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| primary_town = Santa Cruz The '''Birdseye''' brand of General Foods packed frozen foods in Santa Cruz and Watsonville in the 20th century.

...ters was on Duane Ave. in Santa Clara, and owned plants in San Jose, Santa Cruz, Lodi, and Oroville<ref>[http://www.canned-fresh.com/about/history-of-pcp/ HQ on Duane Avenue in Santa Clara, owned plants in San Jose, Santa Cruz, Lodi, Oroville.

...day. The company eventually expanded to have plants in Watsonville, Santa Cruz, San Jose, and Palo Alto<ref>George Bruntz, History of Los Gatos. Valley P | Los Gatos || 1922- || 104 North Santa Cruz Ave || Separate factory behind building<ref>1944 Sanborn map.</ref>

...yed 50 people as it packed peas fresh peas for sales on the east coast<ref>Santa Clara Fruit Plants Employ 2000: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=IhciA ...ement: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51358072/October 13, 1941 Santa Cruz Evening News].</ref>.

| primary_town = Santa Cruz

...canner with packing plants in Mountain View, Graton, Healdsburg, and Santa Cruz. John W. McCarthy Jr. founded the company in 1914<ref>John W. McCarthy Jr. | San Francisco || 1916 || Santa Marina Building<ref>List of Officers and Members: [http://www.sfgenealogy.c

| Santa Cruz || 1947, 1962 || 190 Chestnut Ave. || At Laurel. [[Category:Santa Cruz]]

...ket: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/52038794/ November 14, 1933 Santa Cruz Sentinel]</ref> ...uipment: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/50573122/ June 20, 1936 Santa Cruz Sentinel]. "San Francisco: The George J. Meyer Manufacturing company of Cu

...ith french fruit. The proprietor was Harold D. Curtis, who lived on Santa Cruz Ave. | Los Gatos || 1904 || Santa Clara Road (former University Ave.)<ref>[http://digitalcollections.ucsc.edu

...//archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CASANTAC/2005-09/1126323229 Santa Cruz on Market Street] In 1915, they had a factory at Delleker near Portola. (Se

Presto Fruit bought fruit from the Morrell ranch in the Santa Cruz Mountains during the 1907 season. The fruit had been the subject of a figh

...ateresi.html Joseph A. Teresi biography], in Eugene T. Sawyer, "History of Santa Clara County,California", 1922, Historic Record Co., p. 1480</ref>.. Teres ...Saratoga, while driving an automobile near Congress Junction in the Santa Cruz mountains was struck and fatally hurt by a Southern Pacific train this morn

...22#v=onepage&q=%22elijah%20skinner%20whitney%22%20%22san%20jose%22&f=false Santa Clara County and its Resources, Historical, Descriptive, and Statistical: A

...12].</ref>. The initial plant a 60 x 80 foot building was on North Santa Cruz Ave between Bean Ave. and Main Street, with the buildings eventually extend Hunts moved the plant to the northeast corner of Santa Cruz and Saratoga Ave. in 1907, and doubled the plant's capacity.

| brands = El Capitan, Orwood, Golden Crown, Santa Cruz<ref>Hickmott Canning Company: [https://oaklandwiki.org/Hickmott_Canning_Com

| Los Gatos || 1906 || Santa Cruz Ave. at Saratoga Road || Former Delpech Winery.

...%20lumber%22%20%22los%20gatos%22&f=false Sterling Lumber Co. Buys Yards at Santa Rosa and Penngrove]. November 1, 1922 California Lumber Merchant.</ref>] The company's site was originally the Santa Clara Valley Mill and Lumber Company; it was bought by the R. W. Adams Comp

...f Deceit: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/51848142/ May 20, 1902 Santa Cruz Sentinel]. </ref>.

...h. The [[South Pacific Coast]] narrow gauge's line to Los Gatos and Santa Cruz cut across the district, and eventually became the [[Southern Pacific]]'s L ...xes, but no fire protection. When [[Rosenberg Brothers]], occupying the [[Santa Clara County Fruit Exchange]], caught fire in 1915, the fire was initially

| primary_town = Santa Clara ...mariposaresearch.net/santaclararesearch/SCBIOS/ablockfruit.html History of Santa Clara County,California], Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 278.</ref>, and

...uz<ref>[http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/50457952/ January 9, 1919 Santa Cruz Evening News]</ref>. The company also apparently canned pineapple, with re

'''Curt V. F. Roemer''' was a Santa Clara valley dried fruit packer and businessman. Roemer operated the [[San ...Union of Los Gatos, Curt Roemer, sec., Willard Lee, mngr, gen mdse, Santa Cruz Ave.</ref>. The 1911 San Jose city directory lists him as "dry fruit packe

...elpech was listed as living in the Alma area<ref>Copy of Great Register of Santa Clara County, 1894. Amedee Delpach is listed as a wine-maker, living in Al In 1900, Delpech built a winery at the corner of Santa Cruz Ave. and Saratoga Ave.<ref>Builder's Contract. May 7, 1900 San Jose Mercur

==Pacific Fruit Products in the Santa Clara Valley== ...pts for firewood shipped by Hihn in Santa Cruz<ref>Hihn papers, U.C. Santa Cruz.</ref>. In 1903, the company built a packing house along the former South

...had operations in San Francisco, San Jose, Watsonville, Soquel, and Santa Cruz.

...ributors name in 1918<ref>George F. Martin: [History of Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties, California], 1925, S. J. Clarke Publishing Company, Chicago.</ref

...4/rec/3 1920 Sanborn Fire Insurance Map for Watsonville]. From U.C. Santa Cruz.</ref> ||

...acking Company''' was an early California canner. The company, started in Santa Rosa by W.C. Hunt and Joseph Hunt,, quickly outgrew its home town and reloc ...Packing Company to both can and dry fruit. In 1896, the brothers sold the Santa Rosa business, and incorporated a new Hunt Brothers Company with a new cann

...Mercury Herald].</ref>. Planning to can 800 tons of apricots grown in the Santa Clara and San Joaquin Valleys, 500 tons of peaches, 500 tons of pears, 200 ...2<ref>[http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/57101722/ January 25, 1942 Santa Cruz Sentinel].</ref>