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'''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 control from the  [[Precita Canning Company]] (San Francisco) run by his father until the 1906 Earthquake and Fire.  Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936At one point, this was declared the third largest cannery in the world.
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'''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]].  Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's<ref>[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Alviso History]</ref> Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922. Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936. 
 
 
[http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=24345 Union Warehouse and Docks] 1922 distributor Walter M. Field & Company
 
  
 
==Locations==
 
==Locations==

Revision as of 01:29, 9 November 2013

Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

Alviso
Active

1906 - 1936

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. Bayside hired exclusively Chinese and Chinese-American workers through the 1920's[1] Walter M. Field & Company was the distributor for the company in 1922. Thomas died in 1931; the cannery closed in 1936.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Alviso 1906-1936 1200 Hope Street at Elizabeth.

Photos

Bayside Canning, recent photo of abandoned building

References