Dole
| 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[1].
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.
Dole in San Jose
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. Dole would can pineapple in Hawaii and ship it in large #10 cans to San Jose, where it would be unchained and mixed with the other fruit to make fruit cocktail[2]. 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 plant was served both by the Southern Pacific (along Fourth Street) and Western Pacific (along Fifth). The Western Pacific had a separate siding for the "box pile", an empty lot where field boxes were stored in the off-season[3].
The San Jose cannery was sold to Tri-Valley Growers and shut down in 1969, with Tri-Valley taking the machinery to its other plants in the Central Valley[4]. 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
Lawsuit over forklift truck getting hit by train in 1953 (
40 Cal2nd 656
References
- ↑ James Drummond Dole: Dole Plantation history
- ↑ [https://casetext.com/case/international-l-amp-w-union-v-hawaiian-pineapple-co INTERNATIONAL L. & W. UNION V. HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLE CO. 226 F.2D 875 (9TH CIR. 1956) ]. Lawsuit based on Dole trying to evade strike and pickets by shipping canned pineapple to Oregon, then sending it to San Jose.
- ↑ Western Pacific Training Manual: San Jose Yard: William St. to Pomona Ave. track diagram. In Jeff Asay, "Track and Time: An Operational History of the Western Pacific..." 2006, Feather River Rail Society.
- ↑ April 22, 1969 San Jose Mercury News. Dole kept the land, and Tri-Valley took the equipment to Modesto.