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| primary_town = San Francisco
 
| primary_town = San Francisco
 
| aliases =  [[Del Monte]]
 
| aliases =  [[Del Monte]]
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| predecessors = [[Griffin and Skelley]], [[Central California Canneries]], [[J. K. Armsby]], [[California Fruit Canners Association]], [[Alaska Packers Association]]
 
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Founded in 1916 as the merger of five major canners: [[Griffin and Skelley]], Central California Canneries, J.K. Armsby, [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and Alaska Packers Association. They canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California.
 
Founded in 1916 as the merger of five major canners: [[Griffin and Skelley]], Central California Canneries, J.K. Armsby, [[California Fruit Canners Association]], and Alaska Packers Association. They canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California.
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! Location !! Plant Number || Years !! Address !! Details
 
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| Alameda || || 925, 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.  
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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.  
 
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| Alameda || ||  ? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Alameda ???] ||  Warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment. (California's Finest, p.142)  
 
| Alameda || ||  ? || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Alameda ???] ||  Warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment. (California's Finest, p.142)  
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| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] ||  From Oakland City Directory, 1941.  
 
| Berkeley || ||1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2424%20Fourth%20Street,Berkeley 2424 Fourth Street] ||  From Oakland City Directory, 1941.  
 
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| Emeryville || || -1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] ||  . Now Pixar. Plant #7 was nearby according to "Baptista oral history":http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf  
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| Emeryville || Plant #35 || -1989 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1200%20Park%20Avenue,Emeryville 1200 Park Avenue] ||  . Now Pixar. Plant #7 was nearby according to "Baptista oral history":http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf  
 
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| Emeryville || || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] ||  
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| Emeryville || Plant #7 || 1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=40th%20and%20Halleck,Emeryville 40th and Halleck] ||  
 
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| Fairfield || Plant #60 || 1926 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Fairfield ???] ||Dried fruit.  "Frank Butterfield bio":http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html  
 
| Fairfield || Plant #60 || 1926 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Fairfield ???] ||Dried fruit.  "Frank Butterfield bio":http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html  
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| Hanford || || 1921, 1922 || ||  
 
| Hanford || || 1921, 1922 || ||  
 
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| Kahului HI || || 1926-1934 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=120%20Kane%20Street,Kahului%20HI 120 Kane Street] ||  See "HAER Survey":http://www.historicmapworks.com/Buildings/index.php?state=HI
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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 || || 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.  
 
| Kingsburg || || 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.  
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| Salem || || 1916- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Salem ???] ||  . (Former Oregon Packing Company, merged into Del Monte in 1916.) In SP warehouse until "1935":http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm  1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant.  
 
| Salem || || 1916- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Salem ???] ||  . (Former Oregon Packing Company, merged into Del Monte in 1916.) In SP warehouse until "1935":http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm  1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant.  
 
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| San Francisco ||  || 1916, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] ||  (now the Cannery). Started as "peach cannery":http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods, merged into California Fruit Canners Association. "rodhadeland.com":http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm suggests plant was originally set up by Fontana and Company in 1907.  
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| San Francisco ||  Plant #1 || 1916, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=North%20Point%20Ave.,San%20Francisco North Point Ave.] ||  (now the Cannery). Started as "peach cannery":http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods, merged into California Fruit Canners Association. "rodhadeland.com":http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm suggests plant was originally set up by Fontana and Company in 1907.  
 
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| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.  
 
| San Francisco || || 1920, 1921 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=101%20California%20Street,San%20Francisco 101 California Street] || Headquarters.  
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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)  
 
| 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 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Plant #39  (pickle factory)
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| San Jose || Plant #39 || 1936, 1940, 1945 || [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.] || Plant #153 (by-products)
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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 #4/34 || 1940, 1945, 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Plant #4 , #34. (Vinegar works)
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| San Jose || Plant #4/34 || 1940, 1945, 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=7th%20and%20Jackson,San%20Jose 7th and Jackson] || Vinegar works.
 
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| San Jose ||  || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.  
 
| San Jose ||  || 1964 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Monterey%20Road,San%20Jose Monterey Road] || Seed farm.  
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| The Dalles || || 1921 || ||  
 
| The Dalles || || 1921 || ||  
 
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] ||  ("Not operating this season" in "1922 Western Canner and Packer":http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ
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| Tulare || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Tulare ???] ||  ("Not operating this season" in "[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ 1922 Western Canner and Packer].
 
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| Visalia || || -1922 || || . Burned down in "1922":http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ
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| Visalia || || -1922 || || [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ Burned down in 1922]
 
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Visalia ???] || Plant #16 "October 1922 Western Canner and Packer":http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ
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| Visalia || Plant #16 || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=%3F%3F%3F,Visalia ???] ||   [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ October 1922 Western Canner and Packer].
 
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| Visalia || || 1922 || ||  
 
| Visalia || || 1922 || ||  

Revision as of 02:25, 7 August 2013

Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

San Francisco
Aliases

Del Monte
Predecessors

Griffin and Skelley, Central California Canneries, J. K. Armsby, California Fruit Canners Association, Alaska Packers Association

Founded in 1916 as the merger of five major canners: Griffin and Skelley, Central California Canneries, J.K. Armsby, California Fruit Canners Association, and Alaska Packers Association. They canned fish from Alaska, pineapple from Hawaii, fruit from California.

Locations

Location Plant Number Years Address Details
Alameda 1925, 1941 Buena Vista at Sherman Former Alaska Packing Corporation salmon cannery. aka Encinal Terminal.
Alameda ? ??? Warehouse for consolidating output from different canneries for eastern shipment. (California's Finest, p.142)
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 2424 Fourth Street From Oakland City Directory, 1941.
Emeryville Plant #35 -1989 1200 Park Avenue . Now Pixar. Plant #7 was nearby according to "Baptista oral history":http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf
Emeryville Plant #7 1941 40th and Halleck
Fairfield Plant #60 1926 ??? Dried fruit. "Frank Butterfield bio":http://cagenweb.com/solano/biobutterfieldf.html
Fresno
Fruitvale 1941 3000 East 9th Street (Now mall.)() Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
Hanford 1921, 1922
Kahului HI 1926-1934 120 Kane Street See HAER Survey
Kingsburg 1922-2012 1101 Marian Avenue Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years.
Los Angeles 1921
Marysville 1921
Milpitas Plant #21 1930's
Modesto 1969 - ~2000 4000 Yosemite Blvd "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice":http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948
Monterey 1926-1962 Sardine cannery.
Mt. Eden 1931 Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
Oakland Plant #6 1921, 1941 First and Myrtle Still exists. according to signs on photo by James Bunger and 1941 Oakland City Directory.
Oakland 1941 First and Filbert Street
Oakland 1941 742 Saunders
Oakland 1941 85th Ave Foot of 85th Ave
Oakland 1941 (1941) 1100 29th Ave
Planada 1922 Highway 120 Mentioned as Merced.
Rio Vista 1921,1922,1953 . Was Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company. Article in "June 1921 Canning Age":http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ
Roseberry 1921
Sacramento 3rd and X Street
Sacramento 19th and R Street
Sacramento 1922, 1938 1600 2nd Street (Front and P Street?) () "May 1922 Western Canner and Packer":http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ
Sacramento 1925 17th and C Street Now Blue Diamond)
Salem 1916- ??? . (Former Oregon Packing Company, merged into Del Monte in 1916.) In SP warehouse until "1935":http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant.
San Francisco Plant #1 1916, 1921 North Point Ave. (now the Cannery). Started as "peach cannery":http://foundsf.org/index.php?title=Del_Monte_Foods, merged into California Fruit Canners Association. "rodhadeland.com":http://www.rodhandeland.com/SFWaterfront/FishermanPier39.htm suggests plant was originally set up by Fontana and Company in 1907.
San Francisco 1920, 1921 101 California Street Headquarters.
San Jose 1919 Cinnabar Street Former Armsby plant, mentioned in want ads in "May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News":http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ
San Jose Plant #3 1919 849 Auzerais St. West San Carlos Street () / 849 Auzerais (1936, 1940, 1945) cannery. Still referred to as "by the narrow gauge" in 1919. "May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News":http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=GvwxAAAAIBAJ
San Jose Plant #51 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 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.
San Jose 1930 Montgomery Street at Cinnabar. Former Richmond Chase plant.
San Jose 1931 Lincoln Ave. Seen on 1931 siding list.
San Jose 1936, 1940 Auzerais and Meridian Road (pit cracker)
San Jose Plant #39 1936, 1940, 1945 7th and Jackson Pickle Factory.
San Jose Plant #153 1936, 1940, 1945 Sunol and Auzerais St. By-products.
San Jose Plant #4/34 1940, 1945, 1964 7th and Jackson Vinegar works.
San Jose 1964 Monterey Road Seed farm.
San Jose 1964 734 The Alameda Sales office, fruit and vegetable purchasing office.
San Jose 1964 Hostetter Road Pit cracking department.
San Leandro 1928 Thornton Avenue "Formerly H.G. Prince" according to 1928 Sanborn map. .
San Leandro 1931 752 Saunders 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?... according to "obituary for Marie Fernandes":http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr
San Lorenzo 1922, 1931 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.
Sanger 1922 "July 1922 Western Canner and Packer":http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ
Santa Ana 1921
Santa Rosa 1921 : Source for blackberries, according to a July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer.
Stockton 1975 2716 East Minor Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch. . 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. 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.
Sunnyvale Plant #184 1904-1926, 1930-? 185 Evelyn photo]
The Dalles 1921
Tulare 1922 ??? ("Not operating this season" in "1922 Western Canner and Packer.
Visalia -1922 Burned down in 1922
Visalia Plant #16 1922 ??? October 1922 Western Canner and Packer.
Visalia 1922
Woodland -2000
Yuba City 1921

Photos

Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State

CalPak (California Packing Corp. aka Del Monte) Plant 51 John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library

California Packing Corporation Plant No. 184 Sunnyvale Library

Del Monte Plant #3 Preservation San Jose

Details

Bought Emeryville cannery from Virden Packing in 1927.

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 Western Canner and Packer Sacramento: See article on cannery 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 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.

1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.

Alameda: Current buildings date from 1925. Designer: Philip Bush designed many other Calpak buildings. (See Alameda Magazine article.) Buena Vista at Sherman. Plans Listed as Benton and Buena Vista / in 1941 Oakland City Directory.

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.

Merced: 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&P says it'll be largest cannery in world.

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