Libby, McNeil, and Libby

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Summary
Business

Cannery

Chicago-based canner, organized in 1875. Their Sunnyvale cannery, founded in 1907, was large and long-lived; the water tank from the cannery still sits in the industrial park off Mathilda, painted as one of Libby's cans.

"Wikipedia entry.":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libby's

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Sacramento 1913-1982 1724 Stockton Ave. History
Sacramento 1914 Folsom Blvd. and Hazel Ave Olive pickling.
San Francisco 1912 112 Market Street Santa Marina Building
San Jose 4th and Lewis (1926, 1927, leased from California Prune and Apricot Growers)
Santa Clara Franklin Street (1927, being built) (dried fruit, acc to "June 3, 1941 San Jose News":http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=e1wlAAAAIBAJ
Sunnyvale 1907, 1962 Mathilda and Evelyn Avenue water tank still exists.

Details

Chicago based.