Pratt-Low Preserving Company

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Summary
Business Details
Primary Town Santa Clara, CA
Primary Business Cannery
Dates 1905 -1960

Summary

None

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Modesto 1922 ???
Redwood City 1918 ???
Santa Clara 1906, 1907, 1922, 1962 The Alameda and Bellomy Avenue

Photos

Pratt-Low Preserving Company, Santa Clara Sourisseau Academy for State and Local History

Details

Founded by George Pratt, D. Low, Frank Wilder. Built a cannery on 22 acres in Santa Clara, at Bellomy and the Alameda, formerly the Pacific Manufacturing Company site.

Wilder House history Wilder had also been a founder of the [Security Warehouse and Cold Storage] Companyn

Wilder had worked for the [California Fruit Canners Association] before starting his own company.

Merged with Southern California-based Fitzsimmons stores in 1956, sold to Duffy-Mott in 1960. Cut back to canning only prune and tomato juice in 1971, shut down for good in April 1978.

In 1902, George Pratt was a fruit buyer living at 11 Pleasant Avenue;

Aerial photo at Sourisseau Academy Ad in February, 1923 Western Canner and Packer mentions "four model canneries".

Modesto location July 1922 Western Canner and Packer reports that Pratt-Low is planning to can 250,000 cases of apricots and peaches during the season.

Santa Clara December 1922 Western Canner and Packer notes major renovations during the closed season.

Redwood City loc "Along Dumbarton cutoff":http://books.google.com/books?id=BxQdAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA7-PA45&lpg=RA7-PA45&dq=cannery+%22race+street%22+san+jose&source=bl&ots=ij6i8dnEat&sig=CQNwz3BzcEQ9rOsLsynfUg6Bess&hl=en&sa=X&ei=--3ET5iLJdD4sQKo6dH0CQ&ved=0CF8Q6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=cannery%20%22race%20street%22%20san%20jose&f=false