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Dried fruit packer.  Acted as contract station for [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] in 1917; the plant appears to have been leased or sold to them later, and became [[Sunsweet's]] Plant #8.
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Dried fruit packer.  Acted as contract station for [[California Prune and Apricot Growers]] in 1917; the plant appears to have been leased or sold to them later, and became [[Sunsweet]]'s Plant #8.
  
 
[http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2012/07/yet-another-packing-house-mountain.html More] on the plant, including a photo and Sanborn map.
 
[http://vasonabranch.blogspot.com/2012/07/yet-another-packing-house-mountain.html More] on the plant, including a photo and Sanborn map.

Revision as of 15:54, 4 August 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Mountain View
Predecessors

Mountain View Fruit Exchange
Successors

California Prune and Apricot Growers

Dried fruit packer. Acted as contract station for California Prune and Apricot Growers in 1917; the plant appears to have been leased or sold to them later, and became Sunsweet's Plant #8.

More on the plant, including a photo and Sanborn map.

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Mountain View 1917

Details

Successor to Mountain View Fruit Exchange property.

Predecessor to Sunsweet plant. Appears in the July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News list of Sunsweet collection stations.