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	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>.		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].</ref><ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=173344837 Hector Picchetti obituary], San Jose Mercury News obituary, December 3, 2014.</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>.

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 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, Gagni 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.
+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;amp;fileName=ca/ca0900/ca0936/photos/browse.db&amp;amp;action=browse&amp;amp;recNum=0&amp;amp;title2=Woelffel%20Cannery,%2010120%20Imperial%20Avenue,%20Monta%20Vista%20vicinity,%20Santa%20Clara%20County,%20CA&amp;amp;displayType=1&amp;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>.

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 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.
+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, Gagni 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;amp;fileName=ca/ca0900/ca0936/photos/browse.db&amp;amp;action=browse&amp;amp;recNum=0&amp;amp;title2=Woelffel%20Cannery,%2010120%20Imperial%20Avenue,%20Monta%20Vista%20vicinity,%20Santa%20Clara%20County,%20CA&amp;amp;displayType=1&amp;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>.

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	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>.		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].</ref><ref>[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.aspx?pid=173344837 Hector Picchetti obituary], San Jose Mercury News obituary, December 3, 2014.</ref>.

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 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 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;amp;fileName=ca/ca0900/ca0936/photos/browse.db&amp;amp;action=browse&amp;amp;recNum=0&amp;amp;title2=Woelffel%20Cannery,%2010120%20Imperial%20Avenue,%20Monta%20Vista%20vicinity,%20Santa%20Clara%20County,%20CA&amp;amp;displayType=1&amp;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>.
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-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 [[Monta 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>.
+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.

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-Cupertino cannery along the railroad tracks just south of Stevens Creek Road.
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-Bought by [[Stapleton-Spence]] in 1970's and machinery taken away, land sold to Measurex in 1970's.  Now townhouses.
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 [[Category:Cupertino]]
 [[Category:Cannery]]