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| primary_business = Cannery
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| primary_town = San Jose, CA
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| primary_dates = ~1900 - 1919
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| data3 = Cannery
 
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| data5 = ~1900 - 1919
 
 
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==Summary==
 
==Summary==

Revision as of 18:10, 14 July 2013

Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

San Jose, CA
Active

~1900 - 1919

Summary

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Sacramento 1919 12th and B Street.
San Jose 1904, 1906, 1907 Meridian Road near Paula (1904, 1906, 1907)

(Meridian cor narrow gauge in 1906)

San Jose 1917 Alum Rock Ave
West Side 1900

In San Francisco Call list of drop-off locations for California Cured Fruit Assn.

Details

Sold cannery to George N. Herbert in 1919, moved to Sacramento and reorganized as "Smith-Frank Packing Company". New company would operate canning and dried fruit packing plants at Sacramento and maintain an office in San Jose. The dried fruit plant had been leased to the Prune and Apricot association, and would go to the new company by June 1920.

Location in Sacramento at 12th and B (

Western Canner and Packer Reorganization as Smith-Frank advertised in

May 1, 1919 San Jose Evening News D.L. Smith was the "Smith" in the company.

Became associated with California Prune and Apricot Growers in 1917, packer for 1917 season.

April 8, 1922 California Fruit News advertisement shows plants in Sacramento and San Jose.

July 23, 1910 San Jose Evening News notes messy divorce and claims for money and the business. Business and land off of Meridian Road at that time.

June 25, 1903 San Jose Evening News notes that a large addition is being added onto the George Frank plant.

Alum Rock address acc. to July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News list of Sunsweet collection stations.