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| primary_business = Cannery
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| primary_town = San Jose
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| predecessors = [[Greco Canning Company]]
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==Summary==
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Mission Valley Canning Company was a San Jose-based vegetable cannner, incorporated in 1944, and gone by 1982.  Mission Valley used the former [[Greco Canning Company]] plant on Howard Street at Los Gatos Greek.  A [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ZkA-Uxy04 video]  of the site in 1963 shows industrial buildings and windows in the background which may be the [[Anderson Barngrover]]/FMC site.
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Mission Valley appeared to be a vegetable-only canner; the Mission Valley label was for vegetables only.  In a newspaper interview in 1945,  they were asked (and denied) they were canning pears that year.  The company also had a 1950's era patent for a method for staking beans<ref>Patent for stake-setting mechanism filed, Joseph Toselio, San Jose, assigned to Mission Valley.  Patent #2,851,248.</ref>.In 1947, Mission Valley was looking for experienced tomato peelers for the night shift, "cafe and bus service, pleasant working conditions."
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The company's logo was a wooden signpost, registered in 1962.
  
 
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Vegetable cannner, incorporated in 1944, disappeared by 1982.  Location may have been at the site of the former Greco Cannery along Howard Street at the creek.  A
 
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87ZkA-Uxy04 video]  of the site in 1963 shows windows in the background which may be an [Anderson Barngrover]/FMC shop.
 
 
 
They appeared to be a vegetable-only canner; the Mission Valley label was for vegetables only, they had a 1950's era patent for a method for staking for beans, though they were asked (and denied) they were canning pears in 1945. (Patent for stake-setting mechanism filed, Joseph Toselio, San Jose, assigned to Mission Valley.  Patent #2,851,248).
 
  
In 1947, was looking for experienced tomato peelers for the night shift, "cafe and bus service, pleasant working conditions."
 
  
Logo was a wooden signpost, registered 1962. 
 
 
[[Category:San Jose]]
 
[[Category:San Jose]]
 
[[Category:Cannery]]
 
[[Category:Cannery]]

Latest revision as of 04:11, 23 October 2013

Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

San Jose
Predecessors

Greco Canning Company

Mission Valley Canning Company was a San Jose-based vegetable cannner, incorporated in 1944, and gone by 1982. Mission Valley used the former Greco Canning Company plant on Howard Street at Los Gatos Greek. A video of the site in 1963 shows industrial buildings and windows in the background which may be the Anderson Barngrover/FMC site.

Mission Valley appeared to be a vegetable-only canner; the Mission Valley label was for vegetables only. In a newspaper interview in 1945, they were asked (and denied) they were canning pears that year. The company also had a 1950's era patent for a method for staking beans[1].In 1947, Mission Valley was looking for experienced tomato peelers for the night shift, "cafe and bus service, pleasant working conditions."

The company's logo was a wooden signpost, registered in 1962.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1945, 1964 Howard and Autumn

References

  1. Patent for stake-setting mechanism filed, Joseph Toselio, San Jose, assigned to Mission Valley. Patent #2,851,248.