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{{Infobox_Industry
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| title = Summary
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| primary_business = Cannery
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| header1 = Business Details
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| primary_town = San Francisco
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| label2 = Primary Town
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| aliases = [[Del Monte]]
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| data2 = San Francisco
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| brands = Del Monte and many others.
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| label3 = Primary Business
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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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| data3 = Cannery
 
 
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==Summary==
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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.
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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.
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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>.
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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.
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Del Monte was also memorable because of the common building architecture used for many of its plants.
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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.
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[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.
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San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;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.
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Sacramento: See
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[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]
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[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
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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.
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In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
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Many 1920 references cited in
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;amp;q&amp;amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
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May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
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January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.
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[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
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Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.
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Kahului:
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Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [[Alexander and Baldwin]] in 1934.
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Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.
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[[File:cal-pak-10.jpg|200px|thumb|right|
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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>]]
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Merced: [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;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;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.
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==Locations==
 
==Locations==
 
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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
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from Accurail) in the late 70's, we started canning peas and lima beans
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by mid-June. We'd can for about 4-5 weeks before switching over to corn.
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The cannery only had 8 full time employees - the rest being seasonal
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(college students) and migrant workers. The cans were stored unlabeled
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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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| Alameda || 1925, 1941 || Buena Vista at Sherman ||  
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| Fresno || Plant #15 || 1916-  || || Packing peaches in 1919.
 
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| Alameda || ? || ??? ||  
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| Fresno || Plant #25 || || || Cannery
 
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| Atwater || 1922-1939 || ??? ||  
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| Fresno || Plant #66 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919.  (Dried?)
 
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| Berkeley || 1941 || 2424 Fourth Street ||  
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| Fresno || Plant #67 || 1919 || || Packing apricots and peaches in 1919.  (Dried?)
 
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| Emeryville || -1989 || 1200 Park Avenue ||  
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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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| Emeryville || 1941 || 40th and Halleck ||  
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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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| Fairfield || 1926 || ??? ||  
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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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| Fresno || || ??? ||  
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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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| Fruitvale || 1941 || 3000 East 9th Street ||  
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| Healdsburg || Plant #56 || 1919 || || Packing prunes and pears in 1919.
 
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| Hanford || 1921, 1922 || ??? ||  
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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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| Kahului HI || 1926-1934 || 120 Kane Street ||  
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| Honolulu, Hawaii || Plant #29 || 1919 || || Packing pineapple in 1919.
 
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| Kingsburg || 1922-2012 || 1101 Marian Avenue ||  
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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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| Los Angeles || 1921 || ??? ||  
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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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| Marysville || 1921 || ??? ||  
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| Lewiston, Idaho || Plant #28 || 1919 || || Packing tomatoes in 1919.
 
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| Modesto || 1969 - ~2000 || 4000 Yosemite Blvd ||  
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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
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of Ray O. Wilson, I carefully examined a Canning
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Machine at the plant of the California Packing
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Corporation, No. 900 Macy Street, Los Angeles,
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California, which machine I am informed was
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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.
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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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| Monterey || 1926-1962 || ??? ||  
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| Mt. Eden || 1931 || ??? ||  
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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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| Oakland || 1921, 1941 || First and Myrtle ||  
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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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| Oakland || 1941 || First and Filbert Street ||  
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| Monterey || || 1926-1962 || ||  Sardine cannery.
 
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| Oakland || 1941 || 742 Saunders ||  
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| Mt. Eden || || 1931 || ||  Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
 
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| Oakland || 1941 ||  85th Ave ||  
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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 || (1941) 1100 29th Ave ||  
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| Oakland || ||  1941 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=742%20Saunders,Oakland 742 Saunders] ||  
 
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| Planada || 1922 || Highway 120 ||  
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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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| Rio Vista || 1921,1922,1953 || ??? ||  
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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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| Roseberry || 1921 || ??? ||  
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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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| Sacramento ||  ||  3rd and X Street ||  
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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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| Sacramento ||  || 19th and R Street  ||  
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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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| Sacramento || 1922, 1938 || 1600 2nd Street ||  
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| Planada || || 1922 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Highway%20120,Planada Highway 120] || Mentioned as Merced.
 
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| Sacramento || 1925 || 17th and C Street ||  
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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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| Salem || 1916- || ??? ||  
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| Rochelle, IL || || 1970's || || Packed peas and corn.
 
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| San Francisco || 1916, 1921 || North Point Ave. ||  
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| Roseberry || || 1921 || ||  
 
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| San Francisco || 1920, 1921 || 101 California Street ||  
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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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| San Jose || 1919 || Cinnabar 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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| San Jose || 1919 || 849 Auzerais St. ||  
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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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| San Jose || 1923, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1949 || 725 W. San Fernando ||  
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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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| San Jose || 1930 || Montgomery Street at Cinnabar. ||  
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| Sacramento || Plant #11 || 1916- || "G Street" || Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
 
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| San Jose || 1931 || Lincoln Ave. ||  
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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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| San Jose || 1936, 1940 || Auzerais and Meridian Road ||  
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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 Jose || 1936, 1940, 1945 || 7th and Jackson ||
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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 Jose || 1936, 1940, 1945 || Sunol and Auzerais St. ||
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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 Jose || 1940, 1945, 1964 || 7th and Jackson ||  
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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 Jose || 1964 || Monterey Road ||  
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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 Jose || 1964 || 734 The Alameda ||  
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| San Francisco || || 1950-1975 || 215 Fremont St. || Headquarters.
 
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| San Jose || 1964 || Hostetter Road ||  
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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 Leandro || 1928 || Thornton Avenue  ||  
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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 Leandro || 1931 || 752 Saunders ||  
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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 Lorenzo || 1922, 1931 || ??? ||  
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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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| Sanger || 1922 || ??? ||  
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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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| Santa Ana || 1921 || ??? ||  
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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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| Santa Rosa || 1921 || ??? ||  
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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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| Stockton || 1975 || 2716 East Minor ||  
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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
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<ref>Southern Pacific.  Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation.  Western Division
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drawing R172.  Feb. 1926.  In collection of California State Railroad Museum.</ref>.
 
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| Sunnyvale || 1904-1926, 1930-? || 185 Evelyn ||  
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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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| The Dalles || 1921 || ??? ||  
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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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| Tulare || 1922 || ??? ||  
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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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| Visalia || -1922 || ??? ||  
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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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| Visalia || 1922 || ??? ||  
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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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| Visalia || 1922 || ??? ||  
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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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| Woodland || -2000 || ??? ||
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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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| Yuba City || 1921 || ??? ||  
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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 
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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.
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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==
 
==Photos==
 
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas  John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]
 
[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,500 Del Monte Plant #21, Milpitas  John C. Gordon Collection, San Jose State]
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[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3  Preservation San Jose]
 
[http://www.preservation.org/delmonte3/delmonte3.html Del Monte Plant #3  Preservation San Jose]
  
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==Details==
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[http://heritage.sonomalibrary.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15763coll2/id/8238 Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery]. Via Sonoma County library.
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Bought Emeryville cannery from Virden Packing in 1927.
 
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[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.
 
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San Leandro: See Arcadia book. Martinez and Saunders Street (1921
 
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;amp;lpg=RA3-PA48&amp;amp;amp;ots=1693B4RxDn&amp;amp;amp;dq=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;amp;pg=RA3-PA48#v=onepage&amp;amp;amp;q=%22george%20herbert%22%20cannery&amp;amp;amp;f=false Western Canner and Packer]
 
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Sacramento: See
 
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[http://www.midtownmonthly.net/life/the-big-tomato/ article on cannery]  
 
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[http://digitalassets.lib.berkeley.edu/roho/ucb/text/baptista_stella_adoa.pdf Stella Adoa Baptista oral history] on life in the canneries.
 
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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.
 
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In 1920, had 61 plants, 53 in California, 4 in Oregon, 3 in Washington, and 1 in Idaho.
 
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Many 1920 references cited in
 
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;amp;pg=PR11#v=onepage&amp;amp;amp;q&amp;amp;amp;f=false March 1920 Canning Age] in mention of customers of Main Belting Company, Philadelphia
 
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May 1921 Canning Age magazine summarizes the CalPak annual report.
 
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January 1923 Western Canner and Packer notes that pimientos are shipped from San Pedro or Santa Ana.
 
  
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[http://www.library.upenn.edu/collections/lippincott/corprpts/delmonte/delmonte1963.pdf 1963 corporate summary at University of Pennsylvania]
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[https://www.flickr.com/photos/40361283@N06/3708909019/ Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda]. From Flickr photos by MSClife.
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Dried fruit was 5% of their business in 1963, with three packing plants handling the fruit.
 
  
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[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.
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Current buildings date from 1925. Designer: Philip Bush designed many other Calpak buildings. (See Alameda Magazine article.)  Buena Vista at Sherman. [http://laurendo.wordpress.com/2010/11/05/modular-del-monte/ Plans]   Listed as Benton and Buena Vista / in 1941 Oakland City Directory.
 
  
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[http://www.sacramentohistory.org/search.php?imageid=1568 Plant #14], probably Kingsburg.  California State Library, California History Room.
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Built 1926, sold to Maui Pineapple Company / [Alexander and Baldwin] in 1934.
 
  
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Monterey plant was Monterey Fishing and Canning Company, started in 1902 by Harry Malpas and Otsaburo Noda. Became Pacific Fish Co in August 1908.
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===References==
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<references/>
  
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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":http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&amp;amp;amp;pg=PA83&amp;amp;amp;dq=cannery+work+campbell&amp;amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;amp;ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&amp;amp;amp;ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&amp;amp;amp;q=cannery%20work%20campbell&amp;amp;amp;f=false 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;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.
 
 
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Latest revision as of 16:34, 3 March 2024

Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

San Francisco
Brands

Del Monte and many others.
Aliases

Del Monte
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[1]. The unification of so many canneries under a single ownership worried the industry at the time[2].

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[3]. Many of the CalPak buildings survive, often repurposed. The Alameda buildings have been reused for industrial space[4], the San Jose dried fruit plant on Bush Street survives as condos, and various plants still can be seen in Oakland and Emeryville.

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. The City of San Leandro also did a video describing the cannery.

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.


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.

Santa Ana's Plant #20. First Street in foreground, and Southern Pacific Newport branch crossing image[5]

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&amp;amp;P says it'll be largest cannery in world.


Locations

Location Plant Number Years Address Details
Alameda 1925, 1941 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[6] Being repurposed for housing and retail[7]
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. Former Sunlit Fruit Company[8].
Chico Plant #64 1919 Packing prunes and apricots in 1919.
De Kalb, IL 1970's Packed peas, lima beans, and corn[9]
Dinuba 155 N. Merced Ave.[10].
Elmhurst Plant #58[11] 1944 Foot of 85th Street[12].
Emeryville Plant #35 1926-1989 1200 Park Avenue Former Western Canning. Now Pixar. Oral history with Stella Adoa Baptista describes working at the plant[13].
Emeryville Plant #7 1916-1941 40th and Halleck Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Had nursery school[14].
Franklin, Idaho Plant #130[15] 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[16] Tulare St. at G St. Dried fruit. Former Pacific Coast Seeded Raisin Plant #5 and 6. Becoming site for California HSR station[17] Plant stretched along G Street from Mariposa to Kern St.[18].
Fruitvale Plant #37 1928- 3000 East 9th Street Now mall. Former H.G. Prince? Photo pg 394, Southern Pacific Freight Cars: Box Cars.
Gilroy Plant #55 1939[19] 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[20] Dried fruit
Honolulu, Hawaii Plant #29 1919 Packing pineapple in 1919.
Kahului HI 1926-1934 120 Kane Street See HAER Survey
Kingsburg Plant #14 / Plant #25 1922-2012 1101 Marian Avenue Newspaper articles at time of closure said it had been open for 90 years[21].
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[22][23]. 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[24]. 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[25].

Marysville 1921
Milpitas Plant #21 1920's Main St. near Alviso Road Packing peas in 1920's[26]1930 Sanborn map marks as "not in operation June 1930". Also warehouse on east side of tracks.
Modesto 1969 - ~2000 4000 Yosemite Blvd "Catsup, tomato sauce, tomato juice"
Monterey 1926-1962 Sardine cannery.
Mt. Eden 1931 Mentioned in 1931 Hayward Directory.
Oakland Plant #6 1921, 1941, 1969[27] 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 Howard Vawter, and 1941 Oakland City Directory. Packing peaches and pears in 1919. Former Oakland Preserving Company.
Oakland 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 742 Saunders
Oakland 1941 85th Ave Foot of 85th Ave
Oakland Plant #35 1969[28] 1250 Park Ave.
Oakland Plant #237 1969[29] 3100 E. 9th Street Part of Fruitvale cannery.
Oakland Plant #34 1924, 1941, 1969[30] (1941) 1100 29th Ave Former H. Jones and Company cannery, bought by Del Monte in 1924[31].
Oakland Plant #24 1916-1954 2744 East 11th Street Former H.G. Prince cannery[32].
Ogden, Utah Plant #132[33] 1944
Planada 1922 Highway 120 Mentioned as Merced.
Rio Vista Plant #22 1921,1922,1953 Former Rio Vista Canning and Packing Company[34].
Rochelle, IL 1970's Packed peas and corn.
Roseberry 1921
Sacramento 3rd and X Street
Sacramento 19th and R Street
Sacramento Plant #12 1922, 1938 1600 2nd Street Front and P Street[35][36].
Sacramento 1925 17th and C Street Now Blue Diamond.
Sacramento Plant #11 1916- "G Street" Packing peaches and pears in 1919.
Salem Plant #26 1916-1981[37] 1250 Mill St. SE] Former Oregon Packing Company, merged into Del Monte in 1916. In SP warehouse until 1935[38] 1922 Western Canner and Packers mentions canned prunes being shipped from this plant. Packing blackberries, string beans, and pears in 1919.
Salem Plant #126[39] 1944
San Francisco Plant #1 1907-1930's North Point Ave. Now the Cannery. In 1919, was packing pears, port and beans, and tomatoes. Plant either dates to before earthquake[40], built for M. J. Fontana and Company before the earthquake[41], or built on site of Selby smelter in 1907 for California Fruit Canners Association[42]. Closed in 1930's[43], and owned by the Haslett Warehouse Company from 1948[44].
San Francisco Plant #2 1919 Listed in September 10, 1919 "Lug Box" newsletter as "Specialty", packing preserves, jelly, and catsup.
San Francisco 1920, 1921 101 California Street Headquarters.
San Francisco 234 Front Street Food laboratory / Inspection and Service Department[45]. The lab had previously been in the basement of 101 California previously.
San Francisco 1950-1975 215 Fremont St. Headquarters.
San Jose Plant #52[46] 1919 Cinnabar Street Former Armsby plant[47].
San Jose Plant #3 1919 849 Auzerais St. Also listed as "West San Carlos Street" and "by the narrow gauge" in 1919[48] Former San Jose Fruit Packing plant.
San Jose Plant #51 1919[49], 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. (Where was plant #50?) (Also plant #54[50].
San Jose 1930 Montgomery Street at Cinnabar. Former Richmond Chase plant.
San Jose 1936, 1940 Auzerais and Meridian Road (pit cracker)
San Jose Plant #39 1919, 1936, 1940, 1945, 1972[51] 7th and Jackson Pickle Factory.
San Jose Plant #153 1936, 1940, 1945 Sunol and Auzerais St. By-products.
San Jose Plant #4 / Plant #34 1901[52]-1964 7th and Jackson Vinegar works. Location known as "Ruric" station on Southern Pacific

[53].

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 Jose Seed Farm #185 before 1977[54] References exist to seed farm on Furlong Ave. in Gilroy as plant #185 in recent years.
San Jose Plant #23 1931, 1932 868 Auzerais Street A 1932 Southern Pacific industry map shows the former Virden Packing building as "Calif Packing Corp."[55][56]
San Leandro Plant #27 1928 Thornton Avenue Formerly H.G. Prince according to 1928 Sanborn map, plant #27.
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?[57]. Packing peaches in 1919. Also listed as 752 Saunders (Saunders at Martinez), but the street no longer exists. Originally King-Morse Canning Company.
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.
Sanger 1922 May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News
Santa Ana Plant #20 1919, 1921, 1937, 1960's[58] East First St. Packing refugee beans and pimentos in 1917[59]Packing chili peppers in 1919. Supposedly former F. P. Cutting Company plant[60], abandoned by 1960's.
Santa Rosa Plant #5 1921-1932[61] Between West 3rd and West 6th Street Cannery built 1894. Former California Fruit Canners Association plant, former Rose City Canning Company? Source for blackberries[62]. 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[63] Superintendent was John Oliva in 1920, and Charles Carniglia after. Plant superintendent's house was on Sixth Street.
Smithfield, Utah Plant #138[64] 1944
Spanish Fork, Utah Plant #136[65] 1944
Star Ray, Utah Plant #34 1919 Packing tomatoes in 1919.
Stockton Plant #10 1975 2716 East Minor Filbert Street north of SP's Oakdale branch.[66][67][68].
Suisun City 1919, 1926, -1930s 600 Kellogg St. (from USGS survey landmark[69].) Dried fruit[70]. 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[71]
Suisun City (Fairfield) Plant #60 -1930's Union Ave. at Broadway St[72][73] Dried fruit. Former J. K. Armsby plant. Photos exist of plant in 1930's[74]. Image of packing house in 1940's-era film background[75]
Sunnyvale Plant #184 1904-1926, 1930-? 185 Evelyn photo]
The Dalles, Washington 1921
Toppenish, Washington Plant #122[76] 1944
Tulare 1922 ??? Did not operate in 1922[77].
Vancouver, WA Plant #27 1919 Packing preserves, pears, prunes, blackberries, and string beans in 1919.
Vancouver, Washington Plant #127[78] 1944
Visalia Plant #17 1918, 1922 216 N. Tipton St. at Oak St.[79] Burned down in 1922. H. G. Hohwiesner was manager in 1918[80]. Photo shows wood-frame structure[81].
Visalia Plant #16 1918, 1922, 1934 425 N. Johnson Ave.[82](also Johnson Ave. at School Ave[83]) Former California Fruit Canners Association[84]. October 1922 Western Canner and Packer. C. H. Blochburger was manager in 1918. J. W. Dihel was manager in 1934[85].
Visalia Plant #69 1918 corner of School Ave. and East St. G. A. Fleming was manager in 1918[86].
Visalia Plant #70 1918 Johnson cor. North C. W. Morrill was manager in 1918[87].
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.
Woodland -2000
Yakima, Washington Plant #125[88] 1944
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[89].

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

Water tower at Del Monte's Santa Rosa cannery. Via Sonoma County library.

Del Monte Warehouse, Alameda. From Flickr photos by MSClife.

Del Monte cannery, Salem Oregon. From Willamette Heritage Center via Statesmanjournal.com.

Plant #14, probably Kingsburg. California State Library, California History Room.

=References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ $25,000,000 Merger of California Canneries: August 23, 1916 San Jose Evening News.
  3. ↑ Alameda Magazine.
  4. ↑ Plans
  5. ↑ Photo, First American Title Insurance. found by Bill Messecar, shown on Pacing Houses of Southern California website.
  6. ↑ 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
  7. ↑ From Waterfront Warehouse to Over 300 Homes As Proposed. East Bay section, Socketsite.com.
  8. ↑ Handbook of Manufacturers in and Around San Francisco, 1910, The Merchants Association of San Francisco.
  9. ↑ 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."
  10. ↑ 1934 Visalia City Directory
  11. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  12. ↑ Fruit Buyers, Packers, and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory.
  13. ↑ Stella Adoa Baptista, Recollections of Life in the Canneries. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.
  14. ↑ Stella Adoa Baptista, Recollections of Life in the Canneries. U.C. Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, 2004.
  15. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  16. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  17. ↑ Karana Hattersley-Drayton, M.A., "Historic Property Survey Report for the Renaissance at Santa Clara Residential Development Project", Fresno.
  18. ↑ Fresno Chinatown map. From Japantown Atlas.
  19. ↑ Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,Orders of the National Labor Relations Board Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.
  20. ↑ Abinante and Nola et. al. vs Warehousemen's Union,Orders of the National Labor Relations Board Volume 26. Case C-1456 and R-1530 Decided August 24, 1940.
  21. ↑ Del Monte's Local Plant to Close, 1000 Jobs Lost. May 15, 2012 Kingsburg Recorder.
  22. ↑ 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; "
  23. ↑ [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."
  24. ↑ Southern Pacific Railroad, Industry Map of Los Angeles. July 1925. In Huntington Library.
  25. ↑ Film, Wild Ride Through downtown Los Angeles, ca. 1932] From Prelinger Archives. [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.
  26. ↑ Photo of Plant #21: John C. Gordon collection, San Jose State. Note sweet pea crates, pea vines, viners, and cans.
  27. ↑ 1969 Polk's City Directory. As 122 Filbert.
  28. ↑ 1969 Polk's City Directory. As 1250 Park Ave..
  29. ↑ 1969 Polk's City Directory. As 3100 E. 9th. St
  30. ↑ 1969 Polk's City Directory. As 1074 and 1100 29th Ave.
  31. ↑ 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."
  32. ↑ H. G. Prince and Company Cannery. National Register of Historic Places. Earliest building dates to 1916.
  33. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  34. ↑ June 1921 Canning Age: article on cannery
  35. ↑ May 1922 Western Canner and Packer Description of plant
  36. ↑ 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.
  37. ↑ Statesman-Journal 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.
  38. ↑ www.salemhistory.net:Salem Canneries
  39. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  40. ↑ FoundSF: FoundSF: started as peach cannery and merged into California Fruit Canners Association
  41. ↑ [Rod Hadeland]
  42. ↑ Michael R. Corbett, Port City: The History and Transformation of the Port of San Francisco, 1848-2010. 2012, San Francisco Architectural Heritage
  43. ↑ Harwood Hall, "Eden Township: Its Agriculture", Hayward Area Historical Society, 1997, p. 163, from Del Monte publication.
  44. ↑ 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.
  45. ↑ William Braznell, "California's Finest". Del Monte Corporation, 1982. Photo caption, pg. 60.
  46. ↑ Patronize our advertisers: January 23, 1922 San Jose Evening News.
  47. ↑ Mentioned in want ads in May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News
  48. ↑ Advertisements in May 22, 1919 San Jose Evening News
  49. ↑ Advertisement: Wanted a Few Good Packing House Men. In September 19, 1919 San Jose Evening News. "Plant 51, San Fernando and Bush Street".
  50. ↑ Appears in 1931 Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List
  51. ↑ List of manufacturing businesses in Santa Clara County, Vocational Education memo, 1972.
  52. ↑ Edith Daley claimed the "Seventh Street" cannery was opened in 1901.
  53. ↑ Southern Pacific. Ruric: Additional Trackage for California Packing Corporation. Western Division drawing R172. Feb. 1926. In collection of California State Railroad Museum.
  54. ↑ 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."
  55. ↑ 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.
  56. ↑ Shows up on <a href="Southern Pacific 1931 Siding List]] document as "Lincoln Ave", which building also faces on.
  57. ↑ findagrave.com: obituary for Marie Fernandes
  58. ↑ Herman Schultheis, Photo of end of plant, , Los Angeles Public Library
  59. ↑ 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."
  60. ↑ Packing Houses of Southern California], Santa Ana page.
  61. ↑ Gaye LeBaron, 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."
  62. ↑ July 1922 price list in Western Canner and Packer
  63. ↑ Gaye LeBaron, 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..."
  64. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  65. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  66. ↑ 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.
  67. ↑ 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.
  68. ↑ 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.
  69. ↑ USGS Landmark, Fairfield Del Monte Water Tank, 38 14'47"N, 122 02'22"W. Water tank in existence 1936, 1941.
  70. ↑ Frank Butterfield bio
  71. ↑ [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.
  72. ↑ Southern Pacific Company, Station Map Suisun-Fairfield. 1925. Reprinted in "SP Trainline Fall 2015" (Southern Pacific Historical and Technical Society magazine).
  73. ↑ J. K. Armsby Fruit Packing Plant. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, 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.
  74. ↑ Del Monte dried fruit plant, 1930's. In Sabine Goerke-Shroude, Fairfield.
  75. ↑ 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.
  76. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  77. ↑ 1922 Western Canner and Packer: "Not operating this season"
  78. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  79. ↑ 1918 Visalia City Directory
  80. ↑ 1918 Visalia City Directory
  81. ↑ Terry L. Ommen, Visalia.
  82. ↑ 1934 Visalia City Directory
  83. ↑ 1918 Visalia City Directory
  84. ↑ 1918 Visalia City Directory
  85. ↑ 1934 Visalia City Directory
  86. ↑ 1918 Visalia City Directory
  87. ↑ 1918 Visalia City Directory
  88. ↑ Western Food Plants Get High Honor. February 5, 1944 Radio Round Up On Food.
  89. ↑ 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.
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