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East coast based canner.  Had plant on Campbell Ave. in San Jose (near Santa Clara border).  Van Camp [http://books.google.com/books?id=b1VRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA3&ots=noIk487Tcv&dq=george%20herbert%20packing%20company&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=george%20herbert%20packing%20company&f=false opened operations in California in 1922] by starting negotiations to buy three canneries.
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East coast based canner.  Van Camp moved into the California market by [http://books.google.com/books?id=b1VRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA3&ots=noIk487Tcv&dq=george%20herbert%20packing%20company&pg=PA3#v=onepage&q=george%20herbert%20packing%20company&f=false opened operations in California in 1922] starting negotiations to buy three canneries. They purchased
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[[[http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA10-PA51&ots=16d0E8Uuzq&dq=Tamal%20Packing&pg=RA10-PA51#v=onepage&q=Tamal%20Packing&f=false March 1922 Western Canner and Packer]] four plants]: the [[Tamal Packing]] plant in San Francisco, [[George N. Herbert Packing Company] canneries in Gridley and San Jose, and an olive cannery in Oroville. 
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Had plant on Campbell Ave. in San Jose (near Santa Clara border). 
 
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Revision as of 07:06, 7 August 2013

Summary
Business

Cannery
Predecessors

Tamal Packing, George N. Herbert Packing Company

East coast based canner. Van Camp moved into the California market by opened operations in California in 1922 starting negotiations to buy three canneries. They purchased

[[March 1922 Western Canner and Packer] four plants]: the Tamal Packing plant in San Francisco, [[George N. Herbert Packing Company] canneries in Gridley and San Jose, and an olive cannery in Oroville.   

Had plant on Campbell Ave. in San Jose (near Santa Clara border).

Locations

Location Years Address Details
Lodi None Formerly Foster and Woods cannery, then Pacific Coast Producers.
San Jose 1962, 1970s 1180 Campbell Avenue

Details

Had private refrigerated warehouse in San Jose in 1962.

Eventually merged into Tri Valley Growers.

Article in the Tracy Press mentions one figure who was a field man for the "Stokely-Van Camp freezer plant in San Jose".