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'''Santa Clara Packing Company'''
 
 
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| primary_business = Cannery
 
| primary_business = Cannery
 
| primary_town = San Jose
 
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The '''Santa Clara Packing Company''' was a San Jose cannery. The company started on Park Ave., but moved to the Japantown area by 1933<ref>[http://knightsia.org/sia2008/Tour%203.pdf SIA Tour brochure]</ref><ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ohciAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J6QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4286%2C1670722 San Jose Evening News, Apr 22, 1933].</ref> The company produced "Burnham and Morrill baked beans "<ref>[http://www.bmbeans.com/bm_about.asp Burnham and Morrill bakes beans].</ref>, giving them off-season work.: starting in 1962, giving them off-season work<ref>[http://knightsia.org/sia2008/Tour%203.pdf SIA Tour brochure].</ref>.
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By the 1970's, the plant may have been owned by Glorietta Foods<ref>[https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_zuWkvuWOmzUQJkW1uosoQ Picasa photo].</ref>  The company was also supposed to have merged with [[National Can]] in 1976<ref>[http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1976/dig031176.pdf Proposed merger of Santa Clara Packing Company] with [[National Can]].</ref>.
  
 
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Fruit.  Moved in 1933 from Park Avenue to Ninth and Jackson.  ([http://knightsia.org/sia2008/Tour%203.pdf San Jose Evening News, Apr 22, 1933":http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ohciAAAAIBAJ&sjid=J6QFAAAAIBAJ&pg=4286%2C1670722 )  The company produced "Burnham and Morrill baked beans ":http://www.bmbeans.com/bm_about.asp starting in 1962, giving them off-season work ("SIA tour brochure]
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I've also seen comments connecting them with "[[Glorietta Foods]].":https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/_zuWkvuWOmzUQJkW1uosoQ
 
 
 
[http://www.sec.gov/news/digest/1976/dig031176.pdf Proposed merger of Santa Clara Packing Company] with [[National Can]].[[Category:San Jose]]
 
 
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Latest revision as of 08:49, 13 December 2014

Summary
Business

Cannery
Main Location

San Jose

The Santa Clara Packing Company was a San Jose cannery. The company started on Park Ave., but moved to the Japantown area by 1933[1][2] The company produced "Burnham and Morrill baked beans "[3], giving them off-season work.: starting in 1962, giving them off-season work[4].

By the 1970's, the plant may have been owned by Glorietta Foods[5] The company was also supposed to have merged with National Can in 1976[6].

Locations

Location Years Address Details
San Jose 1933 Park Avenue
San Jose 1933, 1940, 1962 620 North Eighth Street

References