Bayside Canning Company - Revision history

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-| Alviso || 1906-1936 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Hope%20Street%20at%20Elizabeth.,Alviso 1200 Hope Street at Elizabeth.] ||
+| Alviso || 1906-1936 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Hope%20Street%20at%20Elizabeth.,Alviso 1200 Hope Street at Elizabeth.] || Canned tomatoes<ref>Gennady Sheyner, "History of Fry's Site Complicates city's redevelopment plans".  In [https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/07/31/history-of-frys-site-complicates-citys-redevelopment-plans Wed July 31, 2019 Palo Alto Online].  "Another proponent of preserving the legacy of Thomas Foon Chew is Gloria Hom, Chew's granddaughter. Hom, a Palo Alto resident, called the cannery an "important contribution to the area." The local cannery, she said, focused on peaches, pears and other fruit, while the Alviso plant canned primarily tomatoes."</ref>.
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-| Mayfield || 1918-1931 || Portage Ave. || Became [[Sutter Packing]].
+| Mayfield || 1918-1931 || Portage Ave. || Became [[Sutter Packing]]  Canned peaches, pears, and other fruit<ref>Gennady Sheyner, "History of Fry's Site Complicates city's redevelopment plans".  In [https://www.paloaltoonline.com/news/2019/07/31/history-of-frys-site-complicates-citys-redevelopment-plans Wed July 31, 2019 Palo Alto Online].</ref>.
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 '''Bayside Canning Company''' was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus.  The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken over his father's San Francisco-based [[Precita Canning Company]].  (A separate story, mentioned in a history essay, claims that Thomas's father, Sai Yin Chew, rebuilt the cannery but that Thomas joined soon after and helped it expand<ref>Rosalinda Oneto, [http://www.californiapioneers.com/essay_contests/june_2010/PDFs/RosalindaOneto.pdf A. P. Giannini: The San Jose and Alviso Years and the Oneto Family]</ref>.)  Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Alviso History].  Society of California Pioneers essay contest, June 2010.</ref>
-The company also had a cannery in Mayfield<ref>Bayside Canning: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3071898?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 California Food Products directory].  1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.</ref>.  That cannery, founded in 1918,.
+The company also had a cannery in Mayfield<ref>Bayside Canning: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3071898?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 California Food Products directory].  1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.</ref>.  That cannery, founded in 1918, packed tomatoes.  In 1921, the Mayfield cannery packed 50,000 cases of tomatoes - the largest tomato pack that year for the valley<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA8-PA49&ots=17d4CcUvDq&dq=%22reedley%20canning%22&pg=RA8-PA49#v=onepage&q&f=false California Canneries].  January 1922 Western Canner and Packer.</ref>.
 Thomas Foon was vice president and manager in 1920<ref>Bayside Canning: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3071898?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 California Food Products directory].  1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.</ref>; Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922.

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 | brands = Bohemian, Calfruit, Calico, Gondolier, Precita, Snow Peak
 | predecessors = [[Precita Canning Company]]
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 '''Bayside Canning Company''' was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus.  The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken over his father's San Francisco-based [[Precita Canning Company]].  (A separate story, mentioned in a history essay, claims that Thomas's father, Sai Yin Chew, rebuilt the cannery but that Thomas joined soon after and helped it expand<ref>Rosalinda Oneto, [http://www.californiapioneers.com/essay_contests/june_2010/PDFs/RosalindaOneto.pdf A. P. Giannini: The San Jose and Alviso Years and the Oneto Family]</ref>.)  Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Alviso History].  Society of California Pioneers essay contest, June 2010.</ref>
-The company also had a cannery in Mayfield<ref>Bayside Canning: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3071898?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 California Food Products directory].  1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.</ref>.
+The company also had a cannery in Mayfield<ref>Bayside Canning: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3071898?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 California Food Products directory].  1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.</ref>.  That cannery, founded in 1918,.
 Thomas Foon was vice president and manager in 1920<ref>Bayside Canning: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3071898?urlappend=%3Bseq=9 California Food Products directory].  1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.</ref>; Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922.
-Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936.
+Thomas died in 1931 at the age of 42.  The Mayfield cannery was sold to [[Sutter Packing]] in 1933<ref>The Story of Our Local Bayside: Sutter Cannery.  In [http://www2.bpaonline.org/bp-news/pdfs/2010-summer/BPASummer10.pdf Summer 2010 Barron Park Association Newsletter].</ref>; the Alviso cannery closed in 1936.
 ==Locations==
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 | Alviso || 1906-1936 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Hope%20Street%20at%20Elizabeth.,Alviso 1200 Hope Street at Elizabeth.] ||
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+| Mayfield || 1918-1931 || Portage Ave. || Became [[Sutter Packing]].
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 | primary_town = Alviso
 | primary_dates = 1906 - 1936
 }}
-'''Bayside Canning Company''' was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus.  The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken over his father's San Francisco-based [[Precita Canning Company]].  (A separate story, mentioned in a history essay, claims that Thomas's father, Sai Yin Chew, rebuilt the cannery but that Thomas joined soon after and helped it expand<ref>Rosalinda Oneto, [http://www.californiapioneers.com/essay_contests/june_2010/PDFs/RosalindaOneto.pdf A. P. Giannini: The San Jose and Alviso Years and the Oneto Family]</ref>.)  Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Alviso History].  Society of California Pioneers essay contest, June 2010.</ref> Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922. Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936.
+'''Bayside Canning Company''' was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus.  The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken over his father's San Francisco-based [[Precita Canning Company]].  (A separate story, mentioned in a history essay, claims that Thomas's father, Sai Yin Chew, rebuilt the cannery but that Thomas joined soon after and helped it expand<ref>Rosalinda Oneto, [http://www.californiapioneers.com/essay_contests/june_2010/PDFs/RosalindaOneto.pdf A. P. Giannini: The San Jose and Alviso Years and the Oneto Family]</ref>.)  Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Alviso History].  Society of California Pioneers essay contest, June 2010.</ref>
 ==Locations==
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 | Alviso || 1906-1936 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Hope%20Street%20at%20Elizabeth.,Alviso 1200 Hope Street at Elizabeth.] ||
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 | primary_dates = 1906 - 1936
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-'''Bayside Canning Company''' was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus.  The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken over his father's San Francisco-based [[Precita Canning Company]].  Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Alviso History]</ref> Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922. Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936.
+'''Bayside Canning Company''' was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus.  The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken over his father's San Francisco-based [[Precita Canning Company]].  (A separate story, mentioned in a history essay, claims that Thomas's father, Sai Yin Chew, rebuilt the cannery but that Thomas joined soon after and helped it expand<ref>Rosalinda Oneto, [http://www.californiapioneers.com/essay_contests/june_2010/PDFs/RosalindaOneto.pdf A. P. Giannini: The San Jose and Alviso Years and the Oneto Family]</ref>.)  Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Alviso History].  Society of California Pioneers essay contest, June 2010.</ref> Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922. Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936.
 ==Locations==

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 | primary_dates = 1906 - 1936
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-Major cannery specializing in asparagus.  Run by Thomas Foon Chew, taken over from [[Precita Canning Company]] (San Francisco) run by his father until the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.   The cannery closed in 1936.
+'''Bayside Canning Company''' was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus.  The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken control from the  [[Precita Canning Company]] (San Francisco) run by his father until the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.   Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936.  At one point, this was declared the third largest cannery in the world.
 ==Locations==
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 [http://www.sanjose.com/underbelly/unbelly/Alviso/alviso12.html Bayside Canning, recent photo of abandoned building]
-==Details==
+==References==
-rd largest cannery. Closed in 1936 after Thomas died in 1931.
+<references/>
 [[Category:Alviso]]
 [[Category:Cannery]]

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-{{Infobox
+{{Infobox_Industry
-| title = Summary
+| primary_business = Cannery
-| header1 = Business Details
+| primary_town = Alviso
-| label2 = Primary Town
+| primary_dates = 1906 - 1936
 }}
 ==Summary==