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| title = Summary
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| primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
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| primary_town = Los Gatos
| label2 = Primary Town
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| primary_dates = -1901
| data2 = Los Gatos
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| aliases = Curtis Fruit Company
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| data3 = Dried Fruit Packer
 
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| data5 = -1901
 
| label5 = Aliases
 
| data5 = Curtis Fruit Company
 
 
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==Summary==
 
==Summary==

Revision as of 18:11, 14 July 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Los Gatos
Active

-1901
Aliases

Curtis Fruit Company

Summary

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Los Gatos -1901 Cypress at University Avenue
Los Gatos 1900

Sunsweet book list of 1900 packing houses.

Los Gatos 1906, 1907 Santa Cruz Avenue
Los Gatos 1917

acc. to "July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News":http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LykiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KqQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2025%2C814783 list of Sunsweet collection stations.

Details

H.D. Curtis described in detail in Bruntz's History of Los Gatos. Located at north end of town with private spur to railroad. Sold primarily to Europe where they were in competition with french fruit. Sold as "Curtis's Los Gatos Foothill brand". Storage shed at corner of Cypress (now Roberts Rd) and University burned in 1901, and the business never recovered.