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==Summary==
 
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Canner, processing fruit, tomatoes, and "cardoons" (1920).  "Tomato Paste Our Specialty".
 
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==Locations==
 
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| Lodi || 1935- ||  Eight Mile Road, west of Cherokee Lane ||
 
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| Riverbank || 1956 || Stanislaus Street ||
 
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| San Francisco || 1921 || 437 Eddy ||
 
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| San Jose || 1920-1980's ||  Moorpark and Race Street ||
 
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| Woodland ||  || ??? ||
 
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==Details==
 
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Moorpark and Race Street, San Jose (1920), with branch offices in San Francisco and New York.  Took over [Contadina] in the 1920 acc. to articles mentioning the new Lodi Cannery
 
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[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e61AAAAAIBAJ&sjid=lO4HAAAAIBAJ&pg=5497%2C2822270 March 29, 1935 Lodi News] ).
 
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=iq3mAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA53#v=onepage&q&f=false April 1920 Canning Age] article notes that a huge crop was canned in 1918 under government stimulus, but a huge amount of fruit was held over to 1919, and there was a great deal of uncertainty about how much of the government's product would be sold.  This might suggest the cause for the sale.
 
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Company had been run solely by the Aiellos from 1917-1920, then didn't appear in the 1919 city directory, then reappeared as Hershel California in 1920, wiht Aron Hershel as the principal.
 
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Purchased Pacific Star brand in 1922.  October 1922
 
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"Western Canner and Packer":http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA5-PA40&lpg=RA5-PA40&dq=contadina+cannery+%22san+jose%22&source=bl&ots=9QFYaxzvHB&sig=Tu7vlwpVahRoKFRwaMuKRnKDnqU&sa=X&ei=4hItUKPyFcm2yAGB2oHQDw&ved=0CD4Q6AEwCQ#v=onepage&q=contadina%20cannery%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false
 
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, 1922.  Was canning 150,000 cases of tomato paste, purchase will increase volume by 20,000 cases.  90% of 1922 pack had already been sold.
 
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=PA46#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false May 1922 Western Canner and Packer]  Western Canner and Packer includes interview with H. Hershel about recent sales trips.
 
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&dq=western%20canner%20and%20packer&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=western%20canner%20and%20packer&f=false July 1922 Western Canner and PAcker] reports Hershel purchasing five acres and Race and Moorpark.
 
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Added building in 1928:
 
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"INDUSTRIAL building, one story, $12,630, Moorpark and Race Sts, San Jose; owner Herschiel Fruit Prod. Company, Premises; contractor. Megna & Newell, Bank of Italy Building, San Jose"
 
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[http://www26.us.archive.org/stream/buildingengineer28128cont/buildingengineer28128cont_djvu.txt Building and Engineering News, 1928] )
 
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Aron Hershel had been managing the company since 1920.  Supposedly,
 
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He'd just gotten rid of his San Jose interests in 1935.  Listed
 
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as proprietor of German Cooperage Company, 117 Brazil, SF in 1913.
 
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There's an Aron Hershel born in Romania in 1884, emigrated to
 
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the US in 1904, lived in San Francisco and San Jose by 1925, in
 
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Stockton in 1940, 55 years old, born in Targu Okna, Romania
 
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[http://www.ancestry.com/1940-census/usa/California/Aron-Hershel_2j8v62 Ancestry.com]
 
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Lived in Daly City in 1910 (38 Theta Avenue, "top of the hill in Daly
 
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City!", with his brother Morris and family) and 1920, San Jose in 1925
 
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(Fremont Street in Rose Garden). Estate of Aron Hershel also was in an
 
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appeals court case; supposedly, the Aron Cannery Company had been sold
 
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to Tri-Valley in 1956 for $1,000,000.
 
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[http://ca.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19590312_0041175.CA.htm/qx 168 CalApp2D Page 659] There was also a suit in 1954 against Hunts for dropping prices in order to chase out a competitor
 
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[http://mattweidnerlaw.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/capacitycasescompendium.pdf citation of case]
 
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Estate trustee formed in 1945.  Picture of Mr Hershel in passport application. (
 
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"ancestry.com":http://search.ancestry.com/Browse/view.aspx?dbid=1174&path=Passport+Applications%3a+Chicago%2c+New+York+City%2c+New+Orleans%2c+San+Francisco+and+Seattle%2c+1914-1925.1925.Volume+24%3a+Special+Series+-+San+Francisco.477
 
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New cannery in 1935 had equipment built by the [Canned Fruit Machinery Company] of San Jose.
 
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Eventually became part of [Glorietta Foods] cooperative which was taken over by Tri Valley Grocers in early 1980s.
 
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"Purchased 5 acres at Lincoln and Race Streets, San Jose, for a large, modern cannery."
 
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA2-PA34&ots=9QFXbADANB&dq=california%20canners%20and%20growers%20race%20st.%20san%20jose&pg=RA2-PA34#v=onepage&q=california%20canners%20and%20growers%20race%20st.%20san%20jose&f=false Western Canner and PAcker, 1922]
 
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(Extended the Brelle Jar property?)
 
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See Modesto Bee article,
 
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[http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1948&dat=19791203&id=D_IiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RcwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1014,1404303 December 3, 1979] about Tillie Lewis closing Modesto plant, and comments about [Contadina] in San Jose closing in 1978-1979.
 
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Riverbank plant appears to have eventually become Sun Garden-Gagni (
 
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[http://www.modbee.com/2009/11/09/926050/riverbank-cannerys-future-on-the.html November 9, 2009 Modesto Bee]
 
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Sale of old mainline land (and relinquishment of government restrictions from transcontinental railroad land grant) mentioned sale of land to Hershel (
 
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[http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-108srpt305/html/CRPT-108srpt305.htm HR 1658] [[Category:Lodi]]
 
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[[Category:Riverbank]]
 
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[[Category:San Francisco]]
 
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[[Category:San Jose]]
 
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[[Category:Woodland]]
 
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[[Category:Cannery]]
 

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