac Gas Elec. (Poles) || Otterson St. || 7 || 7 ||
|-
| 826 || Team track || || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 827 || Team track || || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 829 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #51 || San Fernando St. & Bush || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| 830 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn ]] #51 || San Fernando St. & Bush || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| 831 || Pacific Shingle and Box || 654 Park Ave. || 6 || 2 ||
|-
| 832 || San Jose Paving Co. || West San Carlos St. || 15 || 3 ||
|-
| 832.5 || San Jose Paving Co || West San Carlos St. || 6 || 2 ||
|-
| 833 || [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Co ]] || West San Carlos St. || 4 || 4 || Former [[Pacific Fruit Products]] packing house.
|-
| 834 || Work track || West San Jose || || ||
|-
| 834.5 || [[Pacific By-Products Company]] || Sunol St. || 10 || 5 || Southwest corner of Del Monte cannery property.
|-
| 835 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #3 || || || ||
|-
| || (whse) (w/WP) || West San Carlos || 9 || 9 ||
|-
| 835.5 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #3 || West San Carlos || 9 || 9 ||
|-
| 835.8 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] Plant #54 (w/WP) || West San Carlos || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 836 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] #3 || West San Carlos || 6 || 6 ||
|-
| 837 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] #3 || West San Carlos || 7 || 7 ||
|-
| 838 || [[Tilden Lumber and Mill]] || West San Carlos St. || 13 || 6 ||
|-
| 839 || [[ Tilden Lumber and Mill]] (w/WP) || West San Carlos St. || 12 || 10 ||
|-
| 840 || [[Standard Oil]] (w/WP) || Sunol St. || 9 || 7 ||
|-
| 841 || Peninsular Railway Exch || San Salvador St. || || || Future Auzerais St. team track.
|-
| 842 || [[Del Monte | California Packing Corp]] Plant #23 || Lincoln Ave. || 8 || 8 || Possibly [[Virden Packing]]?
|-
| 843 || [[Del Monte | California Packing Corp]] Plant #23 || Lincoln Ave. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 844 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 || Lincoln Ave. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 845 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 (w/WP) || Lincoln Ave. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 846 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 || Lincoln Ave. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 847 || [[Hershel California Fruit Products | Hershel Cal Fruit Prod]] || Race and Moorpark || 7 || 5 ||
|-
| 848 || [[United States Products | U.S. Products]] || Race and Moorpark || 10 || 5 ||
|-
| 849 || [[United States Products | U.S. Products]] || Race and Moorpark || 13 || 13 ||
|-
| 850 || San Jose Brick Co. || Foyle Station || 18 || 17 ||
|-
| 851 || San Jose Brick Co. || Foyle Station || 15 || 15||
|}

== Campbell ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| || [[Ainsley Cannery | Ainsley Packing Co.]] Plant #1 || || 11 || 11 ||
|-
| || [[Ainsley Cannery | Ainsley Packing Co. Plant #2]] || || 6 || 6 || Probably "box factory" on east side of tracks.
|-
| || [[California Canneries | California Canners Co.]] || || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #1 || || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| || [[ George_E._Hyde_%26_Company | Hyde Co. - Geo. E]] || || 10 || 9 ||
|-
| || Pac Coast Aggregate || || 28 || 1 ||
|
|}

== Vasona ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| || [[ Sewall Brown and Company | Sewall S. Brown]] || || 7 || 7 ||
|}

[[Category:Document]][[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]

Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List

2024-03-03T16:36:23Z

Robert Bowdidge:

This list, dated August 1, 1931, shows the industrial sidings on the Southern Pacific in the San Jose area.

The original document may have been from History San Jose's archives. See <A href="http://www.vasonabranch.com/railroad/timetables/index_assets/1931%20SJ%20Track%20Directory.PDF">scan of original</a> at vasonabranch.com.

== Zone 2 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 224 || [[Teresini Brothers| Teresini Bros. Co]] || Ryland St. || 10 || 4 ||
|-
| 225 || [[J. B. Inderrieden | J.S. Inderriedden]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 226 || [[Warren Dried Fruit Packing | Warren Dried Fruit Co.]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 227 || [[Pacific Fruit Products]] Co || San Pedro St. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 226 || [[American Fruit Growers]] || Ryland St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 228 || [[Levy-Zentner]] || San Pedro St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 228 || [[B. Moceo | Ben Moceo]] (later buyer Greco) || San Pedro St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 229 || [[Pacific Fruit Exchange]] || N. First St. || 4 || 4 || (former Sunsweet / Warren)
|-
| 230 || [[Goldenripe Fruit | Golden Ripe Fruit Co]] || N. First St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 232 || [[Borchers Brothers | Borchers Bros]] || N. First St. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 233 || [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunt Bros]] (inside track) || N. Fourth St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 234 || [[Hunt Brothers Packing Company | Hunt Bros]] (Outside track) || N. Fourth St. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 235 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 6 || 6 || (non-perishable)
|-
| 236 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 6 || 6 || (perishable)
|-
| 237 || [[Security Warehouse and Cold Storage]] || N. First St. || 3 || 2 || (perishable)
|-
|}

== Zone 3 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 302 || [[Barron-Gray Packing Company]] || 5th and Martha || 9 || 6 ||
|-
| 303 || [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] Plant #4 || 4th and Virginia || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 303 || C.J. Vath Warehouse (beer) || 4th and Virginia || 2 || 2 ||
|-
| 303 || [[Shaw Family Cannery | Shaw Family Inc.]] || 4th and Virginia || 5 || 3 ||
|-
| 303 || [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] Plant #17 || 4th and Margaret || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 304 || [[Beech-Nut Packing Company |Beechnut Packing of Calif]] || 4th and Martha || 6 || 3 ||
|-
| 305 || [[American Can Company]] || 5th and Martha || 23 || 23 ||
|-
| 306 || [[American Can Company]] || 5th and Martha || 23 || 23 ||
|-
| 307 || [[California Canning Peach Growers]] || 4th and Keyes || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 307 || [[Pacific Coast Canners]] Plant #1|| 4th and Keyes || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 307.5 || [[Pacific Coast Canners]] Plant #1 || 4th and Keyes || 6 || 4 ||
|-
| 307 || Gladding Bros || 4th and Keyes || 18 || 10 ||
|-
| 308 || Work Track || South 4th St. || 13 || 13 ||
|-
| 309 || Valbrick team track || Monterey Road || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 309 || Prentiss Paving Co. || 4th and Keyes || 6 || 6 ||
|-
| 310 || Western Pac Interchange || South 4th Street || 13 || ||
|-
| 311 || Southern Lumber Co. || South 1st St. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 312 || [[Bisceglia Brothers]] Canning || Monterey Road || 22 || 17 ||
|-
| 313 || Calif Concrete Products || Monterey Road || 8 || 6 ||
|-
| 313 || McVean-Raine Oil Co. || Monterey Road || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Luther Spur Team Track || || 15 || ||
|-
| 314 || Geo Buzzell Lueher || || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 315 || Alpine Oil || Luther || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Frank Di Salvo Oil Co. || Luther || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 314 || Sierra Oil Co. || || 1 || 1 ||
|-
| 315 || Richfield Oil Co. || Monterey Road || 2 || 2 ||
|-
|}

== Zone 8 ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| 823 || Work track || || || ||
|-
| 825 || Pac Gas Elec. (Poles) || Otterson St. || 7 || 7 ||
|-
| 826 || Team track || || 8 || 8 ||
|-
| 827 || Team track || || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 829 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #51 || San Fernando St. & Bush || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| 830 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn ]] #51 || San Fernando St. & Bush || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| 831 || Pacific Shingle and Box || 654 Park Ave. || 6 || 2 ||
|-
| 832 || San Jose Paving Co. || West San Carlos St. || 15 || 3 ||
|-
| 832.5 || San Jose Paving Co || West San Carlos St. || 6 || 2 ||
|-
| 833 || [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Co ]] || West San Carlos St. || 4 || 4 || Former [[Pacific Fruit Products]] packing house.
|-
| 834 || Work track || West San Jose || || ||
|-
| 834.5 || [[Pacific By-Products Company]] || Sunol St. || 10 || 5 || Southwest corner of Del Monte cannery property.
|-
| 835 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #3 || || || ||
|-
| || (whse) (w/WP) || West San Carlos || 9 || 9 ||
|-
| 835.5 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corpn]] Plant #3 || West San Carlos || 9 || 9 ||
|-
| 835.8 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] Plant #54 (w/WP) || West San Carlos || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 836 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] #3 || West San Carlos || 6 || 6 ||
|-
| 837 || [[Del Monte | Calif Pkg Corp]] #3 || West San Carlos || 7 || 7 ||
|-
| 838 || [[Tilden Lumber and Mill]] || West San Carlos St. || 13 || 6 ||
|-
| 839 || [[ Tilden Lumber and Mill]] (w/WP) || West San Carlos St. || 12 || 10 ||
|-
| 840 || [[Standard Oil]] (w/WP) || Sunol St. || 9 || 7 ||
|-
| 841 || Peninsular Railway Exch || San Salvador St. || || || Future Auzerais St. team track.
|-
| 842 || [[Del Monte | California Packing Corp]] Plant #23 || Lincoln Ave. || 8 || 8 || Possibly [[Virden Packing]]?
|-
| 843 || [[Del Monte | California Packing Corp]] Plant #23 || Lincoln Ave. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 844 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 || Lincoln Ave. || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| 845 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 (w/WP) || Lincoln Ave. || 5 || 5 ||
|-
| 846 || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #6 || Lincoln Ave. || 4 || 4 ||
|-
| 847 || [[Hershel California Fruit Products | Hershel Cal Fruit Prod]] || Race and Moorpark || 7 || 5 ||
|-
| 848 || [[United States Products | U.S. Products]] || Race and Moorpark || 10 || 5 ||
|-
| 849 || [[United States Products | U.S. Products]] || Race and Moorpark || 13 || 13 ||
|-
| 850 || San Jose Brick Co. || Foyle Station || 18 || 17 ||
|-
| 851 || San Jose Brick Co. || Foyle Station || 15 || 15||
|}

== Campbell ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| || [[Ainsley Cannery | Ainsley Packing Co.]] Plant #1 || || 11 || 11 ||
|-
| || [[Ainsley Cannery | Ainsley Packing Co. Plant #2]] || || 6 || 6 || Probably "box factory" on east side of tracks.
|-
| || [[California Canneries | California Canners Co.]] || || 15 || 15 ||
|-
| || [[Sunsweet]] Plant #1 || || 3 || 3 ||
|-
| || [[ George_E._Hyde_%26_Company | Hyde Co. - Geo. E]] || || 10 || 9 ||
|-
| || Pac Coast Aggregate || || 28 || 1 ||
|
|}

== Vasona ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
|-
! Siding number || Business || Address || Siding capacity || Industry loading spots || Notes
|-
| || [[ Sewall Brown and Company | Sewall S. Brown]] || || 7 || 7 ||
|}

[[Category:Document]][[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]

California Packing Corporation

2024-03-03T16:34:31Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Francisco
| aliases = [[Del Monte]]
| brands = Del Monte and many others.
| predecessors = [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]]
}}
The '''California Packing Corporation''' (also known by its primary brand, '''Del Monte''' or by the '''CalPak''' nickname) was a major canner and dried fruit processor founded in 1916. The company dominated the industry and California from its inception through the 1980's. The company still exists.

The company was the brainchild of J. K. Armsby, who merged five major canners to create a single large canning conglomerate. The founding companies were [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[ J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and the [[Alaska Packers Association]]. The company a huge range of products: canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California, and vegetables from the midwest. Unlike the [[California Fruit Canners Association]], which created a similarly large merged company in 1899, Del Monte treated the merged organizations as a single company, often canning under the Del Monte name. The Del Monte brand was not used exclusively; there are stories of the San Leandro cannery still canning under the H.G. Prince label in the 1940's<ref>Personal communication, family member. My father remembers seeing H. G. Prince labels being used at the San Leandro Del Monte plant when he worked there in the late 1940's.</ref>. The unification of so many canneries under a single ownership worried the industry at the time<ref>$25,000,000 Merger of California Canneries: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5tExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3OMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1238%2C2158683 August 23, 1916 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Even after the founding, the company continued to buy other companies and expand its empire. Del Monte bought the [[Virden Packing]] cannery in Emeryville in 1927, bought [[H.G. Prince]] in Oakland and San Leandro around the same time.

Del Monte was also memorable because of the common building architecture used for many of its plants.
Philip Bush designed many of the Del Monte plants with a similar modernist brick style, usually in one or two story arrangements. The warehouses in Alameda on the Oakland Estuary were built in 1925 and show Bush's typical design<ref>Alameda Magazine.</ref>. Many of the CalPak buildings survive, often repurposed. The Alameda buildings have been reused for industrial space<ref>[http://laurendo.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/modular-del-monte/ Plans]</ref>, the San Jose dried fruit plant on Bush Street survives as condos, and various plants still can be seen in Oakland and Emeryville.

[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Del-Monte-Foods-company-company-History.html History] comments that earnings in 1930 fell from $6/share to 9c, 1932 were worst losses ever.

San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;f=false Western Canner and Packer]. The City of San Leandro also did a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOCWbSBACo video] describing the cannery.

Sacramento: See
[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]
[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
Comment on Sunnyvale historical document suggests that some dried fruit receiving houses closed in 1926 as receiving was centralized at Plant 51 in San Jose.
In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
Many 1920 references cited in
[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.

[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.

Kahului:
Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [[Alexander and Baldwin]] in 1934.

Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.

[[File:cal-pak-10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|
Santa Ana's Plant #20. First Street in foreground, and Southern Pacific Newport branch crossing image<ref>Photo, First American Title Insurance. found by Bill Messecar, shown on [http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Pacing Houses of Southern California] website.</ref>]]
Merced: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;amp;f=false Largest cannery in the world being built to handle 1924 pack from company's great peach and apricot orchard" "Western Canner and Packer 1922] December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes Del Monte is starting work on big cannery to handle pack of Planada-Tuttle orchard in 1924 season. Feb 1923 WC&amp;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Alameda || || 1925, 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buena%20Vista%20at%20Sherman,Alameda Buena Vista at Sherman] || Former Alaska Packing Corporation salmon cannery. aka Encinal Terminal. Became warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment by 1968<ref>Alameda was one of the major distribution centers in the late 1960's. William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Monte Brand, 1982, Del Monte, p. 142</ref> Being repurposed for housing and retail<ref>From Waterfront Warehouse to Over 300 Homes As Proposed. [http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/06/landmark-del-monte-warehouse-redevelopment-moving-forward.html East Bay section, Socketsite.com].</ref>
|-
| Atwater || || 1922-1939 || || December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes city helping buy lot along SP tracks for California Packing Corporation to expand the present cannery. "The cannery closed November 27 after packing 160,000 cases of peaches and 7,400 cases of sweet potatoes. Arcadia Publishing's Atwater book says Del Monte left in 1939. The plant had started as the Atwater Cannery, a cooperative, in 1905.
|-
| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] || From Oakland City Directory, 1941. Former [[Sunlit Fruit Company]]<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/handbookofmanufa00merc/handbookofmanufa00merc_djvu.txt Handbook of Manufacturers in and Around San Francisco], 1910, The Merchants Association of San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| Chico || Plant #64 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and apricots in 1919.
|-
| De Kalb, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas, lima beans, and corn<ref>From Bill Hirt: on Yahoo ry-ops-industrialsig@yahoogroups.com mailing list, November 25, 2017: "When I worked in the Del Monte cannery in De Kalb IL (just down the road
from Accurail) in the late 70's, we started canning peas and lima beans
by mid-June. We'd can for about 4-5 weeks before switching over to corn.
The cannery only had 8 full time employees - the rest being seasonal
(college students) and migrant workers. The cans were stored unlabeled
and then labeled when the need came to ship."</ref>
|-
| Dinuba || || 155 N. Merced Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Elmhurst|| Plant #58<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || Foot of 85th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory.</ref>. ||
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #35 || 1926-1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] || Former [[Western Canning]]. Now Pixar. Oral history with Stella Adoa Baptista describes working at the plant<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #7 || 1916-1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] || Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Had nursery school<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Franklin, Idaho|| Plant #130<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || ||
|-
| Fresno || Plant #15 || 1916- || || Packing peaches in 1919.
|-
| Fresno || Plant #25 || || || Cannery
|-
| Fresno || Plant #66 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
|-
| Fresno || Plant #67 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
|-
| Fresno || Plant #68 / Plant #68A<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || || Tulare St. at G St. || Dried fruit. Former Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Plant #5 and 6. Becoming site for California HSR station<ref>Karana Hattersley-Drayton, M.A., [http://www.fresno.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41A0CEF4-3F8F-41AC-8E26-A21AEAE97C22/0/CommissionPacket04222013.pdf "Historic Property Survey Report for the Renaissance at Santa Clara Residential Development Project"], Fresno.</ref> Plant stretched along G Street from Mariposa to Kern St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref>.
|-
| Fruitvale|| Plant #37 || 1928- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3000%20East%209th%20Street,Fruitvale 3000 East 9th Street] || Now mall. Former [[H.G. Prince]]? Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
|-
|Gilroy || Plant #55 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit.
|-
| Hanford || Plant #18 || 1916, 1922 || || Packing peaches and grapes in 1919. Photo of workers at building in Paulson House, History Park, San Jose.
|-
| Healdsburg || Plant #56 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and pears in 1919.
|-
|Hollister || Plant #88 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit
|-
| Honolulu, Hawaii || Plant #29 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919.
|-
| Kahului HI || || 1926-1934 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=120%20Kane%20Street,Kahului%20HI 120 Kane Street] || See [http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=HI HAER Survey]
|-
| Kingsburg ||Plant #14 / Plant #25 || 1922-2012 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1101%20Marian%20Avenue,Kingsburg 1101 Marian Avenue] || Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years<ref>Del Monte's Local Plant to Close, 1000 Jobs Lost. [http://hanfordsentinel.com/kingsburg_recorder/news/del-monte-s-local-plant-to-close-jobs-lost/article_32de644c-9edf-11e1-ad35-0019bb2963f4.html May 15, 2012 Kingsburg Recorder].</ref>.
|-
| Lewiston, Idaho || Plant #28 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
|-
| Los Angeles|| Plant #19 || 1916, 1922 || 900 Macy Ave. || Packing tomatoes, beets, and peaches in 1919. Plant was in operation through at least 1922<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/govuscourtsca9briefs1422 Angelus Sanitary Can Co. vs Los Angeles Can Co.], U.S. District Court of Appeals for Southern District of California, Southern Division. "That on the 16th day of Oct. 1922, at the request
of Ray O. Wilson, I carefully examined a Canning
Machine at the plant of the California Packing
Corporation, No. 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles,
California, which machine I am informed was
manufactured by the defendants; "</ref><ref>[Advertisement: Wanted Women for cannery work http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19180528.2.266.4]. May 28, 1918 Los Angeles Herald. "Apply California Packing Corporation, 900 Macy Ave. Brooklyn Ave. car."</ref>. Plant apparently out of commission by July 1925; a SP industry map of Los Angeles doesn't show a California Packing Corporation plant, but does show some unused tracks on Avila St. between Aliso and Macy<ref>Southern Pacific Railroad, [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10751/ Industry Map of Los Angeles]. July 1925. In Huntington Library.</ref>. Los Angeles 1906-1950 Sanborn map shows the California Fruit Canners Association plant #22 at the corner of Macy (now Cesar Chavez) and Mission Road, just north of the modern freeway, with the back side of the cannery facing the railroad tracks and L.A. river.
Building still in existence in 1932<ref>Film, [https://archive.org/details/LAWildrideCa1932H264?fbclid=IwAR2CZ3uIZjJCGGroRSO46PSc3QyotDkbPsvICuEU0cQf7_05INsY1s-eKlw Wild Ride Through downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1932]] From Prelinger Archives. [[http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170279&page=2467 Photo of cannery]] on postings on skyscraper.com on article about Noirish Los Angeles. Building was brick, single story, and appeared to be just under the Aliso St. bridge.</ref>.
|-
| Marysville || || 1921 || ||
|-
| Milpitas || Plant #21 || 1920's || Main St. near Alviso Road || Packing peas in 1920's<ref>Photo of Plant #21: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 John C. Gordon collection, San Jose State]. Note [http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2014/10/setting-scene-how-people-equipment-and.html sweet pea crates, pea vines, viners, and cans].</ref>1930 Sanborn map marks as "not in operation June 1930". Also warehouse on east side of tracks.
|-
| Modesto || || 1969 - ~2000 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4000%20Yosemite%20Blvd,Modesto 4000 Yosemite Blvd] || [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948 "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice"]
|-
| Monterey || || 1926-1962 || || Sardine cannery.
|-
| Mt. Eden || || 1931 || || Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
|-
| Oakland || Plant #6 || 1921, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 122 Filbert.</ref> || [https://goo.gl/maps/eZFWPGUE3HXWQFiN7 First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Linden and Filbert Streets] || Still exists, although brick false front above roofline has been removed. According to signs on photo by James Bungers and [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20433340, Howard Vawter], and 1941 Oakland City Directory. Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Former [[Oakland Preserving Company]].
|-
| Oakland || || || [https://goo.gl/maps/r2PzbLDimURjU7tj6, First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Filbert and Myrtle Streets] || Label printing plant. Buildings still exist, with "California Packing Corporation" and "Label Printing Plant No." signs cast in building faces.
|-
| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=742%20Saunders,Oakland 742 Saunders] ||
|-
| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2085th%20Ave,Oakland 85th Ave] || Foot of 85th Ave
|-
| Oakland || Plant #35 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1250 Park Ave..</ref> 1250 Park Ave. || ||
|-
| Oakland || Plant #237 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 3100 E. 9th. St</ref> || 3100 E. 9th Street || Part of Fruitvale cannery.
|-
| Oakland || Plant #34 || 1924, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1074 and 1100 29th Ave.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%281941%29%201100%2029th%20Ave,Oakland (1941) 1100 29th Ave] || Former [https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company] cannery, bought by Del Monte in 1924<ref>[https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company]. Oakland Wiki. "H. Jones & Company was a major Australian cannery which in 1920 completed construction on a "great plant" in East Oakland. One of the products that the cannery manufactured was their world famous I.X.L. jam... The company was unable to make any inroads into the U.S. market, and sold the plant in 1924 to Del Monte."</ref>.
|-
| Oakland || Plant #24 || 1916-1954 || 2744 East 11th Street || Former [[H.G. Prince]] cannery<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery]. National Register of Historic Places. Earliest building dates to 1916.</ref>.
|-
| Ogden, Utah || Plant #132<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
|-
| Planada || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20120,Planada Highway 120] || Mentioned as Merced.
|-
| Rio Vista ||Plant #22 || 1921,1922,1953 || || Former Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ June 1921 Canning Age]: article on cannery</ref>.
|-
| Rochelle, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas and corn.
|-
| Roseberry || || 1921 || ||
|-
| Sacramento|| || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%203rd%20and%20X%20Street%20,Sacramento 3rd and X Street ] ||
|-
| Sacramento || || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2019th%20and%20R%20Street%20,Sacramento 19th and R Street ] ||
|-
| Sacramento ||Plant #12 || 1922, 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600%202nd%20Street,Sacramento 1600 2nd Street] || Front and P Street<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer] Description of plant</ref><ref>Western Pacific training manual - Sacramento Yard, R Street line. Map in Jeff Asay, "Track and Time:An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad", 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
|-
| Sacramento || || 1925 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th%20and%20C%20Street,Sacramento 17th and C Street] || Now Blue Diamond.
|-
| Sacramento || Plant #11 || 1916- || "G Street" || Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
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| Salem || Plant #26 || 1916-1981<ref>Statesman-Journal Time Capsule: Del Monte Cannery. [http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery December 15, 2013 Salem Statesman Journal]. The first building at the site was built in 1890; a new building was built in 1918. By 1930's, it was a major green bean producer for Del Monte. The plant was expanded in 1971, but closed in 1981.</ref> || 1250 Mill St. SE] || Former [[Oregon Packing Company]], merged into Del Monte in 1916. In SP warehouse until 1935<ref>www.salemhistory.net:[http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm Salem Canneries]</ref> 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant. Packing blackberries, string beans, and pears in 1919.
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| Salem|| Plant #126<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| San Francisco || Plant #1 || 1907-1930's|| [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] || Now the Cannery. In 1919, was packing pears, port and beans, and tomatoes. Plant either dates to before earthquake<ref>FoundSF: [http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods FoundSF]: started as peach cannery and merged into [[California Fruit Canners Association]]</ref>, built for [[M. J. Fontana and Company]] before the earthquake<ref>[[http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm Rod Hadeland]]</ref>, or built on site of Selby smelter in 1907 for [[California Fruit Canners Association]]<ref>Michael R. Corbett, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010. 2012, San Francisco Architectural Heritage</ref>. Closed in 1930's<ref>Harwood Hall, "Eden Township: Its Agriculture", Hayward Area Historical Society, 1997, p. 163, from Del Monte publication.</ref>, and owned by the [[Haslett Warehouse Company]] from 1948<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z03dr5/entire_text/ Guide to the Hassett Warehouse photographs]. San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park collection. "The building was designed by architect William S. Mooser, Jr. and built between 1907-1909 for the California Fruit Canners Association. In 1916, the company merged with three other canners to form the California Packing Company, with foods baring the Del Monte label. From 1937-1948, the building served as storage space for the company's goods until it was purchased in 1948 by the Haslett Warehouse Company. The State of California purchased the building in 1963. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and in 1978 it was acquired by the National Park Service." Photos are dated 1928, perhaps indicating that Hassett operated the warehouse for Del Monte before the purchase.</ref>.
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| San Francisco || Plant #2 || 1919 || || Listed in September 10, 1919 "Lug Box" newsletter as "Specialty", packing preserves, jelly, and catsup.
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| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.
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| San Francisco || || || 234 Front Street || Food laboratory / Inspection and Service Department<ref>William Braznell, "California's Finest". Del Monte Corporation, 1982. Photo caption, pg. 60.</ref>. The lab had previously been in the basement of 101 California previously.
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| San Francisco || || 1950-1975 || 215 Fremont St. || Headquarters.
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| San Jose || Plant #52<ref>Patronize our advertisers: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IiENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5438%2C1093937 January 23, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref> || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cinnabar%20Street,San%20Jose Cinnabar Street] || Former Armsby plant<ref>Mentioned in want ads in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
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| San Jose || Plant #3 || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=849%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose 849 Auzerais St.] || Also listed as "West San Carlos Street" and "by the narrow gauge" in 1919<ref>Advertisements in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref> Former [[San Jose Fruit Packing]] plant.
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| San Jose || Plant #51 || 1919<ref>Advertisement: Wanted a Few Good Packing House Men. In [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DtgxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C3228542 September 19, 1919 San Jose Evening News]. "Plant 51, San Fernando and Bush Street".</ref>, 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=725%20W.%20San%20Fernando,San%20Jose 725 W. San Fernando] || Former [[Griffin and Skelley]]. Closed 1990, moved to Fresno) Grading and processing on 2nd floors along with bins, warehouse on first. Sulfur rooms in south end of building. (Where was plant #50?) (Also plant #54<ref>Appears in 1931 [[Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]]</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1930 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Montgomery%20Street%20at%20Cinnabar.,San%20Jose Montgomery Street at Cinnabar.] || Former Richmond Chase plant.
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| San Jose || || 1936, 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Auzerais%20and%20Meridian%20Road,San%20Jose Auzerais and Meridian Road] || (pit cracker)
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| San Jose || Plant #39 || 1919, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1972<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Pickle Factory.
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| San Jose || Plant #153 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20and%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol and Auzerais St.] || By-products.
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| San Jose || Plant #4 / Plant #34 || 1901<ref>Edith Daley [http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=Edith_Daley_Seventh_Street_Cannery_article claimed] the "Seventh Street" cannery was opened in 1901.</ref>-1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Vinegar works. Location known as "Ruric" station on Southern Pacific
<ref>Southern Pacific. Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation. Western Division
drawing R172. Feb. 1926. In collection of California State Railroad Museum.</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=734%20The%20Alameda,San%20Jose 734 The Alameda] || Sales office, fruit and vegetable purchasing office.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hostetter%20Road,San%20Jose Hostetter Road] || Pit cracking department.
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| San Jose || Seed Farm #185 || before 1977<ref>Obituary: John R. Silveira. In February 5, 1977 Fremont Argus. "A supervisor for 45 years at the Del Monte Corporation Seed Farm #185 in San Jose."</ref> || || References exist to seed farm on Furlong Ave. in Gilroy as plant #185 in recent years.
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| San Jose || Plant #23 || 1931, 1932 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=868%20Auzerais%20Street,San%20Jose 868 Auzerais Street] || A 1932 Southern Pacific industry map shows the former [[Virden Packing]] building as "Calif Packing Corp."<ref>Southern Pacific Coast Division Drawing #18058, "San Jose Terminal District", dated January 27, 1932. Shown in Southern Pacific Trainline #157, Fall 2023, "The San Jose Line Change" by John Signor.</ref><ref>Shows up on <a href="Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]] document as "Lincoln Ave", which building also faces on.</ref>
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| San Leandro ||Plant #27 || 1928 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Thornton%20Avenue%20,San%20Leandro Thornton Avenue ] || Formerly [[H.G. Prince]] according to 1928 Sanborn map, plant #27.
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| San Leandro || Plant #8 || 1931 || 1401 San Leandro Blvd. || West of BART station, vacant as of 2005. 1899-1973. Cannery, dried fruit, agricultural research. Was a packing plant for dried fruit until moved to San Jose in...1960's?<ref>findagrave.com: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr obituary for Marie Fernandes]</ref>. Packing peaches in 1919. Also listed as 752 Saunders (Saunders at Martinez), but the street no longer exists. Originally [[King-Morse Canning Company]].
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| San Lorenzo || Plant #9 || 1916- || Hesperian Blvd. || Opposite SP station. December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes that the cannery will reopen early in 1923 to can spinach from 250 acres. Leonard Perillo superintendent. Packing peaches, pears, tomatoes, and grapes in 1919. Photo in Arcadia's "San Lorenzo" by Doris Marciel.
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| Sanger || || 1922 || || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]
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| Santa Ana || Plant #20 || 1919, 1921, 1937, 1960's<ref>Herman Schultheis, Photo of end of plant, , [http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/785232768 Los Angeles Public Library]</ref> || East First St. || Packing refugee beans and pimentos in 1917<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA20&lpg=RA2-PA20&dq=%22900+macy+street%22+%22los+angeles%22&source=bl&ots=zKfWHqAjDp&sig=B0TKjAsjyR6uhIbIIXMN80UNkYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4gbPf36bQAhVN-mMKHSGLAw0Q6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Santa Ana Cannery to be Re-opened]. January 1917 Western Canner and Packer. "Mr. R. H. McIntosh, whose headquarters are at 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles, has announced that the old cannery on East First Street, Santa Ana, will re-open in August 1917. The building will be repaired and new machinery installed. Operations will be confined to pimentos and refugee beans. Contracts will be let for 400 acres of pimentos and 300 acres of refugee beans."</ref>Packing chili peppers in 1919. Supposedly former [[F. P. Cutting Company]] plant<ref>[http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Packing Houses of Southern California]], Santa Ana page.</ref>, abandoned by 1960's.
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| Santa Rosa || Plant #5 || 1921-1932<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The major part of the cannery closed in 1932 when CalPak consolidated at its San Leandro plant. The West Third office building became a Nulaid egg packing plant. A smaller canning operation stayed in business a few years, producing mostly canned peaches, pears, and fruit cocktail along with some dried fruit."</ref> || Between West 3rd and West 6th Street || Cannery built 1894. Former [[California Fruit Canners Association]] plant, former [[Rose City Canning Company]]? Source for blackberries<ref>July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer</ref>. Packing peaches, blackberries, and pears in 1919. The 6th Street Playhouse occupies part of the former cannery; the 3ed Street side appears to have been destroyed, with the facade perhaps surviving<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The scope of the cannery and its importance to the economy was enormous, In the April-to-October season, workers processed a wide variety of crops, coming by truck and train — pears from Lake and Mendocino counties, apples, berries and cherries from Sebastopol, peaches and plums from Geyserville and Cloverdale. There were also vegetables. Cal Pack, as the company was known, leased fields in Valley Ford and Ignacio to grow spinach and peas...There were even tomatoes from the Sacramento Valley, although Cal Pack's predecessor at the Santa Rosa site, Hunt Brothers Cannery, had long since established itself as the premier tomato processor in the Sacramento area, on its way to becoming a national brand..."</ref> Superintendent was John Oliva in 1920, and Charles Carniglia after. Plant superintendent's house was on Sixth Street.
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| Smithfield, Utah || Plant #138<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Spanish Fork, Utah || Plant #136<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Star Ray, Utah || Plant #34 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Stockton || Plant #10 || 1975 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2716%20East%20Minor,Stockton 2716 East Minor] || Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch.<ref> Lawsuit in 1977 said that Del Monte had warehouses for canned goods out there, and they needed the space to hold the production from the Emeryville and San Jose canneries in the 1970's - there wasn't enough space locally.</ref><ref>December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes it'll reopen on March 1. In 1922, canned 125,000 cases of spinach, 200,000 cases of cling peaches, and 110,000 cases of tomatoes.</ref><ref>Served by Western Pacific. Western Pacific Training Manual, Stockton Yard: Scotts St. to El Pinal Track Diagram. In Jeff Asay, "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad". 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Suisun City || || 1919, 1926, -1930s ||600 Kellogg St. (from USGS survey landmark<ref>USGS Landmark, Fairfield Del Monte Water Tank, 38 14'47"N, 122 02'22"W. Water tank in existence 1936, 1941. </ref>.) ||Dried fruit<ref>[http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html Frank Butterfield bio]</ref>. Packing pears and apricots in 1919. Water tank at southeast corner of plant, painted dark green with Del Monte logo in red. Described as former J.K. Armsby cannery in at least one document, thought it may have been confused with the dried fruit plant in town. Closed in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3-E0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT263&lpg=PT263&dq=fairfield+cannery&source=bl&ots=pF-kdJrOLF&sig=mbbeHolFSxpcQfY-3qgpM4anMzc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV4ojf5MvQAhUN6mMKHai_DlQ4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=fairfield%20cannery&f=false
Suisun Marsh Habitat Management, Preservation, and Restoration Plan]. California Department ofFish and Game, October 2010. Also notes that Del Monte's dried fruit plant in Fairfield also closed in the 1930's.
</ref>
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| Suisun City (Fairfield) || Plant #60 || -1930's || Union Ave. at Broadway St<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield. 1925. Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref><ref>J. K. Armsby Fruit Packing Plant. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&ots=Q2xf80BdMz&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Fairfield], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx. Photo shows a side view of the Armsby packing house, with the note that Armsby was one of the first packers or canners to locate along the railroad in Fairfield.</ref> || Dried fruit. Former J. K. Armsby plant. Photos exist of plant in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Del Monte dried fruit plant, 1930's.] In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, Fairfield.</ref>. Image of packing house in 1940's-era film background<ref>[https://archive.org/details/pet1006r3suisuncityca PET 1006 R3 Suisun City CA.] 1940's stock film of Suisun city area. California Packing Corporation plant visible at 8:25. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref>
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| Sunnyvale || Plant #184 || 1904-1926, 1930-? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=185%20Evelyn,Sunnyvale 185 Evelyn] || Dried fruit receiving house formerly owned by Madison and Bonner, merged into CalPak in 1916, turned into warehouse in 1926, used for corporate seed department after 1930. [http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm/ref/collection/sunnyvale/id/166 | photo]
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| The Dalles, Washington || || 1921 || ||
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| Toppenish, Washington || Plant #122<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] || Did not operate in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ 1922 Western Canner and Packer]: "Not operating this season"</ref>.
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| Vancouver, WA || Plant #27 || 1919 || || Packing preserves, pears, prunes, blackberries, and string beans in 1919.
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| Vancouver, Washington || Plant #127<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Visalia || Plant #17 || 1918, 1922 || 216 N. Tipton St. at Oak St.<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref> || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ Burned down in 1922]. H. G. Hohwiesner was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. Photo shows wood-frame structure<ref>Terry L. Ommen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl2PDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT37&ots=pEiCTaA79F&dq=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&pg=PT37#v=onepage&q=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&f=false Visalia]. </ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1918, 1922, 1934 || 425 N. Johnson Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>(also Johnson Ave. at School Ave<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>) || Former California Fruit Canners Association<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. C. H. Blochburger was manager in 1918. J. W. Dihel was manager in 1934<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #69 || 1918 || corner of School Ave. and East St. || G. A. Fleming was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #70 || 1918 || Johnson cor. North || C. W. Morrill was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Wahiawa, Hawaii || Plant #30 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919. On Oahu.
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| Wasach, Utah || Plant #32 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes and catsup in 1919.
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| West Weber, Utah || Plant #35 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Woodland || || -2000 || ||
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| Yakima, Washington || Plant #125<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Yuba City ||Plant #14 || 1916-1921, 1930 || || Packing peaches in 1919. Post card from 1930 shows low-slung buildings next to railroad track. Other photo shows wooden facade<ref>[https://calisphere.org/item/575d5c684fafaf002d8791d11b972cc2/ California Packing Corporation, Plant #14, 1930s.] California State Library, California history collection picture catalog, McCurry Foto Co., 1924. Listed as Del Monte peach cannery in Yuba City / Meridian.</ref>.
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==Photos==
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]

[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gordon&CISOPTR=1242&CISOBOX=1&REC=20 CalPak (California Packing Corp. aka Del Monte) Plant 51 John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library]

[http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sunnyvale&CISOPTR=166&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 California Packing Corporation Plant No. 184 Sunnyvale Library]

[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3 Preservation San Jose]

[http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/8238 Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery]. Via Sonoma County library.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/40361283@N06/3708909019/ Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda]. From Flickr photos by MSClife.

[http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery Del Monte cannery, Salem Oregon]. From Willamette Heritage Center via Statesmanjournal.com.

[http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=1568 Plant #14], probably Kingsburg. California State Library, California History Room.

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California Packing Corporation

2024-03-03T16:29:14Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Francisco
| aliases = [[Del Monte]]
| brands = Del Monte and many others.
| predecessors = [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]]
}}
The '''California Packing Corporation''' (also known by its primary brand, '''Del Monte''' or by the '''CalPak''' nickname) was a major canner and dried fruit processor founded in 1916. The company dominated the industry and California from its inception through the 1980's. The company still exists.

The company was the brainchild of J. K. Armsby, who merged five major canners to create a single large canning conglomerate. The founding companies were [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[ J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and the [[Alaska Packers Association]]. The company a huge range of products: canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California, and vegetables from the midwest. Unlike the [[California Fruit Canners Association]], which created a similarly large merged company in 1899, Del Monte treated the merged organizations as a single company, often canning under the Del Monte name. The Del Monte brand was not used exclusively; there are stories of the San Leandro cannery still canning under the H.G. Prince label in the 1940's<ref>Personal communication, family member. My father remembers seeing H. G. Prince labels being used at the San Leandro Del Monte plant when he worked there in the late 1940's.</ref>. The unification of so many canneries under a single ownership worried the industry at the time<ref>$25,000,000 Merger of California Canneries: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5tExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3OMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1238%2C2158683 August 23, 1916 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Even after the founding, the company continued to buy other companies and expand its empire. Del Monte bought the [[Virden Packing]] cannery in Emeryville in 1927, bought [[H.G. Prince]] in Oakland and San Leandro around the same time.

Del Monte was also memorable because of the common building architecture used for many of its plants.
Philip Bush designed many of the Del Monte plants with a similar modernist brick style, usually in one or two story arrangements. The warehouses in Alameda on the Oakland Estuary were built in 1925 and show Bush's typical design<ref>Alameda Magazine.</ref>. Many of the CalPak buildings survive, often repurposed. The Alameda buildings have been reused for industrial space<ref>[http://laurendo.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/modular-del-monte/ Plans]</ref>, the San Jose dried fruit plant on Bush Street survives as condos, and various plants still can be seen in Oakland and Emeryville.

[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Del-Monte-Foods-company-company-History.html History] comments that earnings in 1930 fell from $6/share to 9c, 1932 were worst losses ever.

San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;f=false Western Canner and Packer]. The City of San Leandro also did a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOCWbSBACo video] describing the cannery.

Sacramento: See
[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]
[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
Comment on Sunnyvale historical document suggests that some dried fruit receiving houses closed in 1926 as receiving was centralized at Plant 51 in San Jose.
In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
Many 1920 references cited in
[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.

[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.

Kahului:
Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [[Alexander and Baldwin]] in 1934.

Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.

[[File:cal-pak-10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|
Santa Ana's Plant #20. First Street in foreground, and Southern Pacific Newport branch crossing image<ref>Photo, First American Title Insurance. found by Bill Messecar, shown on [http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Pacing Houses of Southern California] website.</ref>]]
Merced: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;amp;f=false Largest cannery in the world being built to handle 1924 pack from company's great peach and apricot orchard" "Western Canner and Packer 1922] December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes Del Monte is starting work on big cannery to handle pack of Planada-Tuttle orchard in 1924 season. Feb 1923 WC&amp;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
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| Alameda || || 1925, 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buena%20Vista%20at%20Sherman,Alameda Buena Vista at Sherman] || Former Alaska Packing Corporation salmon cannery. aka Encinal Terminal. Became warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment by 1968<ref>Alameda was one of the major distribution centers in the late 1960's. William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Monte Brand, 1982, Del Monte, p. 142</ref> Being repurposed for housing and retail<ref>From Waterfront Warehouse to Over 300 Homes As Proposed. [http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/06/landmark-del-monte-warehouse-redevelopment-moving-forward.html East Bay section, Socketsite.com].</ref>
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| Atwater || || 1922-1939 || || December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes city helping buy lot along SP tracks for California Packing Corporation to expand the present cannery. "The cannery closed November 27 after packing 160,000 cases of peaches and 7,400 cases of sweet potatoes. Arcadia Publishing's Atwater book says Del Monte left in 1939. The plant had started as the Atwater Cannery, a cooperative, in 1905.
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| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] || From Oakland City Directory, 1941. Former [[Sunlit Fruit Company]]<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/handbookofmanufa00merc/handbookofmanufa00merc_djvu.txt Handbook of Manufacturers in and Around San Francisco], 1910, The Merchants Association of San Francisco.</ref>.
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| Chico || Plant #64 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and apricots in 1919.
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| De Kalb, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas, lima beans, and corn<ref>From Bill Hirt: on Yahoo ry-ops-industrialsig@yahoogroups.com mailing list, November 25, 2017: "When I worked in the Del Monte cannery in De Kalb IL (just down the road
from Accurail) in the late 70's, we started canning peas and lima beans
by mid-June. We'd can for about 4-5 weeks before switching over to corn.
The cannery only had 8 full time employees - the rest being seasonal
(college students) and migrant workers. The cans were stored unlabeled
and then labeled when the need came to ship."</ref>
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| Dinuba || || 155 N. Merced Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Elmhurst|| Plant #58<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || Foot of 85th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory.</ref>. ||
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| Emeryville || Plant #35 || 1926-1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] || Former [[Western Canning]]. Now Pixar. Oral history with Stella Adoa Baptista describes working at the plant<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
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| Emeryville || Plant #7 || 1916-1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] || Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Had nursery school<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
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| Franklin, Idaho|| Plant #130<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || ||
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| Fresno || Plant #15 || 1916- || || Packing peaches in 1919.
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| Fresno || Plant #25 || || || Cannery
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| Fresno || Plant #66 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
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| Fresno || Plant #67 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
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| Fresno || Plant #68 / Plant #68A<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || || Tulare St. at G St. || Dried fruit. Former Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Plant #5 and 6. Becoming site for California HSR station<ref>Karana Hattersley-Drayton, M.A., [http://www.fresno.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41A0CEF4-3F8F-41AC-8E26-A21AEAE97C22/0/CommissionPacket04222013.pdf "Historic Property Survey Report for the Renaissance at Santa Clara Residential Development Project"], Fresno.</ref> Plant stretched along G Street from Mariposa to Kern St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref>.
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| Fruitvale|| Plant #37 || 1928- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3000%20East%209th%20Street,Fruitvale 3000 East 9th Street] || Now mall. Former [[H.G. Prince]]? Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
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|Gilroy || Plant #55 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit.
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| Hanford || Plant #18 || 1916, 1922 || || Packing peaches and grapes in 1919. Photo of workers at building in Paulson House, History Park, San Jose.
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| Healdsburg || Plant #56 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and pears in 1919.
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|Hollister || Plant #88 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit
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| Honolulu, Hawaii || Plant #29 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919.
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| Kahului HI || || 1926-1934 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=120%20Kane%20Street,Kahului%20HI 120 Kane Street] || See [http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=HI HAER Survey]
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| Kingsburg ||Plant #14 / Plant #25 || 1922-2012 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1101%20Marian%20Avenue,Kingsburg 1101 Marian Avenue] || Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years<ref>Del Monte's Local Plant to Close, 1000 Jobs Lost. [http://hanfordsentinel.com/kingsburg_recorder/news/del-monte-s-local-plant-to-close-jobs-lost/article_32de644c-9edf-11e1-ad35-0019bb2963f4.html May 15, 2012 Kingsburg Recorder].</ref>.
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| Lewiston, Idaho || Plant #28 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Los Angeles|| Plant #19 || 1916, 1922 || 900 Macy Ave. || Packing tomatoes, beets, and peaches in 1919. Plant was in operation through at least 1922<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/govuscourtsca9briefs1422 Angelus Sanitary Can Co. vs Los Angeles Can Co.], U.S. District Court of Appeals for Southern District of California, Southern Division. "That on the 16th day of Oct. 1922, at the request
of Ray O. Wilson, I carefully examined a Canning
Machine at the plant of the California Packing
Corporation, No. 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles,
California, which machine I am informed was
manufactured by the defendants; "</ref><ref>[Advertisement: Wanted Women for cannery work http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19180528.2.266.4]. May 28, 1918 Los Angeles Herald. "Apply California Packing Corporation, 900 Macy Ave. Brooklyn Ave. car."</ref>. Plant apparently out of commission by July 1925; a SP industry map of Los Angeles doesn't show a California Packing Corporation plant, but does show some unused tracks on Avila St. between Aliso and Macy<ref>Southern Pacific Railroad, [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10751/ Industry Map of Los Angeles]. July 1925. In Huntington Library.</ref>. Los Angeles 1906-1950 Sanborn map shows the California Fruit Canners Association plant #22 at the corner of Macy (now Cesar Chavez) and Mission Road, just north of the modern freeway, with the back side of the cannery facing the railroad tracks and L.A. river.
Building still in existence in 1932<ref>Film, [https://archive.org/details/LAWildrideCa1932H264?fbclid=IwAR2CZ3uIZjJCGGroRSO46PSc3QyotDkbPsvICuEU0cQf7_05INsY1s-eKlw Wild Ride Through downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1932]] From Prelinger Archives. [[http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170279&page=2467 Photo of cannery]] on postings on skyscraper.com on article about Noirish Los Angeles. Building was brick, single story, and appeared to be just under the Aliso St. bridge.</ref>.
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| Marysville || || 1921 || ||
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| Milpitas || Plant #21 || 1920's || Main St. near Alviso Road || Packing peas in 1920's<ref>Photo of Plant #21: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 John C. Gordon collection, San Jose State]. Note [http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2014/10/setting-scene-how-people-equipment-and.html sweet pea crates, pea vines, viners, and cans].</ref>1930 Sanborn map marks as "not in operation June 1930". Also warehouse on east side of tracks.
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| Modesto || || 1969 - ~2000 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4000%20Yosemite%20Blvd,Modesto 4000 Yosemite Blvd] || [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948 "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice"]
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| Monterey || || 1926-1962 || || Sardine cannery.
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| Mt. Eden || || 1931 || || Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
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| Oakland || Plant #6 || 1921, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 122 Filbert.</ref> || [https://goo.gl/maps/eZFWPGUE3HXWQFiN7 First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Linden and Filbert Streets] || Still exists, although brick false front above roofline has been removed. According to signs on photo by James Bungers and [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20433340, Howard Vawter], and 1941 Oakland City Directory. Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Former [[Oakland Preserving Company]].
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| Oakland || || || [https://goo.gl/maps/r2PzbLDimURjU7tj6, First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Filbert and Myrtle Streets] || Label printing plant. Buildings still exist, with "California Packing Corporation" and "Label Printing Plant No." signs cast in building faces.
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=742%20Saunders,Oakland 742 Saunders] ||
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2085th%20Ave,Oakland 85th Ave] || Foot of 85th Ave
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| Oakland || Plant #35 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1250 Park Ave..</ref> 1250 Park Ave. || ||
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| Oakland || Plant #237 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 3100 E. 9th. St</ref> || 3100 E. 9th Street || Part of Fruitvale cannery.
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| Oakland || Plant #34 || 1924, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1074 and 1100 29th Ave.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%281941%29%201100%2029th%20Ave,Oakland (1941) 1100 29th Ave] || Former [https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company] cannery, bought by Del Monte in 1924<ref>[https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company]. Oakland Wiki. "H. Jones & Company was a major Australian cannery which in 1920 completed construction on a "great plant" in East Oakland. One of the products that the cannery manufactured was their world famous I.X.L. jam... The company was unable to make any inroads into the U.S. market, and sold the plant in 1924 to Del Monte."</ref>.
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| Oakland || Plant #24 || 1916-1954 || 2744 East 11th Street || Former [[H.G. Prince]] cannery<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery]. National Register of Historic Places. Earliest building dates to 1916.</ref>.
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| Ogden, Utah || Plant #132<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Planada || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20120,Planada Highway 120] || Mentioned as Merced.
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| Rio Vista ||Plant #22 || 1921,1922,1953 || || Former Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ June 1921 Canning Age]: article on cannery</ref>.
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| Rochelle, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas and corn.
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| Roseberry || || 1921 || ||
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| Sacramento|| || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%203rd%20and%20X%20Street%20,Sacramento 3rd and X Street ] ||
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| Sacramento || || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2019th%20and%20R%20Street%20,Sacramento 19th and R Street ] ||
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| Sacramento ||Plant #12 || 1922, 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600%202nd%20Street,Sacramento 1600 2nd Street] || Front and P Street<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer] Description of plant</ref><ref>Western Pacific training manual - Sacramento Yard, R Street line. Map in Jeff Asay, "Track and Time:An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad", 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Sacramento || || 1925 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th%20and%20C%20Street,Sacramento 17th and C Street] || Now Blue Diamond.
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| Sacramento || Plant #11 || 1916- || "G Street" || Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
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| Salem || Plant #26 || 1916-1981<ref>Statesman-Journal Time Capsule: Del Monte Cannery. [http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery December 15, 2013 Salem Statesman Journal]. The first building at the site was built in 1890; a new building was built in 1918. By 1930's, it was a major green bean producer for Del Monte. The plant was expanded in 1971, but closed in 1981.</ref> || 1250 Mill St. SE] || Former [[Oregon Packing Company]], merged into Del Monte in 1916. In SP warehouse until 1935<ref>www.salemhistory.net:[http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm Salem Canneries]</ref> 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant. Packing blackberries, string beans, and pears in 1919.
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| Salem|| Plant #126<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| San Francisco || Plant #1 || 1907-1930's|| [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] || Now the Cannery. In 1919, was packing pears, port and beans, and tomatoes. Plant either dates to before earthquake<ref>FoundSF: [http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods FoundSF]: started as peach cannery and merged into [[California Fruit Canners Association]]</ref>, built for [[M. J. Fontana and Company]] before the earthquake<ref>[[http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm Rod Hadeland]]</ref>, or built on site of Selby smelter in 1907 for [[California Fruit Canners Association]]<ref>Michael R. Corbett, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010. 2012, San Francisco Architectural Heritage</ref>. Closed in 1930's<ref>Harwood Hall, "Eden Township: Its Agriculture", Hayward Area Historical Society, 1997, p. 163, from Del Monte publication.</ref>, and owned by the [[Haslett Warehouse Company]] from 1948<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z03dr5/entire_text/ Guide to the Hassett Warehouse photographs]. San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park collection. "The building was designed by architect William S. Mooser, Jr. and built between 1907-1909 for the California Fruit Canners Association. In 1916, the company merged with three other canners to form the California Packing Company, with foods baring the Del Monte label. From 1937-1948, the building served as storage space for the company's goods until it was purchased in 1948 by the Haslett Warehouse Company. The State of California purchased the building in 1963. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and in 1978 it was acquired by the National Park Service." Photos are dated 1928, perhaps indicating that Hassett operated the warehouse for Del Monte before the purchase.</ref>.
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| San Francisco || Plant #2 || 1919 || || Listed in September 10, 1919 "Lug Box" newsletter as "Specialty", packing preserves, jelly, and catsup.
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| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.
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| San Francisco || || || 234 Front Street || Food laboratory / Inspection and Service Department<ref>William Braznell, "California's Finest". Del Monte Corporation, 1982. Photo caption, pg. 60.</ref>. The lab had previously been in the basement of 101 California previously.
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| San Francisco || || 1950-1975 || 215 Fremont St. || Headquarters.
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| San Jose || Plant #52<ref>Patronize our advertisers: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IiENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5438%2C1093937 January 23, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref> || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cinnabar%20Street,San%20Jose Cinnabar Street] || Former Armsby plant<ref>Mentioned in want ads in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
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| San Jose || Plant #3 || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=849%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose 849 Auzerais St.] || Also listed as "West San Carlos Street" and "by the narrow gauge" in 1919<ref>Advertisements in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref> Former [[San Jose Fruit Packing]] plant.
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| San Jose || Plant #51 || 1919<ref>Advertisement: Wanted a Few Good Packing House Men. In [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DtgxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C3228542 September 19, 1919 San Jose Evening News]. "Plant 51, San Fernando and Bush Street".</ref>, 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=725%20W.%20San%20Fernando,San%20Jose 725 W. San Fernando] || Former [[Griffin and Skelley]]. Closed 1990, moved to Fresno) Grading and processing on 2nd floors along with bins, warehouse on first. Sulfur rooms in south end of building. (Where was plant #50?) (Also plant #54<ref>Appears in 1931 [[Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]]</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1930 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Montgomery%20Street%20at%20Cinnabar.,San%20Jose Montgomery Street at Cinnabar.] || Former Richmond Chase plant.
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| San Jose || || 1931 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lincoln%20Ave.,San%20Jose Lincoln Ave.] || Seen on 1931 siding list.
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| San Jose || || 1936, 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Auzerais%20and%20Meridian%20Road,San%20Jose Auzerais and Meridian Road] || (pit cracker)
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| San Jose || Plant #39 || 1919, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1972<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Pickle Factory.
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| San Jose || Plant #153 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20and%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol and Auzerais St.] || By-products.
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| San Jose || Plant #4 / Plant #34 || 1901<ref>Edith Daley [http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=Edith_Daley_Seventh_Street_Cannery_article claimed] the "Seventh Street" cannery was opened in 1901.</ref>-1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Vinegar works. Location known as "Ruric" station on Southern Pacific
<ref>Southern Pacific. Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation. Western Division
drawing R172. Feb. 1926. In collection of California State Railroad Museum.</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=734%20The%20Alameda,San%20Jose 734 The Alameda] || Sales office, fruit and vegetable purchasing office.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hostetter%20Road,San%20Jose Hostetter Road] || Pit cracking department.
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| San Jose || Seed Farm #185 || before 1977<ref>Obituary: John R. Silveira. In February 5, 1977 Fremont Argus. "A supervisor for 45 years at the Del Monte Corporation Seed Farm #185 in San Jose."</ref> || || References exist to seed farm on Furlong Ave. in Gilroy as plant #185 in recent years.
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| San Jose || || 1932 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=868%20Auzerais%20Street,San%20Jose 868 Auzerais Street] || A 1932 Southern Pacific industry map shows the former [[Virden Packing]] building as "Calif Packing Corp."<ref>Southern Pacific Coast Division Drawing #18058, "San Jose Terminal District", dated January 27, 1932. Shown in Southern Pacific Trainline #157, Fall 2023, "The San Jose Line Change" by John Signor.</ref>
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| San Leandro ||Plant #27 || 1928 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Thornton%20Avenue%20,San%20Leandro Thornton Avenue ] || Formerly [[H.G. Prince]] according to 1928 Sanborn map, plant #27.
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| San Leandro || Plant #8 || 1931 || 1401 San Leandro Blvd. || West of BART station, vacant as of 2005. 1899-1973. Cannery, dried fruit, agricultural research. Was a packing plant for dried fruit until moved to San Jose in...1960's?<ref>findagrave.com: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr obituary for Marie Fernandes]</ref>. Packing peaches in 1919. Also listed as 752 Saunders (Saunders at Martinez), but the street no longer exists. Originally [[King-Morse Canning Company]].
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| San Lorenzo || Plant #9 || 1916- || Hesperian Blvd. || Opposite SP station. December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes that the cannery will reopen early in 1923 to can spinach from 250 acres. Leonard Perillo superintendent. Packing peaches, pears, tomatoes, and grapes in 1919. Photo in Arcadia's "San Lorenzo" by Doris Marciel.
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| Sanger || || 1922 || || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]
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| Santa Ana || Plant #20 || 1919, 1921, 1937, 1960's<ref>Herman Schultheis, Photo of end of plant, , [http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/785232768 Los Angeles Public Library]</ref> || East First St. || Packing refugee beans and pimentos in 1917<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA20&lpg=RA2-PA20&dq=%22900+macy+street%22+%22los+angeles%22&source=bl&ots=zKfWHqAjDp&sig=B0TKjAsjyR6uhIbIIXMN80UNkYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4gbPf36bQAhVN-mMKHSGLAw0Q6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Santa Ana Cannery to be Re-opened]. January 1917 Western Canner and Packer. "Mr. R. H. McIntosh, whose headquarters are at 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles, has announced that the old cannery on East First Street, Santa Ana, will re-open in August 1917. The building will be repaired and new machinery installed. Operations will be confined to pimentos and refugee beans. Contracts will be let for 400 acres of pimentos and 300 acres of refugee beans."</ref>Packing chili peppers in 1919. Supposedly former [[F. P. Cutting Company]] plant<ref>[http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Packing Houses of Southern California]], Santa Ana page.</ref>, abandoned by 1960's.
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| Santa Rosa || Plant #5 || 1921-1932<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The major part of the cannery closed in 1932 when CalPak consolidated at its San Leandro plant. The West Third office building became a Nulaid egg packing plant. A smaller canning operation stayed in business a few years, producing mostly canned peaches, pears, and fruit cocktail along with some dried fruit."</ref> || Between West 3rd and West 6th Street || Cannery built 1894. Former [[California Fruit Canners Association]] plant, former [[Rose City Canning Company]]? Source for blackberries<ref>July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer</ref>. Packing peaches, blackberries, and pears in 1919. The 6th Street Playhouse occupies part of the former cannery; the 3ed Street side appears to have been destroyed, with the facade perhaps surviving<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The scope of the cannery and its importance to the economy was enormous, In the April-to-October season, workers processed a wide variety of crops, coming by truck and train — pears from Lake and Mendocino counties, apples, berries and cherries from Sebastopol, peaches and plums from Geyserville and Cloverdale. There were also vegetables. Cal Pack, as the company was known, leased fields in Valley Ford and Ignacio to grow spinach and peas...There were even tomatoes from the Sacramento Valley, although Cal Pack's predecessor at the Santa Rosa site, Hunt Brothers Cannery, had long since established itself as the premier tomato processor in the Sacramento area, on its way to becoming a national brand..."</ref> Superintendent was John Oliva in 1920, and Charles Carniglia after. Plant superintendent's house was on Sixth Street.
|-
| Smithfield, Utah || Plant #138<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Spanish Fork, Utah || Plant #136<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
|-
| Star Ray, Utah || Plant #34 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
|-
| Stockton || Plant #10 || 1975 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2716%20East%20Minor,Stockton 2716 East Minor] || Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch.<ref> Lawsuit in 1977 said that Del Monte had warehouses for canned goods out there, and they needed the space to hold the production from the Emeryville and San Jose canneries in the 1970's - there wasn't enough space locally.</ref><ref>December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes it'll reopen on March 1. In 1922, canned 125,000 cases of spinach, 200,000 cases of cling peaches, and 110,000 cases of tomatoes.</ref><ref>Served by Western Pacific. Western Pacific Training Manual, Stockton Yard: Scotts St. to El Pinal Track Diagram. In Jeff Asay, "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad". 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
|-
| Suisun City || || 1919, 1926, -1930s ||600 Kellogg St. (from USGS survey landmark<ref>USGS Landmark, Fairfield Del Monte Water Tank, 38 14'47"N, 122 02'22"W. Water tank in existence 1936, 1941. </ref>.) ||Dried fruit<ref>[http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html Frank Butterfield bio]</ref>. Packing pears and apricots in 1919. Water tank at southeast corner of plant, painted dark green with Del Monte logo in red. Described as former J.K. Armsby cannery in at least one document, thought it may have been confused with the dried fruit plant in town. Closed in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3-E0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT263&lpg=PT263&dq=fairfield+cannery&source=bl&ots=pF-kdJrOLF&sig=mbbeHolFSxpcQfY-3qgpM4anMzc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV4ojf5MvQAhUN6mMKHai_DlQ4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=fairfield%20cannery&f=false
Suisun Marsh Habitat Management, Preservation, and Restoration Plan]. California Department ofFish and Game, October 2010. Also notes that Del Monte's dried fruit plant in Fairfield also closed in the 1930's.
</ref>
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| Suisun City (Fairfield) || Plant #60 || -1930's || Union Ave. at Broadway St<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield. 1925. Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref><ref>J. K. Armsby Fruit Packing Plant. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&ots=Q2xf80BdMz&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Fairfield], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx. Photo shows a side view of the Armsby packing house, with the note that Armsby was one of the first packers or canners to locate along the railroad in Fairfield.</ref> || Dried fruit. Former J. K. Armsby plant. Photos exist of plant in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Del Monte dried fruit plant, 1930's.] In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, Fairfield.</ref>. Image of packing house in 1940's-era film background<ref>[https://archive.org/details/pet1006r3suisuncityca PET 1006 R3 Suisun City CA.] 1940's stock film of Suisun city area. California Packing Corporation plant visible at 8:25. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref>
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| Sunnyvale || Plant #184 || 1904-1926, 1930-? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=185%20Evelyn,Sunnyvale 185 Evelyn] || Dried fruit receiving house formerly owned by Madison and Bonner, merged into CalPak in 1916, turned into warehouse in 1926, used for corporate seed department after 1930. [http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm/ref/collection/sunnyvale/id/166 | photo]
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| The Dalles, Washington || || 1921 || ||
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| Toppenish, Washington || Plant #122<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] || Did not operate in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ 1922 Western Canner and Packer]: "Not operating this season"</ref>.
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| Vancouver, WA || Plant #27 || 1919 || || Packing preserves, pears, prunes, blackberries, and string beans in 1919.
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| Vancouver, Washington || Plant #127<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Visalia || Plant #17 || 1918, 1922 || 216 N. Tipton St. at Oak St.<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref> || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ Burned down in 1922]. H. G. Hohwiesner was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. Photo shows wood-frame structure<ref>Terry L. Ommen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl2PDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT37&ots=pEiCTaA79F&dq=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&pg=PT37#v=onepage&q=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&f=false Visalia]. </ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1918, 1922, 1934 || 425 N. Johnson Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>(also Johnson Ave. at School Ave<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>) || Former California Fruit Canners Association<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. C. H. Blochburger was manager in 1918. J. W. Dihel was manager in 1934<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #69 || 1918 || corner of School Ave. and East St. || G. A. Fleming was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Visalia || Plant #70 || 1918 || Johnson cor. North || C. W. Morrill was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Wahiawa, Hawaii || Plant #30 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919. On Oahu.
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| Wasach, Utah || Plant #32 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes and catsup in 1919.
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| West Weber, Utah || Plant #35 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Woodland || || -2000 || ||
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| Yakima, Washington || Plant #125<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Yuba City ||Plant #14 || 1916-1921, 1930 || || Packing peaches in 1919. Post card from 1930 shows low-slung buildings next to railroad track. Other photo shows wooden facade<ref>[https://calisphere.org/item/575d5c684fafaf002d8791d11b972cc2/ California Packing Corporation, Plant #14, 1930s.] California State Library, California history collection picture catalog, McCurry Foto Co., 1924. Listed as Del Monte peach cannery in Yuba City / Meridian.</ref>.
|-
|}

==Photos==
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]

[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gordon&CISOPTR=1242&CISOBOX=1&REC=20 CalPak (California Packing Corp. aka Del Monte) Plant 51 John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library]

[http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sunnyvale&CISOPTR=166&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 California Packing Corporation Plant No. 184 Sunnyvale Library]

[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3 Preservation San Jose]

[http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/8238 Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery]. Via Sonoma County library.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/40361283@N06/3708909019/ Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda]. From Flickr photos by MSClife.

[http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery Del Monte cannery, Salem Oregon]. From Willamette Heritage Center via Statesmanjournal.com.

[http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=1568 Plant #14], probably Kingsburg. California State Library, California History Room.

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California Packing Corporation

2024-03-03T16:28:27Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Francisco
| aliases = [[Del Monte]]
| brands = Del Monte and many others.
| predecessors = [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]]
}}
The '''California Packing Corporation''' (also known by its primary brand, '''Del Monte''' or by the '''CalPak''' nickname) was a major canner and dried fruit processor founded in 1916. The company dominated the industry and California from its inception through the 1980's. The company still exists.

The company was the brainchild of J. K. Armsby, who merged five major canners to create a single large canning conglomerate. The founding companies were [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[ J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and the [[Alaska Packers Association]]. The company a huge range of products: canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California, and vegetables from the midwest. Unlike the [[California Fruit Canners Association]], which created a similarly large merged company in 1899, Del Monte treated the merged organizations as a single company, often canning under the Del Monte name. The Del Monte brand was not used exclusively; there are stories of the San Leandro cannery still canning under the H.G. Prince label in the 1940's<ref>Personal communication, family member. My father remembers seeing H. G. Prince labels being used at the San Leandro Del Monte plant when he worked there in the late 1940's.</ref>. The unification of so many canneries under a single ownership worried the industry at the time<ref>$25,000,000 Merger of California Canneries: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5tExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3OMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1238%2C2158683 August 23, 1916 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Even after the founding, the company continued to buy other companies and expand its empire. Del Monte bought the [[Virden Packing]] cannery in Emeryville in 1927, bought [[H.G. Prince]] in Oakland and San Leandro around the same time.

Del Monte was also memorable because of the common building architecture used for many of its plants.
Philip Bush designed many of the Del Monte plants with a similar modernist brick style, usually in one or two story arrangements. The warehouses in Alameda on the Oakland Estuary were built in 1925 and show Bush's typical design<ref>Alameda Magazine.</ref>. Many of the CalPak buildings survive, often repurposed. The Alameda buildings have been reused for industrial space<ref>[http://laurendo.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/modular-del-monte/ Plans]</ref>, the San Jose dried fruit plant on Bush Street survives as condos, and various plants still can be seen in Oakland and Emeryville.

[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Del-Monte-Foods-company-company-History.html History] comments that earnings in 1930 fell from $6/share to 9c, 1932 were worst losses ever.

San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;f=false Western Canner and Packer]. The City of San Leandro also did a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOCWbSBACo video] describing the cannery.

Sacramento: See
[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]
[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
Comment on Sunnyvale historical document suggests that some dried fruit receiving houses closed in 1926 as receiving was centralized at Plant 51 in San Jose.
In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
Many 1920 references cited in
[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.

[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.

Kahului:
Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [[Alexander and Baldwin]] in 1934.

Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.

[[File:cal-pak-10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|
Santa Ana's Plant #20. First Street in foreground, and Southern Pacific Newport branch crossing image<ref>Photo, First American Title Insurance. found by Bill Messecar, shown on [http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Pacing Houses of Southern California] website.</ref>]]
Merced: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;amp;f=false Largest cannery in the world being built to handle 1924 pack from company's great peach and apricot orchard" "Western Canner and Packer 1922] December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes Del Monte is starting work on big cannery to handle pack of Planada-Tuttle orchard in 1924 season. Feb 1923 WC&amp;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Alameda || || 1925, 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buena%20Vista%20at%20Sherman,Alameda Buena Vista at Sherman] || Former Alaska Packing Corporation salmon cannery. aka Encinal Terminal. Became warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment by 1968<ref>Alameda was one of the major distribution centers in the late 1960's. William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Monte Brand, 1982, Del Monte, p. 142</ref> Being repurposed for housing and retail<ref>From Waterfront Warehouse to Over 300 Homes As Proposed. [http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/06/landmark-del-monte-warehouse-redevelopment-moving-forward.html East Bay section, Socketsite.com].</ref>
|-
| Atwater || || 1922-1939 || || December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes city helping buy lot along SP tracks for California Packing Corporation to expand the present cannery. "The cannery closed November 27 after packing 160,000 cases of peaches and 7,400 cases of sweet potatoes. Arcadia Publishing's Atwater book says Del Monte left in 1939. The plant had started as the Atwater Cannery, a cooperative, in 1905.
|-
| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] || From Oakland City Directory, 1941. Former [[Sunlit Fruit Company]]<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/handbookofmanufa00merc/handbookofmanufa00merc_djvu.txt Handbook of Manufacturers in and Around San Francisco], 1910, The Merchants Association of San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| Chico || Plant #64 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and apricots in 1919.
|-
| De Kalb, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas, lima beans, and corn<ref>From Bill Hirt: on Yahoo ry-ops-industrialsig@yahoogroups.com mailing list, November 25, 2017: "When I worked in the Del Monte cannery in De Kalb IL (just down the road
from Accurail) in the late 70's, we started canning peas and lima beans
by mid-June. We'd can for about 4-5 weeks before switching over to corn.
The cannery only had 8 full time employees - the rest being seasonal
(college students) and migrant workers. The cans were stored unlabeled
and then labeled when the need came to ship."</ref>
|-
| Dinuba || || 155 N. Merced Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Elmhurst|| Plant #58<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || Foot of 85th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory.</ref>. ||
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #35 || 1926-1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] || Former [[Western Canning]]. Now Pixar. Oral history with Stella Adoa Baptista describes working at the plant<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #7 || 1916-1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] || Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Had nursery school<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Franklin, Idaho|| Plant #130<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || ||
|-
| Fresno || Plant #15 || 1916- || || Packing peaches in 1919.
|-
| Fresno || Plant #25 || || || Cannery
|-
| Fresno || Plant #66 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
|-
| Fresno || Plant #67 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
|-
| Fresno || Plant #68 / Plant #68A<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || || Tulare St. at G St. || Dried fruit. Former Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Plant #5 and 6. Becoming site for California HSR station<ref>Karana Hattersley-Drayton, M.A., [http://www.fresno.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41A0CEF4-3F8F-41AC-8E26-A21AEAE97C22/0/CommissionPacket04222013.pdf "Historic Property Survey Report for the Renaissance at Santa Clara Residential Development Project"], Fresno.</ref> Plant stretched along G Street from Mariposa to Kern St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref>.
|-
| Fruitvale|| Plant #37 || 1928- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3000%20East%209th%20Street,Fruitvale 3000 East 9th Street] || Now mall. Former [[H.G. Prince]]? Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
|-
|Gilroy || Plant #55 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit.
|-
| Hanford || Plant #18 || 1916, 1922 || || Packing peaches and grapes in 1919. Photo of workers at building in Paulson House, History Park, San Jose.
|-
| Healdsburg || Plant #56 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and pears in 1919.
|-
|Hollister || Plant #88 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit
|-
| Honolulu, Hawaii || Plant #29 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919.
|-
| Kahului HI || || 1926-1934 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=120%20Kane%20Street,Kahului%20HI 120 Kane Street] || See [http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=HI HAER Survey]
|-
| Kingsburg ||Plant #14 / Plant #25 || 1922-2012 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1101%20Marian%20Avenue,Kingsburg 1101 Marian Avenue] || Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years<ref>Del Monte's Local Plant to Close, 1000 Jobs Lost. [http://hanfordsentinel.com/kingsburg_recorder/news/del-monte-s-local-plant-to-close-jobs-lost/article_32de644c-9edf-11e1-ad35-0019bb2963f4.html May 15, 2012 Kingsburg Recorder].</ref>.
|-
| Lewiston, Idaho || Plant #28 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
|-
| Los Angeles|| Plant #19 || 1916, 1922 || 900 Macy Ave. || Packing tomatoes, beets, and peaches in 1919. Plant was in operation through at least 1922<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/govuscourtsca9briefs1422 Angelus Sanitary Can Co. vs Los Angeles Can Co.], U.S. District Court of Appeals for Southern District of California, Southern Division. "That on the 16th day of Oct. 1922, at the request
of Ray O. Wilson, I carefully examined a Canning
Machine at the plant of the California Packing
Corporation, No. 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles,
California, which machine I am informed was
manufactured by the defendants; "</ref><ref>[Advertisement: Wanted Women for cannery work http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19180528.2.266.4]. May 28, 1918 Los Angeles Herald. "Apply California Packing Corporation, 900 Macy Ave. Brooklyn Ave. car."</ref>. Plant apparently out of commission by July 1925; a SP industry map of Los Angeles doesn't show a California Packing Corporation plant, but does show some unused tracks on Avila St. between Aliso and Macy<ref>Southern Pacific Railroad, [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10751/ Industry Map of Los Angeles]. July 1925. In Huntington Library.</ref>. Los Angeles 1906-1950 Sanborn map shows the California Fruit Canners Association plant #22 at the corner of Macy (now Cesar Chavez) and Mission Road, just north of the modern freeway, with the back side of the cannery facing the railroad tracks and L.A. river.
Building still in existence in 1932<ref>Film, [https://archive.org/details/LAWildrideCa1932H264?fbclid=IwAR2CZ3uIZjJCGGroRSO46PSc3QyotDkbPsvICuEU0cQf7_05INsY1s-eKlw Wild Ride Through downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1932]] From Prelinger Archives. [[http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170279&page=2467 Photo of cannery]] on postings on skyscraper.com on article about Noirish Los Angeles. Building was brick, single story, and appeared to be just under the Aliso St. bridge.</ref>.
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| Marysville || || 1921 || ||
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| Milpitas || Plant #21 || 1920's || Main St. near Alviso Road || Packing peas in 1920's<ref>Photo of Plant #21: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 John C. Gordon collection, San Jose State]. Note [http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2014/10/setting-scene-how-people-equipment-and.html sweet pea crates, pea vines, viners, and cans].</ref>1930 Sanborn map marks as "not in operation June 1930". Also warehouse on east side of tracks.
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| Modesto || || 1969 - ~2000 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4000%20Yosemite%20Blvd,Modesto 4000 Yosemite Blvd] || [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948 "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice"]
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| Monterey || || 1926-1962 || || Sardine cannery.
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| Mt. Eden || || 1931 || || Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
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| Oakland || Plant #6 || 1921, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 122 Filbert.</ref> || [https://goo.gl/maps/eZFWPGUE3HXWQFiN7 First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Linden and Filbert Streets] || Still exists, although brick false front above roofline has been removed. According to signs on photo by James Bungers and [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20433340, Howard Vawter], and 1941 Oakland City Directory. Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Former [[Oakland Preserving Company]].
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| Oakland || || || [https://goo.gl/maps/r2PzbLDimURjU7tj6, First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Filbert and Myrtle Streets] || Label printing plant. Buildings still exist, with "California Packing Corporation" and "Label Printing Plant No." signs cast in building faces.
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=742%20Saunders,Oakland 742 Saunders] ||
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| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2085th%20Ave,Oakland 85th Ave] || Foot of 85th Ave
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| Oakland || Plant #35 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1250 Park Ave..</ref> 1250 Park Ave. || ||
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| Oakland || Plant #237 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 3100 E. 9th. St</ref> || 3100 E. 9th Street || Part of Fruitvale cannery.
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| Oakland || Plant #34 || 1924, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1074 and 1100 29th Ave.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%281941%29%201100%2029th%20Ave,Oakland (1941) 1100 29th Ave] || Former [https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company] cannery, bought by Del Monte in 1924<ref>[https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company]. Oakland Wiki. "H. Jones & Company was a major Australian cannery which in 1920 completed construction on a "great plant" in East Oakland. One of the products that the cannery manufactured was their world famous I.X.L. jam... The company was unable to make any inroads into the U.S. market, and sold the plant in 1924 to Del Monte."</ref>.
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| Oakland || Plant #24 || 1916-1954 || 2744 East 11th Street || Former [[H.G. Prince]] cannery<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery]. National Register of Historic Places. Earliest building dates to 1916.</ref>.
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| Ogden, Utah || Plant #132<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Planada || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20120,Planada Highway 120] || Mentioned as Merced.
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| Rio Vista ||Plant #22 || 1921,1922,1953 || || Former Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ June 1921 Canning Age]: article on cannery</ref>.
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| Rochelle, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas and corn.
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| Roseberry || || 1921 || ||
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| Sacramento|| || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%203rd%20and%20X%20Street%20,Sacramento 3rd and X Street ] ||
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| Sacramento || || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2019th%20and%20R%20Street%20,Sacramento 19th and R Street ] ||
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| Sacramento ||Plant #12 || 1922, 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600%202nd%20Street,Sacramento 1600 2nd Street] || Front and P Street<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer] Description of plant</ref><ref>Western Pacific training manual - Sacramento Yard, R Street line. Map in Jeff Asay, "Track and Time:An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad", 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Sacramento || || 1925 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th%20and%20C%20Street,Sacramento 17th and C Street] || Now Blue Diamond.
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| Sacramento || Plant #11 || 1916- || "G Street" || Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
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| Salem || Plant #26 || 1916-1981<ref>Statesman-Journal Time Capsule: Del Monte Cannery. [http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery December 15, 2013 Salem Statesman Journal]. The first building at the site was built in 1890; a new building was built in 1918. By 1930's, it was a major green bean producer for Del Monte. The plant was expanded in 1971, but closed in 1981.</ref> || 1250 Mill St. SE] || Former [[Oregon Packing Company]], merged into Del Monte in 1916. In SP warehouse until 1935<ref>www.salemhistory.net:[http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm Salem Canneries]</ref> 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant. Packing blackberries, string beans, and pears in 1919.
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| Salem|| Plant #126<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| San Francisco || Plant #1 || 1907-1930's|| [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] || Now the Cannery. In 1919, was packing pears, port and beans, and tomatoes. Plant either dates to before earthquake<ref>FoundSF: [http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods FoundSF]: started as peach cannery and merged into [[California Fruit Canners Association]]</ref>, built for [[M. J. Fontana and Company]] before the earthquake<ref>[[http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm Rod Hadeland]]</ref>, or built on site of Selby smelter in 1907 for [[California Fruit Canners Association]]<ref>Michael R. Corbett, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010. 2012, San Francisco Architectural Heritage</ref>. Closed in 1930's<ref>Harwood Hall, "Eden Township: Its Agriculture", Hayward Area Historical Society, 1997, p. 163, from Del Monte publication.</ref>, and owned by the [[Haslett Warehouse Company]] from 1948<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z03dr5/entire_text/ Guide to the Hassett Warehouse photographs]. San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park collection. "The building was designed by architect William S. Mooser, Jr. and built between 1907-1909 for the California Fruit Canners Association. In 1916, the company merged with three other canners to form the California Packing Company, with foods baring the Del Monte label. From 1937-1948, the building served as storage space for the company's goods until it was purchased in 1948 by the Haslett Warehouse Company. The State of California purchased the building in 1963. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and in 1978 it was acquired by the National Park Service." Photos are dated 1928, perhaps indicating that Hassett operated the warehouse for Del Monte before the purchase.</ref>.
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| San Francisco || Plant #2 || 1919 || || Listed in September 10, 1919 "Lug Box" newsletter as "Specialty", packing preserves, jelly, and catsup.
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| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.
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| San Francisco || || || 234 Front Street || Food laboratory / Inspection and Service Department<ref>William Braznell, "California's Finest". Del Monte Corporation, 1982. Photo caption, pg. 60.</ref>. The lab had previously been in the basement of 101 California previously.
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| San Francisco || || 1950-1975 || 215 Fremont St. || Headquarters.
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| San Jose || Plant #52<ref>Patronize our advertisers: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IiENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5438%2C1093937 January 23, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref> || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cinnabar%20Street,San%20Jose Cinnabar Street] || Former Armsby plant<ref>Mentioned in want ads in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
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| San Jose || Plant #3 || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=849%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose 849 Auzerais St.] || Also listed as "West San Carlos Street" and "by the narrow gauge" in 1919<ref>Advertisements in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref> Former [[San Jose Fruit Packing]] plant.
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| San Jose || Plant #51 || 1919<ref>Advertisement: Wanted a Few Good Packing House Men. In [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DtgxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C3228542 September 19, 1919 San Jose Evening News]. "Plant 51, San Fernando and Bush Street".</ref>, 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=725%20W.%20San%20Fernando,San%20Jose 725 W. San Fernando] || Former [[Griffin and Skelley]]. Closed 1990, moved to Fresno) Grading and processing on 2nd floors along with bins, warehouse on first. Sulfur rooms in south end of building. (Where was plant #50?) (Also plant #54<ref>Appears in 1931 [[Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]]</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1930 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Montgomery%20Street%20at%20Cinnabar.,San%20Jose Montgomery Street at Cinnabar.] || Former Richmond Chase plant.
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| San Jose || || 1931 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lincoln%20Ave.,San%20Jose Lincoln Ave.] || Seen on 1931 siding list.
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| San Jose || || 1936, 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Auzerais%20and%20Meridian%20Road,San%20Jose Auzerais and Meridian Road] || (pit cracker)
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| San Jose || Plant #39 || 1919, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1972<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Pickle Factory.
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| San Jose || Plant #153 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20and%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol and Auzerais St.] || By-products.
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| San Jose || Plant #4 / Plant #34 || 1901<ref>Edith Daley [http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=Edith_Daley_Seventh_Street_Cannery_article claimed] the "Seventh Street" cannery was opened in 1901.</ref>-1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Vinegar works. Location known as "Ruric" station on Southern Pacific
<ref>Southern Pacific. Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation. Western Division
drawing R172. Feb. 1926. In collection of California State Railroad Museum.</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=734%20The%20Alameda,San%20Jose 734 The Alameda] || Sales office, fruit and vegetable purchasing office.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hostetter%20Road,San%20Jose Hostetter Road] || Pit cracking department.
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| San Jose || Seed Farm #185 || before 1977<ref>Obituary: John R. Silveira. In February 5, 1977 Fremont Argus. "A supervisor for 45 years at the Del Monte Corporation Seed Farm #185 in San Jose."</ref> || || References exist to seed farm on Furlong Ave. in Gilroy as plant #185 in recent years.
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| San Jose || 1932 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=868%20Auzerais%20Street,San%20Jose 868 Auzerais Street] || A 1932 Southern Pacific industry map shows the former [[Virden Packing]] building as "Calif Packing Corp."<ref>Southern Pacific Coast Division Drawing #18058, "San Jose Terminal District", dated January 27, 1932. Shown in Southern Pacific Trainline #157, Fall 2023, "The San Jose Line Change" by John Signor.</ref>
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| San Leandro ||Plant #27 || 1928 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Thornton%20Avenue%20,San%20Leandro Thornton Avenue ] || Formerly [[H.G. Prince]] according to 1928 Sanborn map, plant #27.
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| San Leandro || Plant #8 || 1931 || 1401 San Leandro Blvd. || West of BART station, vacant as of 2005. 1899-1973. Cannery, dried fruit, agricultural research. Was a packing plant for dried fruit until moved to San Jose in...1960's?<ref>findagrave.com: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr obituary for Marie Fernandes]</ref>. Packing peaches in 1919. Also listed as 752 Saunders (Saunders at Martinez), but the street no longer exists. Originally [[King-Morse Canning Company]].
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| San Lorenzo || Plant #9 || 1916- || Hesperian Blvd. || Opposite SP station. December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes that the cannery will reopen early in 1923 to can spinach from 250 acres. Leonard Perillo superintendent. Packing peaches, pears, tomatoes, and grapes in 1919. Photo in Arcadia's "San Lorenzo" by Doris Marciel.
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| Sanger || || 1922 || || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]
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| Santa Ana || Plant #20 || 1919, 1921, 1937, 1960's<ref>Herman Schultheis, Photo of end of plant, , [http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/785232768 Los Angeles Public Library]</ref> || East First St. || Packing refugee beans and pimentos in 1917<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA20&lpg=RA2-PA20&dq=%22900+macy+street%22+%22los+angeles%22&source=bl&ots=zKfWHqAjDp&sig=B0TKjAsjyR6uhIbIIXMN80UNkYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4gbPf36bQAhVN-mMKHSGLAw0Q6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Santa Ana Cannery to be Re-opened]. January 1917 Western Canner and Packer. "Mr. R. H. McIntosh, whose headquarters are at 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles, has announced that the old cannery on East First Street, Santa Ana, will re-open in August 1917. The building will be repaired and new machinery installed. Operations will be confined to pimentos and refugee beans. Contracts will be let for 400 acres of pimentos and 300 acres of refugee beans."</ref>Packing chili peppers in 1919. Supposedly former [[F. P. Cutting Company]] plant<ref>[http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Packing Houses of Southern California]], Santa Ana page.</ref>, abandoned by 1960's.
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| Santa Rosa || Plant #5 || 1921-1932<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The major part of the cannery closed in 1932 when CalPak consolidated at its San Leandro plant. The West Third office building became a Nulaid egg packing plant. A smaller canning operation stayed in business a few years, producing mostly canned peaches, pears, and fruit cocktail along with some dried fruit."</ref> || Between West 3rd and West 6th Street || Cannery built 1894. Former [[California Fruit Canners Association]] plant, former [[Rose City Canning Company]]? Source for blackberries<ref>July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer</ref>. Packing peaches, blackberries, and pears in 1919. The 6th Street Playhouse occupies part of the former cannery; the 3ed Street side appears to have been destroyed, with the facade perhaps surviving<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The scope of the cannery and its importance to the economy was enormous, In the April-to-October season, workers processed a wide variety of crops, coming by truck and train — pears from Lake and Mendocino counties, apples, berries and cherries from Sebastopol, peaches and plums from Geyserville and Cloverdale. There were also vegetables. Cal Pack, as the company was known, leased fields in Valley Ford and Ignacio to grow spinach and peas...There were even tomatoes from the Sacramento Valley, although Cal Pack's predecessor at the Santa Rosa site, Hunt Brothers Cannery, had long since established itself as the premier tomato processor in the Sacramento area, on its way to becoming a national brand..."</ref> Superintendent was John Oliva in 1920, and Charles Carniglia after. Plant superintendent's house was on Sixth Street.
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| Smithfield, Utah || Plant #138<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Spanish Fork, Utah || Plant #136<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Star Ray, Utah || Plant #34 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Stockton || Plant #10 || 1975 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2716%20East%20Minor,Stockton 2716 East Minor] || Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch.<ref> Lawsuit in 1977 said that Del Monte had warehouses for canned goods out there, and they needed the space to hold the production from the Emeryville and San Jose canneries in the 1970's - there wasn't enough space locally.</ref><ref>December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes it'll reopen on March 1. In 1922, canned 125,000 cases of spinach, 200,000 cases of cling peaches, and 110,000 cases of tomatoes.</ref><ref>Served by Western Pacific. Western Pacific Training Manual, Stockton Yard: Scotts St. to El Pinal Track Diagram. In Jeff Asay, "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad". 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Suisun City || || 1919, 1926, -1930s ||600 Kellogg St. (from USGS survey landmark<ref>USGS Landmark, Fairfield Del Monte Water Tank, 38 14'47"N, 122 02'22"W. Water tank in existence 1936, 1941. </ref>.) ||Dried fruit<ref>[http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html Frank Butterfield bio]</ref>. Packing pears and apricots in 1919. Water tank at southeast corner of plant, painted dark green with Del Monte logo in red. Described as former J.K. Armsby cannery in at least one document, thought it may have been confused with the dried fruit plant in town. Closed in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3-E0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT263&lpg=PT263&dq=fairfield+cannery&source=bl&ots=pF-kdJrOLF&sig=mbbeHolFSxpcQfY-3qgpM4anMzc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV4ojf5MvQAhUN6mMKHai_DlQ4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=fairfield%20cannery&f=false
Suisun Marsh Habitat Management, Preservation, and Restoration Plan]. California Department ofFish and Game, October 2010. Also notes that Del Monte's dried fruit plant in Fairfield also closed in the 1930's.
</ref>
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| Suisun City (Fairfield) || Plant #60 || -1930's || Union Ave. at Broadway St<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield. 1925. Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref><ref>J. K. Armsby Fruit Packing Plant. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&ots=Q2xf80BdMz&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Fairfield], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx. Photo shows a side view of the Armsby packing house, with the note that Armsby was one of the first packers or canners to locate along the railroad in Fairfield.</ref> || Dried fruit. Former J. K. Armsby plant. Photos exist of plant in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Del Monte dried fruit plant, 1930's.] In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, Fairfield.</ref>. Image of packing house in 1940's-era film background<ref>[https://archive.org/details/pet1006r3suisuncityca PET 1006 R3 Suisun City CA.] 1940's stock film of Suisun city area. California Packing Corporation plant visible at 8:25. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref>
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| Sunnyvale || Plant #184 || 1904-1926, 1930-? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=185%20Evelyn,Sunnyvale 185 Evelyn] || Dried fruit receiving house formerly owned by Madison and Bonner, merged into CalPak in 1916, turned into warehouse in 1926, used for corporate seed department after 1930. [http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm/ref/collection/sunnyvale/id/166 | photo]
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| The Dalles, Washington || || 1921 || ||
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| Toppenish, Washington || Plant #122<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] || Did not operate in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ 1922 Western Canner and Packer]: "Not operating this season"</ref>.
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| Vancouver, WA || Plant #27 || 1919 || || Packing preserves, pears, prunes, blackberries, and string beans in 1919.
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| Vancouver, Washington || Plant #127<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Visalia || Plant #17 || 1918, 1922 || 216 N. Tipton St. at Oak St.<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref> || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ Burned down in 1922]. H. G. Hohwiesner was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. Photo shows wood-frame structure<ref>Terry L. Ommen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl2PDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT37&ots=pEiCTaA79F&dq=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&pg=PT37#v=onepage&q=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&f=false Visalia]. </ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1918, 1922, 1934 || 425 N. Johnson Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>(also Johnson Ave. at School Ave<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>) || Former California Fruit Canners Association<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. C. H. Blochburger was manager in 1918. J. W. Dihel was manager in 1934<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #69 || 1918 || corner of School Ave. and East St. || G. A. Fleming was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #70 || 1918 || Johnson cor. North || C. W. Morrill was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Wahiawa, Hawaii || Plant #30 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919. On Oahu.
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| Wasach, Utah || Plant #32 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes and catsup in 1919.
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| West Weber, Utah || Plant #35 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Woodland || || -2000 || ||
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| Yakima, Washington || Plant #125<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Yuba City ||Plant #14 || 1916-1921, 1930 || || Packing peaches in 1919. Post card from 1930 shows low-slung buildings next to railroad track. Other photo shows wooden facade<ref>[https://calisphere.org/item/575d5c684fafaf002d8791d11b972cc2/ California Packing Corporation, Plant #14, 1930s.] California State Library, California history collection picture catalog, McCurry Foto Co., 1924. Listed as Del Monte peach cannery in Yuba City / Meridian.</ref>.
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==Photos==
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]

[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gordon&CISOPTR=1242&CISOBOX=1&REC=20 CalPak (California Packing Corp. aka Del Monte) Plant 51 John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library]

[http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sunnyvale&CISOPTR=166&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 California Packing Corporation Plant No. 184 Sunnyvale Library]

[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3 Preservation San Jose]

[http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/8238 Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery]. Via Sonoma County library.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/40361283@N06/3708909019/ Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda]. From Flickr photos by MSClife.

[http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery Del Monte cannery, Salem Oregon]. From Willamette Heritage Center via Statesmanjournal.com.

[http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=1568 Plant #14], probably Kingsburg. California State Library, California History Room.

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Virden Packing

2024-03-03T16:27:23Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Francisco
| primary_dates = 1919-1930
| brands = Campfire (both meat and fruits)
| predecessors = [[Western Canning]], [[Salsina Packing and Canning Company]], [[United Canneries]] of Oakland.
| successors = [[Sterling Canning]]
}}
__NOTOC__
[[File:Virden.jpg|200px|thumb|right|Virden Packing label]]
The '''Virden Packing Company''' was a meat and fruit canner and fruit packer with origins in Sacramento but eventually headquartered in San Francisco. The Virden Company was incorporated in 1919<ref>New Factor Enters California Industry. [http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&lpg=RA6-PA23&ots=n2W8dLJGPQ&dq=%22charles%20e.%20virden%22%20virden%20packing&pg=RA6-PA23#v=onepage&q&f=false August 1921 Canning Age] </ref>. The company started out as a meat packer, but expanded in 1919-1922 into the canned fruit business, describing themselves as "A New California Packer"<ref>May 1922 Western Canner and Packer</ref>. Supposedly, peaches was one of their specialties. Both meat and fruit were
canned under the Campfire brand<ref>Advertisement, [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA3-PA51#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false August 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>.

The company had major stockyards in South San Francisco (next to Swift)<ref>South San Francisco [http://www.ssf.net/DocumentView.aspx?DID=1827 history]</ref> and Sacramento. Starting around 1920, Virden bought several canneries in succession, first buying Emeryville's [[Western Canning]] in
May 1921<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&dq=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&pg=RA3-PA51#v=onepage&q=%22berger%20and%20carter%22&f=false June 1921 Canning Age] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA48&lpg=RA2-PA48&dq=virden+packing+fruitvale&source=bl&ots=1681C8Pyuv&sig=aZaaCyRrW_JSGdZtROy9LY9Uspg&hl=en&sa=X&ei=cCETT_KoLYqIiALTja3FDQ&ved=0CCYQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=virden%20packing%20fruitvale&f=false July 1921 Canning Age]
</ref> from the Chinese-American [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA51#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false Mee family]. They then bought [[United Canneries]] of Oakland at the foot of 9th Street in 1922, according to
[http://books.google.com/books?id=h6rmAAAAMAAJ&dq=canning%20age&pg=RA1-PA27#v=onepage&q=canning%20age&f=false February 1922 Canning Age]
The [[United Canneries]] plant had cost $500,000 to build, and had a capacity of 400,000 cases. "H.L. Lafler, industrial engineer, undertook the transfer."
Virden also bought the then-idle [[Salsina Packing and Canning Company]] on Lincoln Ave. in San Jose for $115,000, hoping to use it for fruit and meat canning<ref>California Canneries: [[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA50&ots=1693B6Rsxs&dq=virden%20packing%2C%20lincoln%20ave&pg=RA10-PA50#v=onepage&q=virden%20packing,%20lincoln%20ave&f=false March 1922 Western Canner and Packer]]</ref>. [http://books.google.com/books?id=0BkdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA3-PA15&ots=SOTfcBoIlP&dq=salsini%20canning%20%20-barbara&pg=RA3-PA15#v=onepage&q=salsini%20canning%20%20-barbara&f=false Wholesale Grocery Review ]
says that 8,000 tons of fruit will be canned there.
There were also signs that Virden owned [[Pioneer Fruit Company]] in 1920's according to lawsuit from Zellerbach Paper going after Virden for unpaid bills.
Virden also canned olives for the California Olive Growers Association according to Pacific Rural Press, Oct. 15, 1921.
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA4-PA5&ots=16bZD6Vvxo&dq=virden%20packing&pg=RA5-PA12#v=onepage&q&f=false Western Canner and Packer ]
similarly mentioned that they'd be handling the entire pack for the association through the Emeryville and Tulare canneries.

The company also planned a cannery in Sutter or Yuba County according to November 1921 Canning Age. The area had been shipping 2000 carloads of fruit to San Jose in previous years.
The Marysville cannery opeed in July 1922 according to
[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false Western Canner and Packer]

The company's rapid growth quickly cooled, with the various plants sold off in 1926 and 1927. [[Balfour Guthrie]]
[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=j40rAAAAIBAJ&sjid=VvcFAAAAIBAJ&pg=547,10241728&dq=california-packing+san+jose&hl=en took option to buy packing plants in May 1926]-Marysville, San Jose, Elmhurst, Fruitvale, and Emeryville.
The Salsina plant supposedly went to [[Balfour Guthrie]]. The Marysville plant was listed as [[Balfour Guthrie]] on 1932 Sanborn. Virden's meat packing houses in Sacramento and South San Francisco were kept, but several lawsuits in the 1930's claimed that Virden didn't build all the meat packing businesses that they said when they issued stock. Virden Packing stock had a surprising pop in 1929 which hinted at a possible merger<ref>Financial News. In [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/103602766/ September 11, 1929 Oakland Tribune]. "The spectacular rise in Virden Packing shares late yesterday afternoon caused the San Francisco Curb Exchange today to throw out feelers to ascertain brokers' positions on them. No explanation of the sudden galvanizing of this long dormant stock into action with an advance of over 150 per cent within a few minutes after the first sale. President Charles Virden is out of town, the report being that he is in Los Angeles and other officials refused to discuss merger rumors.".</ref> Virden's meat packing houses in South San Francisco and perhaps elsewhere were sold in May 1935 to Armour.

Balfour Guthrie's ownership of the Virden canneries was short; by September, their five canneries had been sold to the "[[Sterling Canning | Sterling Company]]", a subsidiary of the [[California Packing Corporation]]. Balfour Guthrie's purchase in May 1927 had been a lease-purchase agreement, with a year's option to purchase the company<ref>Five Virden Canneries Purchased By Sterling Co. for $3,500,000. [http://newspaperarchive.com/us/california/oakland/oakland-tribune/1927/09-14/page-40 September 14, 1927 Oakland Tribune].</ref>.

Charles Virden, the founder, had been general manager of [[California Fruit Distributors]] for several years at Sacramento. National Provisioner magazine of 1922 wrote about the annual meeting, and stated that the company was based in San Francisco but Charles E. Virden was from Sacramento. Virden moved to San Francisco in 1921 according to
[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA19&ots=9QGVdCBwKD&dq=%22charles%20e.%20virden%22%20virden%20packing&pg=PA19#v=onepage&q&f=false Western Canner and Packer]
Virden was a booster, active both in Sacramento and San Francisco. He spoke out on subjects of interest, such as [http://books.google.com/books?id=369CAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA663&ots=bDhsBwPkYy&dq=%22charles%20e.%20virden%22%20virden%20packing&pg=PA663#v=onepage&q&f=false freight car shortages].

Two other early employees - [[F. E. Laney]] and W. P. Mullen - were part of Berkeley's [[Sunlit Fruit Company]] which had been absorbed by the [[California Packing Corporation]]. Mullen wrote about Virden's Marysville cannery and marketing plan in the [http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA4-PA5&ots=16c1CcVvDp&dq=virden%20packing&pg=RA4-PA5#v=onepage&q=virden%20packing&f=false October 1921 Western Canner and Packer].

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Elmhurst || 1922, 1926 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Foot%20of%2085th%20Street.,Elmhurst Foot of 85th Street.] ||
|-
| Emeryville || 1919, 1922, 1926, 1927 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Park%20Ave,Emeryville Park Ave] ||
|-
| Fruitvale<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1925/1925_1826.pdf Oakland 1926 directory] </ref> || 1925, 1926, 1927 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1100%2029th%20Street,Fruitvale 1100 29th Street] || Became Del Monte.
|-
| Lindsay || 1922, 1926 || ||
|-
| Marysville || 1922, 1926 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=520%20Olive%20Street,Marysville 520 Olive Street] || Still exists.
|-
| Oroville || 1922, 1926 || || Used by Hearst to pack 1926 crop of peaches.
|-
| Sacramento || 1922 || ||
|-
| San Francisco || 1922 || ||
|-
| San Jose || 1926, 1928, 1932 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=868%20Auzerais%20Street,San%20Jose 868 Auzerais Street] || A 1932 Southern Pacific industry map shows the building as "Calif Packing Corp."<ref>Southern Pacific Coast Division Drawing #18058, "San Jose Terminal District", dated January 27, 1932. Shown in Southern Pacific Trainline #157, Fall 2023, "The San Jose Line Change" by John Signor.</ref>
|-
| South San Francisco || 1932 || ||
|-
|}
==Photos==
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/7319271052/ San Jose plant plan]

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[[Category:Lindsay]]
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[[Category:Cannery]]

Mayfair Packing

2024-03-03T16:22:50Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1931-
| brands = "Sugaripe", "Saratoga", "Farmkist"
}}

The '''Mayfair Packing Company''' was a San Jose-based dried fruit packer founded in 1931 by Joseph Perrucci. Mr. Perrucci was born on Delmas Avenue in San Jose, California and began his career in the canning industry working for the [[California Packing Corporation]]. The Mayfair Packing Company became a partnership in 1938 when Frank I. DiNapoli joined the organization. In 1948 Mayfair acquired the facilities of the old [[Bisceglia Brothers]] plant on South First Street for their Sun Garden operation. Mayfair packed under its own labels, "Sugaripe", "Saratoga" and "Farmkist"<ref>History of Perucci family. In [http://www.italoamericano.com/italian%20american%20scene/mama_and_papa_dinapoli.htm www.italoamerico.com].</ref>

The Mayfair neighborhood on San Jose's east side was named after the company. The current community center is located next to the "old Mayfair packing house". That plant closed in 1993<ref>San Jose Mercury News.</ref>.

Mayfair tried to sell the plant at 631 Sunol Street, but Homer Hamlin (principal of [[Hamlin Fruit]]) and R.S. Butler who had leases on the drying yard protested.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| San Jose || 1943, 1944, 1945<ref>Building permit dated 1943 available from sjpermits.org</ref><ref>Help Wanted Advertisement. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19431001&id=4YMiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OaQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3070,99033 October 1, 1943 San Jose Evening News]. "Mayfair Packing Co. Wants Men for Essential Industry... Apply at Plant No. 2, 631 Sunol St."</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=631%20Sunol%20Avenue%20%281943%2C%201944%2C%201945%29,San%20Jose 631 Sunol Avenue] ||
|-
| San Jose || 1944 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1440%20South%20First%20Street,San%20Jose 1440 South First Street] || Map of 1440 South First Street property<ref>Map of Sun Garden property, probably from environmental impact report. [https://www.flickr.com/photos/23136132@N04/8695047790/ Posted on Flickr.com by JAB88].</ref>
|-
| San Jose || 1944 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2000%20E.%20San%20Antonio%20Street,San%20Jose 2000 E. San Antonio Street] ||
|-
| San Jose || 1946- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=South%20First%20Street,San%20Jose South First Street] ||
Bisceglia Brothers plant. Purchased 1948.
|-
| San Jose || 1964-1990's || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2070%20South%20Seventh%20Street,San%20Jose 2070 South Seventh Street] || Water tank in front of former building had "Mayfair Business Park" painted on the front, possibly in imitation of logo present during Mayfair's operation.
|-
| Santa Clara || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=825%20Campbell%20Ave.,Santa%20Clara 825 Campbell Ave.] ||
Private refrigerated warehouse.
|-
| Santa Clara || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Campbell%20Avenue%20at%20Franklin,Santa%20Clara Campbell Avenue at Franklin] ||
Walnut division.
|-
|}

==Photos==
Movie: [http://pioneerfilms.tumblr.com/post/47569930771/mayfair-packing-was-typical-of-the-packing-houses Success Story: Mayfair Packing]. 1956. Part of the California Pioneers of Santa Clara County film archive.

==References==
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Woelffel Cannery

2024-03-03T16:18:02Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = Cupertino, CA
}}

The '''Woelffel Cannery''' was a cannery in Monta Vista (Cupertino) on the west side of the Santa Clara Valley. The cannery had formerly been the [[Monte Vista Packing Company]]. Richard Woelffel bought the plant in 1927<ref>"Celery to be Canned at Monta Vista Plant: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=oQ4vAAAAIBAJ&sjid=9qMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4170%2C8237447December 12, 1927 San Jose Evening News]: "...recently purchased by R. Woelffel, manager of the California Canneries Co. at Campbell."</ref>. Woelffel cannery was in operation from the 1920's through 1978<ref>Steve Hill, 1970 to Present: [http://ww.stjoscup.org/newsletter/sjc_newsletter_1309.pdf St. Joseph of Cupertino monthly flyer, September 2011].</ref> The plant was along the railroad tracks just south of Stevens Creek Road. Woelffel supposedly produced tomato paste<ref>Bancroft Library, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/bossen_dave.pdf EARLY BAY AREA VENTURE CAPITALISTS: SHAPING THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS LANDSCAPE].</ref>.

Richard Woelffel lived at 322 E. San Salvador in San Jose in 1902, with his son who was in law school.

The cannery was bought by [[Stapleton-Spence]] in the 1970's for the machinery<ref>About Stapleton-Spence: [http://www.stapleton-spence.com/about-stapleton.php stapleton-spence.com]. "Stapleton-Spence purchased Woelfell Canning in Cupertino and soon consolidated operations. With equipment from the Woelfell plant, Gangi Brothers and Safeway, Stapleton-Spence built a prune juice plant."</ref>. The land was later sold to Measurex, a company using radiation to do high-speed measurements of paper thickness in paper plants<ref>Bancroft Library, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/bossen_dave.pdf EARLY BAY AREA VENTURE CAPITALISTS: SHAPING THE ECONOMIC AND BUSINESS LANDSCAPE]. Oral history interview. "Anyway, she located the space, and it belonged to a nice little old lady, who I suppose has passed away now, by the name of Blanche B. Woelffel. She owned thirty-five acres in Cupertino, and she had a factory there that produced tomato paste. She had an evaporator and one big building, and she was growing tomatoes and plums on this property… Well, she had inherited it from her husband who had just died. She sold it to us, and we paid an exorbitant amount, I thought—$50,000 an acre for the first— I think we had thirteen acres originally." </ref>. The Richard Woelffel company was incorporated in California in 1961; it has been dissolved. Blanche Woelffel died in 2003.

Photos and plans of the Monta Vista plant are in the Library of Congress's Historic Architecture and Building Survey<ref>"Woelffel Cannery: [http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhphoto&amp;fileName=ca/ca0900/ca0936/photos/browse.db&amp;action=browse&amp;recNum=0&amp;title2=Woelffel%20Cannery,%2010120%20Imperial%20Avenue,%20Monta%20Vista%20vicinity,%20Santa%20Clara%20County,%20CA&amp;displayType=1&amp;itemLink=S?pp/hh:@field(TITLE+@od1(Woelffel+Cannery,+10120+Imperial+Avenue,+Monta+Vista+vicinity,+Santa+Clara+County,+CA)) Historic Architecture and Building Survey, Library of Congress]</ref>.

Tee Hirata, a Japanese-American, was bookkeeper at Woelffel for 24 years<ref>Mary Lou Lyon [http://books.google.com/books?id=7yZfVQx_gdUC&lpg=PT160&ots=Wm1thbXMV5&dq=%22richard%20woelffel%22%20cupertino&pg=PT159#v=onepage&q=%22richard%20woelffel%22%20cupertino&f=false Early Cupertino]. Arcadia Publishing.</ref>.
Hector Picchetti was superintendent for many years<ref>Rotary Club of Cupertino: [http://portal.clubrunner.ca/3794/Stories/a-special-gift-in-memory-of-a-cupertino-pioneer-hector-picchetti A Special Gift in Memory of a Cupertino Pioneer, Hector Picchetti]. "Hector was born on the Picchetti Ranch, now the site of the Picchetti Winery on Montebello Road in Cupertino. He was raised among the orchards and vineyards of the family's homestead. A skilled inventor and handyman, he was employed for many years at Woelffel Cannery (now gone), on Imperial Avenue in Cupertino. He personified the wonderful work ethic and commitment to family that we all admire in our increasingly complex world. He will be missed." </ref><ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=173344837 Hector Picchetti obituary], San Jose Mercury News obituary, December 3, 2014.</ref>.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Cupertino || -1970s || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10120%20Imperial%20Avenue,Cupertino 10120 Imperial Avenue] ||
|-
|}
==Photos==
[http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/displayPhoto.pl?path=/pnp/habshaer/ca/ca0900/ca0936/photos&topImages=018401pr.jpg&topLinks=018401pv.jpg,018401pu.tif&title=1.%20%20NORTHWEST%20VIEW%20FROM%20STREET%20%3cbr%3eHABS%20CAL,43-MONVI.V,1-1&displayProfile=0 Woelffel Cannery from Imperial Ave.]

[http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=pphhphoto&fileName=ca/ca0900/ca0936/photos/browse.db&action=browse&recNum=0&title2=Woelffel Cannery, 10120 Imperial Avenue, Monta Vista vicinity, Santa Clara, CA&displayType=1 Woelffel Cannery Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress) ]

==References==
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Contadina Canning

2023-11-28T01:42:43Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1914 - 1920, 1931-?
| aliases = Contadina,
| successors = [[Carnation]].
| brands = Contadina, Pacific Star
}}
'''Aiello Brothers & Co''', '''Contadina Canning''', or '''Hershel California Fruit Products''' was a San Jose cannery in operation from 1914 to through the 1950's. The company as the first tomato cannery in the Unites States in 1914 in Highland, New York by Carlo Aiello. Because of World War I restrictions, canned tomatoes from Italy had disappeared, and Aiello sought to fill that void. The company moved to California and San Jose in 1917 for the better growing season, but maintained their farm in New York<ref>[http://www.paolos.com/history.html Paolo's restaurant history]</ref>.

Aiello Brothers operated a large cannery on Moorpark Ave. in San Jose<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D1Cs1K69-i&dq=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. A Western Canner and Packer article mentioned that the cannery was operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.<ref>Unknown issue, Western Canner and Packer</ref>.

Aiello Brothers sold the company to the [[Italo Canning Company]] in 1918<ref>Chicago Co. Takes Over SJ Cannery: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5527%2C3720514 April 4, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The Italo Canning company yesterday made deal taking over the Aiello Canning company's plant located at Moorpark and Race streets. The new owners are large manufacturers of tomato products, and they indend to increase their output materially next fall. The Italo company is a Chicago concern."</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=ij5b9jjJ6x&dq=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer, July 1918]. "incorporators Samuel C. Wood, A.D. Suess of 20 North La Salle Street, Chicago, and I. B. Phillips of Dover, Delaware." "Capital stock is $75,000</ref>. Morici family history noted that Aiello Brothers did not have sufficient capital to keep going, so they sold the cannery and brand to the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>

The new owner, [[Antonio Morici]], was a wholesaler selling italian products in Chicago and the midwest; from 1918 to 1920, his wholesale company was the sole distributor for the products from his cannery. The cannery now operated under "The Contadina Canning Company", with business locations at 652-656 Washington Blvd., Chicago, and San Jose. Agostino Morici was listed as president, and Antonio Morici was general manager. Antonio also moved to San Jose for 1917 and 1918 to operate the cannery. Francesco Aiello was the field man. Antonio Gagni was superintendent.

The cannery reorganized as Hershel California Food Products by the 1920 season<ref>Advertisement, August 1, 1920 San Jose Mercury News. "Phone San Jose 699, and arrange for free transportation."</ref>. The new Hershel California Fruit Products was operated by Aron Hershel, but continued to be majority owned by the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. Hershel had already worked with the Morici family, purchasing wine in California that could be distributed through the midwest by the Antonio Morici wholesale grocery company. Hershel's last name was supposedly used to distance the company from the Morici holdings. The new company also operated independently, selling to wholesalers other than Morici.

Contadina Canning was declared as "since dissolved" in 1922 during a lawsuit over cardoons. Carlo Cervelli and Rafaelo Cervelli grew the vegetables for Contadina, but claimed that the company was unwilling to buy them once grown. Morici, Gangi, and Frank Aiello responded that although Contadina Canning had been dissolved, Hershel California Food Products was operating the cannery then and was willing to enter into contract, but the Cervellis refused<ref>Odd Vegetable is Cause of Court Litigation: [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=T5FO5CNRMTQxMzE4NTc2NS42MzU1MjM6MToxMTpyYS05MDAyMDAxNA&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:11342729F00F3900@EANX-NB-115A1B65C83234A0@2423164-115A1B670D5475D8@9-115A1B6A454EA098@Odd%20Vegetable%20is%20Cause%20of%20Court%20Litigat%27n April 19, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Hershel California Fruit Products took ownership of the "Pacific Star" brand formerly canned by the [[Salsina Canning and Packing Company]] in 1923<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA31&ots=9RCVgwyvLz&dq=%22salsina%20canning%22&pg=RA11-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22salsina%20canning%22&f=false) April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Advertisement claims that Contadina is canning as Pacific Star "formerly canned by Salsina".</ref>.

Contadina disappeared from city directories in that year. The Aiellos continued to serve as officers for Hershel California and worked at the cannery through 1927, but no longer appeared in association by 1930. Antonio Gangi, who had received shares for being superintendent for the cannery,, sold his stake in Contadina Canning Co. in 1936<ref>Obituary: John Gangi, 82, scion of cannery family. May 2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Mr. Gangi was the son of Antonio Gangi, a native of Sicily who came to San Jose from Brooklyn, NY in 1916. The elder Gangi was one of the original tomato paste packers and a co-founder of Contadina Canning Co., once located on Moorpark Avenue in San Jose. The Gangi family sold its interest in Contadina in 1936."</ref>. Morici family history states that Francesco Aiello, Antonio Gagni, and Aron Hershel sold their minority interests in Hershel California Fruit Products in 1934 to the Moricis. Aron Hershel moved to California's Central Valley and opened the [[Aron Canning Company]]. A new cannery was started in Gilroy in 1931 under the Aiello name, but it's unclear if it was the same family that had started the cannery on Moorpark Ave.<ref>January 26, 1931 San Jose Evening News</ref>. Anthony Charles Morici, the eldest son of Antonio Morici, took over leadership of the cannery.

In 1941, Anthony Charles Morici also started the [[Matmor Canning Company]] with Fred Matalone in Woodland, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref> Matmor Canning Company was merged into Hershel California Fruit Products in 1953.

The Morici family widened the Contadina brand in the years after world war II, broadening their list of brokers and wholesalers through more of the United States and adding new products such as beans, peppers, soups and snacks. In 1949, the Morici family also purchased the [[Madonna Foods]] cannery in Riverbank, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. The sale of old railroad land next to the cannery (and relinquishment of government restrictions from transcontinental railroad land grant) mentioned sale of land to Hershel<ref>[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-108srpt305/html/CRPT-108srpt305.htm HR 1658].</ref>.

Contadina was sold to the Carnation Company in 1963<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contadina Contadina]. Wikipedia.</ref>. Hints suggest the cannery went to [[Glorietta Foods]] and [[Tri-Valley Canners]] in later years. The San Jose cannery through at least the 1970's. By the 1990's, the site held office buildings. In the 2010's, the office buildings were demolished for apartment buildings.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gilroy || 1931 || || Being built
|-
| Highland, New York || 1917 || ||
|-
| New York City<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCYyAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA95&amp;amp;lpg=PA95&amp;amp;dq=aiello+canning+highland+new+york&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Xv3aqGPyx&amp;amp;sig=mlmTv3dMT6C2pqw-64M64B1uDXI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=DPSqUP2iH4j2igLnh4HYCg&amp;amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=aiello%20canning%20highland%20new%20york&amp;amp;f=false Canner's Directory]</ref> || None || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12%20First%20Street,New%20York%20City 12 First Street] ||
|-
| Riverbank, CA || 1949, 1961<ref>Hershel California Fruit Products: In [https://archive.org/stream/plantsunderusdac10unit/plantsunderusdac10unit_djvu.txt Plants Under Continuous USDA Inspection], 1961.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stanislaus%20Street,Riverbank Stanislaus Street] || Formerly [[ Madonna Foods ]]. Eventually sold to Sun Garden-Gagni,<ref>[http://www.modbee.com/2009/11/09/926050/riverbank-cannerys-future-on-the.html November 9, 2009 Modesto Bee]</ref>.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20and%20Race%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA Moorpark and Race Street] ||
|-
| Woodland, CA || 1941- || || [[Matmor Canning Company]]
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Gilroy]]
[[Category:Highland, New York]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Antonio Morici

2023-11-28T01:36:50Z

Robert Bowdidge: Created page with "{{Infobox_Person | name=Antonio Morici | birth_date=1875 | death_date = | employer = Contadina Canning | occupation = grocery wholesaler and canner | home_town = Bagheria,..."

{{Infobox_Person
| name=Antonio Morici
| birth_date=1875
| death_date =
| employer = [[Contadina Canning]]
| occupation = grocery wholesaler and canner
| home_town = Bagheria, Sicily
}}

'''Antonio Morici''' was a grocery wholesaler and canner. He was a founder of the [[Contadina Canning]] Company and [[Chicago Macaroni Company]].

==References==

Contadina Canning

2023-11-28T01:34:50Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1914 - 1920, 1931-?
| aliases = Contadina,
| successors = [[Carnation]].
| brands = Contadina, Pacific Star
}}
'''Aiello Brothers & Co''', '''Contadina Canning''', or '''Hershel California Fruit Products''' was a San Jose cannery in operation from 1914 to through the 1950's. The company as the first tomato cannery in the Unites States in 1914 in Highland, New York by Carlo Aiello. Because of World War I restrictions, canned tomatoes from Italy had disappeared, and Aiello sought to fill that void. The company moved to California and San Jose in 1917 for the better growing season, but maintained their farm in New York<ref>[http://www.paolos.com/history.html Paolo's restaurant history]</ref>.

Aiello Brothers operated a large cannery on Moorpark Ave. in San Jose<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D1Cs1K69-i&dq=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. A Western Canner and Packer article mentioned that the cannery was operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.<ref>Unknown issue, Western Canner and Packer</ref>.

Aiello Brothers sold the company to the [[Italo Canning Company]] in 1918<ref>Chicago Co. Takes Over SJ Cannery: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5527%2C3720514 April 4, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The Italo Canning company yesterday made deal taking over the Aiello Canning company's plant located at Moorpark and Race streets. The new owners are large manufacturers of tomato products, and they indend to increase their output materially next fall. The Italo company is a Chicago concern."</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=ij5b9jjJ6x&dq=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer, July 1918]. "incorporators Samuel C. Wood, A.D. Suess of 20 North La Salle Street, Chicago, and I. B. Phillips of Dover, Delaware." "Capital stock is $75,000</ref>. Morici family history noted that Aiello Brothers did not have sufficient capital to keep going, so they sold the cannery and brand to the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>

The new owner, [[Antonio Morici]], was a wholesaler selling italian products in Chicago and the midwest; from 1918 to 1920, his wholesale company was the sole distributor for the products from his cannery. The cannery now operated under "The Contadina Canning Company", with business locations at 652-656 Washington Blvd., Chicago, and San Jose. Agostino Morici was listed as president, and Antonio Morici was general manager. Antonio also moved to San Jose for 1917 and 1918 to operate the cannery. Francesco Aiello was the field man. Antonio Gagni was superintendent.

The cannery reorganized as Hershel California Food Products by the 1920 season<ref>Advertisement, August 1, 1920 San Jose Mercury News. "Phone San Jose 699, and arrange for free transportation."</ref>. The new Hershel California Fruit Products was operated by Aron Hershel, but continued to be majority owned by the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. Hershel had already worked with the Morici family, purchasing wine in California that could be distributed through the midwest by the Antonio Morici wholesale grocery company. Hershel's last name was supposedly used to distance the company from the Morici holdings. The new company also operated independently, selling to wholesalers other than Morici.

Contadina Canning was declared as "since dissolved" in 1922 during a lawsuit over cardoons. Carlo Cervelli and Rafaelo Cervelli grew the vegetables for Contadina, but claimed that the company was unwilling to buy them once grown. Morici, Gangi, and Frank Aiello responded that although Contadina Canning had been dissolved, Hershel California Food Products was operating the cannery then and was willing to enter into contract, but the Cervellis refused<ref>Odd Vegetable is Cause of Court Litigation: [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=T5FO5CNRMTQxMzE4NTc2NS42MzU1MjM6MToxMTpyYS05MDAyMDAxNA&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:11342729F00F3900@EANX-NB-115A1B65C83234A0@2423164-115A1B670D5475D8@9-115A1B6A454EA098@Odd%20Vegetable%20is%20Cause%20of%20Court%20Litigat%27n April 19, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Hershel California Fruit Products took ownership of the "Pacific Star" brand formerly canned by the [[Salsina Canning and Packing Company]] in 1923<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA31&ots=9RCVgwyvLz&dq=%22salsina%20canning%22&pg=RA11-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22salsina%20canning%22&f=false) April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Advertisement claims that Contadina is canning as Pacific Star "formerly canned by Salsina".</ref>.

Contadina disappeared from city directories in that year. The Aiellos continued to serve as officers for Hershel California and worked at the cannery through 1927, but no longer appeared in association by 1930. Antonio Gangi, who had received shares for being superintendent for the cannery,, sold his stake in Contadina Canning Co. in 1936<ref>Obituary: John Gangi, 82, scion of cannery family. May 2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Mr. Gangi was the son of Antonio Gangi, a native of Sicily who came to San Jose from Brooklyn, NY in 1916. The elder Gangi was one of the original tomato paste packers and a co-founder of Contadina Canning Co., once located on Moorpark Avenue in San Jose. The Gangi family sold its interest in Contadina in 1936."</ref>. Morici family history states that Francesco Aiello, Antonio Gagni, and Aron Hershel sold their minority interests in Hershel California Fruit Products in 1934 to the Moricis. Aron Hershel moved to California's Central Valley and opened the [[Aron Canning Company]]. A new cannery was started in Gilroy in 1931 under the Aiello name, but it's unclear if it was the same family that had started the cannery on Moorpark Ave.<ref>January 26, 1931 San Jose Evening News</ref>. Anthony Charles Morici, the eldest son of Antonio Morici, took over leadership of the cannery.

In 1941, Anthony Charles Morici also started the [[Matmor Canning Company]] with Fred Matalone in Woodland, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref> Matmor Canning Company was merged into Hershel California Fruit Products in 1953.

The Morici family widened the Contadina brand in the years after world war II, broadening their list of brokers and wholesalers through more of the United States and adding new products such as beans, peppers, soups and snacks. In 1949, the Morici family also purchased the [[Madonna Foods]] cannery in Riverbank, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. The sale of old railroad land next to the cannery (and relinquishment of government restrictions from transcontinental railroad land grant) mentioned sale of land to Hershel<ref>[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-108srpt305/html/CRPT-108srpt305.htm HR 1658].</ref>.

Contadina was sold to the Carnation Company in 1963<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contadina Contadina]. Wikipedia.</ref>. Hints suggest the cannery went to [[Glorietta Foods]] and [[Tri-Valley Canners]] in later years. The San Jose cannery through at least the 1970's. By the 1990's, the site held office buildings. In the 2010's, the office buildings were demolished for apartment buildings.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gilroy || 1931 || || Being built
|-
| Highland, New York || 1917 || ||
|-
| New York City<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCYyAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA95&amp;amp;lpg=PA95&amp;amp;dq=aiello+canning+highland+new+york&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Xv3aqGPyx&amp;amp;sig=mlmTv3dMT6C2pqw-64M64B1uDXI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=DPSqUP2iH4j2igLnh4HYCg&amp;amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=aiello%20canning%20highland%20new%20york&amp;amp;f=false Canner's Directory]</ref> || None || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12%20First%20Street,New%20York%20City 12 First Street] ||
|-
| Riverbank, CA || 1949, 1961<ref>Hershel California Fruit Products: In [https://archive.org/stream/plantsunderusdac10unit/plantsunderusdac10unit_djvu.txt Plants Under Continuous USDA Inspection], 1961.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stanislaus%20Street,Riverbank Stanislaus Street] || Article about cannery building screening for waste solids<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PXMuAAAAIBAJ Feb 1, 1956 Modesto Bee].</ref> || Formerly [[ Madonna Foods ]]. Eventually sold to Sun Garden-Gagni,<ref>[http://www.modbee.com/2009/11/09/926050/riverbank-cannerys-future-on-the.html November 9, 2009 Modesto Bee]</ref>.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20and%20Race%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA Moorpark and Race Street] ||
|-
| Woodland, CA || 1941- || || [[Matmor Canning Company]]
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Gilroy]]
[[Category:Highland, New York]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Hershel California Fruit Products

2023-11-28T01:34:14Z

Robert Bowdidge: Merge Contadina and Hershel California Fruit Products pages.

#REDIRECT [[Contadina Canning]]

Aron Canning Company

2023-11-28T01:32:53Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_dates = 1935 - 1956
| brands =
| successors = [[Tri-Valley Growers]]
}}

'''Aron Canning Company''' was a tomato canner run by [[Aron Hershel]], a Hungarian immigrant. Hershel had been one of principals in the [[Contadina Canning]] Company in San Jose. He sold his interest to the majority-owning Morici family in 1935, and soon after set up his own plant south of Lodi<ref>Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e61AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lO4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5497%2C2822270 March 29, 1935 Lodi News].
The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"</ref>. The company was sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000<ref>[http://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D], page 659. Records from appeal case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri Valley. ]</ref>

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Lodi || 1935-1956<ref>Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e61AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lO4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5497%2C2822270 March 29, 1935 Lodi News].
The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Eight%20Mile%20Road%2C%20west%20of%20Cherokee%20Lane,Lodi Eight Mile Road, west of Cherokee Lane] ||
|-
|}

==Aron Hershel==
Aron Hershel, was born in Targu Okna, Romania in 1884. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1904, and by 1913 was the proprietor of the German Cooperage Company at 117 Brazil St. in San Francisco in 1913. He, his brother Morris, and family lived at 38 Theta Ave. in Daly City in 1910. In 1925, he lived on Fremont St. in San Jose's Rose Garden neighborhood. In 1940, he lived in Stockton[http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/California/Aron-Hershel_2j8v62 Ancestry.com]. Records from an appeals court case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000<ref>[hhttp://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D Page 659]</ref>.

Estate trustee formed in 1945. Picture of Mr Hershel in passport application. (
[http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=1174&path=Passport+Applications%3a+Chicago%2c+New+York+City%2c+New+Orleans%2c+San+Francisco+and+Seattle%2c+1914-1925.1925.Volume+24%3a+Special+Series+-+San+Francisco.477 ancestry.com]
New cannery in 1935 had equipment built by the [[Canned Fruit Machinery Company]] of San Jose.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Riverbank]]
[[Category:San Francisco]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Woodland]]
[[Category:Cannery]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Lodi]]

Aron Canning Company

2023-11-28T01:32:19Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_dates = 1935 - 1956
| brands =
| successors = [[Tri-Valley Growers]]
}}

'''Aron Canning Company''' was a tomato canner run by [[Aron Hershel]], a Hungarian immigrant. Hershel had been one of principals in the [[Contadina Canning Company]] in San Jose. He sold his interest to the majority-owning Morici family in 1935, and soon after set up his own plant south of Lodi<ref>Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e61AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lO4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5497%2C2822270 March 29, 1935 Lodi News].
The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"</ref>. The company was sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000<ref>[http://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D], page 659. Records from appeal case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri Valley. ]</ref>

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Lodi || 1935-1956<ref>Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e61AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lO4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5497%2C2822270 March 29, 1935 Lodi News].
The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Eight%20Mile%20Road%2C%20west%20of%20Cherokee%20Lane,Lodi Eight Mile Road, west of Cherokee Lane] ||
|-
|}

==Aron Hershel==
Aron Hershel, was born in Targu Okna, Romania in 1884. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1904, and by 1913 was the proprietor of the German Cooperage Company at 117 Brazil St. in San Francisco in 1913. He, his brother Morris, and family lived at 38 Theta Ave. in Daly City in 1910. In 1925, he lived on Fremont St. in San Jose's Rose Garden neighborhood. In 1940, he lived in Stockton[http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/California/Aron-Hershel_2j8v62 Ancestry.com]. Records from an appeals court case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000<ref>[hhttp://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D Page 659]</ref>.

Estate trustee formed in 1945. Picture of Mr Hershel in passport application. (
[http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=1174&path=Passport+Applications%3a+Chicago%2c+New+York+City%2c+New+Orleans%2c+San+Francisco+and+Seattle%2c+1914-1925.1925.Volume+24%3a+Special+Series+-+San+Francisco.477 ancestry.com]
New cannery in 1935 had equipment built by the [[Canned Fruit Machinery Company]] of San Jose.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Riverbank]]
[[Category:San Francisco]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Woodland]]
[[Category:Cannery]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Lodi]]

Contadina Canning

2023-11-28T01:31:30Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1914 - 1920, 1931-?
| aliases = Contadina,
| successors = [[Carnation]].
| brands = Contadina, Pacific Star
}}
'''Aiello Brothers & Co''', '''Contadina Canning''', or '''Hershel California Fruit Products''' was a San Jose cannery in operation from 1914 to through the 1950's. The company as the first tomato cannery in the Unites States in 1914 in Highland, New York by Carlo Aiello. Because of World War I restrictions, canned tomatoes from Italy had disappeared, and Aiello sought to fill that void. The company moved to California and San Jose in 1917 for the better growing season, but maintained their farm in New York<ref>[http://www.paolos.com/history.html Paolo's restaurant history]</ref>.

Aiello Brothers operated a large cannery on Moorpark Ave. in San Jose<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D1Cs1K69-i&dq=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. A Western Canner and Packer article mentioned that the cannery was operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.<ref>Unknown issue, Western Canner and Packer</ref>.

Aiello Brothers sold the company to the [[Italo Canning Company]] in 1918<ref>Chicago Co. Takes Over SJ Cannery: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5527%2C3720514 April 4, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The Italo Canning company yesterday made deal taking over the Aiello Canning company's plant located at Moorpark and Race streets. The new owners are large manufacturers of tomato products, and they indend to increase their output materially next fall. The Italo company is a Chicago concern."</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=ij5b9jjJ6x&dq=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer, July 1918]. "incorporators Samuel C. Wood, A.D. Suess of 20 North La Salle Street, Chicago, and I. B. Phillips of Dover, Delaware." "Capital stock is $75,000</ref>. Morici family history noted that Aiello Brothers did not have sufficient capital to keep going, so they sold the cannery and brand to the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>

The new owner, Antonio Morici, was a wholesaler selling italian products in Chicago and the midwest; from 1918 to 1920, his wholesale company was the sole distributor for the products from his cannery. The cannery now operated under "The Contadina Canning Company", with business locations at 652-656 Washington Blvd., Chicago, and San Jose. Agostino Morici was listed as president, and Antonio Morici was general manager. Antonio also moved to San Jose for 1917 and 1918 to operate the cannery. Francesco Aiello was the field man. Antonio Gagni was superintendent.

The cannery reorganized as Hershel California Food Products by the 1920 season<ref>Advertisement, August 1, 1920 San Jose Mercury News. "Phone San Jose 699, and arrange for free transportation."</ref>. The new Hershel California Fruit Products was operated by Aron Hershel, but continued to be majority owned by the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. Hershel had already worked with the Morici family, purchasing wine in California that could be distributed through the midwest by the Antonio Morici wholesale grocery company. Hershel's last name was supposedly used to distance the company from the Morici holdings. The new company also operated independently, selling to wholesalers other than Morici.

Contadina Canning was declared as "since dissolved" in 1922 during a lawsuit over cardoons. Carlo Cervelli and Rafaelo Cervelli grew the vegetables for Contadina, but claimed that the company was unwilling to buy them once grown. Morici, Gangi, and Frank Aiello responded that although Contadina Canning had been dissolved, Hershel California Food Products was operating the cannery then and was willing to enter into contract, but the Cervellis refused<ref>Odd Vegetable is Cause of Court Litigation: [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=T5FO5CNRMTQxMzE4NTc2NS42MzU1MjM6MToxMTpyYS05MDAyMDAxNA&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:11342729F00F3900@EANX-NB-115A1B65C83234A0@2423164-115A1B670D5475D8@9-115A1B6A454EA098@Odd%20Vegetable%20is%20Cause%20of%20Court%20Litigat%27n April 19, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Hershel California Fruit Products took ownership of the "Pacific Star" brand formerly canned by the [[Salsina Canning and Packing Company]] in 1923<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA31&ots=9RCVgwyvLz&dq=%22salsina%20canning%22&pg=RA11-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22salsina%20canning%22&f=false) April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Advertisement claims that Contadina is canning as Pacific Star "formerly canned by Salsina".</ref>.

Contadina disappeared from city directories in that year. The Aiellos continued to serve as officers for Hershel California and worked at the cannery through 1927, but no longer appeared in association by 1930. Antonio Gangi, who had received shares for being superintendent for the cannery,, sold his stake in Contadina Canning Co. in 1936<ref>Obituary: John Gangi, 82, scion of cannery family. May 2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Mr. Gangi was the son of Antonio Gangi, a native of Sicily who came to San Jose from Brooklyn, NY in 1916. The elder Gangi was one of the original tomato paste packers and a co-founder of Contadina Canning Co., once located on Moorpark Avenue in San Jose. The Gangi family sold its interest in Contadina in 1936."</ref>. Morici family history states that Francesco Aiello, Antonio Gagni, and Aron Hershel sold their minority interests in Hershel California Fruit Products in 1934 to the Moricis. Aron Hershel moved to California's Central Valley and opened the [[Aron Canning Company]]. A new cannery was started in Gilroy in 1931 under the Aiello name, but it's unclear if it was the same family that had started the cannery on Moorpark Ave.<ref>January 26, 1931 San Jose Evening News</ref>. Anthony Charles Morici, the eldest son of Antonio Morici, took over leadership of the cannery.

In 1941, Anthony Charles Morici also started the [[Matmor Canning Company]] with Fred Matalone in Woodland, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref> Matmor Canning Company was merged into Hershel California Fruit Products in 1953.

The Morici family widened the Contadina brand in the years after world war II, broadening their list of brokers and wholesalers through more of the United States and adding new products such as beans, peppers, soups and snacks. In 1949, the Morici family also purchased the [[Madonna Foods]] cannery in Riverbank, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. The sale of old railroad land next to the cannery (and relinquishment of government restrictions from transcontinental railroad land grant) mentioned sale of land to Hershel<ref>[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-108srpt305/html/CRPT-108srpt305.htm HR 1658].</ref>.

Contadina was sold to the Carnation Company in 1963<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contadina Contadina]. Wikipedia.</ref>. Hints suggest the cannery went to [[Glorietta Foods]] and [[Tri-Valley Canners]] in later years. The San Jose cannery through at least the 1970's. By the 1990's, the site held office buildings. In the 2010's, the office buildings were demolished for apartment buildings.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gilroy || 1931 || || Being built
|-
| Highland, New York || 1917 || ||
|-
| New York City<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCYyAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA95&amp;amp;lpg=PA95&amp;amp;dq=aiello+canning+highland+new+york&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Xv3aqGPyx&amp;amp;sig=mlmTv3dMT6C2pqw-64M64B1uDXI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=DPSqUP2iH4j2igLnh4HYCg&amp;amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=aiello%20canning%20highland%20new%20york&amp;amp;f=false Canner's Directory]</ref> || None || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12%20First%20Street,New%20York%20City 12 First Street] ||
|-
| Riverbank, CA || 1949, 1961<ref>Hershel California Fruit Products: In [https://archive.org/stream/plantsunderusdac10unit/plantsunderusdac10unit_djvu.txt Plants Under Continuous USDA Inspection], 1961.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stanislaus%20Street,Riverbank Stanislaus Street] || Article about cannery building screening for waste solids<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PXMuAAAAIBAJ Feb 1, 1956 Modesto Bee].</ref> || Formerly [[ Madonna Foods ]]. Eventually sold to Sun Garden-Gagni,<ref>[http://www.modbee.com/2009/11/09/926050/riverbank-cannerys-future-on-the.html November 9, 2009 Modesto Bee]</ref>.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20and%20Race%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA Moorpark and Race Street] ||
|-
| Woodland, CA || 1941- || || [[Matmor Canning Company]]
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Gilroy]]
[[Category:Highland, New York]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Contadina Canning

2023-11-28T01:28:56Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1914 - 1920, 1931-?
| aliases = Contadina,
| successors = [[Carnation]].
| brands = Contadina, Pacific Star
}}
'''Aiello Brothers & Co''', '''Contadina Canning''', or '''Hershel California Fruit Products''' was a San Jose cannery in operation from 1914 to through the 1950's. The company as the first tomato cannery in the Unites States in 1914 in Highland, New York by Carlo Aiello. Because of World War I restrictions, canned tomatoes from Italy had disappeared, and Aiello sought to fill that void. The company moved to California and San Jose in 1917 for the better growing season, but maintained their farm in New York<ref>[http://www.paolos.com/history.html Paolo's restaurant history]</ref>.

Aiello Brothers operated a large cannery on Moorpark Ave. in San Jose<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D1Cs1K69-i&dq=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. A Western Canner and Packer article mentioned that the cannery was operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.<ref>Unknown issue, Western Canner and Packer</ref>.

Aiello Brothers sold the company to the [[Italo Canning Company]] in 1918<ref>Chicago Co. Takes Over SJ Cannery: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5527%2C3720514 April 4, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The Italo Canning company yesterday made deal taking over the Aiello Canning company's plant located at Moorpark and Race streets. The new owners are large manufacturers of tomato products, and they indend to increase their output materially next fall. The Italo company is a Chicago concern."</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=ij5b9jjJ6x&dq=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer, July 1918]. "incorporators Samuel C. Wood, A.D. Suess of 20 North La Salle Street, Chicago, and I. B. Phillips of Dover, Delaware." "Capital stock is $75,000</ref>. Morici family history noted that Aiello Brothers did not have sufficient capital to keep going, so they sold the cannery and brand to the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>

The new owner, Antonio Morici, was a wholesaler selling italian products in Chicago and the midwest; from 1918 to 1920, his wholesale company was the sole distributor for the products from his cannery. The cannery now operated under "The Contadina Canning Company", with business locations at 652-656 Washington Blvd., Chicago, and San Jose. Agostino Morici was listed as president, and Antonio Morici was general manager. Antonio also moved to San Jose for 1917 and 1918 to operate the cannery. Francesco Aiello was the field man. Antonio Gagni was superintendent.

The cannery reorganized as Hershel California Food Products by the 1920 season<ref>Advertisement, August 1, 1920 San Jose Mercury News. "Phone San Jose 699, and arrange for free transportation."</ref>. The new Hershel California Fruit Products was operated by Aron Hershel, but continued to be majority owned by the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. Hershel had already worked with the Morici family, purchasing wine in California that could be distributed through the midwest by the Antonio Morici wholesale grocery company. Hershel's last name was supposedly used to distance the company from the Morici holdings. The new company also operated independently, selling to wholesalers other than Morici.

Contadina Canning was declared as "since dissolved" in 1922 during a lawsuit over cardoons. Carlo Cervelli and Rafaelo Cervelli grew the vegetables for Contadina, but claimed that the company was unwilling to buy them once grown. Morici, Gangi, and Frank Aiello responded that although Contadina Canning had been dissolved, Hershel California Food Products was operating the cannery then and was willing to enter into contract, but the Cervellis refused<ref>Odd Vegetable is Cause of Court Litigation: [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=T5FO5CNRMTQxMzE4NTc2NS42MzU1MjM6MToxMTpyYS05MDAyMDAxNA&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:11342729F00F3900@EANX-NB-115A1B65C83234A0@2423164-115A1B670D5475D8@9-115A1B6A454EA098@Odd%20Vegetable%20is%20Cause%20of%20Court%20Litigat%27n April 19, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Hershel California Fruit Products took ownership of the "Pacific Star" brand formerly canned by the [[Salsina Canning and Packing Company]] in 1923<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA31&ots=9RCVgwyvLz&dq=%22salsina%20canning%22&pg=RA11-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22salsina%20canning%22&f=false) April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Advertisement claims that Contadina is canning as Pacific Star "formerly canned by Salsina".</ref>.

Contadina disappeared from city directories in that year. The Aiellos continued to serve as officers for Hershel California and worked at the cannery through 1927, but no longer appeared in association by 1930. Antonio Gangi, who had received shares for being superintendent for the cannery,, sold his stake in Contadina Canning Co. in 1936<ref>Obituary: John Gangi, 82, scion of cannery family. May 2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Mr. Gangi was the son of Antonio Gangi, a native of Sicily who came to San Jose from Brooklyn, NY in 1916. The elder Gangi was one of the original tomato paste packers and a co-founder of Contadina Canning Co., once located on Moorpark Avenue in San Jose. The Gangi family sold its interest in Contadina in 1936."</ref>. Morici family history states that Francesco Aiello, Antonio Gagni, and Aron Hershel sold their minority interests in Hershel California Fruit Products in 1934 to the Moricis. Aron Hershel moved to California's Central Valley and opened the [[Aron Canning Company]]. A new cannery was started in Gilroy in 1931 under the Aiello name, but it's unclear if it was the same family that had started the cannery on Moorpark Ave.<ref>January 26, 1931 San Jose Evening News</ref>. Anthony Charles Morici, the eldest son of Antonio Morici, took over leadership of the cannery.

In 1941, Anthony Charles Morici also started the [[Matmor Canning Company]] with Fred Matalone in Woodland, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref> Matmor Canning Company was merged into Hershel California Fruit Products in 1953.

The Morici family widened the Contadina brand in the years after world war II, broadening their list of brokers and wholesalers through more of the United States and adding new products such as beans, peppers, soups and snacks. In 1949, the Morici family also purchased the [[Madonna Foods]] cannery in Riverbank, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. The sale of old railroad land next to the cannery (and relinquishment of government restrictions from transcontinental railroad land grant) mentioned sale of land to Hershel<ref>[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-108srpt305/html/CRPT-108srpt305.htm HR 1658].</ref>.

Contadina was sold to the Carnation Company in 1963<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contadina Contadina]. Wikipedia.</ref> The cannery continued to operate in San Jose through at least the 1970's. By the 1990's, the site held office buildings. In the 2010's, the office buildings were demolished for apartment buildings.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gilroy || 1931 || || Being built
|-
| Highland, New York || 1917 || ||
|-
| New York City<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCYyAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA95&amp;amp;lpg=PA95&amp;amp;dq=aiello+canning+highland+new+york&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Xv3aqGPyx&amp;amp;sig=mlmTv3dMT6C2pqw-64M64B1uDXI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=DPSqUP2iH4j2igLnh4HYCg&amp;amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=aiello%20canning%20highland%20new%20york&amp;amp;f=false Canner's Directory]</ref> || None || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12%20First%20Street,New%20York%20City 12 First Street] ||
|-
| Riverbank, CA || 1949, 1961<ref>Hershel California Fruit Products: In [https://archive.org/stream/plantsunderusdac10unit/plantsunderusdac10unit_djvu.txt Plants Under Continuous USDA Inspection], 1961.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Stanislaus%20Street,Riverbank Stanislaus Street] || Article about cannery building screening for waste solids<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=PXMuAAAAIBAJ Feb 1, 1956 Modesto Bee].</ref> || Formerly [[ Madonna Foods ]]. Eventually sold to Sun Garden-Gagni,<ref>[http://www.modbee.com/2009/11/09/926050/riverbank-cannerys-future-on-the.html November 9, 2009 Modesto Bee]</ref>.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20and%20Race%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA Moorpark and Race Street] ||
|-
| Woodland, CA || 1941- || || [[Matmor Canning Company]]
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Gilroy]]
[[Category:Highland, New York]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Aron Canning Company

2023-11-28T01:28:56Z

Robert Bowdidge: Created page with "{{Infobox_Industry | primary_business = Cannery | primary_dates = 1935 - 1956 | brands = Pacific Star, Contadina | successors = Tri-Valley Growers, [[Aron Cannery Company]..."

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_dates = 1935 - 1956
| brands = Pacific Star, Contadina
| successors = [[Tri-Valley Growers]], [[Aron Cannery Company]]
}}

'''Aron Canning Company''' was a tomato canner run by [[Aron Hershel]], a Hungarian immigrant. Hershel had been one of principals in the [[Contadina Canning Company]] in San Jose. He sold his interest to the majority-owning Morici family in 1935, and soon after set up his own plant south of Lodi<ref>Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e61AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lO4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5497%2C2822270 March 29, 1935 Lodi News].
The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"</ref>. The company was sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000<ref>[http://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D], page 659. Records from appeal case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri Valley. ]</ref>

The Riverbank plant appears to have eventually become Sun Garden-Gangi <ref>[http://www.modbee.com/2009/11/09/926050/riverbank-cannerys-future-on-the.html November 9, 2009 Modesto Bee]</ref>, perhaps because of connections with Antonio Gagni who had also been at Campbell.
The sale of old railroad land next to the cannery (and relinquishment of government restrictions from transcontinental railroad land grant) mentioned sale of land to Hershel<ref>[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-108srpt305/html/CRPT-108srpt305.htm HR 1658].</ref>.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Lodi || 1935-1956<ref>Tomato Cannery Started By Aron Hershel South of Lodi: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e61AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lO4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5497%2C2822270 March 29, 1935 Lodi News].
The article notes that Hershel had just "disposed of his interests in the San Jose concern"</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Eight%20Mile%20Road%2C%20west%20of%20Cherokee%20Lane,Lodi Eight Mile Road, west of Cherokee Lane] ||
|-
|}

==Aron Hershel==
Aron Hershel, was born in Targu Okna, Romania in 1884. He emigrated to the U.S. in 1904, and by 1913 was the proprietor of the German Cooperage Company at 117 Brazil St. in San Francisco in 1913. He, his brother Morris, and family lived at 38 Theta Ave. in Daly City in 1910. In 1925, he lived on Fremont St. in San Jose's Rose Garden neighborhood. In 1940, he lived in Stockton[http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/California/Aron-Hershel_2j8v62 Ancestry.com]. Records from an appeals court case showed the Aron Cannery Company had been sold to Tri-Valley Canners in 1956 for $1,000,000<ref>[hhttp://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D Page 659]</ref>.

Estate trustee formed in 1945. Picture of Mr Hershel in passport application. (
[http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=1174&path=Passport+Applications%3a+Chicago%2c+New+York+City%2c+New+Orleans%2c+San+Francisco+and+Seattle%2c+1914-1925.1925.Volume+24%3a+Special+Series+-+San+Francisco.477 ancestry.com]
New cannery in 1935 had equipment built by the [[Canned Fruit Machinery Company]] of San Jose.

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Riverbank]]
[[Category:San Francisco]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Woodland]]
[[Category:Cannery]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Lodi]]

Contadina Canning

2023-11-28T01:17:38Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1914 - 1920, 1931-?
| aliases = Contadina,
| successors = [[Carnation]].
| brands = Contadina, Pacific Star
}}
'''Aiello Brothers & Co''', '''Contadina Canning''', or '''Hershel California Fruit Products''' was a San Jose cannery in operation from 1914 to through the 1950's. The company as the first tomato cannery in the Unites States in 1914 in Highland, New York by Carlo Aiello. Because of World War I restrictions, canned tomatoes from Italy had disappeared, and Aiello sought to fill that void. The company moved to California and San Jose in 1917 for the better growing season, but maintained their farm in New York<ref>[http://www.paolos.com/history.html Paolo's restaurant history]</ref>.

Aiello Brothers operated a large cannery on Moorpark Ave. in San Jose<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D1Cs1K69-i&dq=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. A Western Canner and Packer article mentioned that the cannery was operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.<ref>Unknown issue, Western Canner and Packer</ref>.

Aiello Brothers sold the company to the [[Italo Canning Company]] in 1918<ref>Chicago Co. Takes Over SJ Cannery: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5527%2C3720514 April 4, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The Italo Canning company yesterday made deal taking over the Aiello Canning company's plant located at Moorpark and Race streets. The new owners are large manufacturers of tomato products, and they indend to increase their output materially next fall. The Italo company is a Chicago concern."</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=ij5b9jjJ6x&dq=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer, July 1918]. "incorporators Samuel C. Wood, A.D. Suess of 20 North La Salle Street, Chicago, and I. B. Phillips of Dover, Delaware." "Capital stock is $75,000</ref>. Morici family history noted that Aiello Brothers did not have sufficient capital to keep going, so they sold the cannery and brand to the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>

The new owner, Antonio Morici, was a wholesaler selling italian products in Chicago and the midwest; from 1918 to 1920, his wholesale company was the sole distributor for the products from his cannery. The cannery now operated under "The Contadina Canning Company", with business locations at 652-656 Washington Blvd., Chicago, and San Jose. Agostino Morici was listed as president, and Antonio Morici was general manager. Antonio also moved to San Jose for 1917 and 1918 to operate the cannery. Francesco Aiello was the field man. Antonio Gagni was superintendent.

The cannery reorganized as Hershel California Food Products by the 1920 season<ref>Advertisement, August 1, 1920 San Jose Mercury News. "Phone San Jose 699, and arrange for free transportation."</ref>. The new Hershel California Fruit Products was operated by Aron Hershel, but continued to be majority owned by the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. Hershel had already worked with the Morici family, purchasing wine in California that could be distributed through the midwest by the Antonio Morici wholesale grocery company. Hershel's last name was supposedly used to distance the company from the Morici holdings. The new company also operated independently, selling to wholesalers other than Morici.

Contadina Canning was declared as "since dissolved" in 1922 during a lawsuit over cardoons. Carlo Cervelli and Rafaelo Cervelli grew the vegetables for Contadina, but claimed that the company was unwilling to buy them once grown. Morici, Gangi, and Frank Aiello responded that although Contadina Canning had been dissolved, Hershel California Food Products was operating the cannery then and was willing to enter into contract, but the Cervellis refused<ref>Odd Vegetable is Cause of Court Litigation: [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=T5FO5CNRMTQxMzE4NTc2NS42MzU1MjM6MToxMTpyYS05MDAyMDAxNA&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:11342729F00F3900@EANX-NB-115A1B65C83234A0@2423164-115A1B670D5475D8@9-115A1B6A454EA098@Odd%20Vegetable%20is%20Cause%20of%20Court%20Litigat%27n April 19, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Hershel California Fruit Products took ownership of the "Pacific Star" brand formerly canned by the [[Salsina Canning and Packing Company]] in 1923<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA31&ots=9RCVgwyvLz&dq=%22salsina%20canning%22&pg=RA11-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22salsina%20canning%22&f=false) April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Advertisement claims that Contadina is canning as Pacific Star "formerly canned by Salsina".</ref>.

Contadina disappeared from city directories in that year. The Aiellos continued to serve as officers for Hershel California and worked at the cannery through 1927, but no longer appeared in association by 1930. Antonio Gangi, who had received shares for being superintendent for the cannery,, sold his stake in Contadina Canning Co. in 1936<ref>Obituary: John Gangi, 82, scion of cannery family. May 2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Mr. Gangi was the son of Antonio Gangi, a native of Sicily who came to San Jose from Brooklyn, NY in 1916. The elder Gangi was one of the original tomato paste packers and a co-founder of Contadina Canning Co., once located on Moorpark Avenue in San Jose. The Gangi family sold its interest in Contadina in 1936."</ref>. Morici family history states that Francesco Aiello, Antonio Gagni, and Aron Hershel sold their minority interests in Hershel California Fruit Products in 1934 to the Moricis. Aron Hershel moved to California's Central Valley and opened the [[Aron Canning Company]]. A new cannery was started in Gilroy in 1931 under the Aiello name, but it's unclear if it was the same family that had started the cannery on Moorpark Ave.<ref>January 26, 1931 San Jose Evening News</ref>. Anthony Charles Morici, the eldest son of Antonio Morici, took over leadership of the cannery.

In 1941, Anthony Charles Morici also started the [[Matmor Canning Company]] with Fred Matalone in Woodland, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref> Matmor Canning Company was merged into Hershel California Fruit Products in 1953.

The Morici family widened the Contadina brand in the years after world war II, broadening their list of brokers and wholesalers through more of the United States and adding new products such as beans, peppers, soups and snacks. In 1949, the Morici family also purchased the [[Madonna Foods]] cannery in Riverbank, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>.

Contadina was sold to the Carnation Company in 1963<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref><ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contadina Contadina]. Wikipedia.</ref> The cannery continued to operate in San Jose through at least the 1970's. By the 1990's, the site held office buildings. In the 2010's, the office buildings were demolished for apartment buildings.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gilroy || 1931 || || Being built
|-
| Highland, New York || 1917 || ||
|-
| New York City<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCYyAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA95&amp;amp;lpg=PA95&amp;amp;dq=aiello+canning+highland+new+york&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Xv3aqGPyx&amp;amp;sig=mlmTv3dMT6C2pqw-64M64B1uDXI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=DPSqUP2iH4j2igLnh4HYCg&amp;amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=aiello%20canning%20highland%20new%20york&amp;amp;f=false Canner's Directory]</ref> || None || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12%20First%20Street,New%20York%20City 12 First Street] ||
|-
| Riverbank, CA || 1949 || || [[ Madonna Foods ]]
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20and%20Race%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA Moorpark and Race Street] ||
|-
| Woodland, CA || 1941- || || [[Matmor Canning Company]]
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Gilroy]]
[[Category:Highland, New York]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Contadina Canning

2023-11-28T01:16:03Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1914 - 1920, 1931-?
| aliases = Contadina,
| successors = [[Carnation]].
| brands = Contadina, Pacific Star
}}
'''Aiello Brothers & Co''', '''Contadina Canning''', or '''Hershel California Fruit Products''' was a San Jose cannery in operation from 1914 to through the 1950's. The company as the first tomato cannery in the Unites States in 1914 in Highland, New York by Carlo Aiello. Because of World War I restrictions, canned tomatoes from Italy had disappeared, and Aiello sought to fill that void. The company moved to California and San Jose in 1917 for the better growing season, but maintained their farm in New York<ref>[http://www.paolos.com/history.html Paolo's restaurant history]</ref>.

Aiello Brothers operated a large cannery on Moorpark Ave. in San Jose<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D1Cs1K69-i&dq=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. A Western Canner and Packer article mentioned that the cannery was operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.<ref>Unknown issue, Western Canner and Packer</ref>.

Aiello Brothers sold the company to the [[Italo Canning Company]] in 1918<ref>Chicago Co. Takes Over SJ Cannery: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5527%2C3720514 April 4, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The Italo Canning company yesterday made deal taking over the Aiello Canning company's plant located at Moorpark and Race streets. The new owners are large manufacturers of tomato products, and they indend to increase their output materially next fall. The Italo company is a Chicago concern."</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=ij5b9jjJ6x&dq=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer, July 1918]. "incorporators Samuel C. Wood, A.D. Suess of 20 North La Salle Street, Chicago, and I. B. Phillips of Dover, Delaware." "Capital stock is $75,000</ref>. Morici family history noted that Aiello Brothers did not have sufficient capital to keep going, so they sold the cannery and brand to the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>

The new owner, Antonio Morici, was a wholesaler selling italian products in Chicago and the midwest; from 1918 to 1920, his wholesale company was the sole distributor for the products from his cannery. The cannery now operated under "The Contadina Canning Company", with business locations at 652-656 Washington Blvd., Chicago, and San Jose. Agostino Morici was listed as president, and Antonio Morici was general manager. Antonio also moved to San Jose for 1917 and 1918 to operate the cannery. Francesco Aiello was the field man. Antonio Gagni was superintendent.

The cannery reorganized as Hershel California Food Products by the 1920 season<ref>Advertisement, August 1, 1920 San Jose Mercury News. "Phone San Jose 699, and arrange for free transportation."</ref>. The new Hershel California Fruit Products was operated by Aron Hershel, but continued to be majority owned by the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. Hershel had already worked with the Morici family, purchasing wine in California that could be distributed through the midwest by the Antonio Morici wholesale grocery company. Hershel's last name was supposedly used to distance the company from the Morici holdings. The new company also operated independently, selling to wholesalers other than Morici.

Contadina Canning was declared as "since dissolved" in 1922 during a lawsuit over cardoons. Carlo Cervelli and Rafaelo Cervelli grew the vegetables for Contadina, but claimed that the company was unwilling to buy them once grown. Morici, Gangi, and Frank Aiello responded that although Contadina Canning had been dissolved, Hershel California Food Products was operating the cannery then and was willing to enter into contract, but the Cervellis refused<ref>Odd Vegetable is Cause of Court Litigation: [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=T5FO5CNRMTQxMzE4NTc2NS42MzU1MjM6MToxMTpyYS05MDAyMDAxNA&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:11342729F00F3900@EANX-NB-115A1B65C83234A0@2423164-115A1B670D5475D8@9-115A1B6A454EA098@Odd%20Vegetable%20is%20Cause%20of%20Court%20Litigat%27n April 19, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Hershel California Fruit Products took ownership of the "Pacific Star" brand formerly canned by the [[Salsina Canning and Packing Company]] in 1923<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA31&ots=9RCVgwyvLz&dq=%22salsina%20canning%22&pg=RA11-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22salsina%20canning%22&f=false) April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Advertisement claims that Contadina is canning as Pacific Star "formerly canned by Salsina".</ref>.

Contadina disappeared from city directories in that year. The Aiellos continued to serve as officers for Hershel California and worked at the cannery through 1927, but no longer appeared in association by 1930. Antonio Gangi, who had received shares for being superintendent for the cannery,, sold his stake in Contadina Canning Co. in 1936<ref>Obituary: John Gangi, 82, scion of cannery family. May 2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Mr. Gangi was the son of Antonio Gangi, a native of Sicily who came to San Jose from Brooklyn, NY in 1916. The elder Gangi was one of the original tomato paste packers and a co-founder of Contadina Canning Co., once located on Moorpark Avenue in San Jose. The Gangi family sold its interest in Contadina in 1936."</ref>. Morici family history states that Francesco Aiello, Antonio Gagni, and Aron Hershel sold their minority interests in Hershel California Fruit Products in 1934 to the Moricis. Aron Hershel moved to California's Central Valley and opened the [[Aron Canning Company]]. A new cannery was started in Gilroy in 1931 under the Aiello name, but it's unclear if it was the same family that had started the cannery on Moorpark Ave.<ref>January 26, 1931 San Jose Evening News</ref>. Anthony Charles Morici, the eldest son of Antonio Morici, took over leadership of the cannery.

In 1941, Anthony Charles Morici also started the [[Matmor Canning Company]] with Fred Matalone in Woodland, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref> Matmor Canning Company was merged into Hershel California Fruit Products in 1953.

The Morici family widened the Contadina brand in the years after world war II, broadening their list of brokers and wholesalers through more of the United States and adding new products such as beans, peppers, soups and snacks. In 1949, the Morici family also purchased the [[Madonna Foods]] cannery in Riverbank, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>.

Contadina was sold to the Carnation Company in 1963<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contadina Contadina]. Wikipedia.</ref> The cannery continued to operate in San Jose through at least the 1970's. By the 1990's, the site held office buildings. In the 2010's, the office buildings were demolished for apartment buildings.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gilroy || 1931 || || Being built
|-
| Highland, New York || 1917 || ||
|-
| New York City<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCYyAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA95&amp;amp;lpg=PA95&amp;amp;dq=aiello+canning+highland+new+york&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Xv3aqGPyx&amp;amp;sig=mlmTv3dMT6C2pqw-64M64B1uDXI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=DPSqUP2iH4j2igLnh4HYCg&amp;amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=aiello%20canning%20highland%20new%20york&amp;amp;f=false Canner's Directory]</ref> || None || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12%20First%20Street,New%20York%20City 12 First Street] ||
|-
| Riverbank, CA || 1949 || || [[ Madonna Foods ]]
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20and%20Race%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA Moorpark and Race Street] ||
|-
| Woodland, CA || 1941- || || [[Matmor Canning Company]]
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:Gilroy]]
[[Category:Highland, New York]]
[[Category:New York City]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Contadina Canning

2023-11-28T01:12:27Z

Robert Bowdidge: Morici family history.

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1914 - 1920, 1931-?
| aliases = Contadina,
| successors = [[Carnation]].
| brands = Contadina, Pacific Star
}}
'''Aiello Brothers & Co''', '''Contadina Canning''', or '''Hershel California Fruit Products''' was a San Jose cannery in operation from 1914 to through the 1950's. The company as the first tomato cannery in the Unites States in 1914 in Highland, New York by Carlo Aiello. Because of World War I restrictions, canned tomatoes from Italy had disappeared, and Aiello sought to fill that void. The company moved to California and San Jose in 1917 for the better growing season, but maintained their farm in New York<ref>[http://www.paolos.com/history.html Paolo's restaurant history]</ref>.

Aiello Brothers operated a large cannery on Moorpark Ave. in San Jose<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D1Cs1K69-i&dq=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22aiello%20brothers%22%20san%20jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>. A Western Canner and Packer article mentioned that the cannery was operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.<ref>Unknown issue, Western Canner and Packer</ref>.

Aiello Brothers sold the company to the [[Italo Canning Company]] in 1918<ref>Chicago Co. Takes Over SJ Cannery: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bBwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5527%2C3720514 April 4, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The Italo Canning company yesterday made deal taking over the Aiello Canning company's plant located at Moorpark and Race streets. The new owners are large manufacturers of tomato products, and they indend to increase their output materially next fall. The Italo company is a Chicago concern."</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=ij5b9jjJ6x&dq=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=%22ainsley%20cannery%22&f=false July 1918 Western Canner and Packer, July 1918]. "incorporators Samuel C. Wood, A.D. Suess of 20 North La Salle Street, Chicago, and I. B. Phillips of Dover, Delaware." "Capital stock is $75,000</ref>. Morici family history noted that Aiello Brothers did not have sufficient capital to keep going, so they sold the cannery and brand to the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>

The new owner, Antonio Morici, was a wholesaler selling italian products in Chicago and the midwest; from 1918 to 1920, his wholesale company was the sole distributor for the products from his cannery. The cannery now operated under "The Contadina Canning Company", with business locations at 652-656 Washington Blvd., Chicago, and San Jose. Agostino Morici was listed as president, and Antonio Morici was general manager. Antonio also moved to San Jose for 1917 and 1918 to operate the cannery. Francesco Aiello was the field man. Antonio Gagni was superintendent.

The cannery reorganized as Hershel California Food Products by the 1920 season<ref>Advertisement, August 1, 1920 San Jose Mercury News. "Phone San Jose 699, and arrange for free transportation."</ref>. The new Hershel California Fruit Products was operated by Aron Hershel, but continued to be majority owned by the Morici family<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>. Hershel had already worked with the Morici family, purchasing wine in California that could be distributed through the midwest by the Antonio Morici wholesale grocery company. Hershel's last name was supposedly used to distance the company from the Morici holdings. The new company also operated independently, selling to wholesalers other than Morici.

Contadina Canning was declared as "since dissolved" in 1922 during a lawsuit over cardoons. Carlo Cervelli and Rafaelo Cervelli grew the vegetables for Contadina, but claimed that the company was unwilling to buy them once grown. Morici, Gangi, and Frank Aiello responded that although Contadina Canning had been dissolved, Hershel California Food Products was operating the cannery then and was willing to enter into contract, but the Cervellis refused<ref>Odd Vegetable is Cause of Court Litigation: [http://infoweb.newsbank.com/iw-search/we/HistArchive/?p_product=EANX-NB&p_theme=ahnp&p_nbid=T5FO5CNRMTQxMzE4NTc2NS42MzU1MjM6MToxMTpyYS05MDAyMDAxNA&p_action=doc&s_lastnonissuequeryname=3&d_viewref=search&p_queryname=3&p_docnum=1&p_docref=v2:11342729F00F3900@EANX-NB-115A1B65C83234A0@2423164-115A1B670D5475D8@9-115A1B6A454EA098@Odd%20Vegetable%20is%20Cause%20of%20Court%20Litigat%27n April 19, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Hershel California Fruit Products took ownership of the "Pacific Star" brand formerly canned by the [[Salsina Canning and Packing Company]] in 1923<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA31&ots=9RCVgwyvLz&dq=%22salsina%20canning%22&pg=RA11-PA31#v=onepage&q=%22salsina%20canning%22&f=false) April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Advertisement claims that Contadina is canning as Pacific Star "formerly canned by Salsina".</ref>.

Contadina disappeared from city directories in that year. The Aiellos continued to serve as officers for Hershel California and worked at the cannery through 1927, but no longer appeared in association by 1930. Antonio Gangi, who had received shares for being superintendent for the cannery,, sold his stake in Contadina Canning Co. in 1936<ref>Obituary: John Gangi, 82, scion of cannery family. May 2003 San Jose Mercury News. "Mr. Gangi was the son of Antonio Gangi, a native of Sicily who came to San Jose from Brooklyn, NY in 1916. The elder Gangi was one of the original tomato paste packers and a co-founder of Contadina Canning Co., once located on Moorpark Avenue in San Jose. The Gangi family sold its interest in Contadina in 1936."</ref>. Morici family history states that Francesco Aiello, Antonio Gagni, and Aron Hershel sold their minority interests in Hershel California Fruit Products in 1934 to the Moricis. Aron Hershel moved to California's Central Valley and opened the [[Aron Canning Company]]. A new cannery was started in Gilroy in 1931 under the Aiello name, but it's unclear if it was the same family that had started the cannery on Moorpark Ave.<ref>January 26, 1931 San Jose Evening News</ref>. Anthony Charles Morici, the eldest son of Antonio Morici, took over leadership of the cannery.

In 1941, Anthony Charles Morici also started the [[Matmor Canning Company]] with Fred Matalone in Woodland, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref> Matmor Canning Company was merged into Hershel California Fruit Products in 1953.

The Morici family widened the Contadina brand in the years after world war II, broadening their list of brokers and wholesalers through more of the United States and adding new products such as beans, peppers, soups and snacks. In 1949, the Morici family also purchased the [[Madonna Foods]] cannery in Riverbank, California<ref>John Callan and Tony Morici, "Antonio Morici Family and Contadina History", family history notes.</ref>.

Contadina was sold to the Carnation Company in 1963<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contadina Contadina]. Wikipedia.<ref> The cannery continued to operate in San Jose through at least the 1970's. By the 1990's, the site held office buildings. In the 2010's, the office buildings were demolished for apartment buildings.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gilroy || 1931 || || Being built
|-
| Highland, New York || 1917 || ||
|-
| New York City<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=OCYyAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA95&amp;amp;lpg=PA95&amp;amp;dq=aiello+canning+highland+new+york&amp;amp;source=bl&amp;amp;ots=7Xv3aqGPyx&amp;amp;sig=mlmTv3dMT6C2pqw-64M64B1uDXI&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=DPSqUP2iH4j2igLnh4HYCg&amp;amp;ved=0CDMQ6AEwATgK#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=aiello%20canning%20highland%20new%20york&amp;amp;f=false Canner's Directory]</ref> || None || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=12%20First%20Street,New%20York%20City 12 First Street] ||
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1917 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Moorpark%20and%20Race%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA Moorpark and Race Street] ||
|-
|}

==Contadina to Hershel==
Tracking down when the Aiellos owned Contadina is difficult. The company became [[Hershel California Fruit Products]] at some point around 1920. The various companies appeared in city directories under multiple names. Here is the list from San Jose City Directories..
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Name !! Principals !! Address
|-
| 1916 || Contadina not listed || ||
|-
| 1917 || Aiello Brothers & Co.<ref>California Canneries: [http://books.google.com/books?id=CS0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA2&ots=D2tA4M103b&dq=%22Italian%20Canning%20Company%22%20San%20Jose&pg=RA1-PA2#v=onepage&q=%22Italian%20Canning%20Company%22%20San%20Jose&f=false October 1917 Western Canner and Packer]. "The company's plant at Moorpark and Race streets, San Jose, is operating to capacity on tomato paste, the entire pack being contracted for by Antonio Morici, Chicago importer.</ref> || || Race and Moorpark
|-
| 1919 || Contadina Canning Company || Antonio Morici, Antonio Gangi, Frank Aiello || Race corner Moorpark
|-
| 1921 || Contadina not listed || ||
|-
| 1922 || Hershel California Fruit Products || Aaron Hershel, Antonio Gangi, Frank Aiello || Race corner Moorpark
|-
| 1923 || Hershel California Fruit Products || Aaron Hershel, Antonio Gangi, Frank Aiello || Race corner Moorpark
|-
| 1927 || Hershel California Fruit Products<ref>"Packers of contadina pacific star brands tomato paste our specialty"</ref> || Aaron Hershel general manager ||
|-
| 1930 || Hershel California Fruit Products || Aaron Hershel, general manager ||
|-
|}

==The Aiello Family==

Similarly, here is a list of Aiellos in San Jose based on city directories<ref>San Jose city directories, ancestry.com</ref>:

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Year !! Name !! Occupation !! Address
|-
| 1917 || Joseph Aiello || baker || 865 Orchard
|-
| 1918 || No Aiellos listed || ||
|-
| 1919 || Carlo Aiello || 2nd vice president, Salsina Canning || home: 55 page
|-
| 1919 || Frank Aiello || Contadina Canning || h 142 martha
|-
| 1919 || Joe Aiello || Buyer, Salsina Canning || 55 page
|-
| 1920 || Giuseppe Aiello || laborer || 475 chapman
|-
| 1922 || Carlo Aiello || || 401 h w. san fernando
|-
| 1922 || Carlo Aiello || fruit broker || r 259 Race
|-
| 1922 || Frank Aiello || hershel california fruit products || r 259 race
|-
| 1922 || joseph aiello || fruit broker || 259 Race
|-
| 1922 || Aron Hershel || manager, Hershel California Fruit Products || res 34 Fremont
|-
| 1923 || Carlo Aiello || || h 401 w. san fernando
|-
| 1923 || Frank Aiello || hershel california fruit products || r 259 race
|-
| 1923 || Giuseppe Aiello || laborer || h 1351 locusts
|-
| 1923 || Joseph Aiello || fruit buyer || h 259 race
|-
| 1927 || Florence Aiello || clerk, Hart and Son || 831 Harliss
|-
| 1927 || Frank (Frances) Aiello || Hershel California Fruit Products || h moorpark av cor race
|-
| 1927 || Jean || Stenographer, Hershel California Fruit Products || r moorpark for race
|-
| 1927 || Joseph (Conchetta) || || h 831 harliss
|-
| 1927 || Joseph (Rose) || fruit buyer || h 296 hanshett
|-
| 1927 || peter f || stdt || h moorpark cor race
|-
| 1927 || rose mrs || ladies furnishings || 64 e san fernando
|-
| 1930 || aiello frank (frances)|| || h 998 moorpark
|-
| 1930 || jean m. || clerk, Hershel California Fruit Products || r 998 moorpark
|-
| 1930 || joe (rose) (Aiello and Aiello)|| || h 1394 hanschett
|-
| 1930 || joseph (concheta) || lab || 831 harliss
|-
| 1930 || mary || || 831 harlesss
|-
| 1930 || peter (angeline) || aiello and aiello || 998 moorpark
|-
| 1930 || rose mrs || garden city manufacturing|| r 1394 hanshett
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| 1930 || valentine|| || r 998 moorpark
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| 1930 || aiello and aiello (Peter and Joseph) || fruit packers || 389 North San Pedro St.
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|}

==References==
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California Packing Corporation

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Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Francisco
| aliases = [[Del Monte]]
| brands = Del Monte and many others.
| predecessors = [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]]
}}
The '''California Packing Corporation''' (also known by its primary brand, '''Del Monte''' or by the '''CalPak''' nickname) was a major canner and dried fruit processor founded in 1916. The company dominated the industry and California from its inception through the 1980's. The company still exists.

The company was the brainchild of J. K. Armsby, who merged five major canners to create a single large canning conglomerate. The founding companies were [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[ J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and the [[Alaska Packers Association]]. The company a huge range of products: canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California, and vegetables from the midwest. Unlike the [[California Fruit Canners Association]], which created a similarly large merged company in 1899, Del Monte treated the merged organizations as a single company, often canning under the Del Monte name. The Del Monte brand was not used exclusively; there are stories of the San Leandro cannery still canning under the H.G. Prince label in the 1940's<ref>Personal communication, family member. My father remembers seeing H. G. Prince labels being used at the San Leandro Del Monte plant when he worked there in the late 1940's.</ref>. The unification of so many canneries under a single ownership worried the industry at the time<ref>$25,000,000 Merger of California Canneries: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5tExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3OMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1238%2C2158683 August 23, 1916 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Even after the founding, the company continued to buy other companies and expand its empire. Del Monte bought the [[Virden Packing]] cannery in Emeryville in 1927, bought [[H.G. Prince]] in Oakland and San Leandro around the same time.

Del Monte was also memorable because of the common building architecture used for many of its plants.
Philip Bush designed many of the Del Monte plants with a similar modernist brick style, usually in one or two story arrangements. The warehouses in Alameda on the Oakland Estuary were built in 1925 and show Bush's typical design<ref>Alameda Magazine.</ref>. Many of the CalPak buildings survive, often repurposed. The Alameda buildings have been reused for industrial space<ref>[http://laurendo.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/modular-del-monte/ Plans]</ref>, the San Jose dried fruit plant on Bush Street survives as condos, and various plants still can be seen in Oakland and Emeryville.

[http://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/Del-Monte-Foods-company-company-History.html History] comments that earnings in 1930 fell from $6/share to 9c, 1932 were worst losses ever.

San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;f=false Western Canner and Packer]. The City of San Leandro also did a [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iOCWbSBACo video] describing the cannery.

Sacramento: See
[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]
[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
Comment on Sunnyvale historical document suggests that some dried fruit receiving houses closed in 1926 as receiving was centralized at Plant 51 in San Jose.
In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
Many 1920 references cited in
[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;q&amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.

[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.

Kahului:
Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [[Alexander and Baldwin]] in 1934.

Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.

[[File:cal-pak-10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|
Santa Ana's Plant #20. First Street in foreground, and Southern Pacific Newport branch crossing image<ref>Photo, First American Title Insurance. found by Bill Messecar, shown on [http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Pacing Houses of Southern California] website.</ref>]]
Merced: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;amp;f=false Largest cannery in the world being built to handle 1924 pack from company's great peach and apricot orchard" "Western Canner and Packer 1922] December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes Del Monte is starting work on big cannery to handle pack of Planada-Tuttle orchard in 1924 season. Feb 1923 WC&amp;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Alameda || || 1925, 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Buena%20Vista%20at%20Sherman,Alameda Buena Vista at Sherman] || Former Alaska Packing Corporation salmon cannery. aka Encinal Terminal. Became warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment by 1968<ref>Alameda was one of the major distribution centers in the late 1960's. William Braznell, California's Finest: The History of the Del Monte Corporation and the Del Monte Brand, 1982, Del Monte, p. 142</ref> Being repurposed for housing and retail<ref>From Waterfront Warehouse to Over 300 Homes As Proposed. [http://www.socketsite.com/archives/2014/06/landmark-del-monte-warehouse-redevelopment-moving-forward.html East Bay section, Socketsite.com].</ref>
|-
| Atwater || || 1922-1939 || || December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes city helping buy lot along SP tracks for California Packing Corporation to expand the present cannery. "The cannery closed November 27 after packing 160,000 cases of peaches and 7,400 cases of sweet potatoes. Arcadia Publishing's Atwater book says Del Monte left in 1939. The plant had started as the Atwater Cannery, a cooperative, in 1905.
|-
| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] || From Oakland City Directory, 1941. Former [[Sunlit Fruit Company]]<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/handbookofmanufa00merc/handbookofmanufa00merc_djvu.txt Handbook of Manufacturers in and Around San Francisco], 1910, The Merchants Association of San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| Chico || Plant #64 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and apricots in 1919.
|-
| De Kalb, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas, lima beans, and corn<ref>From Bill Hirt: on Yahoo ry-ops-industrialsig@yahoogroups.com mailing list, November 25, 2017: "When I worked in the Del Monte cannery in De Kalb IL (just down the road
from Accurail) in the late 70's, we started canning peas and lima beans
by mid-June. We'd can for about 4-5 weeks before switching over to corn.
The cannery only had 8 full time employees - the rest being seasonal
(college students) and migrant workers. The cans were stored unlabeled
and then labeled when the need came to ship."</ref>
|-
| Dinuba || || 155 N. Merced Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Elmhurst|| Plant #58<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || Foot of 85th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory.</ref>. ||
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #35 || 1926-1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] || Former [[Western Canning]]. Now Pixar. Oral history with Stella Adoa Baptista describes working at the plant<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Emeryville || Plant #7 || 1916-1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] || Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Had nursery school<ref>Stella Adoa Baptista, [http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Recollections of Life in the Canneries]. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.</ref>.
|-
| Franklin, Idaho|| Plant #130<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || 1944 || ||
|-
| Fresno || Plant #15 || 1916- || || Packing peaches in 1919.
|-
| Fresno || Plant #25 || || || Cannery
|-
| Fresno || Plant #66 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
|-
| Fresno || Plant #67 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919. (Dried?)
|-
| Fresno || Plant #68 / Plant #68A<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> || || Tulare St. at G St. || Dried fruit. Former Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Plant #5 and 6. Becoming site for California HSR station<ref>Karana Hattersley-Drayton, M.A., [http://www.fresno.gov/NR/rdonlyres/41A0CEF4-3F8F-41AC-8E26-A21AEAE97C22/0/CommissionPacket04222013.pdf "Historic Property Survey Report for the Renaissance at Santa Clara Residential Development Project"], Fresno.</ref> Plant stretched along G Street from Mariposa to Kern St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref>.
|-
| Fruitvale|| Plant #37 || 1928- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=3000%20East%209th%20Street,Fruitvale 3000 East 9th Street] || Now mall. Former [[H.G. Prince]]? Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
|-
|Gilroy || Plant #55 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit.
|-
| Hanford || Plant #18 || 1916, 1922 || || Packing peaches and grapes in 1919. Photo of workers at building in Paulson House, History Park, San Jose.
|-
| Healdsburg || Plant #56 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and pears in 1919.
|-
|Hollister || Plant #88 || 1939<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref> || || Dried fruit
|-
| Honolulu, Hawaii || Plant #29 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919.
|-
| Kahului HI || || 1926-1934 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=120%20Kane%20Street,Kahului%20HI 120 Kane Street] || See [http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=HI HAER Survey]
|-
| Kingsburg ||Plant #14 / Plant #25 || 1922-2012 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1101%20Marian%20Avenue,Kingsburg 1101 Marian Avenue] || Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years<ref>Del Monte's Local Plant to Close, 1000 Jobs Lost. [http://hanfordsentinel.com/kingsburg_recorder/news/del-monte-s-local-plant-to-close-jobs-lost/article_32de644c-9edf-11e1-ad35-0019bb2963f4.html May 15, 2012 Kingsburg Recorder].</ref>.
|-
| Lewiston, Idaho || Plant #28 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
|-
| Los Angeles|| Plant #19 || 1916, 1922 || 900 Macy Ave. || Packing tomatoes, beets, and peaches in 1919. Plant was in operation through at least 1922<ref>[http://www.archive.org/details/govuscourtsca9briefs1422 Angelus Sanitary Can Co. vs Los Angeles Can Co.], U.S. District Court of Appeals for Southern District of California, Southern Division. "That on the 16th day of Oct. 1922, at the request
of Ray O. Wilson, I carefully examined a Canning
Machine at the plant of the California Packing
Corporation, No. 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles,
California, which machine I am informed was
manufactured by the defendants; "</ref><ref>[Advertisement: Wanted Women for cannery work http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=LAH19180528.2.266.4]. May 28, 1918 Los Angeles Herald. "Apply California Packing Corporation, 900 Macy Ave. Brooklyn Ave. car."</ref>. Plant apparently out of commission by July 1925; a SP industry map of Los Angeles doesn't show a California Packing Corporation plant, but does show some unused tracks on Avila St. between Aliso and Macy<ref>Southern Pacific Railroad, [http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/p15150coll4/id/10751/ Industry Map of Los Angeles]. July 1925. In Huntington Library.</ref>. Los Angeles 1906-1950 Sanborn map shows the California Fruit Canners Association plant #22 at the corner of Macy (now Cesar Chavez) and Mission Road, just north of the modern freeway, with the back side of the cannery facing the railroad tracks and L.A. river.
Building still in existence in 1932<ref>Film, [https://archive.org/details/LAWildrideCa1932H264?fbclid=IwAR2CZ3uIZjJCGGroRSO46PSc3QyotDkbPsvICuEU0cQf7_05INsY1s-eKlw Wild Ride Through downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1932]] From Prelinger Archives. [[http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/showthread.php?t=170279&page=2467 Photo of cannery]] on postings on skyscraper.com on article about Noirish Los Angeles. Building was brick, single story, and appeared to be just under the Aliso St. bridge.</ref>.
|-
| Marysville || || 1921 || ||
|-
| Milpitas || Plant #21 || 1920's || Main St. near Alviso Road || Packing peas in 1920's<ref>Photo of Plant #21: [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 John C. Gordon collection, San Jose State]. Note [http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2014/10/setting-scene-how-people-equipment-and.html sweet pea crates, pea vines, viners, and cans].</ref>1930 Sanborn map marks as "not in operation June 1930". Also warehouse on east side of tracks.
|-
| Modesto || || 1969 - ~2000 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4000%20Yosemite%20Blvd,Modesto 4000 Yosemite Blvd] || [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948 "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice"]
|-
| Monterey || || 1926-1962 || || Sardine cannery.
|-
| Mt. Eden || || 1931 || || Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
|-
| Oakland || Plant #6 || 1921, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 122 Filbert.</ref> || [https://goo.gl/maps/eZFWPGUE3HXWQFiN7 First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Linden and Filbert Streets] || Still exists, although brick false front above roofline has been removed. According to signs on photo by James Bungers and [https://digital.library.cornell.edu/catalog/ss:20433340, Howard Vawter], and 1941 Oakland City Directory. Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Former [[Oakland Preserving Company]].
|-
| Oakland || || || [https://goo.gl/maps/r2PzbLDimURjU7tj6, First Street (now Embarcadero West) between Filbert and Myrtle Streets] || Label printing plant. Buildings still exist, with "California Packing Corporation" and "Label Printing Plant No." signs cast in building faces.
|-
| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=742%20Saunders,Oakland 742 Saunders] ||
|-
| Oakland || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2085th%20Ave,Oakland 85th Ave] || Foot of 85th Ave
|-
| Oakland || Plant #35 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1250 Park Ave..</ref> 1250 Park Ave. || ||
|-
| Oakland || Plant #237 || 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 3100 E. 9th. St</ref> || 3100 E. 9th Street || Part of Fruitvale cannery.
|-
| Oakland || Plant #34 || 1924, 1941, 1969<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/oaklanddirectory/1969/1969_125.pdf 1969 Polk's City Directory]. As 1074 and 1100 29th Ave.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%281941%29%201100%2029th%20Ave,Oakland (1941) 1100 29th Ave] || Former [https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company] cannery, bought by Del Monte in 1924<ref>[https://localwiki.org/oakland/H._Jones_%26_Company H. Jones and Company]. Oakland Wiki. "H. Jones & Company was a major Australian cannery which in 1920 completed construction on a "great plant" in East Oakland. One of the products that the cannery manufactured was their world famous I.X.L. jam... The company was unable to make any inroads into the U.S. market, and sold the plant in 1924 to Del Monte."</ref>.
|-
| Oakland || Plant #24 || 1916-1954 || 2744 East 11th Street || Former [[H.G. Prince]] cannery<ref>[http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/pages/1067/files/CA_Alameda_HG%20Prince%20and%20Company.pdf H. G. Prince and Company Cannery]. National Register of Historic Places. Earliest building dates to 1916.</ref>.
|-
| Ogden, Utah || Plant #132<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Planada || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20120,Planada Highway 120] || Mentioned as Merced.
|-
| Rio Vista ||Plant #22 || 1921,1922,1953 || || Former Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ June 1921 Canning Age]: article on cannery</ref>.
|-
| Rochelle, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas and corn.
|-
| Roseberry || || 1921 || ||
|-
| Sacramento|| || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%203rd%20and%20X%20Street%20,Sacramento 3rd and X Street ] ||
|-
| Sacramento || || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%2019th%20and%20R%20Street%20,Sacramento 19th and R Street ] ||
|-
| Sacramento ||Plant #12 || 1922, 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1600%202nd%20Street,Sacramento 1600 2nd Street] || Front and P Street<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer] Description of plant</ref><ref>Western Pacific training manual - Sacramento Yard, R Street line. Map in Jeff Asay, "Track and Time:An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad", 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Sacramento || || 1925 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=17th%20and%20C%20Street,Sacramento 17th and C Street] || Now Blue Diamond.
|-
| Sacramento || Plant #11 || 1916- || "G Street" || Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
|-
| Salem || Plant #26 || 1916-1981<ref>Statesman-Journal Time Capsule: Del Monte Cannery. [http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery December 15, 2013 Salem Statesman Journal]. The first building at the site was built in 1890; a new building was built in 1918. By 1930's, it was a major green bean producer for Del Monte. The plant was expanded in 1971, but closed in 1981.</ref> || 1250 Mill St. SE] || Former [[Oregon Packing Company]], merged into Del Monte in 1916. In SP warehouse until 1935<ref>www.salemhistory.net:[http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm Salem Canneries]</ref> 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant. Packing blackberries, string beans, and pears in 1919.
|-
| Salem|| Plant #126<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| San Francisco || Plant #1 || 1907-1930's|| [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] || Now the Cannery. In 1919, was packing pears, port and beans, and tomatoes. Plant either dates to before earthquake<ref>FoundSF: [http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods FoundSF]: started as peach cannery and merged into [[California Fruit Canners Association]]</ref>, built for [[M. J. Fontana and Company]] before the earthquake<ref>[[http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm Rod Hadeland]]</ref>, or built on site of Selby smelter in 1907 for [[California Fruit Canners Association]]<ref>Michael R. Corbett, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010. 2012, San Francisco Architectural Heritage</ref>. Closed in 1930's<ref>Harwood Hall, "Eden Township: Its Agriculture", Hayward Area Historical Society, 1997, p. 163, from Del Monte publication.</ref>, and owned by the [[Haslett Warehouse Company]] from 1948<ref>[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8z03dr5/entire_text/ Guide to the Hassett Warehouse photographs]. San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park collection. "The building was designed by architect William S. Mooser, Jr. and built between 1907-1909 for the California Fruit Canners Association. In 1916, the company merged with three other canners to form the California Packing Company, with foods baring the Del Monte label. From 1937-1948, the building served as storage space for the company's goods until it was purchased in 1948 by the Haslett Warehouse Company. The State of California purchased the building in 1963. It was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, and in 1978 it was acquired by the National Park Service." Photos are dated 1928, perhaps indicating that Hassett operated the warehouse for Del Monte before the purchase.</ref>.
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| San Francisco || Plant #2 || 1919 || || Listed in September 10, 1919 "Lug Box" newsletter as "Specialty", packing preserves, jelly, and catsup.
|-
| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.
|-
| San Francisco || || || 234 Front Street || Food laboratory / Inspection and Service Department<ref>William Braznell, "California's Finest". Del Monte Corporation, 1982. Photo caption, pg. 60.</ref>. The lab had previously been in the basement of 101 California previously.
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| San Francisco || || 1950-1975 || 215 Fremont St. || Headquarters.
|-
| San Jose || Plant #52<ref>Patronize our advertisers: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=rBZLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IiENAAAAIBAJ&pg=5438%2C1093937 January 23, 1922 San Jose Evening News].</ref> || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Cinnabar%20Street,San%20Jose Cinnabar Street] || Former Armsby plant<ref>Mentioned in want ads in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
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| San Jose || Plant #3 || 1919 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=849%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose 849 Auzerais St.] || Also listed as "West San Carlos Street" and "by the narrow gauge" in 1919<ref>Advertisements in [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]</ref> Former [[San Jose Fruit Packing]] plant.
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| San Jose || Plant #51 || 1919<ref>Advertisement: Wanted a Few Good Packing House Men. In [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DtgxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1218%2C3228542 September 19, 1919 San Jose Evening News]. "Plant 51, San Fernando and Bush Street".</ref>, 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=725%20W.%20San%20Fernando,San%20Jose 725 W. San Fernando] || Former [[Griffin and Skelley]]. Closed 1990, moved to Fresno) Grading and processing on 2nd floors along with bins, warehouse on first. Sulfur rooms in south end of building. (Where was plant #50?) (Also plant #54<ref>Appears in 1931 [[Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]]</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1930 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%20Montgomery%20Street%20at%20Cinnabar.,San%20Jose Montgomery Street at Cinnabar.] || Former Richmond Chase plant.
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| San Jose || || 1931 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Lincoln%20Ave.,San%20Jose Lincoln Ave.] || Seen on 1931 siding list.
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| San Jose || || 1936, 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Auzerais%20and%20Meridian%20Road,San%20Jose Auzerais and Meridian Road] || (pit cracker)
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| San Jose || Plant #39 || 1919, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1972<ref>[http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED075620.pdf List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County], Vocational Education memo, 1972.</ref> || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Pickle Factory.
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| San Jose || Plant #153 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20and%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol and Auzerais St.] || By-products.
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| San Jose || Plant #4 / Plant #34 || 1901<ref>Edith Daley [http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=Edith_Daley_Seventh_Street_Cannery_article claimed] the "Seventh Street" cannery was opened in 1901.</ref>-1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Vinegar works. Location known as "Ruric" station on Southern Pacific
<ref>Southern Pacific. Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation. Western Division
drawing R172. Feb. 1926. In collection of California State Railroad Museum.</ref>.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=734%20The%20Alameda,San%20Jose 734 The Alameda] || Sales office, fruit and vegetable purchasing office.
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| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Hostetter%20Road,San%20Jose Hostetter Road] || Pit cracking department.
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| San Jose || Seed Farm #185 || before 1977<ref>Obituary: John R. Silveira. In February 5, 1977 Fremont Argus. "A supervisor for 45 years at the Del Monte Corporation Seed Farm #185 in San Jose."</ref> || || References exist to seed farm on Furlong Ave. in Gilroy as plant #185 in recent years.
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| San Leandro ||Plant #27 || 1928 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Thornton%20Avenue%20,San%20Leandro Thornton Avenue ] || Formerly [[H.G. Prince]] according to 1928 Sanborn map, plant #27.
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| San Leandro || Plant #8 || 1931 || 1401 San Leandro Blvd. || West of BART station, vacant as of 2005. 1899-1973. Cannery, dried fruit, agricultural research. Was a packing plant for dried fruit until moved to San Jose in...1960's?<ref>findagrave.com: [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr obituary for Marie Fernandes]</ref>. Packing peaches in 1919. Also listed as 752 Saunders (Saunders at Martinez), but the street no longer exists. Originally [[King-Morse Canning Company]].
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| San Lorenzo || Plant #9 || 1916- || Hesperian Blvd. || Opposite SP station. December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes that the cannery will reopen early in 1923 to can spinach from 250 acres. Leonard Perillo superintendent. Packing peaches, pears, tomatoes, and grapes in 1919. Photo in Arcadia's "San Lorenzo" by Doris Marciel.
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| Sanger || || 1922 || || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News]
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| Santa Ana || Plant #20 || 1919, 1921, 1937, 1960's<ref>Herman Schultheis, Photo of end of plant, , [http://beta.worldcat.org/archivegrid/collection/data/785232768 Los Angeles Public Library]</ref> || East First St. || Packing refugee beans and pimentos in 1917<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA20&lpg=RA2-PA20&dq=%22900+macy+street%22+%22los+angeles%22&source=bl&ots=zKfWHqAjDp&sig=B0TKjAsjyR6uhIbIIXMN80UNkYY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi4gbPf36bQAhVN-mMKHSGLAw0Q6AEIJDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Santa Ana Cannery to be Re-opened]. January 1917 Western Canner and Packer. "Mr. R. H. McIntosh, whose headquarters are at 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles, has announced that the old cannery on East First Street, Santa Ana, will re-open in August 1917. The building will be repaired and new machinery installed. Operations will be confined to pimentos and refugee beans. Contracts will be let for 400 acres of pimentos and 300 acres of refugee beans."</ref>Packing chili peppers in 1919. Supposedly former [[F. P. Cutting Company]] plant<ref>[http://coastdaylight.com/ljames1/scph_orange_sa.html Packing Houses of Southern California]], Santa Ana page.</ref>, abandoned by 1960's.
|-
| Santa Rosa || Plant #5 || 1921-1932<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The major part of the cannery closed in 1932 when CalPak consolidated at its San Leandro plant. The West Third office building became a Nulaid egg packing plant. A smaller canning operation stayed in business a few years, producing mostly canned peaches, pears, and fruit cocktail along with some dried fruit."</ref> || Between West 3rd and West 6th Street || Cannery built 1894. Former [[California Fruit Canners Association]] plant, former [[Rose City Canning Company]]? Source for blackberries<ref>July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer</ref>. Packing peaches, blackberries, and pears in 1919. The 6th Street Playhouse occupies part of the former cannery; the 3ed Street side appears to have been destroyed, with the facade perhaps surviving<ref>Gaye LeBaron, [http://www.pressdemocrat.com/csp/mediapool/sites/PressDemocrat/News/story.csp?cid=2226656&sid=555&fid=181 If Those Railroad Square Cannery walls could talk.] May 25, 2013 Santa Rosa Press-Democrat. "The scope of the cannery and its importance to the economy was enormous, In the April-to-October season, workers processed a wide variety of crops, coming by truck and train — pears from Lake and Mendocino counties, apples, berries and cherries from Sebastopol, peaches and plums from Geyserville and Cloverdale. There were also vegetables. Cal Pack, as the company was known, leased fields in Valley Ford and Ignacio to grow spinach and peas...There were even tomatoes from the Sacramento Valley, although Cal Pack's predecessor at the Santa Rosa site, Hunt Brothers Cannery, had long since established itself as the premier tomato processor in the Sacramento area, on its way to becoming a national brand..."</ref> Superintendent was John Oliva in 1920, and Charles Carniglia after. Plant superintendent's house was on Sixth Street.
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| Smithfield, Utah || Plant #138<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Spanish Fork, Utah || Plant #136<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Star Ray, Utah || Plant #34 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Stockton || Plant #10 || 1975 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2716%20East%20Minor,Stockton 2716 East Minor] || Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch.<ref> Lawsuit in 1977 said that Del Monte had warehouses for canned goods out there, and they needed the space to hold the production from the Emeryville and San Jose canneries in the 1970's - there wasn't enough space locally.</ref><ref>December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes it'll reopen on March 1. In 1922, canned 125,000 cases of spinach, 200,000 cases of cling peaches, and 110,000 cases of tomatoes.</ref><ref>Served by Western Pacific. Western Pacific Training Manual, Stockton Yard: Scotts St. to El Pinal Track Diagram. In Jeff Asay, "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific Railroad". 2006, Feather River Rail Society.</ref>.
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| Suisun City || || 1919, 1926, -1930s ||600 Kellogg St. (from USGS survey landmark<ref>USGS Landmark, Fairfield Del Monte Water Tank, 38 14'47"N, 122 02'22"W. Water tank in existence 1936, 1941. </ref>.) ||Dried fruit<ref>[http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html Frank Butterfield bio]</ref>. Packing pears and apricots in 1919. Water tank at southeast corner of plant, painted dark green with Del Monte logo in red. Described as former J.K. Armsby cannery in at least one document, thought it may have been confused with the dried fruit plant in town. Closed in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=3-E0AQAAMAAJ&pg=PT263&lpg=PT263&dq=fairfield+cannery&source=bl&ots=pF-kdJrOLF&sig=mbbeHolFSxpcQfY-3qgpM4anMzc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjV4ojf5MvQAhUN6mMKHai_DlQ4ChDoAQgkMAQ#v=onepage&q=fairfield%20cannery&f=false
Suisun Marsh Habitat Management, Preservation, and Restoration Plan]. California Department ofFish and Game, October 2010. Also notes that Del Monte's dried fruit plant in Fairfield also closed in the 1930's.
</ref>
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| Suisun City (Fairfield) || Plant #60 || -1930's || Union Ave. at Broadway St<ref>Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield. 1925. Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).</ref><ref>J. K. Armsby Fruit Packing Plant. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, [http://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&ots=Q2xf80BdMz&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA114#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Fairfield], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx. Photo shows a side view of the Armsby packing house, with the note that Armsby was one of the first packers or canners to locate along the railroad in Fairfield.</ref> || Dried fruit. Former J. K. Armsby plant. Photos exist of plant in 1930's<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=fKMBcxZK8ksC&lpg=PA114&dq=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&pg=PA115#v=onepage&q=%22j.k.%20armsby%22%20packing%20house&f=false Del Monte dried fruit plant, 1930's.] In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, Fairfield.</ref>. Image of packing house in 1940's-era film background<ref>[https://archive.org/details/pet1006r3suisuncityca PET 1006 R3 Suisun City CA.] 1940's stock film of Suisun city area. California Packing Corporation plant visible at 8:25. Archived at Internet Archive.</ref>
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| Sunnyvale || Plant #184 || 1904-1926, 1930-? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=185%20Evelyn,Sunnyvale 185 Evelyn] || Dried fruit receiving house formerly owned by Madison and Bonner, merged into CalPak in 1916, turned into warehouse in 1926, used for corporate seed department after 1930. [http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm/ref/collection/sunnyvale/id/166 | photo]
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| The Dalles, Washington || || 1921 || ||
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| Toppenish, Washington || Plant #122<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] || Did not operate in 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ 1922 Western Canner and Packer]: "Not operating this season"</ref>.
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| Vancouver, WA || Plant #27 || 1919 || || Packing preserves, pears, prunes, blackberries, and string beans in 1919.
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| Vancouver, Washington || Plant #127<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Visalia || Plant #17 || 1918, 1922 || 216 N. Tipton St. at Oak St.<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref> || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ Burned down in 1922]. H. G. Hohwiesner was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. Photo shows wood-frame structure<ref>Terry L. Ommen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=Xl2PDAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT37&ots=pEiCTaA79F&dq=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&pg=PT37#v=onepage&q=%22california%20packing%20corporation%22%20visalia&f=false Visalia]. </ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1918, 1922, 1934 || 425 N. Johnson Ave.<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>(also Johnson Ave. at School Ave<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>) || Former California Fruit Canners Association<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. C. H. Blochburger was manager in 1918. J. W. Dihel was manager in 1934<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #69 || 1918 || corner of School Ave. and East St. || G. A. Fleming was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
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| Visalia || Plant #70 || 1918 || Johnson cor. North || C. W. Morrill was manager in 1918<ref>1918 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Wahiawa, Hawaii || Plant #30 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919. On Oahu.
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| Wasach, Utah || Plant #32 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes and catsup in 1919.
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| West Weber, Utah || Plant #35 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
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| Woodland || || -2000 || ||
|-
| Yakima, Washington || Plant #125<ref>Western Food Plants Get High Honor. [https://archive.org/stream/radiorounduponfo1944unit_15#page/n63/mode/2up February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food].</ref> ||1944 || ||
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| Yuba City ||Plant #14 || 1916-1921, 1930 || || Packing peaches in 1919. Post card from 1930 shows low-slung buildings next to railroad track. Other photo shows wooden facade<ref>[https://calisphere.org/item/575d5c684fafaf002d8791d11b972cc2/ California Packing Corporation, Plant #14, 1930s.] California State Library, California history collection picture catalog, McCurry Foto Co., 1924. Listed as Del Monte peach cannery in Yuba City / Meridian.</ref>.
|-
|}

==Photos==
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]

[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gordon&CISOPTR=1242&CISOBOX=1&REC=20 CalPak (California Packing Corp. aka Del Monte) Plant 51 John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library]

[http://historicimages.insunnyvale.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/sunnyvale&CISOPTR=166&CISOBOX=1&REC=5 California Packing Corporation Plant No. 184 Sunnyvale Library]

[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3 Preservation San Jose]

[http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/8238 Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery]. Via Sonoma County library.

[https://www.flickr.com/photos/40361283@N06/3708909019/ Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda]. From Flickr photos by MSClife.

[http://archive.statesmanjournal.com/article/20131215/NEWS/312150030/SJ-Time-Capsule-Del-Monte-cannery Del Monte cannery, Salem Oregon]. From Willamette Heritage Center via Statesmanjournal.com.

[http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=1568 Plant #14], probably Kingsburg. California State Library, California History Room.

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Dunkley Company

2021-02-13T22:04:22Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Manufacturer
| primary_town = Oakland
| aliases=Michigan Canning and Machinery Company
}}

The '''Dunkley Company''' was a packer and canning equipment manager started by S. J. Dunkley in Michigan. Dunkley started off packing celery in Kalamazoo, Michigan, then canning peaches in South Haven and Hartford<ref>Willis Frederick Dunbar, [https://d.lib.msu.edu/vvl/3837 Western Michigan at Work]. Radio show, broadcast on WKZO on July 12, 1949.</ref>. He later invented a cherry pitter among other machines and eventually moved completely into mechanical devices for canning. His company Dunkley moved his company to Oakland, California in 1915<ref>Obituary: S. J. Dunkley. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false February 1923 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>. The company was continuing to lease and maintain canning equipment in 1949, employing a mobile staff of mechanics who could quickly reach rural canneries in Michigan leasing the company's equipment. The company was apparently owned by Libby in 1981<ref>"Libby Says It Will Sell Its Canning Operations." [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/12/business/libby-says-it-will-sell-its-canning-operations.html December 12,1981 New York Times]. "Although no dollar figures were announced, it is believed that the deal involved millions of dollars, and would leave Libby with its fruit juices and specialty foods units that it operates under its Crosse & Blackwell and Maggi, Florida Citrus Groves Corporation and Dunkley Company subsidiaries. The company also said it was planning new acquisitions and product lines, but refused to elaborate."</ref>.

In 1916, the Dunkley Company sued many California fruit packers for infringing on the company's patents<ref>[[Central California Canneries]] vs. Dunkley Company, [https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/ca9/briefs/govuscourtsca9briefs1311/gov.uscourts.ca9.03824.b.01.pdf No. 3824, United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, August 1921]. Dunkley argued the companies were infringing on his patents for peach skin removers, but the canneries responded that he had only done minor improvements to already-known processes.</ref>. The company move may have been related to the lawsuit. During the hearings discussing changes to the 1920 Packer's Decree<ref>In [Packers' Consent Decree: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to Senate Resolution 211, to Investigate Matters Concerning the Consent Decree Entered in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the Case of the United States of America, Plaintiff, V. Swift & Co. Et Al., Defendants.] U. S. Senate, March 23 and April 21, 1922.</ref>, the wholesalers at Tillman and Bendel claimed that Dunkley was actually controlled by the meat packer [[Swift and Company]], and their control existed only to attack independent California canners.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| Kalamazoo, Michigan || - 1915 || ||
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| Oakland || 1915-1922 || ||
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|}
==References==
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Dunkley Company

2021-02-13T22:03:00Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Manufacturer
| primary_town = Oakland
| aliases=Michigan Canning and Machinery Company
}}

The '''Dunkley Company''' was a packer and canning equipment manager started by S. J. Dunkley in Michigan. Dunkley started off packing celery in Kalamazoo, Michigan, then canning peaches in South Haven and Hartford<ref>Willis Frederick Dunbar, [https://d.lib.msu.edu/vvl/3837 Western Michigan at Work]. Radio show, broadcast on WKZO on July 12, 1949.</ref>. He later invented a cherry pitter among other machines and eventually moved completely into mechanical devices for canning. His company Dunkley moved his company to Oakland, California in 1915<ref>Obituary: S. J. Dunkley. [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA75#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false February 1923 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>. The company was continuing to lease and maintain canning equipment in 1949. The company was apparently owned by Libby in 1981<ref>Libby Says It Will Sell Its Canning Operations: , [https://www.nytimes.com/1981/12/12/business/libby-says-it-will-sell-its-canning-operations.html December 12,1981 New York Times]. "Although no dollar figures were announced, it is believed that the deal involved millions of dollars, and would leave Libby with its fruit juices and specialty foods units that it operates under its Crosse & Blackwell and Maggi, Florida Citrus Groves Corporation and Dunkley Company subsidiaries. The company also said it was planning new acquisitions and product lines, but refused to elaborate."</ref>

In 1916, the Dunkley Company sued many California fruit packers for infringing on the company's patents<ref>[[Central California Canneries]] vs. Dunkley Company, [https://law.resource.org/pub/us/case/ca9/briefs/govuscourtsca9briefs1311/gov.uscourts.ca9.03824.b.01.pdf No. 3824, United States Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit, August 1921]. Dunkley argued the companies were infringing on his patents for peach skin removers, but the canneries responded that he had only done minor improvements to already-known processes.</ref>. The company move may have been related to the lawsuit. During the hearings discussing changes to the 1920 Packer's Decree<ref>In [Packers' Consent Decree: Hearings Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Sixty-Seventh Congress, Second Session, Pursuant to Senate Resolution 211, to Investigate Matters Concerning the Consent Decree Entered in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in the Case of the United States of America, Plaintiff, V. Swift & Co. Et Al., Defendants.] U. S. Senate, March 23 and April 21, 1922.</ref>, the wholesalers at Tillman and Bendel claimed that Dunkley was actually controlled by the meat packer [[Swift and Company]], and their control existed only to attack independent California canners.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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| Kalamazoo, Michigan || - 1915 || ||
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| Oakland || 1915-1922 || ||
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|}
==References==
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[[Category:Oakland]]
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American Fruit Product Company

2020-12-25T00:02:46Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = San Jose
}}

The '''American Fruit Product Company''' was a Rochester, New York-based wholesaler who operated fruit drying plants in San Jose, Winters, and Vacaville<ref>SOLANO: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19080523.2.12 May 23, 1908 Pacific Rural Press]. "Advices from Suisun state that the American Fruit Product Co. of Rochester, N. V., has entered the California field and will operate in Suisun. Branch offices will also be established in Vacaville and Winters. The Pacific Coast headquarters of the company will be at San Jose, where products of the Santa Clara valley will be handled. The new company will handle principally dried fruits, which will be sold in the company's branch offices in the East and in foreign countries. "</ref>dried fruit processor with a plant in San Jose during 1907-1908. An advertisement in the July 12, 1908 San Jose Mercury and Herald describes them as the "Pacific Coast Branch", "located in the Ernst Luehning Packing House, at San Carlos and Narrow Gauge R. R., are prepared to handle all varieties of dried fruit<ref>[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19080709.2.78.4&srpos=8&e=-------en--20-SJMN-1--txt-txIN-luehning-------1 July 9, 1908 San Jose Mercury and Herald].</ref>.
R.A. Howard was the manager in 1909<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=_9JKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PT65&ots=W5eeDlixcl&dq=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&pg=PT65#v=onepage&q=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&f=false Polk's 1909-1910 San Jose City Directory]. "American Fruit Product Co., San Jose branch.</ref>. The company apparently existed as late as 1915, appearing in a list of canners in San Jose named in a plan to dredge the Guadalupe River for easier navigation<ref>War Department, "Preliminary Investigation of the South End of San Francisco Bay, Cal." In [http://books.google.com/books?id=prU3AQAAIAAJ&lpg=RA8-PA18&ots=wOxgHq2_TT&dq=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&pg=RA8-PA18#v=onepage&q=%22American%20fruit%20product%22%20san%20jose&f=false House Documents, 65th Congress, Second Session]. December 3, 1917 - November 21, 1918.</ref>.

Few other mentions exist for the company, apart from a generically-worded Supreme Court decision in United Surety Co. vs American Fruit Product<ref> United Surety Co. v. American Fruit Product Co. - 238 U.S. 140 (1915) [http://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/238/140/case.html Error to the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia].</ref>.

It's unclear whether the company was a takeover of the Luehning packing houses, or a cooperative venture.
==Locations==
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| San Francisco || 1908 || 210 California St.<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/sanfranciscohome1910home/sanfranciscohome1910home_djvu.txt 1910 San Francisco home telephone book]</ref> ||
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| San Jose || 1907-1909 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=San%20Carlos%20and%20Narrow%20Gauge%20Ry,San%20Jose San Carlos and Narrow Gauge Ry] || Former Luehning packing house.
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| Vacaville, CA || 1908 || ||
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| Winters, CA || 1908 || ||
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Rosenberg Brothers

2020-12-25T00:00:57Z

Robert Bowdidge:

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{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Francisco, CA
| primary_dates = 1893-1947
| predecessors = [[H.E. Losse and Company]]
| successors = [[Consolidated Grocers]], [[Mayfair Packing]], [[Bonner Packing]]
}}

[[File:rosenberg-santa-clara-1926.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Rosenberg Brothers, Santa Clara, 1926.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/pacificservicema1627paci/pacificservicema1627paci#page/314/mode/1up Pacific Service Magazine, October 1926].</ref>]]
'''Rosenberg Brothers''' was a major San Francisco-based dried fruit packer. The company was started in 1893 by Max Rosenberg, Abraham Rosenberg, and Adolph Rosenberg to pack and ship California fruit to the east. The brothers were Californians, born to German immigrant parents who had arrived in the 1850's<ref>[http://www.rosenbergfound.org/sites/default/files/1937-1946.pdf History of the Rosenberg Foundation]</ref>. The "Sunsweet Story" refers to them as "the most successful of the speculative packers"<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers</ref>, commenting on their business model of buying fruit and hoping it would sell for more when actually sold.

The company had packing houses in the Santa Clara Valley, Oregon, the Sacramento Valley, and San Joaquin Valley, and bought and sold several kinds of dried fruits. A 1911 ad in California Fruit News shows they packed dried fruit and raisins. Rosenberg also pioneered the idea of mail-order fruit gift giving<ref>Harry and David: Bear Creek Orchards: [http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/harry_david/ Oregon Encyclopedia]. "When fruit prices plummeted during the Great Depression, the Rosenberg brothers promoted their Royal Riviera pears in San Francisco and elsewhere by developing the idea of mail-order gift-giving."</ref>. Rosenberg Brothers also entered the bean market in 1917<ref>Big New Factor in the Bean Business: [http://books.google.com/books?id=OGBRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA9&ots=J0QjGeqE0z&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20fruit%20buyer&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20fruit%20buyer&f=false May 24, 1917 California Fruit News]</ref>. The company was also active in rice; Rosenberg Brothers sold 700,000 bags of rice worth $4.2 million dollars to fill orders in Japan, Sweden, and Norway<ref>California Development Board, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0foYAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA9-PA39&ots=JE3gYCSmT2&dq=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&pg=RA9-PA39#v=onepage&q=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&f=false California Resources and Possibilities]. 1910.</ref>.

In 1930, the company was the largest shipper of dried fruit in the world. With Oakland's encouragement, the company placed their primary shipping point on the docks at Oakland, and promised to ship 50,000 tons of fruit a year from the new warehouses<ref>Mel Scott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cnw4G9q4WZgC&lpg=PA217&ots=sd2db0qjs_&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=PA217#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective]. University of California Press, 1959.</ref>.

The last of the original brothers died in 1931; Arthur C. Oppenheimer, an early employee and husband of Max Rosenberg's niece, ran the company for many years<ref>Changes in Rosenberg Brothers: January 12, 1948 New York Times. "Arthur C. Oppenheimer, who will continue as general manager, has been elected chairman of the board... Nathan Cummings, chairman of the board of Consolidated Grocers Corporation has been made president, Arthur C. Oppenheimer 2nd has been made executive vice president."</ref> but died in 1950.<ref>The Sunsweet Story</ref>. The company survived independently until December 1947 when it was bought by a Consolidated Grocers Corp. of Chicago<ref>Sunsweet Story describes it as "major postwar change in independent packer ownership"</ref>. Rosenberg stayed as a separate company but a subsidiary of Consolidated Grocers, while [[United States Products]], a San Jose canner, became part of the canning arm and lost its independent name<ref>New York Times, May 25, 1951</ref>. Consolidated Grocers later became Consolidated Foods and eventually the Sara Lee Corporation<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2623.html Consolidated Foods]. In Encyclopedia of Chicago website, as part of the Dictionary of Prominent Chicago Businesses 1980-2000.</ref>.

Oppenheimer's son-in-law, Clarence C. Kane, was president of sales from 1950 through 1954 when he resigned in a management shake-up<ref>Hillsborough Man Heads Board: [http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Clarence-C-Kane-2913831.php December 3, 1954 San Mateo Times].</ref>. (Kane later ran San Francisco Sourdough, makers of Parisian sourdough bread<ref>Clarence C. Kane: [http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Clarence-C-Kane-2913831.php June 3, 2001 San Francisco Chronicle].</ref>.)

Rosenberg Brothers finally went out of business in 1957. [[Mayfair Packing]] bought the dried fruit and walnut operations, [[Bonner Packing]] bought the raisin business, and Trico bought Rosenberg's almond business.

Rosenberg Brothers was a particularly strong competitor:<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers.</ref>

<blockquote> "Oppenheimer was generally regarded as sort of a genius among the proprietary packers. Unquestionably, he was the most successful of the speculative packers, and he was similarly successful in the other commodity fields in which the Rosenberg firm specialized: tree nuts, rice, beans, and honey. In the case of dried fruits, his practice was to circulate propaganda in the orchard districts, mainly through his buyer-fieldmen, to convince growers that economic conditions at the time would justify only a low field price. He frequently succeeded in depressing the field market, when he would buy all of the fruit his firm required. He would then get the packers together to elicit their support of some kind of a scheme he had devised to strengthen the market for packed goods. He succeeded remarkably, usually remaining personally in the background of these activities, but often persuading the other packers to fall into line and to address grower meetings and otherwise to convince growers that they were doing all they could for the growers. It was common knowledge in the dried fruit industry that at one period, Rosenberg Bros. and Company accumulated supplies from three successive crops before a favorable wholesale market developed that enabled the firm to make its speculation pay off handsomely. The object of all this, of course, was to buy low and sell high."
</blockquote>

Rudolph Peterson, in a Bancroft Library oral history<ref>Rudolph Peterson, [https://archive.org/details/careerinternational00peterich A career in international banking with the Bank of America, 1936-1970, and the United Nations Development Program, 1971-1975], Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office, 1992.</ref>, recounted a story
where Rosenberg Brothers came to Bank of America for a line of credit to support buying grapes during the season. Ralph Heaton, the Bank of America employee, asked them about potential prices and refused to provide the line of credit when the intended prices would be less than the cost of production. After negotiation, Rosenberg Brothers agreed to raise their intended raisin prices to support the farmers while ensuring a profit for themselves.

==Company History==

[[File:RosenbergFresno.png|240px|thumb|right|Rosenberg Brothers, Fresno.<ref>From "Years Mature".</ref>]]
The company started in 1893 with Adolph Rosenberg, the oldest of the brothers. Adolph had been working as a buyer of fresh fruit for fruit sellers in Los Angeles, Portland, and Vancouver Washington, but saw opportunities in the newly forming dried fruit business. Adolph quickly convinced his brothers to join the new venture, with each taking a separate role in the company. Adolph was "the idea man". His brother Abraham had been the bookkeeper for a shoe wholesaler, and took on the financial and policy side of the business, and also took trips to Europe to open new markets. Max, the youngest, was the buyer and the trader. Their first office on California Street in San Francisco, in a cubicle at the back of Norton, Teller, and Rodden, a butter and egg wholesaler<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=C65IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1310&lpg=PA1310&dq=Norton,+Teller,+and+Rodden+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=4jaXAh0GAc&sig=vSct5tNRhKOl5MQhTQ4FWh_WquI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj37pu26-bdAhVIFjQIHSuuDp0Q6AEwA3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Norton%2C%20Teller%2C%20and%20Rodden%20san%20francisco&f=false 1899 Crocker Langley San Francisco Business Directory]. In 1899, Norton, Teller, and Rodden were at 125-131 California St.; Rosenberg Brothers had already moved into their own space at 211-213 California.</ref>. The company's first processing plant went into a space above L. Scatena's fresh fruit warehouse on Washington Street. (The company history notes that A. P. Giannini clerked downstairs for Scatena.) A fig processing plant opened in Yuba City in 1898, followed by Santa Clara (for prunes) and Fresno for raisins.

As the business moved, they kept an egalitarian atmosphere. All three brothers shared the responsibility and credit equally. Everyone from executives to stenographers in shared areas, and no special perks for management. The brothers distributed large bonuses for all workers to share the profits in good years; the bonuses were often larger than the year's dividends to stockholders; in bad years, "Mr. Abe" would personally talk with each employee to explain why the year had been bad. The company did not have layoffs during the Great Depression, and by 1943, many employees were 15 or 20 year veterans. The brothers died by the early 1930's; Adolph passed away in 1923 while on a business trip in Switzerland<ref>Obituary: Adolph Rosenberg. In [https://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA51&ots=9SD-fDHBEB&dq=%22max%20rosenberg%22%20san%20francisco%20dried%20fruit&pg=RA11-PA51#v=onepage&q=%22max%20rosenberg%22%20san%20francisco%20dried%20fruit&f=false April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. "Word was received in San Francisco, March 26, that Adolph Rosenberg of Rosenberg Brothers & Co., the well-known dried fruit firm, passed away in Switzerland on that day. Mr. Rosenberg died after a few days' illness from pneumonia. Mr. Rosenberg is survived by two brothers, Abraham Rosenberg, head of the firm of Rosenberg Bros. & Co, and Max I. Rosenberg. He was 55 years of age and was born in Calaveras county in this State. A number of years ago, the three brothers engaged in the development of Rosenberg Bros & Co. dealers in dried fruits, later becoming also very extensive handlers of rice. The firm is among the largest of the dried fruit packers, and the late Adolph Rosenberg was the founder of the business. He has not been active in the firm for a number of years, however, having been for some years in poor health."</ref>, Abe in 1929, and Max in 1931. The company was then run by Arthur Oppenheimer, an early employee who worked his way up the ranks. The company history includes stories of Oppenheimer's devotion to the company; he had rescued the company records from the office after the 1906 earthquake, and searched a junkyards for a makeshift water nozzle to soak the warehouse as the fire approached.

Max, the last brother, died in 1931. His share of the company went to the Rosenberg Foundation, a San Francisco charity tasked with supporting new causes, often supporting new programs for health, education, and social justice, especially for rural areas of California. The first grants included support for farmworkers, research into Valley Fever, and better training for day care providers<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref><ref>[https://rosenbergfound.org/about-us/history/ Rosenberg Foundation] website. "Founded by a bequest from Max Rosenberg, first foundation west of Chicago to hire a professional staff; first grants went to support reproductive rights for migrant farmworker women in the Central Valley, research into Valley Fever and Sylvatic Plague, and grants to advance "inter-cultural relations".</ref>.

The company occasionally turns up in lawsuits. "Years Mature", the company history, highlighted that the company was fair with its customers, but strongly defended their contracts. A lawsuit against the S. F. Buffum, a New York exporter, shows a typical response where Rosenberg Brothers sued over two railroad cars of prunes and cherries that had been bought by Buffum, but that Buffum didn't want after their buyer left<ref>Court of Appeals, State of New York: [https://books.google.com/books?id=lfGJm1Hdg0gC&lpg=PA150&dq=frolich%20rosenberg%20brothers&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q=frolich&f=falseCourt of Appeals State of New York. Rosenberg Bros & Co. against F.S. Buffum Co., Inc.], 1921. </ref>. Rosenberg Brothers was sued in 1928 by White Pine Products, a box manufacturer, when he shipped box shook before Rosenberg Brothers had fully agreed to the sale<ref>[https://casetext.com/case/box-lumber-co-v-rosenberg-bros-co Box Lumber Co. vs Rosenberg Brothers Company], California Court of Appeal, First District, Division 1, October 14, 1930. 109 Cal App. 56 (Cal Ct. App 1930).</ref>. Another lawsuit involved an apple shipment that was destroyed for being unfit for consumption<ref>[https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914a790add7b049346ee262 Seggerman Brothers vs Rosenberg Brothers], New York Court of Appeals, 217 App Div 7. 216 NYS 61, May 14, 1926.</ref>.

A separate lawsuit argued whether a growing crop of prunes went with the land if the land was sold<ref>Fruit Contract Decision Trial:
[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=PRP19210326.2.23&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-rosenberg+cannery----# March 26, 1921 Pacific Rural Press].</ref>.

==Rosenberg Brothers in San Jose==
Rosenberg Brothers had a long-time presence in the San Jose and Santa Clara area, moving between packing houses many times.

An early location was on Ryland Street, at the west end of the street in a former C. M. Webber warehouse. Rosenberg's building had significant machinery and even had overhead shafting to power some equipment<ref>Hair Caught In Moving Shafting: September 19, 1905 San Jose Evening News</ref>. A fire on morning of November 10, 1906 burned that plant to the ground<ref>San Jose Visited by the Most Damaging Fire In Its History: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=114027A619C43100&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 November 11, 1906 Sunday Mercury and Herald]. The underground tank stored a "tank car of oil".</ref>. [[George E. Hyde | George Hyde]] was the manager. The night watchman was feared burned, but he turned out to be safe as he'd been at home sick for several nights<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ASUiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5KMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=799%2C5158083 San Jose Evening News, November 10, 1906]</ref> The fire burned several thousand tons of prunes - 50 freight cars worth. 11 full cars burned, and two warehouses; the fire was encouraged by 5000 gallons of crude oil<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=LAH19061111.2.4&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22rosenberg+brothers%22+fire----# November 11, 1915 Los Angeles Herald].</ref>. The building itself supposedly belonged to Mrs. J. C. Webber of Chicago.

The Ryland Street fire chased Rosenberg Brothers away, both north of downtown to Stockton Ave.<ref>March 5, 1907: San Jose Evening News: Rosenberg Brothers have bought a lot on Stockton Ave</ref> and to the west side of San Jose. Their new plant was in the former [[Santa Clara Valley Fruit Exchange]] on the northwest corner of Auzerais and Sunol St., with
[[Orrin Harlan]] as manager in 1908. There was a lumberyard was across Sunol Street, and Standard Oil across the railroad tracks<ref>$350,000 Fire Destroys Packing House: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=63IzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z-MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1330%2C1450064 August 7, 1915 San Jose Evening News] report on fire in 1915</ref>.

Another fire on August 7, 1915 destroyed the Sunol Street plant<ref>
$350,000 Fire Destroys Packing House: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=63IzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z-MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1330%2C1450064 August 7, 1915 San Jose Evening News].</ref>. The manager at the time was H. M. Barngrover.
Rosenberg Brothers had been located in the [[Santa Clara Valley Fruit Exchange]] warehouse, a large brick building with multiple firewalls. Rosenberg was leasing; lost "many dried apricots and some prunes". The loss to the firm at $300,000. The fire started in pile of apricot pits near the tracks. 5000 gallons of fuel oil still burning in the tank at noon the next day. Fire was blamed on IWW, supposedly threats had been made<ref>Rosenberg Co. Plant Is Burned: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1149DB80CBECCBA0&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 August 8, 1915 San Jose Mercury News]</ref>. Later news reports blamed an International Workers of the World supporter, according to
[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SN19151002.2.22&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22rosenberg+brothers%22+%22san+jose%22----# October 2, 1915 Sausalito News].

After the Sunol St. fire, Rosenberg Brothers took over the former [[California Cured Fruit Association]] warehouse next to the Santa Clara depot in 1916<ref>[http://santaclaraca.gov/index.aspx?page=506 Santa Clara city history].</ref>.

The company bought [[H.E. Losse and Company]] in 1917.

==Rosenberg Brothers in Hayward==

Rosenberg Brothers may also have had an outpost in Hayward, California. A biography of Manuel Oliveira<ref>Manuel Oliveira: [http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/sketch2.html History of Alameda County], 1928, S. J. Clarke Publishing</ref> notes that Mr. Oliveira bought and dried fruit for both Rosenberg Brothers and [[F. E. Booth]] of Centerville.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| Biggs, CA || 1943 || || South of Chico. Mentioned in "Years Mature." Probably rice mill.
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| Brentwood || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
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| Dallas, Oregon || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
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| Dinuba || 1934 || 140 North N St (now Urapan Way)<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref> ||
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| Edenvale || 1922 || "One mile away from [[Richmond Chase]] plant at Edenvale station"<ref> Other Growing Towns in Santa Clara County: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/santaclara/history/scchist34.htm History of Santa Clara County history], 1922</ref>|| Receiving station
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| Emeryville || 1922- || 1500 Park Ave. between Hubbard and Hillock || Built in 1922-1926.<ref>Oakland Sanborn map. 1912-1951, v.3, p. 325.</ref>. Became Emeryville Warehouse, and one of the early loft conversions in the Emeryville area.
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| Figarden || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
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| Fresno || 1918, 1940, 1943 || Mono St. at G St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref> || Multiple buildings.
|-
| Fresno || 1922, 1947 || Broadway Street at Cherry Ave. || "New plant". Largest raisin packing operation in world in 1920's<ref>John Reynolds and Michael J. Semas, [http://books.google.com/books?id=xCMouPQYMU0C&lpg=PA116&ots=NYM7Uv9u3v&dq=guggenhime%20fresno&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=guggenhime%20fresno&f=false Fresno], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx.</ref>.
|-
| Modesto || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
|-
| Medford || || || Medford: Spur historically named after Rosenberg Brothers on [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c87h1hgq/ topoquest.com] (Same as Talent, Oregon site in 1943 Years Mature history?)
|-
| Oakland || 1937, 1943 || 14th and Terminal St.<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory].</ref>. || Apparently built in the early 1930's in order to export 50,000 tons of fruit<ref>Mel Scott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cnw4G9q4WZgC&lpg=PA217&ots=sd2db0qjs_&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=PA217#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective]. University of California Press, 1959.</ref><ref>U.S. Corps of Engineers, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sX4oxKQaRAkC&lpg=PA62&ots=vvw9b9LekR&dq=%22112%20market%20street%22%20san%20francisco&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=rosenberg&f=false The Ports of Oakland, Alameda, and Richmond]. Port Series #31, revised 1951. Book shows address as "Between 14th and Pier Streets on Ferry Street", currently in the middle of the Outer Harbor container pier, just south of the Bay Bridge. Three warehouses along wharf with rail and truck access.</ref>.
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| Orange, CA || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
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| Portland, Oregon || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
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| Riddle, Oregon || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature". Between Grants Pass and Roseburg.
|-
| San Francisco || 1906 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=211-213%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 211-213 California Street] || Burned in 1906 earthquake<ref>Lawsuit over building mentioned in [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SFC19070110.2.138&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22rosenberg+brothers%22+fire----# January 1907 San Francisco Call ].</ref> Arthur Oppenheimer broke into the building through a neighboring building's coal chute to rescue company records after the earthquake<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| San Francisco || 1912 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=153%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 153 California Street] ||
|-
| San Francisco || 1905 - 1950's || 275 Brannan St. || Warehouse.<ref>[http://www.spur.org/publications/library/article/historyrinconhill01012003 History of Rincon Hill]</ref><ref>Paul A. Lord Jr., [http://ec2-50-17-237-182.compute-1.amazonaws.com/docs/landmarks_and_districts/article%2010%20appendix%20I.pdf South End Historical District Case Report], February 5, 1990, San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board</ref>. Building survived 1906 earthquakeArthur Oppenheimer broke into the building through a neighboring building's coal chute to rescue company records after the earthquake<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>. [Photo of building after earthquake https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp36.00130.jpg].
|-
| San Francisco || 1921 || Ramkin St. || Rice mill<ref>Rice mill damaged: [https://books.google.com/books?id=TvM9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA13&ots=H2lDdOjBII&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=RA10-PA13#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false October 21, 1921 California Grocer's Advocate].</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P_c4AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA344&ots=a-m5DPyasK&dq=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&pg=PA344#v=onepage&q=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&f=false New Rice Mill About Completed]. Industrial Advance of San Francisco #72, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Activities v. 5, 1918.</ref>
|-
| San Jose || 1906 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ryland%20Street%20near%20San%20Pedro%20St.,San%20Jose Ryland Street near San Pedro St.] || Burned Nov. 10, 1906.
|-
| San Jose || 1907 || West San Carlos St.<ref>[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/directories/id/6 1907-8 San Jose city directory] lists location as "West San Carlos St. 1 west of Los Gatos Creek."</ref> || Former [[Luehning]] packing house<ref>November 13, 1906 San Jose Mercury: [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19061113.2.36.4&srpos=7&e=-------en--20-SJMN-1--txt-txIN-luehning-------1 Advertisement]. "Rosenberg Bros. & Co are now occupying the packing house of the Ernst Luehning Co. at San Carlos St. and Narrow Gauge Track, and are prepared to receive all fruits purchased by them. Rosenberg Bros, George E. Hyde, Mgr."</ref><ref>San Jose Visited by the Most Damaging Fire In Its History: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=114027A619C43100&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 November 11, 1906 Sunday Mercury and Herald]. "The first of this year, they leased the Luehning warehouse at San Carlos and the narrow gauge, and today arrangements were made to transfer all business of the destroyed plant to that place."</ref>.
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| San Jose || 1907-1915 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20Street%20at%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol Street at Auzerais St.] || Northwest corner. Burned August 1915<ref>Rosenberg Co. Plant Is Burned: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1149DB80CBECCBA0&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 August 8, 1915 San Jose Mercury News]</ref>.
|-
| Santa Clara || 1917, 1927, 1943 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Railroad%20Avenue,Santa%20Clara Railroad Avenue] || West of railroad depot. Also cannery<ref>California Canneries: [https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA23&ots=zKaQHsFaAo&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=RA1-PA23#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false November 1916 Western Canner and Packer]. "The prunes are being up up in 2 1/2 and 5 pound cans, hermetically sealed. It is the plan of the company to enlarge the scale of operations in this department before the next packing season."</ref>. Originally built for the prune trade<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| Sebastopol || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature". Map in book suggests many drop-off sites in Sonoma County.
|-
| Talent, Oregon || || ||
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| Winters, CA || 1951 || Main St.<ref>[http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/maps/drawings/sp_drawings-westn.pdf Southern Pacific engineering drawing W-1811], Winters Proposed Section Quarters, July 2, 1951. From wx4.org / Dome of Foam.</ref>
|-
| Yuba City || 1899, 1943-<ref>New Fruit Packing House: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990428.2.27# April 28, 1899 San Francisco Call].</ref> || || Originally built as fig packing plant around 1898<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
|}
==Photos==

[http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6x0nd4t4 Rosenberg Brothers packing house], Yuba City. From U.C. Libraries.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/3388084764 Rosenberg Brothers packing house] near Medford, Oregon.

==References==
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[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Central Santa Clara Fruit Company

2020-12-24T23:58:04Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = Campbell
| primary_dates = 1903-1905
}}

The '''Central Santa Clara Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in Cambell, California. The company was incorporated on July 14, 1903. The company purchased the building and machinery for the Luehning Company's plant in Campbell in 1903<ref>Ready For Business: [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19030722.2.52&srpos=6&e=-------en--20-SJMN-1--txt-txIN-luehning-------1 July 24, 1903 San Jose Evening News]: "The Central Santa Clara Packing Company of Campbell has purchased the up-to-date equipment of the [[Pacific Fruit Products | Ernest Luehning Packing House]] at Campbell and is now prepared for business at the building formerly occupied by the Luehning Company, opposite the Ainsley Cannery".</ref>. Founding directors were B. O. Curry (Campbell), J. N. Lipscomb (Saratoga), M. B. Atkinson (Saratoga), Robert Wilson (Los Gatos), and R. W. Mantz (Berryessa). $4,600 was put up as initial capital, with additional subscribers including A. P. Merrill, Henry Stewart, Mrs. A. B. Reilly, J. W. Field, A. W. French, Edith Cheney, E. James, and Frances A. Paddock<ref>Articles of Incorporation, Central Santa Clara Fruit Company, July 11 1903. In California State Archives.</ref>.

Central Santa Clara Fruit Company's plant shows up in photos in Campbell: The Orchard City, and referenced elsewhere. (pg 278, 280, 297) Campbell Arcadia book (p.34) shows it as well, with a sign for "C.W. Davison attorney at law" in the office window. A Charles W. Davison was a mayor of San Jose in 1909. CW Davison was 25 in 1900; his father was a farmer on Meridian Road. 1905 Sanborn maps shows it immediately on corner of Campbell Ave and railroad tracks at South side of the street. Building shows on 1897 Sanborn as former livery stable. 1905 Sanborn shows boiler house behind, oil tank in ground<ref> [http://digitalcollections.ucsc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15130coll3/id/1325 1905 Campbell Sanborn map at UCSC]</ref>.

The company filed for dissolution on June 17, 1905, noting that all assets had been distributed to stockholders and all debts paid<ref>Company to Dissolve: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1137467ADB29F6D8&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 June 17, 1905 San Jose Evening News]. E.A. Wilcox is the attorney for the corporation.</ref>. Directors at the time of dissolution were A.W. French, J.W. Field, B.O. Curry, A.P. Merrill, and W. B. Evans<ref>Fruit Packing Concern Goes Out of Business: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=11402086B8038210&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 June 18, 1905 San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald].</ref>. The company appears in
[http://books.google.com/books?id=h-81AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA34&ots=_gfpvgwZFJ&dq=%22central%20santa%20clara%20fruit%22&pg=PA34#v=onepage&q=%22central%20santa%20clara%20fruit%22&f=false 1905 list of corporations] that have forfeited their right to do business by not paying corporation tax.

[http://content.scu.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/svhocdm/id/2286/rec/47 Alice Iola O'Hare photograph of Campbell packing house] looks like it might be an interior shot (or might be Campbell Fruit Growers' Union)

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
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! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| Campbell || 1903-1905 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Campbell%20Avenue,Campbell Campbell Avenue] ||
Former livery stable, formery occupied by [[Pacific Fruit Products | Ernest Luehning Company]].

|-
|}

==References==
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[[Category:Campbell]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Royal Packing and Drying Company

2020-12-24T23:54:50Z

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{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried fruit packer
| primary_town =
| primary_dates = 1904
| brands =
}}

'''Royal Packing and Drying Company''' was a fruit packer and dryer at the beginning of the 20th century. The company had a packing house and drying grounds one mile north of Campbell.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| Campbell || 1904 || || Started operating in Campbell in 1904<ref>9 November 1901 San Jose Mercury: [https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SJMN19011109.2.90&srpos=5&e=-------en--20-SJMN-1--txt-txIN-luehning-------1 Campbell and Its Industries Some Idea of the Work Which Is Done By Big Packing Houses] "Another Strong Firm. The Royal Packing and Drying Company, whose packing house and drying grounds ate situated one mile north of Campbell, is another permanent addition to the fruit curing and shipping industries of Campbell. While operating here was only commenced this year, yet tt large business has been ■transacted. The Royal Packing Company has branch houses at Healdsberg. Napa, Fresno and Rutherford, and is a large shipper of California fruits. The company has cured and shipped at their Campbell house fortytwo cars of prunes, apricots, peaches, etc. tVic Superintendent. R. H. Jordan, estimates that fully twenty more oars will be shipped. During the busy prune drying season as many as forty persons wpre employed, and as many as thirty are now being often employed in packing and shipping. The product from this house goes largely to Chicago, Cincinnatti, New York, Philadelphia and other Eastern cities, and Is mostly shipped in 5, 10 and 25 pound boxes under the special brand of the parties sold to. The coming season will see many extensive improvements at their packing house and drying grounds."</ref>
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| Fresno || 1904 || ||
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| Healdsburg || 1904 || ||
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| Napa || 1904 || ||
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| Rutherford || 1904 || ||
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|}

==References==
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[[Category:Campbell]]

Stokely Van Camp

2020-11-09T05:46:27Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| predecessors = [[Tamal Packing]], [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]]
}}
'''Stokely Van Camp''' was an east coast based canner. Van Camp moved into the California market by [https://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA51&dq=Tamal%20Packing&pg=RA11-PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false opened operations in California in 1922] starting negotiations to buy three canneries. They purchased four plants: the [[Tamal Packing]] plant in San Francisco, [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]] canneries in Gridley and San Jose, and an olive cannery in Oroville<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA51&ots=16d0E8Uuzq&dq=Tamal%20Packing&pg=RA10-PA51#v=onepage&q=Tamal%20Packing&f=false March 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>.

The company had a plant on Campbell Ave. in San Jose (near Santa Clara border) with a private refrigerated warehouse.

Stokely Van Camp eventually merged into [[Tri-Valley Growers]].
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gridley || 1922 || || Former [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]]
|-
| Lodi || None || || Formerly Foster and Woods cannery, then Pacific Coast Producers.
|-
| Oakland || 1937 || 5625 East 14th Street<ref>United States Senate, Membership list of the Northwest Canners and Freezers organization. In [https://books.google.com/books?id=YddVxn-BT-YC&lpg=RA3-PA826&ots=0VMh-eQiod&dq=5625%20east%2014th%20stokely&pg=RA3-PA826#v=onepage&q=5625%20east%2014th%20stokely&f=false Unemployment Insurance Amendements of 1966], Hearings before the Committee on Fnance, United States Senate, Eighty-Ninth Congress, second session on H.R. 15119: An Act to Extend and Improve the Federal-State Unemployment Compensation Program.</ref>
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| Oakland || 1937 || 5901 East 14th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory]. As "Stokely Bros."</ref>. || As Stokely Brothers.
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| San Francisco || 1922 || 2200 Folsom St. || Former [[Tamal Packing]] warehouse.
|-
| San Jose || 1962, 1970s || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1180%20Campbell%20Avenue,San%20Jose 1180 Campbell Avenue]<ref>U.S. Department of Agriculture, [https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/db78tc02w/ww72bf86p/9z903315x/DireRefrWa-04-00-1970.pdf Directory of Refrigerated Warehouses in the United States]. 1970.</ref> ||
|-
|}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Stokely Van Camp

2020-11-09T05:39:56Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| predecessors = [[Tamal Packing]], [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]]
}}
'''Stokely Van Camp''' was an east coast based canner. Van Camp moved into the California market by [https://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA51&dq=Tamal%20Packing&pg=RA11-PA51#v=onepage&q&f=false opened operations in California in 1922] starting negotiations to buy three canneries. They purchased four plants: the [[Tamal Packing]] plant in San Francisco, [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]] canneries in Gridley and San Jose, and an olive cannery in Oroville<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA51&ots=16d0E8Uuzq&dq=Tamal%20Packing&pg=RA10-PA51#v=onepage&q=Tamal%20Packing&f=false March 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>.

The company had a plant on Campbell Ave. in San Jose (near Santa Clara border) with a private refrigerated warehouse.

Stokely Van Camp eventually merged into [[Tri-Valley Growers]].
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Gridley || 1922 || || Former [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]]
|-
| Lodi || None || || Formerly Foster and Woods cannery, then Pacific Coast Producers.
|-
| Oakland || 1937 || 5901 East 14th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory]. As "Stokely Bros."</ref>. || As Stokely Brothers.
|-
| San Francisco || 1922 || 2200 Folsom St. || Former [[Tamal Packing]] warehouse.
|-
| San Jose || 1962, 1970s || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1180%20Campbell%20Avenue,San%20Jose 1180 Campbell Avenue]<ref>U.S. Department of Agriculture, [https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/db78tc02w/ww72bf86p/9z903315x/DireRefrWa-04-00-1970.pdf Directory of Refrigerated Warehouses in the United States]. 1970.</ref> ||
|-
|}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Stokely Van Camp

2020-11-09T05:38:42Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| predecessors = [[Tamal Packing]], [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]]
}}
'''Stokely Van Camp''' was an east coast based canner. Van Camp moved into the California market by [http://books.google.com/books?id=b1VRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA3&ots=noIk487Tcv&dq=george%20herbert%20packing%20company&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=george%20herbert%20packing%20company&f=false opened operations in California in 1922] starting negotiations to buy three canneries. They purchased four plants: the [[Tamal Packing]] plant in San Francisco, [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]] canneries in Gridley and San Jose, and an olive cannery in Oroville<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA51&ots=16d0E8Uuzq&dq=Tamal%20Packing&pg=RA10-PA51#v=onepage&q=Tamal%20Packing&f=false March 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>.

The company had a plant on Campbell Ave. in San Jose (near Santa Clara border) with a private refrigerated warehouse.

Stokely Van Camp eventually merged into [[Tri-Valley Growers]].
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Lodi || None || || Formerly Foster and Woods cannery, then Pacific Coast Producers.
|-
| Oakland || 1937 || 5901 East 14th Street<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory]. As "Stokely Bros."</ref>. || As Stokely Brothers.
|-
| San Francisco || 1922 || 2200 Folsom St. || Former [[Tamal Packing]] warehouse.
|-
| San Jose || 1962, 1970s || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1180%20Campbell%20Avenue,San%20Jose 1180 Campbell Avenue]<ref>U.S. Department of Agriculture, [https://downloads.usda.library.cornell.edu/usda-esmis/files/db78tc02w/ww72bf86p/9z903315x/DireRefrWa-04-00-1970.pdf Directory of Refrigerated Warehouses in the United States]. 1970.</ref> ||
|-
|}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Cannery]]

Rosenberg Brothers

2020-07-23T04:11:17Z

Robert Bowdidge:

__NOTOC__
{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Francisco, CA
| primary_dates = 1893-1947
| predecessors = [[H.E. Losse and Company]]
| successors = [[Consolidated Grocers]], [[Mayfair Packing]], [[Bonner Packing]]
}}

[[File:rosenberg-santa-clara-1926.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Rosenberg Brothers, Santa Clara, 1926.<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/pacificservicema1627paci/pacificservicema1627paci#page/314/mode/1up Pacific Service Magazine, October 1926].</ref>]]
'''Rosenberg Brothers''' was a major San Francisco-based dried fruit packer. The company was started in 1893 by Max Rosenberg, Abraham Rosenberg, and Adolph Rosenberg to pack and ship California fruit to the east. The brothers were Californians, born to German immigrant parents who had arrived in the 1850's<ref>[http://www.rosenbergfound.org/sites/default/files/1937-1946.pdf History of the Rosenberg Foundation]</ref>. The "Sunsweet Story" refers to them as "the most successful of the speculative packers"<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers</ref>, commenting on their business model of buying fruit and hoping it would sell for more when actually sold.

The company had packing houses in the Santa Clara Valley, Oregon, the Sacramento Valley, and San Joaquin Valley, and bought and sold several kinds of dried fruits. A 1911 ad in California Fruit News shows they packed dried fruit and raisins. Rosenberg also pioneered the idea of mail-order fruit gift giving<ref>Harry and David: Bear Creek Orchards: [http://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/entry/view/harry_david/ Oregon Encyclopedia]. "When fruit prices plummeted during the Great Depression, the Rosenberg brothers promoted their Royal Riviera pears in San Francisco and elsewhere by developing the idea of mail-order gift-giving."</ref>. Rosenberg Brothers also entered the bean market in 1917<ref>Big New Factor in the Bean Business: [http://books.google.com/books?id=OGBRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA9&ots=J0QjGeqE0z&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20fruit%20buyer&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20fruit%20buyer&f=false May 24, 1917 California Fruit News]</ref>. The company was also active in rice; Rosenberg Brothers sold 700,000 bags of rice worth $4.2 million dollars to fill orders in Japan, Sweden, and Norway<ref>California Development Board, [https://books.google.com/books?id=0foYAAAAYAAJ&lpg=RA9-PA39&ots=JE3gYCSmT2&dq=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&pg=RA9-PA39#v=onepage&q=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&f=false California Resources and Possibilities]. 1910.</ref>.

In 1930, the company was the largest shipper of dried fruit in the world. With Oakland's encouragement, the company placed their primary shipping point on the docks at Oakland, and promised to ship 50,000 tons of fruit a year from the new warehouses<ref>Mel Scott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cnw4G9q4WZgC&lpg=PA217&ots=sd2db0qjs_&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=PA217#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective]. University of California Press, 1959.</ref>.

The last of the original brothers died in 1931; Arthur C. Oppenheimer, an early employee and husband of Max Rosenberg's niece, ran the company for many years<ref>Changes in Rosenberg Brothers: January 12, 1948 New York Times. "Arthur C. Oppenheimer, who will continue as general manager, has been elected chairman of the board... Nathan Cummings, chairman of the board of Consolidated Grocers Corporation has been made president, Arthur C. Oppenheimer 2nd has been made executive vice president."</ref> but died in 1950.<ref>The Sunsweet Story</ref>. The company survived independently until December 1947 when it was bought by a Consolidated Grocers Corp. of Chicago<ref>Sunsweet Story describes it as "major postwar change in independent packer ownership"</ref>. Rosenberg stayed as a separate company but a subsidiary of Consolidated Grocers, while [[United States Products]], a San Jose canner, became part of the canning arm and lost its independent name<ref>New York Times, May 25, 1951</ref>. Consolidated Grocers later became Consolidated Foods and eventually the Sara Lee Corporation<ref>[http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/2623.html Consolidated Foods]. In Encyclopedia of Chicago website, as part of the Dictionary of Prominent Chicago Businesses 1980-2000.</ref>.

Oppenheimer's son-in-law, Clarence C. Kane, was president of sales from 1950 through 1954 when he resigned in a management shake-up<ref>Hillsborough Man Heads Board: [http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Clarence-C-Kane-2913831.php December 3, 1954 San Mateo Times].</ref>. (Kane later ran San Francisco Sourdough, makers of Parisian sourdough bread<ref>Clarence C. Kane: [http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Clarence-C-Kane-2913831.php June 3, 2001 San Francisco Chronicle].</ref>.)

Rosenberg Brothers finally went out of business in 1957. [[Mayfair Packing]] bought the dried fruit and walnut operations, [[Bonner Packing]] bought the raisin business, and Trico bought Rosenberg's almond business.

Rosenberg Brothers was a particularly strong competitor:<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, 1967, Sunsweet Growers.</ref>

<blockquote> "Oppenheimer was generally regarded as sort of a genius among the proprietary packers. Unquestionably, he was the most successful of the speculative packers, and he was similarly successful in the other commodity fields in which the Rosenberg firm specialized: tree nuts, rice, beans, and honey. In the case of dried fruits, his practice was to circulate propaganda in the orchard districts, mainly through his buyer-fieldmen, to convince growers that economic conditions at the time would justify only a low field price. He frequently succeeded in depressing the field market, when he would buy all of the fruit his firm required. He would then get the packers together to elicit their support of some kind of a scheme he had devised to strengthen the market for packed goods. He succeeded remarkably, usually remaining personally in the background of these activities, but often persuading the other packers to fall into line and to address grower meetings and otherwise to convince growers that they were doing all they could for the growers. It was common knowledge in the dried fruit industry that at one period, Rosenberg Bros. and Company accumulated supplies from three successive crops before a favorable wholesale market developed that enabled the firm to make its speculation pay off handsomely. The object of all this, of course, was to buy low and sell high."
</blockquote>

Rudolph Peterson, in a Bancroft Library oral history<ref>Rudolph Peterson, [https://archive.org/details/careerinternational00peterich A career in international banking with the Bank of America, 1936-1970, and the United Nations Development Program, 1971-1975], Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office, 1992.</ref>, recounted a story
where Rosenberg Brothers came to Bank of America for a line of credit to support buying grapes during the season. Ralph Heaton, the Bank of America employee, asked them about potential prices and refused to provide the line of credit when the intended prices would be less than the cost of production. After negotiation, Rosenberg Brothers agreed to raise their intended raisin prices to support the farmers while ensuring a profit for themselves.

==Company History==

[[File:RosenbergFresno.png|240px|thumb|right|Rosenberg Brothers, Fresno.<ref>From "Years Mature".</ref>]]
The company started in 1893 with Adolph Rosenberg, the oldest of the brothers. Adolph had been working as a buyer of fresh fruit for fruit sellers in Los Angeles, Portland, and Vancouver Washington, but saw opportunities in the newly forming dried fruit business. Adolph quickly convinced his brothers to join the new venture, with each taking a separate role in the company. Adolph was "the idea man". His brother Abraham had been the bookkeeper for a shoe wholesaler, and took on the financial and policy side of the business, and also took trips to Europe to open new markets. Max, the youngest, was the buyer and the trader. Their first office on California Street in San Francisco, in a cubicle at the back of Norton, Teller, and Rodden, a butter and egg wholesaler<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=C65IAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1310&lpg=PA1310&dq=Norton,+Teller,+and+Rodden+san+francisco&source=bl&ots=4jaXAh0GAc&sig=vSct5tNRhKOl5MQhTQ4FWh_WquI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj37pu26-bdAhVIFjQIHSuuDp0Q6AEwA3oECAYQAQ#v=onepage&q=Norton%2C%20Teller%2C%20and%20Rodden%20san%20francisco&f=false 1899 Crocker Langley San Francisco Business Directory]. In 1899, Norton, Teller, and Rodden were at 125-131 California St.; Rosenberg Brothers had already moved into their own space at 211-213 California.</ref>. The company's first processing plant went into a space above L. Scatena's fresh fruit warehouse on Washington Street. (The company history notes that A. P. Giannini clerked downstairs for Scatena.) A fig processing plant opened in Yuba City in 1898, followed by Santa Clara (for prunes) and Fresno for raisins.

As the business moved, they kept an egalitarian atmosphere. All three brothers shared the responsibility and credit equally. Everyone from executives to stenographers in shared areas, and no special perks for management. The brothers distributed large bonuses for all workers to share the profits in good years; the bonuses were often larger than the year's dividends to stockholders; in bad years, "Mr. Abe" would personally talk with each employee to explain why the year had been bad. The company did not have layoffs during the Great Depression, and by 1943, many employees were 15 or 20 year veterans. The brothers died by the early 1930's; Adolph passed away in 1923 while on a business trip in Switzerland<ref>Obituary: Adolph Rosenberg. In [https://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA11-PA51&ots=9SD-fDHBEB&dq=%22max%20rosenberg%22%20san%20francisco%20dried%20fruit&pg=RA11-PA51#v=onepage&q=%22max%20rosenberg%22%20san%20francisco%20dried%20fruit&f=false April 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. "Word was received in San Francisco, March 26, that Adolph Rosenberg of Rosenberg Brothers & Co., the well-known dried fruit firm, passed away in Switzerland on that day. Mr. Rosenberg died after a few days' illness from pneumonia. Mr. Rosenberg is survived by two brothers, Abraham Rosenberg, head of the firm of Rosenberg Bros. & Co, and Max I. Rosenberg. He was 55 years of age and was born in Calaveras county in this State. A number of years ago, the three brothers engaged in the development of Rosenberg Bros & Co. dealers in dried fruits, later becoming also very extensive handlers of rice. The firm is among the largest of the dried fruit packers, and the late Adolph Rosenberg was the founder of the business. He has not been active in the firm for a number of years, however, having been for some years in poor health."</ref>, Abe in 1929, and Max in 1931. The company was then run by Arthur Oppenheimer, an early employee who worked his way up the ranks. The company history includes stories of Oppenheimer's devotion to the company; he had rescued the company records from the office after the 1906 earthquake, and searched a junkyards for a makeshift water nozzle to soak the warehouse as the fire approached.

Max, the last brother, died in 1931. His share of the company went to the Rosenberg Foundation, a San Francisco charity tasked with supporting new causes, often supporting new programs for health, education, and social justice, especially for rural areas of California. The first grants included support for farmworkers, research into Valley Fever, and better training for day care providers<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref><ref>[https://rosenbergfound.org/about-us/history/ Rosenberg Foundation] website. "Founded by a bequest from Max Rosenberg, first foundation west of Chicago to hire a professional staff; first grants went to support reproductive rights for migrant farmworker women in the Central Valley, research into Valley Fever and Sylvatic Plague, and grants to advance "inter-cultural relations".</ref>.

The company occasionally turns up in lawsuits. "Years Mature", the company history, highlighted that the company was fair with its customers, but strongly defended their contracts. A lawsuit against the S. F. Buffum, a New York exporter, shows a typical response where Rosenberg Brothers sued over two railroad cars of prunes and cherries that had been bought by Buffum, but that Buffum didn't want after their buyer left<ref>Court of Appeals, State of New York: [https://books.google.com/books?id=lfGJm1Hdg0gC&lpg=PA150&dq=frolich%20rosenberg%20brothers&pg=PA150#v=onepage&q=frolich&f=falseCourt of Appeals State of New York. Rosenberg Bros & Co. against F.S. Buffum Co., Inc.], 1921. </ref>. Rosenberg Brothers was sued in 1928 by White Pine Products, a box manufacturer, when he shipped box shook before Rosenberg Brothers had fully agreed to the sale<ref>[https://casetext.com/case/box-lumber-co-v-rosenberg-bros-co Box Lumber Co. vs Rosenberg Brothers Company], California Court of Appeal, First District, Division 1, October 14, 1930. 109 Cal App. 56 (Cal Ct. App 1930).</ref>. Another lawsuit involved an apple shipment that was destroyed for being unfit for consumption<ref>[https://www.casemine.com/judgement/us/5914a790add7b049346ee262 Seggerman Brothers vs Rosenberg Brothers], New York Court of Appeals, 217 App Div 7. 216 NYS 61, May 14, 1926.</ref>.

A separate lawsuit argued whether a growing crop of prunes went with the land if the land was sold<ref>Fruit Contract Decision Trial:
[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=PRP19210326.2.23&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-rosenberg+cannery----# March 26, 1921 Pacific Rural Press].</ref>.

==Rosenberg Brothers in San Jose==
Rosenberg Brothers had a long-time presence in the San Jose and Santa Clara area, moving between packing houses many times.

An early location was on Ryland Street, at the west end of the street in a former C. M. Webber warehouse. Rosenberg's building had significant machinery and even had overhead shafting to power some equipment<ref>Hair Caught In Moving Shafting: September 19, 1905 San Jose Evening News</ref>. A fire on morning of November 10, 1906 burned that plant to the ground<ref>San Jose Visited by the Most Damaging Fire In Its History: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=114027A619C43100&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 November 11, 1906 Sunday Mercury and Herald]. The underground tank stored a "tank car of oil".</ref>. [[George E. Hyde | George Hyde]] was the manager. The night watchman was feared burned, but he turned out to be safe as he'd been at home sick for several nights<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ASUiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=5KMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=799%2C5158083 San Jose Evening News, November 10, 1906]</ref> The fire burned several thousand tons of prunes - 50 freight cars worth. 11 full cars burned, and two warehouses; the fire was encouraged by 5000 gallons of crude oil<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=LAH19061111.2.4&srpos=1&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22rosenberg+brothers%22+fire----# November 11, 1915 Los Angeles Herald].</ref>. The building itself supposedly belonged to Mrs. J. C. Webber of Chicago.

The Ryland Street fire chased Rosenberg Brothers away, both north of downtown to Stockton Ave.<ref>March 5, 1907: San Jose Evening News: Rosenberg Brothers have bought a lot on Stockton Ave</ref> and to the west side of San Jose. Their new plant was in the former [[Santa Clara Valley Fruit Exchange]] on the northwest corner of Auzerais and Sunol St., with
[[Orrin Harlan]] as manager in 1908. There was a lumberyard was across Sunol Street, and Standard Oil across the railroad tracks<ref>$350,000 Fire Destroys Packing House: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=63IzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z-MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1330%2C1450064 August 7, 1915 San Jose Evening News] report on fire in 1915</ref>.

Another fire on August 7, 1915 destroyed the Sunol Street plant<ref>
$350,000 Fire Destroys Packing House: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=63IzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=Z-MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1330%2C1450064 August 7, 1915 San Jose Evening News].</ref>. The manager at the time was H. M. Barngrover.
Rosenberg Brothers had been located in the [[Santa Clara Valley Fruit Exchange]] warehouse, a large brick building with multiple firewalls. Rosenberg was leasing; lost "many dried apricots and some prunes". The loss to the firm at $300,000. The fire started in pile of apricot pits near the tracks. 5000 gallons of fuel oil still burning in the tank at noon the next day. Fire was blamed on IWW, supposedly threats had been made<ref>Rosenberg Co. Plant Is Burned: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1149DB80CBECCBA0&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 August 8, 1915 San Jose Mercury News]</ref>. Later news reports blamed an International Workers of the World supporter, according to
[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SN19151002.2.22&srpos=3&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22rosenberg+brothers%22+%22san+jose%22----# October 2, 1915 Sausalito News].

After the Sunol St. fire, Rosenberg Brothers took over the former [[California Cured Fruit Association]] warehouse next to the Santa Clara depot in 1916<ref>[http://santaclaraca.gov/index.aspx?page=506 Santa Clara city history].</ref>.

The company bought [[H.E. Losse and Company]] in 1917.

==Rosenberg Brothers in Hayward==

Rosenberg Brothers may also have had an outpost in Hayward, California. A biography of Manuel Oliveira<ref>Manuel Oliveira: [http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/sketch2.html History of Alameda County], 1928, S. J. Clarke Publishing</ref> notes that Mr. Oliveira bought and dried fruit for both Rosenberg Brothers and [[F. E. Booth]] of Centerville.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Biggs, CA || 1943 || || South of Chico. Mentioned in "Years Mature." Probably rice mill.
|-
| Brentwood || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
|-
| Dallas, Oregon || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
|-
| Dinuba || 1934 || 140 North N St (now Urapan Way)<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref> ||
|-
| Edenvale || 1922 || "One mile away from [[Richmond Chase]] plant at Edenvale station"<ref> Other Growing Towns in Santa Clara County: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/santaclara/history/scchist34.htm History of Santa Clara County history], 1922</ref>|| Receiving station
|-
| Emeryville || 1922- || 1500 Park Ave. between Hubbard and Hillock || Built in 1922-1926.<ref>Oakland Sanborn map. 1912-1951, v.3, p. 325.</ref>. Became Emeryville Warehouse, and one of the early loft conversions in the Emeryville area.
|-
| Figarden || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
|-
| Fresno || 1918, 1940, 1943 || Mono St. at G St.<ref>Fresno Chinatown map. From [http://www.japantownatlas.com/map-fresno2.html Japantown Atlas].</ref> || Multiple buildings.
|-
| Fresno || 1922, 1947 || Broadway Street at Cherry Ave. || "New plant". Largest raisin packing operation in world in 1920's<ref>John Reynolds and Michael J. Semas, [http://books.google.com/books?id=xCMouPQYMU0C&lpg=PA116&ots=NYM7Uv9u3v&dq=guggenhime%20fresno&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=guggenhime%20fresno&f=false Fresno], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx.</ref>.
|-
| Modesto || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
|-
| Medford || || || Medford: Spur historically named after Rosenberg Brothers on [http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/c87h1hgq/ topoquest.com] (Same as Talent, Oregon site in 1943 Years Mature history?)
|-
| Oakland || 1937, 1943 || 14th and Terminal St.<ref>Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory].</ref>. || Apparently built in the early 1930's in order to export 50,000 tons of fruit<ref>Mel Scott, [https://books.google.com/books?id=cnw4G9q4WZgC&lpg=PA217&ots=sd2db0qjs_&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=PA217#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false The San Francisco Bay Area: A Metropolis in Perspective]. University of California Press, 1959.</ref><ref>U.S. Corps of Engineers, [https://books.google.com/books?id=sX4oxKQaRAkC&lpg=PA62&ots=vvw9b9LekR&dq=%22112%20market%20street%22%20san%20francisco&pg=PA66#v=onepage&q=rosenberg&f=false The Ports of Oakland, Alameda, and Richmond]. Port Series #31, revised 1951. Book shows address as "Between 14th and Pier Streets on Ferry Street", currently in the middle of the Outer Harbor container pier, just south of the Bay Bridge. Three warehouses along wharf with rail and truck access.</ref>.
|-
| Orange, CA || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
|-
| Portland, Oregon || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature"
|-
| Riddle, Oregon || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature". Between Grants Pass and Roseburg.
|-
| San Francisco || 1906 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=211-213%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 211-213 California Street] || Burned in 1906 earthquake<ref>Lawsuit over building mentioned in [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&cl=search&d=SFC19070110.2.138&srpos=2&e=-------en--20--1--txt-IN-%22rosenberg+brothers%22+fire----# January 1907 San Francisco Call ].</ref> Arthur Oppenheimer broke into the building through a neighboring building's coal chute to rescue company records after the earthquake<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| San Francisco || 1912 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=153%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 153 California Street] ||
|-
| San Francisco || 1905 - 1950's || 275 Brannan St. || Warehouse.<ref>[http://www.spur.org/publications/library/article/historyrinconhill01012003 History of Rincon Hill]</ref><ref>Paul A. Lord Jr., [http://ec2-50-17-237-182.compute-1.amazonaws.com/docs/landmarks_and_districts/article%2010%20appendix%20I.pdf South End Historical District Case Report], February 5, 1990, San Francisco Landmarks Preservation Advisory Board</ref>. Building survived 1906 earthquakeArthur Oppenheimer broke into the building through a neighboring building's coal chute to rescue company records after the earthquake<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>. [Photo of building after earthquake https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp36.00130.jpg].
|-
| San Francisco || 1921 || Ramkin St. || Rice mill<ref>Rice mill damaged: [https://books.google.com/books?id=TvM9AQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA13&ots=H2lDdOjBII&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=RA10-PA13#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false October 21, 1921 California Grocer's Advocate].</ref><ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=P_c4AQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA344&ots=a-m5DPyasK&dq=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&pg=PA344#v=onepage&q=rosenberg%20brothers%20rice%20mill%20san%20francisco&f=false New Rice Mill About Completed]. Industrial Advance of San Francisco #72, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce Activities v. 5, 1918.</ref>
|-
| San Jose || 1906 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Ryland%20Street%20near%20San%20Pedro%20St.,San%20Jose Ryland Street near San Pedro St.] || Burned Nov. 10, 1906.
|-
| San Jose || 1907 || West San Carlos St.<ref>[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm/singleitem/collection/directories/id/6 1907-8 San Jose city directory] lists location as "West San Carlos St. 1 west of Los Gatos Creek."</ref> || Former [[Luehning]] packing house<ref>San Jose Visited by the Most Damaging Fire In Its History: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=114027A619C43100&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 November 11, 1906 Sunday Mercury and Herald]. "The first of this year, they leased the Luehning warehouse at San Carlos and the narrow gauge, and today arrangements were made to transfer all business of the destroyed plant to that place."</ref>.
|-
| San Jose || 1907-1915 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Sunol%20Street%20at%20Auzerais%20St.,San%20Jose Sunol Street at Auzerais St.] || Northwest corner. Burned August 1915<ref>Rosenberg Co. Plant Is Burned: [http://docs.newsbank.com/openurl?ctx_ver=z39.88-2004&rft_id=info:sid/iw.newsbank.com:EANX-NB&rft_val_format=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&rft_dat=1149DB80CBECCBA0&svc_dat=HistArchive:ahnpdoc&req_dat=1633CF8ECE5A48E5B7974C9CF0EE2D33 August 8, 1915 San Jose Mercury News]</ref>.
|-
| Santa Clara || 1917, 1927, 1943 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Railroad%20Avenue,Santa%20Clara Railroad Avenue] || West of railroad depot. Also cannery<ref>California Canneries: [https://books.google.com/books?id=2CodAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA23&ots=zKaQHsFaAo&dq=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&pg=RA1-PA23#v=onepage&q=%22rosenberg%20brothers%22%20oakland&f=false November 1916 Western Canner and Packer]. "The prunes are being up up in 2 1/2 and 5 pound cans, hermetically sealed. It is the plan of the company to enlarge the scale of operations in this department before the next packing season."</ref>. Originally built for the prune trade<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
| Sebastopol || 1943 || || Mentioned in "Years Mature". Map in book suggests many drop-off sites in Sonoma County.
|-
| Talent, Oregon || || ||
|-
| Winters, CA || 1951 || Main St.<ref>[http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/maps/drawings/sp_drawings-westn.pdf Southern Pacific engineering drawing W-1811], Winters Proposed Section Quarters, July 2, 1951. From wx4.org / Dome of Foam.</ref>
|-
| Yuba City || 1899, 1943-<ref>New Fruit Packing House: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18990428.2.27# April 28, 1899 San Francisco Call].</ref> || || Originally built as fig packing plant around 1898<ref>[https://www.flickr.com/photos/47871268@N02/albums/72157669997354778 Years Mature] (History of Rosenberg Brothers). 1943, Rosenberg Brothers, San Francisco.</ref>.
|-
|}
==Photos==

[http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt6x0nd4t4 Rosenberg Brothers packing house], Yuba City. From U.C. Libraries.

[http://www.flickr.com/photos/osucommons/3388084764 Rosenberg Brothers packing house] near Medford, Oregon.

==References==
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[[Category:Edenvale]]
[[Category:Fresno]]
[[Category:Medford]]
[[Category:San Francisco]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Santa Clara]]
[[Category:Talent, Oregon]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Yuba City]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Code-Portwood Canning Company

2020-07-23T04:08:30Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = Oakland
| primary_dates = 1868-1914
| successors = [[H.G. Prince]]
| aliases = Cole-Portwood Canning Company
| brands = Cuckoo, Cruiser<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=wx0xAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA15&ots=CRPhI51r9G&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20canning&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20canning&f=false Mida's Trade-Mark Register of Canned Goods], 1906, Criterion Publishing Company, Chicago</ref>, All Gold, Premium, Fruitvale, May Sweet, Alvarado, Claremont<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=zuUGAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=ct74c-N6La&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&f=false Official Year Book of the California State Federation of Labor], 1913.</ref>, Alpine, Alamo, Silver, Shasta, Pride<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/sanfranciscoherg00sanf/sanfranciscoherg00sanf_djvu.txt San Francisco: Her Great Manufacturing, Commercial, and Financial Institutions...], 1904, Pacific Arts Co.</ref>
}}
'''Code-Portwood Canning Company''' was a San Francisco and Oakland-based canner and jam maker, founded in 1867<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/sanfranciscoherg00sanf/sanfranciscoherg00sanf_djvu.txt San Francisco: Her Great Manufacturing, Commercial, and Financial Institutions...], 1904, Pacific Arts Co. "Founded in 1867 as P. D. Code & Co, incorporated in 1898. H. G. Prince was a director in 1904.</ref>. The company's origins started with D. Provost who operated the a packing house in San Francisco to repackage preserved products shipped from the wast coast. Philip D. Code, an employee of Provost's, took over the business in 1867 and renamed it as "P. D. Code and Co."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=il3zAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA29&ots=_CUZD-Tvwi&dq=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&f=false Canning in California]. The Seal of Safety: Year Book of the Max Ams Machine Co, Mount Vernon NY, 1915. "D. Provost, who in 1858 operated a small packing house at Market and Valencia Streets, San Francisco, is generally accredited with the distinction of undertaking the first commercial canning on the west coast... this concern packed pickles, jams, etc. in bulk and shipped around the horn in sailing vessels to San Francisco where the goods were repacked in suitable containers for the California Market... in 1867, Provost discontinued business, and P. D. Code, who had been employed by him, founded the firm of P. D. Code and Company. This concern is still in existence under another name, having operated successively as the Code-Elfelt Co., the Code-Portwood Canning Co., and at the present time as H. G. Prince & Co. </ref>.
Code was the first to can cherries in California<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=il3zAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA29&ots=_CUZD-Tvwi&dq=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&f=false Canning in California]. The Seal of Safety: Year Book of the Max Ams Machine Co, Mount Vernon NY, 1915. </ref>. Code was also known for bottling ketchup in 1868<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press. "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>. In 1902, Philip D. Code was the president of the company, with offices at 101 Front St. in San Francisco and the factory at the corner of 10th and Bryant in San Francisco<ref>Code-Portwood Canning Co.: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanfranciscodirectory/1902/1902_360.pdf 1902 Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory]</ref><ref>Picture of one site in [http://books.google.com/books?id=3FE6AAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA83&ots=5lsC7-DaLB&dq=Code%20elfelt&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q=Code%20elfelt&f=false King's Handbook of the United States], Moses King Publishers, Buffalo New York, 1891.</ref>. In 1899, Code-Portwood apparently considered joining the [[California Fruit Canners Association]] combine<ref>Few Canned Fruit Sales: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=18990712&id=1PUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7yIIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4894,1231651 July 12, 1899 Boston Evening Transcript].</ref>.

Philip D. Code, the principal of the company, was born in England in 1842, naturalized in 1876, and was living in San Francisco in 1880, listing his occupation as "canning fruit".

Code-Portwood was apparently known in the 1890's as "Code, Elfelt & Co"; Elfelt had retired by 1894<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanfranciscodirectory/1893/1893_368.pdf 1893 San Francisco City Directory]. Philip Code ran the company, James Code was superintendent, Charles Code was assistant superintendent.</ref> In 1897, the company had financial difficulties when Anglo-California Bank suddenly revoked the company's line of credit<ref>Future of the Firm: Committee of Code, Elfelt, & Co's Creditors Will Report To-Morrow: [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1897-08-01/ed-1/seq-8/ August 1, 1897 San Francisco Call]. Anglo-California Bank suddenly revoked the company's line of credit, leading to questions about whether the company could continue.</ref>. James A. Code ran the company at that time.

The company opened a plant in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland after the 1906 San Francisco Great Earthquake and Fire<ref>Help Wanted: Women and Girls to Work On Fruit: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19060812.2.112.6 August 12, 1906 San Francisco Call]. Lists "new cannery at Fruitvale, a summer outing".</ref>. That plant had been planned before the earthquake, with an announcement in December 1905<ref>Alameda County News: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19051216.2.64.11 December 16, 1905 San Francisco Call]: "The Code-Portwood Canning Company has made application for a permit to erect a cannery to cost $30,000 not including equipment at Railroad and Twenty-eighth Avenues."</ref> but the San Francisco plant was reported to be destroyed in the earthquake<ref>General Merchandise: [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5086399 July 5, 1906 Adelaide (Australia) Advertiser]: "According to the San Francisco mail advises, the destruction of the following fruit canneries is reported: ... Code Portwood Cannery, with a capacity of 125,000 cases, was wrecked by earthquake."</ref>. (Photos show the building still standing after the earthquake</ref>[https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.01513.jpg Dore Street 1906 Earthquake Damage]. View north to intersection of Bryant and earthquake-damaged warehouse of Code-Portwood Cannery. From Marilyn Blaisdell Collection, opensfhistory.org. Other photos at the location show street subsidence and houses collapsed on Dore Street.</ref>In 1913, the company requested better wharf facilities on Oakland so it could load its products into ships on the east side of the bay<ref>Canning Company May Get Wharf Facilities: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19130715.2.67 July 15, 1913 San Francisco Call].</ref>. By 1913, they listed themselves as headquartered in Fruitvale, Oakland<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=zuUGAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=ct74c-N6La&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&f=false Official Year Book of the California State Federation of Labor], 1913.</ref>.

The company was sold to one of its officers by 1914 and became [[H.G. Prince]] & Co<ref>Canned Foods: [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnpRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=BpoIZoN7MK&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false January 24, 1914]: "A contrivance has been invented by Arthur Duncan, manager of H. G. Prince & Co., successor to Code Portwood Canning Co....</ref>.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Fruitvale || 1906-1914 || 11th Ave. and 28th Street<ref>[[https://books.google.com/books?id=HwM1AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA613&ots=4k0Y167V7n&dq=cannery%2010th%20bryant%20san%20francisco&pg=PA613#v=onepage&q=cannery%2010th%20bryant%20san%20francisco&f=false 1907 San Francisco-Oakland Directory]]. No other sites listed.</ref> || Became [[H. G. Prince]].
|-
| San Francisco || 1878 || 125 Davis St.<ref>1878 San Francisco Phone directory. From [http://www.westernbitters.com/2011_06_01_archive.html westernbitters.com].</ref> ||
|-
| San Francisco || 1878 || 314 Washington St.<ref>1878 San Francisco Phone directory. From [http://www.westernbitters.com/2011_06_01_archive.html westernbitters.com].</ref> ||
|-
| San Francisco || 1902 || 101 Front Street || offices, warehouse?
|-
| San Francisco || 1902 || 10th and Bryant || factory
|-
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:San Francisco]]

Code-Portwood Canning Company

2020-07-23T04:07:40Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = Oakland
| primary_dates = 1868-1914
| successors = [[H.G. Prince]]
| aliases = Cole-Portwood Canning Company
| brands = Cuckoo, Cruiser<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=wx0xAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA15&ots=CRPhI51r9G&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20canning&pg=PA15#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20canning&f=false Mida's Trade-Mark Register of Canned Goods], 1906, Criterion Publishing Company, Chicago</ref>, All Gold, Premium, Fruitvale, May Sweet, Alvarado, Claremont<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=zuUGAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=ct74c-N6La&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&f=false Official Year Book of the California State Federation of Labor], 1913.</ref>, Alpine, Alamo, Silver, Shasta, Pride<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/sanfranciscoherg00sanf/sanfranciscoherg00sanf_djvu.txt San Francisco: Her Great Manufacturing, Commercial, and Financial Institutions...], 1904, Pacific Arts Co.</ref>
}}
'''Code-Portwood Canning Company''' was a San Francisco and Oakland-based canner and jam maker, founded in 1867<ref>[http://www.archive.org/stream/sanfranciscoherg00sanf/sanfranciscoherg00sanf_djvu.txt San Francisco: Her Great Manufacturing, Commercial, and Financial Institutions...], 1904, Pacific Arts Co. "Founded in 1867 as P. D. Code & Co, incorporated in 1898. H. G. Prince was a director in 1904.</ref>. The company's origins started with D. Provost who operated the a packing house in San Francisco to repackage preserved products shipped from the wast coast. Philip D. Code, an employee of Provost's, took over the business in 1867 and renamed it as "P. D. Code and Co."<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=il3zAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA29&ots=_CUZD-Tvwi&dq=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&f=false Canning in California]. The Seal of Safety: Year Book of the Max Ams Machine Co, Mount Vernon NY, 1915. "D. Provost, who in 1858 operated a small packing house at Market and Valencia Streets, San Francisco, is generally accredited with the distinction of undertaking the first commercial canning on the west coast... this concern packed pickles, jams, etc. in bulk and shipped around the horn in sailing vessels to San Francisco where the goods were repacked in suitable containers for the California Market... in 1867, Provost discontinued business, and P. D. Code, who had been employed by him, founded the firm of P. D. Code and Company. This concern is still in existence under another name, having operated successively as the Code-Elfelt Co., the Code-Portwood Canning Co., and at the present time as H. G. Prince & Co. </ref>.
Code was the first to can cherries in California<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=il3zAAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA29&ots=_CUZD-Tvwi&dq=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&pg=PA28#v=onepage&q=J.%20M.%20Dawson%20canning%20company&f=false Canning in California]. The Seal of Safety: Year Book of the Max Ams Machine Co, Mount Vernon NY, 1915. </ref>. Code was also known for bottling ketchup in 1868<ref> Andrew F. Smith, Pure Ketchup: A History of America's National Condiment, with Recipes. University of South Carolina Press. "In 1926, CalPak acquired the H.G. Prince Co. and hence CalPak can trace its roots to both of California's first canners."</ref>. In 1902, Philip D. Code was the president of the company, with offices at 101 Front St. in San Francisco and the factory at the corner of 10th and Bryant in San Francisco<ref>Code-Portwood Canning Co.: [http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanfranciscodirectory/1902/1902_360.pdf 1902 Crocker-Langley San Francisco City Directory]</ref><ref>Picture of one site in [http://books.google.com/books?id=3FE6AAAAMAAJ&lpg=PA83&ots=5lsC7-DaLB&dq=Code%20elfelt&pg=PA83#v=onepage&q=Code%20elfelt&f=false King's Handbook of the United States], Moses King Publishers, Buffalo New York, 1891.</ref>. In 1899, Code-Portwood apparently considered joining the [[California Fruit Canners Association]] combine<ref>Few Canned Fruit Sales: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2249&dat=18990712&id=1PUzAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7yIIAAAAIBAJ&pg=4894,1231651 July 12, 1899 Boston Evening Transcript].</ref>.

Philip D. Code, the principal of the company, was born in England in 1842, naturalized in 1876, and was living in San Francisco in 1880, listing his occupation as "canning fruit".

Code-Portwood was apparently known in the 1890's as "Code, Elfelt & Co"; Elfelt had retired by 1894<ref>[http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sanfranciscodirectory/1893/1893_368.pdf 1893 San Francisco City Directory]. Philip Code ran the company, James Code was superintendent, Charles Code was assistant superintendent.</ref> In 1897, the company had financial difficulties when Anglo-California Bank suddenly revoked the company's line of credit<ref>Future of the Firm: Committee of Code, Elfelt, & Co's Creditors Will Report To-Morrow: [http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1897-08-01/ed-1/seq-8/ August 1, 1897 San Francisco Call]. Anglo-California Bank suddenly revoked the company's line of credit, leading to questions about whether the company could continue.</ref>. James A. Code ran the company at that time.

The company opened a plant in the Fruitvale neighborhood of Oakland after the 1906 San Francisco Great Earthquake and Fire<ref>Help Wanted: Women and Girls to Work On Fruit: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19060812.2.112.6 August 12, 1906 San Francisco Call]. Lists "new cannery at Fruitvale, a summer outing".</ref>. That plant had been planned before the earthquake, with an announcement in December 1905<ref>Alameda County News: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19051216.2.64.11 December 16, 1905 San Francisco Call]: "The Code-Portwood Canning Company has made application for a permit to erect a cannery to cost $30,000 not including equipment at Railroad and Twenty-eighth Avenues."</ref> but the San Francisco plant was reported to be destroyed in the earthquake<ref>General Merchandise: [http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/5086399 July 5, 1906 Adelaide (Australia) Advertiser]: "According to the San Francisco mail advises, the destruction of the following fruit canneries is reported: ... Code Portwood Cannery, with a capacity of 125,000 cases, was wrecked by earthquake."</ref>. (Photos show the building still standing after the earthquake</ref>[https://opensfhistory.org/Display/wnp37.01513.jpg Dore Street 1906 Earthquake Damage]. View north to intersection of Bryant and earthquake-damaged warehouse of Code-Portwood Cannery. From Marilyn Blaisdell Collection, opensfhistory.org.</ref>In 1913, the company requested better wharf facilities on Oakland so it could load its products into ships on the east side of the bay<ref>Canning Company May Get Wharf Facilities: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19130715.2.67 July 15, 1913 San Francisco Call].</ref>. By 1913, they listed themselves as headquartered in Fruitvale, Oakland<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=zuUGAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA78&ots=ct74c-N6La&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&pg=PA78#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20fruitvale&f=false Official Year Book of the California State Federation of Labor], 1913.</ref>.

The company was sold to one of its officers by 1914 and became [[H.G. Prince]] & Co<ref>Canned Foods: [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZnpRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=BpoIZoN7MK&dq=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=%22code-portwood%22%20%22h.g.%20prince%22&f=false January 24, 1914]: "A contrivance has been invented by Arthur Duncan, manager of H. G. Prince & Co., successor to Code Portwood Canning Co....</ref>.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Fruitvale || 1906-1914 || 11th Ave. and 28th Street<ref>[[https://books.google.com/books?id=HwM1AAAAIAAJ&lpg=PA613&ots=4k0Y167V7n&dq=cannery%2010th%20bryant%20san%20francisco&pg=PA613#v=onepage&q=cannery%2010th%20bryant%20san%20francisco&f=false 1907 San Francisco-Oakland Directory]]. No other sites listed.</ref> || Became [[H. G. Prince]].
|-
| San Francisco || 1878 || 125 Davis St.<ref>1878 San Francisco Phone directory. From [http://www.westernbitters.com/2011_06_01_archive.html westernbitters.com].</ref> ||
|-
| San Francisco || 1878 || 314 Washington St.<ref>1878 San Francisco Phone directory. From [http://www.westernbitters.com/2011_06_01_archive.html westernbitters.com].</ref> ||
|-
| San Francisco || 1902 || 101 Front Street || offices, warehouse?
|-
| San Francisco || 1902 || 10th and Bryant || factory
|-
|}

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:San Francisco]]

Winchester Dried Fruit

2020-01-28T06:37:25Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1936-1940
}}
'''Winchester Dried Fruit''' was a dried fruit packer which was formed in San Jose in 1935<ref>Dried Fruit Company Becomes Corporation: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=lVoiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6aMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=973%2C6143748 December 10, 1935 San Jose Evening News].</ref>. The principals were Bert Kirk, Jr., and Antonio Teresi, both from orchard families in the Santa Clara Valley, and Homer Hardin. Kirk's family owned much of the orchard land south of Dry Creek Road around modern-day Meridian Ave. Teresi's family owned the 220 acre Sorosis Fruit Ranch in Saratoga. Antonio also owned another 10 acres on the Santa Clara - Los Gatos road. Teresi wasn't just an orchardist; he'd also gone to business school. In 1938, Antonio Teresi was president, Harry Mitchell, Superintendent, and Ed Trojan, office manager. Winchester Dried Fruit's license was suspended around 1940 due to "claims of growers against the concern<ref>Winchester Firm License Suspended: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19400806&id=QmsiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rqsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=5982,3468104 August 6, 1940 San Jose Evening News]</ref>

Even though the company appeared in the depression, it appeared they still had difficulties because of the economy. In 1938, Bert Kirk, as manager, declares that 90% of their fruit was going abroad because of the poor domestic market.

1930's city directories showed the firm occupying many different buildings. At first, the company was in packing houses off Sunol Street (and possibly including the former Hamlin Packing building),. In November, 1936, their packing house burned down after "a series of explosions which either preceded or followed a fire... homes within a radius of 1000 feet of the two story fruit plant were shaken by the blast and startled residents reported that when they ran to the scene they found the building a mass of flames." The fire consumed 200 tons of apricots, prunes, and peaches worth $25,000<ref>Seek Cause of Mystery Blash: Friday, November 27 1936 Berkeley Daily Gazette. The fire happened the previous night.</ref>. The plant was described as "just outside the city limits of San Jose."

In 1938, the company moved to Campbell in order to have more storage space<ref>Packing Company to Start Work: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=tCQiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=4aMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3822%2C6966364 September 10, 1938 San Jose Evening News]</ref>. A final move brought them to the former Inderrieden plant on Ryland Street.

In 1939, the corporation sold 3,000 tons of prunes, apricots, pears, and peaches from plants in Campbell and Los Gatos. The value was $116,000<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref>.

There were several complaints and lawsuits from 1938-1940 concerning California's [[Agricultural Prorate Commission]].
The [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ZqExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HqsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1068%2C6149794 May 31, 1939 San Jose Evening News] noted complaints that Winchester Dried Fruit was not following the "prune prorate" rules, and was dealing in prunes without obtaining "secondary certificates from the [prune prorate] commission." [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19400408&id=42siAAAAIBAJ&sjid=1asFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2924,3226135 April 8, 1940 San Jose Evening News] report complaint against Winchester Dried Fruit going forward because they were handling fruit without inspections and certificates, and weren't following the "prorate procedure". The prorate commission was taking more detailed control of the industry, probably in order to keep prices high. One of their rulings was that converting surplus prunes to alcohol and brandy was illegal. The commission was disregarding other laws, such as the state agricultural code banning growers from allowing fruit to drop and go to waste without the order of an agricultural authority.

A [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&dat=19390525&id=YqExAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HqsFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6166,5440783 May 25, 1939 San Jose Evening News] article gives more details about the prune prorate commission. According to the article, 25% of surplus fruit needed to be handed over to the commission, and Winchester was 150,000 tons behind in deliveries to the commission. Kirk complained that he had to ship the fruit in order to complete contracts when Hollister growers refused to deliver fruit. The Hollister growers hesitated because the prorate commission inspectors were only inspecting fruit at the packing house, and if so, they would have to pay to truck the fruit back to Hollister for re-sorting and re-submission. Kirk also charged that the inspectors were rejecting fruit which would pass inspection when delivered to other packers.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Campbell || 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F,Campbell ?] ||
|-
| San Jose || 1936 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1013%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose 1013 Sunol Street] ||
|-
| San Jose || 1938 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=631%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose 631 Sunol Street] ||
|-
| San Jose || 1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=200%20Ryland%20Street,San%20Jose 200 Ryland Street] ||
|-
|}
==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Campbell]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

John S. Roberts dried fruits

2020-01-28T06:35:24Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Jose
| predecessors = [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Company]]
| primary_dates=1934-1945
}}
'''John S. Roberts''' was a dried fruit packer, active in San Jose from 1934 to 1945. J.S. Roberts had been a vice president for [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Company]] in the early 1930's. He appears to have restarted the company in the same plant after their disappearance. PHotos of the building in 1934 (after the San Carlos Street overpass was complete) show the J.S. Roberts name on the building.

Robert's plant was a large, barn-like structure wedged between the Southern Pacific Los Gatos branch railroad tracks and the new San Carlos Street viaduct. The building, built for [[Pacific Fruit Products]] in 1902, was three stories high with grading machinery on the top floor, storage bins in the middle, and packing rooms at the bottom. [[Abinante and Nola]] would use the same building after World War II. A sulfur room was attached on the southeast side of the building<ref>Apricots Are Burned:
[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AAJgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QyANAAAAIBAJ&dq=750-west-san-carlos&pg=2836%2C264883 Sept. 2, 1942 San Jose Evening News]. "Originating in a pile of sulphur, fire spread to consume 100 trays of dying apricots at the John S. Robert dried fruit plant, 750 West San Carlos Street, last night. Firemen confined the blaze to the single small sulphur house."</ref>.

In 1939, Roberts sold 1,750 tons of prunes, apricots, peaches, and pears worth $80,000<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref>.

Roberts may also have had a Fresno dried fruit plant.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| San Jose || 1934-1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=750%20W.%20San%20Carlos%20Street,San%20Jose 750 W. San Carlos Street] ||
|-
|}
==Photos==
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,380 Del Monte and J.S. Roberts dried fruit. From John C. Gordon Panoramic Collection, San Jose State University]

==References==
<references/>

[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]

California Prune and Apricot Growers

2020-01-28T06:33:17Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer,Cooperative
| primary_town = San Jose, CA
| primary_dates = 1917 - present
| aliases = [[Sunsweet]], [[Growers Packing and Warehousing Association]]
| predecessors = [[Campbell Farmer's Union Packing Company]]
}}
[[File:sunsweet_logo.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Sunsweet logo, 1920's]]
[[File:sunsweet-plant-11.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Sunsweet Plant #11, San Jose (Former A&C Ham). From 1920 ad.]]
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The '''California Prune and Apricot Growers''' (commonly known as Sunsweet) is a long-lived co-operative for prune and apricot growers. Founded in San Jose in 1917, the company adapted to changes in marketing and in the locations of the crops. The company has also handled prune and apricot-related products, including canned prunes<ref>Association's Opening Prices on Crop 1922 Canned Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA2-PA61#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false July 1922 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>, prune juice, and apricot pit oil<ref>Prunes: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA7-PA46#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false January 1923 Western Canner and Packer]. Attempt to manufacture cooking oil from prune and apricot kernels. Sunsweet calling it "Sunsweet Nut-Oil".</ref>. The company is currently based in Yuba City.

The association was started in the spring of 1917. Early management included [[Frank Coykendall]] (who sold his [[Andrews and Coykendall Ham Company]] to avoid conflicts of interest) and office manager Samuel Squibb<ref>All Goes Well With Growers: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=s7MxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=GeQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2613%2C5559628 May 21, 1917 San Jose News]</ref> (who later worked for the [[George E. Hyde & Company]] in Campbell.

The co-operative initially served only for negotiating and marketing, but relied on independent packers to actually handle the crop. For the 1917 season, the association got commitments from farmers producing 75% of that year’s crop. Forty-five packers around the state were signed up to actually handle the crop. The San Jose list includes many of the smaller dried fruit packers<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LykiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KqQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2025%2C814783 July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News]</ref>:
<blockquote>…east side growers
to George Frank Fruit Company on Alum Rock, south of San Jose to
O.A. Harlan on South 4th, Campbell to George Hyde & Co, Los Gatos
and vicinity to Curtis Fruit, Los Gatos; Saratoga, San Tomas, and
growers around Vasona to Gem City Packing, Vasona; Mountain View and
growers north of Fremont Avenue including Los Altos and Mountain View to
[[Mountain View Packing Company]]; Mountain View, growers south of Fremont
(Ave) and others go to George Herbert on Lincoln, F.H. Holmes on 18th
and Jackson, J.W Chilton on North First, Pacific Fruit Products on San
Carlos Street, J.B. Inderrieden, Ryland Street, Warren Dried Fruit, Ryland
Street, A & C Ham, Cinnabar Street, San Jose.
</blockquote>

Even with their large fraction of the California fruit crop, he association only sold about 47% of the total crop either because of cancelled memberships or growers secretly selling to packers.

The packers working with Sunsweet that year formed their own organization called the Affiliated Packers<ref>Prune Packers Unite: [https://books.google.com/books?id=GmBRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA13&ots=tGNAETYpS4&dq=%22george%20e.%20hyde%22%20packer&pg=PA13#v=onepage&q=%22george%20e.%20hyde%22%20packer&f=false June 9, 1917 California Fruit News].</ref>.

Working with the independent packers also turned out to be challenging from a business standpoint. Packing costs varied wildly by packing house. In some cases, packers either delayed paying the association for fruit sold or underestimated the crop owned by the association. In the most obvious case, the [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]] supposedly sold a million pounds of the crop without informing the association and held on to the $100,000 in proceeds, leading to a lawsuit, a demand for a $320,000 bond, and a louder demand for the immediate return of 1.9 million pounds of prunes and 178,000 pounds of apricots which belonged to Sunsweet. "...Mr Herbert gave copies of the shipping sheets to the inspectors, so as to permit the fruit to be checked out of the packing plant, but sent only a few selected sheets thereof to the sales department so that the officers of the corporation would be unable to find out that he was liable to the corporation for the purchase of the fruit."<ref>Packers Fear More Suits for Contract Breach Following Herbert Litigation: November 27, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald</ref>. Sunsweet grabbed the twenty-two carloads of packed fruit and 200 tons of prunes the next week<ref>Quantity of Prunes Seized at Local Packing House by the Growers' Association: December 5, 1917 San Jose Mercury Herald</ref>. As a result, the association began to make offers to buy dried fruit packing houses so they could control their own crop<ref>Field Crops: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19180511.2.24.1&cl=CL2.1918.05&srpos=0&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-logical-20--1-----all--- May 11, 1918 Pacific Rural Press]: CPGA was buying packing houses in the large growing areas, not just leasing or otherwise combining.</ref>. The company also planned to manage the selling of apricot pits<ref>Field Crops: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cdnc/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19180511.2.24.1&cl=CL2.1918.05&srpos=0&dliv=none&st=1&e=-------en-logical-20--1-----all--- May 11, 1918 Pacific Rural Press]: “The Prune and Apricot Growers' Association has developed a market for their apricot pits whereby members will receive better than $31.50 per ton for them. The contract is for two years, with privilege of a two-year extension.”</ref>Sunsweet acquired 16 packing houses before the beginning of the 1918 crop<ref>California Dried Fruit Packing Houses: [http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA40&ots=ij7b8ghIdw&dq=%22sunsweet%22%20campbell%20packing&pg=RA1-PA40#v=onepage&q=%22sunsweet%22%20campbell%20packing&f=false June 1918 Western Canner and Packer]: Gem City being converted to handle pits only, eighteen plants officially being labeled “Sunsweet plants”.</ref>, first one bought was the [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]] plant.

The association also created their own “field warehouses” to hold onto packed but not-yet-sold fruit. Field warehousing put the product in the hands of a separate company on paper. By having a separate public warehousing company issue warehouse receipts, the association could then borrow money against the stored fruit <ref>Procedure of Extending Credit on Canned Food in Warehouses: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA9-PA34#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false March 1923 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>. Sunsweet’s field warehousing subsidiary was the [[Growers Packing and Warehouse Association]].

Relations were mixed with the independent packers and brokers who had previously controlled the crops.
At its inception, E. N. Richmond was quoted as saying that the
brokers won't try to break the prices of the growers association<ref>May 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News</ref>.
In 1928, the association explicitly told packers they wouldn't tolerate encouraging growers to break contracts<ref>Association Warns Packers to Sue if Growers Lured: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=xAgvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HaQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1944%2C2470314 July 27, 1928 San Jose Evening News].</ref>. The World War also gave cover, because the U.S. department managing food was attempting to control prices by banning fruit buyers from soliciting someone who had already signed a contract<ref>Forbid Soliciting Association Fruit. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2no1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=luMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=824%2C1183509 July 30, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The ... association is convinced a number of packers have been soliciting for contracts with growers who are members of the organization". They warned that the U.S. food administration explicitly required solicitors to see whether the fruit had been promised elsewhere.</ref>. The company was also challenged by lower prices for European fruit. [[Frank Coykendall]] summarized the market and Bosnian prunes in the
[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA9-PA30#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false February 1923 Western Canner and Packer]

Sunsweet also attempted to control the price by keeping smaller and off-grade fruit off the market. During the 1918 season, they announced that smaller fruit would not be dried, but would be instead turned into "Mar-jam", the company's cross between marmalade and jam. The former [[O. A. Harlan]] packing house at 4th and Lewis was used for by-products including jam-making<ref>Small-sized Fruit Will Be Used: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2no1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=luMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2170%2C1170378 July 30, 1918 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

Sunsweet representatives also covered areas further away from their packing houses. During the 1929 season, the company representatives came to Hayward to encourage growers to hold out for higher prices<ref>'Cot Men Begin Drive To Obtain Higher Prices: Delay In Fruit Sales Pending Improvement Is Voted. June 28, 1929 Hayward Review. "The meeting was one of 15 or 20 similar sessions held throughout the California apricot districts, under the auspices of the California Prune and Apricot Growers association, as the preliminary campaign moves. Canners had offered $50/ton for apricots last season, but 1929 offered higher prices only for the largest apricots.</ref>

Sunsweet may have also had rebellions from within. In 1925, a group of growers in Healdsburg considered forming a separate organization. The growers were angered by Sonoma county prunes being billed as from the "Santa Clara Valley"<ref>Sonoma Fruit Men in Move To Form New Association. [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=2wkvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8KMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1601%2C3230651 October 23, 1925 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.

In 1939,the corporation sold 95,000 tons of prunes, apricots, peaches, and mixed fruits from Santa Clara and San Benito county packing houses worth $9.5 million<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref>.
==Locations==
The following locations were believed to be operated by Sunsweet. Several other plants were leased but never bought, including Plant 22 ([[George E. Hyde & Company]], Campbell), Plant 37 (Warren E. Hyde and S. E. Johnson, Cupertino), and Plant 38 ([[West Side Fruit Growers Association]], Stevens Creek Road, Cupertino).

{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| Brooklyn, NY || Plant 43|| 1921-1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Bush%20Terminal%20Docks,Brooklyn%2C%20NY Bush Terminal Docks]<ref>Robert Couchman, The Sunsweet Story, Sunsweet, 1967. Closed within a year - packing costs were four times what they were in California.</ref> ||
|-
| Campbell || Plant 1 || 1917, 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=5%20Central%20Avenue,Campbell 5 Central Avenue] || Former [[Campbell Farmer's Union Packing Company]].
|-
| Colusa || || 1922 || || Construction started in 1922<ref> Cannery News: [http://books.google.com/books?id=h6rmAAAAMAAJ&dq=canning%20age&pg=RA1-PA27#v=onepage&q=canning%20age&f=false February 1922 Canning Age] </ref><ref>July 1922 Western Canner and Packer</ref>.
|-
| Cupertino || Plant 38 || || Stevens Creek Road || [[West Side Fruit Growers Association]]. Contract packer only?
|-
| Dinuba || || 1922, 1934 || 265 North N St. (Now N. Urapan Way)<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref> || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ July 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. L. C. Wallace was manager in 1934.
|-
| Geyserville || || 18521 Fredson Road.<ref>[https://calisphere.org/item/d27e2e72e1dd7c7dca4c320c580e963a/ Exterior of Sunsweet Prune Packing Plant, Geyserville Ca ca. 1910]. In Wine Photography collection of Sonoma County Library.</ref> || || Supposedly receiving station, previously owned by [[Sherriffs Brothers]]. Now used by Fredson Winery.
|-
| Gilroy || Plant 3 || 1917 - || || Former [[Gilroy Farmer's Union]]. In operation at least to 1958. Partial photo shows three story wood frame building<ref>Kenneth G. Johnson, Pacific: 2472's Family Album. Interurban Press, 1990. P. 54.</ref>.
|-
| Healdsburg || Plant 31<ref>[https://archive.org/stream/agriculturalcoop56gian#page/n0/mode/2up Agricultural Cooperative Organizations in California], 1937. Also lists many of the associations affiliated with Sunsweet.</ref> || 1922 || "South side of town near railroad tracks"<ref>Healdsburg Museum, [http://books.google.com/books?id=bkb38SYG0csC&lpg=PA91&ots=yvY8O0lm6K&dq=%22Sherriffs%20Brothers%22%20healdsburg&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q=%22Sherriffs%20Brothers%22%20healdsburg&f=falseHealdsburg]. Arcadia Publishing, 2005.</ref>|| Former [[Sherriffs Brothers]] plant. Bought in 1922<ref>March 1922 Canning Age.</ref>.
|-
| Healdsburg || || - 1970 || 33 Healdsburg Ave || Modern. Included mechanical dryer. Became Fairchild Semiconductor<ref>Sunsweet Building photo. [http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/14396 Sonoma County Library Photo Collection].</ref>
|-
| Hemet || Plant 5 || 1917- || East Devonshire Ave. at N. Harvard Street. || Former [[Hemet Apricot Grower's Association]]<ref>Photo: [http://coastdaylight.com/ph/scph/scph_hemet.html Packing Houses of Southern California]. Listed as [[Growers Packing and Warehousing Association]]</ref>. Still exists.
|-
| Hollister || Plant 9 || 1917, 1939 || || Former [[Hollister Packing Company]].
|-
| Los Gatos || Plant 7 || 1917-1928 ||Winchester Road || Former [[Gem City Packing Company]]. Became [[Sewall_Brown_and_Company]]
|-
| Los Gatos || Plant 13 || 1917 || || ???
|-
| Los Gatos || || 1923 || 538 University Ave.<ref>1923 Los Gatos City Directory</ref> ||
|-
| Morgan Hill || Plant 2 || 1917-1964 || 91 East 4th Street || Former [[ Morgan Hill Farmer's Union ]]. Torn down 1964. Dryer in town until 1987<ref>August 7, 1987 San Jose Mercury News</ref>.
|-
| Mountain View || Plant 8 || 1917- 1921 || Oak Street at Villa St. || Former [[Mountain View Packing Company]].
|-
| Napa || || 1922-? || 849 Jackson St.<ref>The Prunes Are Gone, But Sunsweet Dehydrator Has Second Life. [http://napavalleyregister.com/news/local/the-prunes-are-gone-but-sunsweet-dehydrator-enjoys-second-life/article_440d510c-d1e4-11df-8168-001cc4c03286.html October 7, 2010 Napa Valley Register].</ref></ref><ref>July 1922 Western Canner and Packer</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false February 1922 Canning Age”]. Construction to begin in spring.</ref> Exists, damaged in 2014 Napa earthquake.
||
|-
| Red Bluff|| || 1922- || || Bought from [[Sanitary Fruit Company]] in 1922 according to July 1922 Western Canner and Packer.
|-
| San Jose || || || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=213%20W.%20Santa%20Clara%20Street%20,San%20Jose 213 W. Santa Clara Street ] || Public fruit market,
|-
| San Jose || Plant 4 || 1921, 1926- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4th%20and%20Lewis,San%20Jose 4th and Lewis] || Used for the "special carton trade"<ref>1922 Western Canner and Packer. Plant was too small, so they bought the J. W. Chilton plant at 405 North First Street. Leased to Libby for one season. </ref>.
|-
| San Jose|| Plant 6 || 1939 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=595%20Lincoln%20Ave.,San%20Jose 595 Lincoln Ave.] || Former [[George N. Herbert Packing Company]]. Replaced by Contadina warehouse by 1959<ref>San Jose Building Permit 1959-029819-000-BD: build 1 story warehouse for Contadina Foods, estimated value $100,000.</ref>.
|-
| San Jose || Plant 10 || 1939, 1964 || 2670 Alum Rock Ave. || Alum Rock at White. Former [[George Frank and Company]] plant. San Jose Railroads (trolley) built extension to plant in 1922<ref>Charles S. McCaleb, "Tracks, Trains, and Wires: Public Transportation in California's Santa Clara Valley". Interurban Press, Glendale CA, 1981. "On October 7, 1922... the San Jose Railroads asked the city for rights to haul freight at night over the Seventeenth Street line, a former privilege. The immediate purpose was to serve the California Prune and Apricot Growers' plant at Alum Rock and Capitol Avenues. The city turned down the application. So the Peninsular asked rights from the city and county to build a new single-track passenger and freight line up King Road north from Alum Rock to Berryessa Road, where it would join with the existing Berryessa line. San Jose gave its approval March 26, 1923. The county followed suit April 2. Crews then installed rails along the east side of King Road from Alum Rock Avenue to McKee Road, crossing over to the west side from McKee to Berryessa Road. On July 18 the Railroad Commission gave the Peninsular a certificate of authority to operate the new route."</ref>.
|-
| San Jose || Plant 10 || || Meridian Road at narrow gauge || Former [[George Frank and Company]].
|-
| San Jose || Plant 11 || 1921, 1936, ~1960 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=570%20Cinnabar,San%20Jose 570 Cinnabar] || Former [[Andrews and Coykendall Ham Company]]. built 1918. Demolished by 1966<ref>San Jose Building Permit: 1966-049055-000-BD. For demolition of site, former industrial, now vacant lot.</ref>.
|-
| San Jose || Plant 12 || 1917 || 8th and Jackson St. || Former [[F. H. Holmes]]. Immediately sold to Greco Canning?<ref>Growers To Buy Up Nine Local Packers: April 10, 1918 San Jose Mercury Herald</ref><ref>Prune Association Buys First Plant: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=mhwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=I-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6489%2C6226488 June 6, 1918 San Jose Evening News]. "The association will soon take over the Holmes plant, and will probably sell it to the Greco company to use as a cannery, as the association does not need it, but according to the agreement with the packers, has to take it over."</ref>
|-
| San Jose || Plant 14 || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=405%20North%20First,San%20Jose 405 North First] || Former Chilton plant. Bought in June 1922<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&vq=special%20carton%20trade&pg=RA4-PA31#v=snippet&q=special%20carton%20trade&f=false July 1922 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>
|-
| San Jose || Plant 15 || 1917 || Ryland St. || Former [[J. B. Inderrieden]].
|-
| San Jose || Plant 16 || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=740%20W.%20San%20Carlos%20Street,San%20Jose 740 W. San Carlos Street] || Bought in September 1922 from [[Pacific Fruit Products]]<ref>
[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ September 1922 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>.
|-
| San Jose || Plant 17 || 1918, 1939 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Margaret%20and%204th,San%20Jose Margaret and 4th] || Former [[O. A. Harlan & Company]].
|-
| San Jose || Plant 7 || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Alma,San%20Jose 7th and Alma]<ref>Referenced in Portuguese in San Jose, Arcadia Publishing.</ref>. ||
|-
| San Jose || || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Market%20and%20San%20Fernando.,San%20Jose Market and San Fernando.] || Headquarters.
|-
| Santa Paula || || 1922 || || Apricot processing plant<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ November 1922 Western Canner and Packer]. Handled 1,700 tons in 1921, expecting 3,500 tons in 1922.</ref>.
|-
| Santa Rosa || || 1922- || Wright Ave.<ref>George Greeott letter, [http://northbaydigital.sonoma.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/Lebaron/id/212/rec/1 Gaye LeBaron Digital Collection], North Bay Digital Collections.</ref> || Receiving station, either former former [[Sherriffs Brothers]] plant or contract station run by M.L. McDonald. Lasted "a while" after 1920.
|-
| Sunnyvale || Plant 41 || 1923, 1930 || Evelyn St. at Central Ave.<ref>1930 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map.</ref><ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ January 1923 Western Canner and Packer]</ref> || "Dried Fruit Receiving Station".
|-
| Visalia || || 1934 || 602 S. Bridge St. || Building still exists. Manager in 1934 was R. J. Scheline<ref>1934 Visalia City Directory</ref>.
|-
| Yuba City || || 1964 || || Enlarged 1964.
|-
|}

==Photos==
[http://www.oac.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/kt4779q1tq/?brand=oac4 Sunsweet Campbell Co-operative Dryer], 1960's. At San Jose State.

Hemet: Photo at [http://coastdaylight.com/ph/scph/scph_hemet.html]. Plant is listed there as Growers Packing and Warehousing #5.

Additional photos of Sunsweet Plants appear in advertisement [http://books.google.com/books?id=G21RAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA8&ots=SIuwX_8RKe&dq=sunsweet%20growers%20packing%20and%20warehousing%20association&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q=sunsweet%20growers%20packing%20and%20warehousing%20association&f=false October 30, 1920].

[http://books.google.com/books?id=bkb38SYG0csC&lpg=PA91&ots=yvY8O0lm6K&dq=%22Sherriffs%20Brothers%22%20healdsburg&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q=%22Sherriffs%20Brothers%22%20healdsburg&f=false Photo of man shoveling prunes in Sherriffs Brothers packing house], Healdsburg.<ref>Healdsburg Museum, [http://books.google.com/books?id=bkb38SYG0csC&lpg=PA91&ots=yvY8O0lm6K&dq=%22Sherriffs%20Brothers%22%20healdsburg&pg=PA91#v=onepage&q=%22Sherriffs%20Brothers%22%20healdsburg&f=falseHealdsburg]. Arcadia Publishing, 2005.</ref>

Geyserville [http://cdm15763.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll16/id/318 Exterior View of the Sunsweet Prune Packing Plant]. From Sonoma County Library.

Sunsweet Plant #10, San Jose (former [[George Frank and Company]] plant): [http://historysanjose.pastperfect-online.com/33535cgi/mweb.exe?request=image&hex=1997300529.JPG History San Jose].

==Sunsweet in Mountain View==

1921 Sanborn map shows main building has storage on first and second floors, grading on third, and a "process room" (sulfuring?) on second floor. Separate warehouse. Separate boiler house, with oil tanks at ground level. (Not on rolls by 1921)

==Sunsweet in San Jose==

Sunsweet had several plants in San Jose, ranging from primitive and small to modern and large.

Bob Morris photos from early 1960's show the [http://www.snowcrest.net/photobob/f29.html Mission-style tower] and [http://www.snowcrest.net/photobob/f27.html shed roof] of the former [[Andrews and Coykendall Ham Company]]. The plant was built in 1917 as three-story, concrete. 1950 Sanborn map shows used for grading and packing.

Two story concrete building with grader on 2nd floor and warehouse on first. Built for O.C. Harlan in 1918. Separate sulfur house.

Plant 14, the former [[J. W. Chilton Fruit Packing Plant]], was bought by the association in 1922 and used for their "special carton trade"<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&vq=special%20carton%20trade&pg=RA4-PA31#v=snippet&q=special%20carton%20trade&f=false July 1922 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>. The engineer at the plant for some years was Frank Frymire, who had previously worked for O. A. Harlan<ref>Frymire Last Rites Planned: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19320509&id=UQ0iAAAAIBAJ&sjid=66MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2450,701933 May 9, 1932 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
==Sunsweet in Sunnyvale==

==References==
<references/>
[[Category:Brooklyn, NY]]
[[Category:Campbell]]
[[Category:Colusa]]
[[Category:Healdsburg]]
[[Category:Los Gatos]]
[[Category:Napa]]
[[Category:Red Bluff]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Santa Paula]]
[[Category:Sunnyvale]]
[[Category:Visalia]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:Fourth Street San Jose]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]
[[Category:Cooperative]]

Abinante and Nola

2020-01-28T06:30:12Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1935-late 1960's
}}
'''Abinante and Nola''' was a small independent dried fruit packer in San Jose. Abinante
and Nola appeared just after the crash of the early 1930's. Sam
Abinante, a former [[California Packing Corporation]] buyer, handled the
business side, and Frank Nola handled the production side. The company operated as a partnership.

Abinante
and Nola switched between several packing
houses in the Santa Clara Valley during their lifetime, often taking
over properties either from packers that were going under or needed
more space.
The company initially started packing in a barn on the Nola property in the Berryessa district, but quickly moved to the former West Side co-operative site on Stevens Creek Road. The pair sold 2,000 tons of apricots and prunes in 1939, valued at $150,000<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref>. The Cupertino plant burned to the ground in 1940<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e2IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wasFAAAAIBAJ&dq=packing&pg=1467%2C1925106 May 19, 1940 according to May 20, 1940 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.

The company next occupied a building on the north side of the San Jose yards along Ryland Street, purchasing the building in 1944<ref> Bought 5/12/1944 from SP for $10, deed in book 1212 pg 80 of
Santa Clara County Clerk/Recorder, agreed by SP 12/28/1943).</ref>. The company also did foundation work that year and added a new canopy over the loading dock in 1949. The Ryland Street address was also the official business address; a lease of another property indicated rent was to be paid at the office on Ryland St.

The company also occupied multiple buildings on San Jose's west side. Abinante and Nola purchased 385 Sunol Street from the Western Pacific Railroad in 1945, and leased the building soon after to [[Drenton Packing]]<ref>Bought from WP 6/29/1945 for $10. Leased to [[Drenton Packing]]
12/31/1945, book 1401, pg 353, December 31, 1946. Lease cancelled 6/19/1948.</ref>
Abinante and Nola also occupied the former [[Pacific Fruit Products]] packing house at 740 West San Carlos Street.

See a [http://www.vasonabranch.com/railroad/abinantenola.html full history] of Abinante and Nola.

In 1962, Abinante and Nola's workers, like the other dried fruit packers in San Jose, were represented by the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union<ref>[http://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/19620810.pdf "Buy Union Says San Jose Local #11"] August 10, 1962 ILWU Dispatcher. </ref>.
Abinante and Nola relocated to Fairfield in the late 1960's.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1934-1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4747%20Stevens%20Creek%20Blvd.%2C%20San%20Jose,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 4747 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose] || Near Woodhams Road. Former West Side co-op.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1944-1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=200%20Ryland%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 200 Ryland Street] || Former Inderrieden plant.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1946-1948 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=385%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 385 Sunol Street] || Canning plant. Sold to Drenton.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1949-1950 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=740%20West%20San%20Carlos%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 740 West San Carlos Street] || Former Pacific Fruit Products.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1950-1966 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=831%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 831 Sunol Street] || From Track and Time. Former Mayfair Packing plant according to Sanborn maps.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=991%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 991 Sunol Street] ||
|-
|}
==References==
<references/>

[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Abinante and Nola

2020-01-28T06:29:45Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Jose
| primary_dates = 1935-late 1960's
}}
'''Abinante and Nola''' was a small independent dried fruit packer in San Jose. Abinante
and Nola appeared just after the crash of the early 1930's. Sam
Abinante, a former [[California Packing Corporation]] buyer, handled the
business side, and Frank Nola handled the production side. The company operated as a partnership.

Abinante
and Nola switched between several packing
houses in the Santa Clara Valley during their lifetime, often taking
over properties either from packers that were going under or needed
more space.
The company initially started packing in a barn on the Nola property in the Berryessa district, but quickly moved to the former West Side co-operative site on Stevens Creek Road. The pair sold 2,000 tons of apricots and prunes in 1939, valued at $150,000. That plant burned to the ground in 1940<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e2IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=wasFAAAAIBAJ&dq=packing&pg=1467%2C1925106 May 19, 1940 according to May 20, 1940 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.

The company next occupied a building on the north side of the San Jose yards along Ryland Street, purchasing the building in 1944<ref> Bought 5/12/1944 from SP for $10, deed in book 1212 pg 80 of
Santa Clara County Clerk/Recorder, agreed by SP 12/28/1943).</ref>. The company also did foundation work that year and added a new canopy over the loading dock in 1949. The Ryland Street address was also the official business address; a lease of another property indicated rent was to be paid at the office on Ryland St.

The company also occupied multiple buildings on San Jose's west side. Abinante and Nola purchased 385 Sunol Street from the Western Pacific Railroad in 1945, and leased the building soon after to [[Drenton Packing]]<ref>Bought from WP 6/29/1945 for $10. Leased to [[Drenton Packing]]
12/31/1945, book 1401, pg 353, December 31, 1946. Lease cancelled 6/19/1948.</ref>
Abinante and Nola also occupied the former [[Pacific Fruit Products]] packing house at 740 West San Carlos Street.

See a [http://www.vasonabranch.com/railroad/abinantenola.html full history] of Abinante and Nola.

In 1962, Abinante and Nola's workers, like the other dried fruit packers in San Jose, were represented by the International Longshoremen and Warehousemen Union<ref>[http://archive.ilwu.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/19620810.pdf "Buy Union Says San Jose Local #11"] August 10, 1962 ILWU Dispatcher. </ref>.
Abinante and Nola relocated to Fairfield in the late 1960's.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1934-1940 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=4747%20Stevens%20Creek%20Blvd.%2C%20San%20Jose,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 4747 Stevens Creek Blvd., San Jose] || Near Woodhams Road. Former West Side co-op.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1944-1949 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=200%20Ryland%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 200 Ryland Street] || Former Inderrieden plant.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1946-1948 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=385%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 385 Sunol Street] || Canning plant. Sold to Drenton.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1949-1950 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=740%20West%20San%20Carlos%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 740 West San Carlos Street] || Former Pacific Fruit Products.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1950-1966 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=831%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 831 Sunol Street] || From Track and Time. Former Mayfair Packing plant according to Sanborn maps.
|-
| San Jose, CA || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=991%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose%2C%20CA 991 Sunol Street] ||
|-
|}
==References==
<references/>

[[Category:West San Jose]]
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Hamlin Fruit

2020-01-28T06:27:23Z

Robert Bowdidge:

{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
| primary_town = San Jose
| aliases = Hamlin Packing
}}
[[File:Hamlin_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Hamlin Fruit packing house, 2011]]
'''Hamlin Fruit''' was a 1920's and 1930's era dried fruit packer, run by Homer Hamlin. The corporation had two dried fruit plants in San Jose. In 1939, the company sold 2500 tons of prunes, apricots, and pears worth $150,000<ref>Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,[https://books.google.com/books?id=oazizuza8AsC&lpg=PA1297&ots=KVv6tm2FdN&dq=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&pg=PA1295#v=onepage&q=%22winchester%20dried%20fruit%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Orders of the National Labor Relations Board] Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.</ref>.

The building still exists on Sunol St. in San Jose.
==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
|-
| San Jose || 1928 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=631%20Sunol%20Street,San%20Jose 631 Sunol Street] ||
631 Sunol Street

|-
| San Jose || 1940's || ||
Used drying yard associated with 631 Sunol, owned by Mayfair.

|-
|}
==Details==
Founder: [[Edwin Hamlin]]. Edwin had moved to San Jose from Minnesota after the turn of the century; he'd been a "hardware merchant" back in Lake Crystal, Minnesota. He owned a bunch of farming land in the area and made his home right next to Palm Haven on what is today 779 Bird. The old house is still there. Hamlin had been the manager for a pottery company according to the 1920 census; his son, Homer, who helped with Hamlin Fruit, had listed his occupation on a World War I draft card as working on the kilns. Edwin supposedly built 631 Sunol Street for Hamlin Packing. By 1930, Edwin is listing his occupation as "real estate salesman".

Cited in
[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?n=homer-hamlin&pid=149340607&fhid=2112 obituary] for Homer Clair Hamlin (1922 - 2007) said that his father ran Hamlin fruit.

[http://www26.us.archive.org/stream/buildingengineer28128cont/buildingengineer28128cont_djvu.txt Building and Engineering News in 1928] noted
a request for bids to "ADD to packing plant, $2000, near Lincoln Street, San Jose; owner Hamlin Packing Company, 631 Sunol Street, San Jose"

Hamlin sold prunes to Sun-Maid Raisin Growers in September 1926.

Photos of boxes in John C. Gordon collection at San Jose State.
[[Category:San Jose]]
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]
[[Category:West San Jose]]