Elmer Chase

Elmer Chase
Employer	Golden Gate Packing Company, Richmond Chase
Occupation	Dried fruit packer, canner

'Elmer Chase was a long-time canner in the San Jose area, first working his way up at the Golden Gate Packing Company, then teaming up with E.N. Richmond to form Richmond Chase. Chase died in 1939.

Edith Daley of the San Jose Evening News got this quote from Mr. Chase:

"How long have I been engaged in the fruit canning industry? Must I tell that?" asked E. E. Chase with a smile. "That is almost as bad as asking a woman to tell her age! " However, he did tell - that he came to the Golden Gate Packing company [4th Street between Julian and Washington] when he was a youngster, more than 40 years ago. "I was just a roustabout", he explained, with a reminiscent smile. Forty years of honest effort - rarely successful effort - of untiring zeal and irreproachable methods! E.N. Richmond adds to that his more than twenty years of like integrity and ability in the dried fruit industry, and together these successful business men blend experience and strong personalities into the "dream come true" that lies back of the gold-lettered sign.

"Elmer and Ed. We heard them call each other that. It was refreshing in the midst of a business camouflage of dignity that often seems afraid of upsetting! It visioned business as a great game that men play with much the same zeal with which they play ball on the corner lot or flew kites in their knee-trouser days."

Elmer's son formed the Chevy-Chase Company.