Curtis Packing
| Business |
Dried Fruit Packer |
|---|---|
| Main Location |
Los Gatos |
| Active |
1885 - 1917 |
Curtis Packing was a northern California dried fruit packer operating around the beginning of the 20th century. The company had offices in San Francisco, and ran packing houses in Los Gatos in the Santa Clara Valley and Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley. The company sold 22,000 cases of raisins in 1886[1].
The Los Gatos location lasted at least until 1917, and was mentioned as the drop-off location for the California Prune and Apricot Growers that year[2]
Locations
| Location | Years | Address | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fresno | 1885[3] | ||
| Los Gatos | 1900 |
Sunsweet book list of 1900 packing houses. |
Details
VP and Superintendent in 1888 was John Wesley North, 1841 grad of Wellseley, lawyer:
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President in 1892: John K. Curtis. Based in San Francisco.
Morning Call, 8-14-1892 Became associated with California Prune and Apricot Growers in 1917, packer for 1917 season.
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- ↑ Steven Stoll, The Fruits of Natural Advantage: Making the Industrial Countryside in California, University of California Press, 1998.
- ↑ Cot Growers Asked By Association to Cull Out All Smut: article July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News. Curtis had packing house in Fresno. (Also worked for Inderrieden)
- ↑ James Hartigan Biography: History of Fresno County, California, 1919, Historic Record Co. Cites Curtis Fruit packing house in Fresno in 1885.