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Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

San Jose

Summary

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1945, 1964 Howard and Autumn

Details

Vegetable cannner, incorporated in 1944, disappeared by 1982. Location may have been at the site of the former Greco Cannery along Howard Street at the creek. A video of the site in 1963 shows windows in the background which may be an Anderson Barngrover/FMC shop.

They appeared to be a vegetable-only canner; the Mission Valley label was for vegetables only, they had a 1950's era patent for a method for staking for beans, though they were asked (and denied) they were canning pears in 1945. (Patent for stake-setting mechanism filed, Joseph Toselio, San Jose, assigned to Mission Valley. Patent #2,851,248).

In 1947, was looking for experienced tomato peelers for the night shift, "cafe and bus service, pleasant working conditions."

Logo was a wooden signpost, registered 1962.