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| San Jose || 1962, 1970s || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=1180%20Campbell%20Avenue,San%20Jose 1180 Campbell Avenue] ||  

Revision as of 01:16, 5 February 2015

Summary
Business

Cannery
Predecessors

Tamal Packing, George N. Herbert Packing Company

Stokely Van Camp was an 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.

The company had a 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.
Oakland 1937 5901 East 14th Street[1]. As Stokely Brothers.
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".

  1. Fruit Buyers, Packers and Shippers: [http://www.mocavo.com/Oakland-California-City-Directory-1937-Volume-Xliv/186980/1014 1937 Oakland City Directory. As "Stokely Bros."

References