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==Summary==
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'''Figprune''' was a San Jose-based food processor making breakfast cereal.  The company is mostly known from product advertisements.  The product line was later taken over by the [[Beech-Nut Packing Company]]<ref>Beech-Nut Packing Co: [http://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b3071898?urlappend=%3Bseq=3 California Food Products directory].  1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.</ref>
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The company's plant at Fourth and Lewis was later purchased by the [[J.F. Pyle Cannery]] for construction of a new warehouse<ref>Pyle Plant of Interesting Pioneer Origin: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=59cxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=O-QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=809%2C986927 July 25, 1919 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.
  
 
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Latest revision as of 02:58, 16 January 2015

Summary
Main Location

San Jose

Figprune was a San Jose-based food processor making breakfast cereal. The company is mostly known from product advertisements. The product line was later taken over by the Beech-Nut Packing Company[1]

The company's plant at Fourth and Lewis was later purchased by the J.F. Pyle Cannery for construction of a new warehouse[2].

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1904, 1906 4th and Lewis

References

  1. Beech-Nut Packing Co: California Food Products directory. 1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.
  2. Pyle Plant of Interesting Pioneer Origin: July 25, 1919 San Jose Evening News.