Griffin and Skelley

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Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer and Canner
Active

-1916
Brands

Hawthorn

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Fresno 1900 ??? (In San Francisco Call 1900 "list of delivery spots":http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1900-07-29/ed-1/seq-25.pdf for California Cured Fruit Association)
Morgan Hill 1906 ???
San Francisco 1908 16 California Street
San Jose 1900, 1904, 1906, 1907 Cahill St. at San Fernando St. (Pacific Wine had a site on the east side of Cahill in 1891). Manager was F. Fleming according to "1906 list of car owners":http://books.google.com/books?id=lYU0AQAAMAAJ
San Jose 1915 76 Bush Street At corner of West San Fernando. (became Del Monte ) Dried fruit grading and packing.
Visalia 1900 ??? (In San Francisco Call 1900 "list of delivery spots":http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85066387/1900-07-29/ed-1/seq-25.pdf for California Cured Fruit Association)

Details

Del Monte predecessor; started in oranges in Riverside, moved on to raisins and prunes. "California canned and dried fruit.". In 1902, "dried fruit packers." Los Altos history has more.

June 25, 1903 San Jose Evening News Another packing house in the neighbrhood of the narrow gauge depot will be improved. Griffin and Skelley are building another story on their plant.

August 5, 1905: article on page 12 about Griffin and Skelley's new cannery in Emeryville.