Difference between revisions of "Brelle Fruit Jar Company"

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| primary_town = San Jose, CA
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| primary_dates = 1913-1917
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==Summary==
 
==Summary==

Revision as of 18:03, 14 July 2013

Summary
Business

Jar Maker
Main Location

San Jose, CA
Active

1913-1917

Summary

Vacuum jar makers.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Ferndale 1913
San Jose 1915, 1916 Moorpark at Race, next to tracks.

Later became Contadina. Shows on 1915 Sanborn map.

Details

Patent Started in Ferndale, Humboldt County, moved to San Jose 1913.

Gone by 1917 according to city directories.

"BRELLE FRUIT": The Brelle Automatic Sealer Company, whose articles of incorporation were filed Monday, has established headquarters in the Brelle Building at the corner of Main Street and Shaw Avenue, where the inventor and others interested are demonstrating their new Automatic Sealer to many of Ferndale's prominent ladies and gentlemen who unanimously declare that it will revolutionize the process of closing fruit jars... (August 16, 1912) The Brelle Automatic Sealer Company of Ferndale has received an order for one thousand gross of the glass jar tops and rubber gaskets manufactured under Mr. Brelle's patent... (January 21, 1913) The new plant to be erected by the Brelle Automatic Sealer Co of Ferndale will be located at San Jose, instead of at Monterey, as was at first intended... (April 18, 1913) The Brelle Fruit Jar Manufacturing Co of San Jose, CA succeeds the Brelle Automatic Sealer Co of Ferndale, CA... (December 9, 1913)

Bottlepickers.com says they only lasted til 1916 1916: Brelle, Frank [appears] 1916: Brelle Fruit Jar, J.R. Lane Manager, Moorpark and Southern Pacific railway. 1917: Brelle, Frank [appears] 1917: [No Brelle fruit jar] 1918: frank brelle listed, no brelle glass jar 1919: brelle glass jar not listed (But frank brelle listed 510 s 2nd) 1920:frank brelle, still at 501 south second 1920: no brelle glass jar