Bayside Canning Company
| Business |
Cannery |
|---|---|
| Main Location |
Alviso |
| Active |
1906 - 1936 |
| Brands |
Bohemian, Calfruit, Calico, Gondolier, Precita, Snow Peak |
| Predecessors |
Precita Canning Company |
| Successors |
Sutter Packing. |
Bayside Canning Company was a large cannery in Alviso, California, starting as a tomato cannery, but eventually specializing in asparagus. The company was founded by Thomas Foon Chew, who had taken over his father's San Francisco-based Precita Canning Company. (A separate story, mentioned in a history essay, claims that Thomas's father, Sai Yin Chew, rebuilt the cannery but that Thomas joined soon after and helped it expand[1].) Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's[2]
The company also had a cannery in Mayfield[3]. That cannery, founded in 1918, packed tomatoes. In 1921, the Mayfield cannery packed 50,000 cases of tomatoes - the largest tomato pack that year for the valley[4].
Thomas Foon was vice president and manager in 1920[5]; Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922.
Thomas died in 1931 at the age of 42. The Mayfield cannery was sold to Sutter Packing in 1933[6]; the Alviso cannery closed in 1936.
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alviso | 1906-1936 | 1200 Hope Street at Elizabeth. | |
| Mayfield | 1918-1931 | Portage Ave. | Became Sutter Packing. |
Photos
Bayside Canning, recent photo of abandoned building
References
- ↑ Rosalinda Oneto, A. P. Giannini: The San Jose and Alviso Years and the Oneto Family
- ↑ Alviso History. Society of California Pioneers essay contest, June 2010.
- ↑ Bayside Canning: California Food Products directory. 1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.
- ↑ California Canneries. January 1922 Western Canner and Packer.
- ↑ Bayside Canning: California Food Products directory. 1920, A. Marks, San Francisco.
- ↑ The Story of Our Local Bayside: Sutter Cannery. In Summer 2010 Barron Park Association Newsletter.