National Ice and Cold Storage Company
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Cold Storage |
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National Ice and Cold Storage Company was a large ice supplier and cold storage warehouser with warehouses throughout California. The company produced natural ice near Floriston, California[1]. In 1905, the company had warehouses in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Riverside, Santa Rosa, and Oakland[2]. The company also ran a dehydrator in Gilroy[3].
In 1915, the plant at San Francisco used a diesel generator to compress ammonia[4].
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Floriston, CA | |||
| Gilroy | None | ||
| Los Angeles | 210 Center Street[5]. | ||
| Oakland | |||
| Riverside | |||
| San Francisco | 1960 | Union and Battery[6]. | |
| Santa Rosa | 1937 | 12 Sebastopol Ave.<ref>Photo, National Ice and Cold Storage of San Francisco. At Sonoma County Library Photo Collection.] |
References
- ↑ . National Ice and Cold Storage Company of California vs Commissioner. United States Tax Court, 6 T.C.M. 80 (1947)
- ↑ August 1905 Monthly Bulletin of the California State Board of Health.
- ↑ Important Factor in Marketing Crops (dehydration as side business for canning): May 1921 Canning Age . Includes photo of National Ice and Cold Storage's dehydrator plant in Gilroy.
- ↑ J. B. Howell, Report on Test of Diesel Engine Plant of the National Ice and Cold Storage Company, San Francisco, Cal. Journal of the American Society for Naval Engineers, February 1915.
- ↑ citrusmodeling mailing list.
- ↑ William Kaufman and Michelle Kaufman, "The State Belt: San Francisco's Waterfront Railroad".