Western Metal and Export

Summary

Business	Metal Recycling
Main Location	San Jose
Aliases	Teresini Brothers

Western Metal and Export was a San Jose metal recycling company that often processed used cans from nearby canneries. The business may have been the same as Teresini Brothers, located at the same site earlier in the 1930's. A 1931 Southern Pacific siding list showed that Teresini Brothers had a ten car siding, with space to load and unload four cars.

Supposedly, many canneries would can food in large #10 cans if they were unsure what sizes would be popular in the next year, and then would open and re-can the food later in the season. Metal recyclers like Western Metal and Export were often processing these larger cans. Hauling the waste metal was also dirty; a 1941 complaint by E.F. Stauffer, 191 Ryland Street, declared that Western Metal and Export "hauls slop and waste through the streets from local canneries.". They also appeared to handle other sorts of cannery waste. In 1936, one of their trucks tipped over and dumped cull apricots into the street.

Locations

Location	Years	Address	Details
San Jose	1931, 1936, 1940-	220 Ryland Street