Dole

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Summary
Business Details
Primary Business Cannery
Aliases Hawaiian Pineapple Importing Company

Summary

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose
San Jose 1914 Fifth Street betwen Margaret and Patterson
San Jose 1964 5th and Viriginia

Details

Primarily interesting for the Santa Clara Valley because of Dole's ownership of the Barron-Gray cannery from 1948-1969. Dole also had land in San Jose in 1914 - no idea if there was any facility. The Dole building headquarters still exists in San Jose, and is a modernist landmark.

Cannery sold to Tri-Valley and closed in 1969. Sale was reported in Mercury News on 4/22/1969. Dole kept the land, and Tri-Valley took the equipment to Modesto. Food testing lab moved to Westlake Village in 1992.

See video from 1950's In 1964, there were separate phone numbers for business office, warehouse office and receiving, hiring shift schedules for the cannery, weigh master and scale house, nurse, raw products, and personnel office.

Lawsuit over forklift truck getting hit by train in 1953 ( 40 Cal2nd 656