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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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The '''Mountain View Packing Company''' was a dried fruit packer in existence around Mountain View, California in the 1910'sThe company 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.
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Successor to [[Mountain View Fruit Exchange]] property.
 
 
 
Predecessor to Sunsweet plant.
 
Appears in the [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=LykiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=KqQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2025%2C814783 July 21, 1917 San Jose Evening News]  list of Sunsweet collection stations.
 
 
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[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]
 
[[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]

Revision as of 16:51, 3 December 2013

Summary
Business

Dried Fruit Packer
Main Location

Mountain View
Predecessors

Mountain View Fruit Exchange
Successors

California Prune and Apricot Growers

The Mountain View Packing Company was a dried fruit packer in existence around Mountain View, California in the 1910's. The company 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

References