Dole

Summary

Business	Cannery
Aliases	Hawaiian Pineapple Importing Company, Hawaiian Pineapple Company

The Hawaiian Pineapple Company, also commonly known as Dole Pineapple, was a Hawaiian pineapple producer with connections to mainline factories. The company was founded by James Drummond Dole, who had the goal of making Hawaiian fruit available on the mainland via canning. Dole arrived in Hawaii in 1899 and bought agricultural land for a pineapple plantation immediately; he built his first cannery in 1901.

The Hawaiian Pineapple Company had plants on the mainland and in San Jose in particular. Elton R. Shaw sold the Hyde-Shaw Company to Dole in 1910; Dole intended to use the jam maker and canner for canning pineapple juice, but sold the business to Richardson and Robbins in 1917.

In later years, Hawaiian Pineapple later bought the Barron-Gray Packing Company in 1948, possibly to gain some control over a major buyer of pineapple for fruit cocktail. The former Barron-Gray plant was well-known as the Dole cannery in the 1940's and 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. The San Jose cannery was sold to Tri-Valley Packing and shut down in 1969, with Tri-Valley taking the machinery to its other plants in the Central Valley. Dole's food testing laboratory was finally moved away from San Jose to Westlake Village in 1992.

The Dole building headquarters still exists in San Jose, and is a modernist landmark.

Locations

Location	Years	Address	Details
San Jose		160 East Virginia St.
San Jose	1910-1915	Fifth Street betwen Margaret and Patterson	Related to ownership of Hyde-Shaw Company. See deeds book 430 pg 369 and book 434 pg 133. Hawaiian Pineapple was selling to J. H. Hunt.
San Jose	1964	5th and Viriginia

Images

See video from 1950's

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