Libby, McNeil, and Libby
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| Business |
Cannery |
|---|---|
| Predecessors |
Sunnyvale Canneries |
Libby, McNeil, and Libby was a Chicago-based canner, organized in 1875. Their Sunnyvale cannery, opened in 1907, was large and long-lived; the water tank from the cannery still sits in the industrial park off Mathilda, painted as one of Libby's cans. Libby's opened the Sunnyvale cannery as their first west-coast plant due to the encouragement of local real estate agents and proximity to San Francisco[1] Sunnyvale had primarily been a meat-packing company; the Sunnyvale plant was an attempt to broaden their product line[2] The cannery closed in 1983.
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sacramento | 1913-1982 | 1724 Stockton Ave. | History |
| Sacramento | 1914 | Folsom Blvd. and Hazel Ave | Olive pickling. |
| San Francisco | 1912 | 112 Market Street | Santa Marina Building |
| San Jose | 4th and Lewis | (1926, 1927, leased from California Prune and Apricot Growers) | |
| Santa Clara | Franklin Street | (1927, being built) (dried fruit, acc to "June 3, 1941 San Jose News":http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e1wlAAAAIBAJ | |
| Sunnyvale | 1907, 1962 | Mathilda and Evelyn Avenue | water tank still exists. |
References
- ↑ Kent L. Seavey, Yolanda Wuth, and James C. Williams, Images: Sunnyvale's Heritage Resources, 1988, City of Sunnyvale. Chapter 4.
- ↑ Canneries hold important place in Sunnyvale's history: August 9, 2012 San Jose Mercury Views