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 | Campbell || 1946- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Harrison%20Ave.,Campbell Harrison Ave.] || Former Drew Cannery.

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 | Campbell || 1946- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Harrison%20Ave.,Campbell Harrison Ave.] || Former Drew Cannery.
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-| Davis || 1963-1999 || || Newest Hunts plant<ref>Personal communication. Bob Knoll</ref>.
+| Davis || 1963-1999 || East Covell Blvd. at J Street<ref>[[https://localwiki.org/davis/Hunt_Wesson_Plant Hunt Wesson Plant]].  Davis LocalWiki.  "It was one of the last of dozens of tomato processing plants in the area to close, and was one of the few unionized industries within Yolo County — it was the only unionized manufacturing industry within the City of Davis during its operation. The facility, with its 564,000 square feet of building space was closed down without notice when owner Con-Agra Inc. moved its work to an Oakdale plant — workers showed up for their checks and were told about the closure. Despite its abrupt closure, Con-Agra joined with the union representing cannery workers and successfully secured a $910,000 grant to provide job training and placement for displaced workers. Con-Agra put the property up for sale shortly after closing it."</ref>|| Newest Hunts plant<ref>Personal communication. Bob Knoll</ref>.
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 | Exeter ||1912-1921<ref>Eugene E. Menefee, [http://books.google.com/books?id=t8EMAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA552&ots=QsEK5YhyCm&dq=hanford%20history%20california%20fruit&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q=Packing%20nouse&f=false History of Tulare and King Counties, California]. Declares that Hunts moved to Tulare County in 1912.</ref>.   || 1912 cannery west of Pine St. along railroad tracks<ref>1912 Sanborn map, Exeter CA.  Map 7.</ref>|| "Near Kirk Hotel"<ref>[http://cityofexeter.com/about-8187/gallery/historical/1910s-219 City of Exeter Historic Photos].</ref>. The company expanded the plant in 1914<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CnpRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=g9WebrCbLB&sig=4czliF5Wm0wMXVma7OEcdGX-FG4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIMTAF#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false Canning Notes].  October 10, 1914 California Fruit News.  "Work will soon be started on another large industrial plant in Exeter, Tulare County, by Hunt Bros. Company, owner of the large Exeter cannery, says the Exeter Tribune.  The new plant... will pickle and prepare olives for the market."</ref> and supposedly was idled in 1921<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA28&lpg=RA10-PA28&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=n3ZdeJODMT&sig=qSD80vZDX_-DcM4MNbU4wlViP98&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIKTAD#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false Cannery News].  December 1921 Canning Age.  "The Hunt Bros. Cannery Co. of Exeter, California, are calling for 100 tons of fresh California figs to follow their peach run next summer.  The Exeter cannery remained idle during the past season, but losses thru overhead and depreciation on idle machinery have warned against any repetition of this policy in future years."</ref> and never reopened. (Strangely, Hunt Brothers claimed they were going to be doubling the size of the cannery in 1922<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA49&lpg=RA8-PA49&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=17e2B9Uqxw&sig=ySJU4xgiDAZy5kPVuq42s2RT2ns&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false California Canneries].  January 1922 Western Canner and Packer.  "Announcement is made that the Exeter cannery will be doubled in size and extensively improved.  Cookers and equipment suitable for canning of almost any kind of fruit or vegetable will be installed so the cannery can operate several more months in the year."</ref>.  Became C. B. Williams Co. and Pacific Fruit Exchange<ref>Sanborn map, Exeter CA.  June 1926, Page 6.</ref>.
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 | Oakland || 1902 || Foot of Oak Street || Can plant<ref>Trust Secures Can Plant: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19020315.2.150# March 15, 1902 San Francisco Call].  [[Trust Secures Can Plant|Full article]].</ref>.
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-| Rossford, Ohio || 1970's || Near Toledo.  Toledo also had a distribution center.
+| Rossford, Ohio || 1970's || || Near Toledo.  Toledo also had a distribution center.
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 | Salem || 1914-1956 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Front%20Street,Salem Front Street]<ref>Salem's Canneries: [http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm www.salemhistory.net].  "When the Hunt Brothers Packing Company built a cannery on the river at the foot of Division Street in 1914, the Fruit Union sold their canning line to the latter...</ref> || Construction described in 1921 Canning Age<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ 1921 Canning Age]</ref>.

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 Hunts was bought by Norton Simon in the early 1940's and became part of his Val Vita Foods conglamerate in the 1940's, which soon changed its name to Hunt Foods.  Simon also acquired Wesson in the  early 1950's, and renamed the company Hunt-Wesson.  The conglomerate was bought by Beatrice, then a private investment group, and finally by ConAgra in the 1980's.  Hunts still exists as a modern-day brand.
 ==Hunts in Hayward==
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 Hayward packed cherries, peaches, apricots, eventually tomatoes.  The cannery was huge, with its own glass manufacturing plant and can making plant.  The February 1923 Western Canner and Packer said that 600,000 cases expected to be packed in 1923, and that the plant should be in operation from March to November<ref>Northern California Canneries:
 [http://books.google.com/books?id=2S0dAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA83&dq=cannery+work+campbell&hl=en&sa=X&ei=NI-qT8eiF-zciAL0ocCzAg&ved=0CEgQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=cannery%20work%20campbell&f=false March 1923 Western Canner and Packer].</ref>
 ==Hunts in Los Gatos==
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 | Campbell || 1946- || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Harrison%20Ave.,Campbell Harrison Ave.] || Former Drew Cannery.
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-| Davis || 1963-1999 || ||
+| Davis || 1963-1999 || || Newest Hunts plant<ref>Personal communication. Bob Knoll</ref>.
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 | Exeter ||1912-1921<ref>Eugene E. Menefee, [http://books.google.com/books?id=t8EMAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA552&ots=QsEK5YhyCm&dq=hanford%20history%20california%20fruit&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q=Packing%20nouse&f=false History of Tulare and King Counties, California]. Declares that Hunts moved to Tulare County in 1912.</ref>.   || 1912 cannery west of Pine St. along railroad tracks<ref>1912 Sanborn map, Exeter CA.  Map 7.</ref>|| "Near Kirk Hotel"<ref>[http://cityofexeter.com/about-8187/gallery/historical/1910s-219 City of Exeter Historic Photos].</ref>. The company expanded the plant in 1914<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CnpRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=g9WebrCbLB&sig=4czliF5Wm0wMXVma7OEcdGX-FG4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIMTAF#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false Canning Notes].  October 10, 1914 California Fruit News.  "Work will soon be started on another large industrial plant in Exeter, Tulare County, by Hunt Bros. Company, owner of the large Exeter cannery, says the Exeter Tribune.  The new plant... will pickle and prepare olives for the market."</ref> and supposedly was idled in 1921<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA28&lpg=RA10-PA28&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=n3ZdeJODMT&sig=qSD80vZDX_-DcM4MNbU4wlViP98&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIKTAD#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false Cannery News].  December 1921 Canning Age.  "The Hunt Bros. Cannery Co. of Exeter, California, are calling for 100 tons of fresh California figs to follow their peach run next summer.  The Exeter cannery remained idle during the past season, but losses thru overhead and depreciation on idle machinery have warned against any repetition of this policy in future years."</ref> and never reopened. (Strangely, Hunt Brothers claimed they were going to be doubling the size of the cannery in 1922<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA49&lpg=RA8-PA49&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=17e2B9Uqxw&sig=ySJU4xgiDAZy5kPVuq42s2RT2ns&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false California Canneries].  January 1922 Western Canner and Packer.  "Announcement is made that the Exeter cannery will be doubled in size and extensively improved.  Cookers and equipment suitable for canning of almost any kind of fruit or vegetable will be installed so the cannery can operate several more months in the year."</ref>.  Became C. B. Williams Co. and Pacific Fruit Exchange<ref>Sanborn map, Exeter CA.  June 1926, Page 6.</ref>.
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 | Gridley || 1903- || Locust Street, east of railroad tracks || First cannery
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 | Los Gatos || 1907-1930 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Santa%20Cruz%20Avenue%20at%20Highway%209,Los%20Gatos Santa Cruz Avenue at Highway 9] ||  Former Hooke / Los Gatos Canneries, purchased 1906.  Torn down by 1956.
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 | Oakland || 1902 || Foot of Oak Street || Can plant<ref>Trust Secures Can Plant: [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC19020315.2.150# March 15, 1902 San Francisco Call].  [[Trust Secures Can Plant|Full article]].</ref>.
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 | Salem || 1914-1956 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Front%20Street,Salem Front Street]<ref>Salem's Canneries: [http://www.salemhistory.net/commerce/canneries.htm www.salemhistory.net].  "When the Hunt Brothers Packing Company built a cannery on the river at the foot of Division Street in 1914, the Fruit Union sold their canning line to the latter...</ref> || Construction described in 1921 Canning Age<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ 1921 Canning Age]</ref>.

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 Hunt Brothers Packing Company bought the [[Los Gatos Fruit Packing Company]] from George Hooke in 1906,
 and used the plant for canning fruit, both produced locally and elsewhere.
-The original cannery on Santa Cruz Ave. near downtown was abandoned in 1907 for a new, larger plant at Santa Cruz Ave. and Saratoga Ave.
+The original cannery on Santa Cruz Ave. near downtown was abandoned in 1907 for a new, larger plant at Santa Cruz Ave. and Saratoga Ave<ref>Los Gatos: Canning Company Plans Improvements on Plant - Directors of Coffee Club Plan Annual Meeting.  January 10, 1907 San Jose Mercury News.  "The Los Gatos Canneries are being removed from their present location on Lyndon and Santa Cruz Avenues to the Delpech Winery buildings at the junction of Saratoga Ave with Santa Cruz avenue.  The new location will be a great improvement, and the plant is to be extensively enlarged and improved, and modern machinery added.  It is understood that fruits and vegetables other than have been handled in the past will in the future be canned for the world's markets."</ref>.
 The building for the new cannery had previously been a winery built by
 [[Amedee Delpach]]<ref>Los Gatos: Hunt Brothers Making Extensive Improvements for New Canning Plant.  April 16, 1907 San Jose Mercury News.  "Very few people realize the vastness of the improvements that are underway at the Hunt Brothers big cannery at the corner of Santa Cruz Avenue and the Saratoga Road.  The immense winery building that was erected by the late A. Delpech has been ceiled overhead, and a floor three feet above the ground, and ventilator and light shafts installed at convenient distances.  At the north of the main building boilers are being installed, and when that is completed a suitable building will enclose it.  The southwest corner of the lot has been covered with a high one story building that will be used as a receiving room, and as the fruit is processed it will finally be placed in the large warehouse alongside the track, the foundations of which are already laid.  This building will be eighty feet wide by a length of two hundred and twenty five feet, and on the east side of it for the whole length is the spur track adjoining the main track of the Southern Pacific Company... Their superintendent C. C. Van Eaton has made his home here permanently.  All the operations of moving from the old plant, which they purchased from the Los Gatos Canneries, has been made under his personal supervision.  He brings with him skillful assistants in several departments who have been with him a number of years."</ref>.  A new floor was added to raise the warehouse up three feet.  Boilers were installed at the north end of the building; the receiving room was in the southwest, and a new warehouse 80 feet wide and 225 feet long was being built.  Hunt Brothers also asked to relocate a cemetery just north of their warehouse<ref>Los Gatos.  April 23, 1908 San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald.</ref>

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 ==Hunts in Los Gatos==
-Hunt Brothers Packing Company bought the [[Los Gatos Fruit Packing Company]] from George Hooke in 1906, and used the plant for canning fruit, both produced locally and elsewhere.
+Hunt Brothers Packing Company bought the [[Los Gatos Fruit Packing Company]] from George Hooke in 1906,
-The original cannery on Santa Cruz Ave. near downtown was abandoned for a new, larger plant at Santa Cruz Ave. and Saratoga Ave.
+and used the plant for canning fruit, both produced locally and elsewhere.
-The building for the new cannery had previously been a winery built by [[Amedee Delpach]]<ref>Los Gatos: Hunt Brothers Making Extensive Improvements for New Canning Plant.  April 16, 1907 San Jose Mercury News.  "Very few people realize the vastness of the improvements that are underway at the Hunt Brothers big cannery at the corner of Santa Cruz Avenue and the Saratoga Road.  The immense winery building that was erected by the late A. Delpech has been ceiled overhead, and a floor three feet above the ground, and ventilator and light shafts installed at convenient distances.  At the north of the main building boilers are being installed, and when that is completed a suitable building will enclose it.  The southwest corner of the lot has been covered with a high one story building that will be used as a receiving room, and as the fruit is processed it will finally be placed in the large warehouse alongside the track, the foundations of which are already laid.  This building will be eighty feet wide by a length of two hundred and twenty five feet, and on the east side of it for the whole length is the spur track adjoining the main track of the Southern Pacific Company... Their superintendent C. C. Van Eaton has made his home here permanently.  All the operations of moving from the old plant, which they purchased from the Los Gatos Canneries, has been made under his personal supervision.  He brings with him skillful assistants in several departments who have been with him a number of years."</ref>.  A new floor was added to raise the warehouse up three feet.  Boilers were installed at the north end of the building; the receiving room was in the southwest, and a new warehouse 80 feet wide and 225 feet long was being built.  Hunt Brothers also asked to relocate a cemetery just north of their warehouse<ref>Los Gatos.  April 23, 1908 San Jose Sunday Mercury and Herald.</ref>
+The original cannery on Santa Cruz Ave. near downtown was abandoned in 1907 for a new, larger plant at Santa Cruz Ave. and Saratoga Ave.
-The next year, Hunts immediately enlarged the railroad spur<ref>Los Gatos.  July 28, 1907 "The spur track leading to the Hunt Brothers' cannery has been enlarged to meet increasing demands of business."</ref>.
+The building for the new cannery had previously been a winery built by

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 | Exeter ||1912-1921<ref>Eugene E. Menefee, [http://books.google.com/books?id=t8EMAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA552&ots=QsEK5YhyCm&dq=hanford%20history%20california%20fruit&pg=PA140#v=onepage&q=Packing%20nouse&f=false History of Tulare and King Counties, California]. Declares that Hunts moved to Tulare County in 1912.</ref>.   || 1912 cannery west of Pine St. along railroad tracks<ref>1912 Sanborn map, Exeter CA.  Map 7.</ref>|| "Near Kirk Hotel"<ref>[http://cityofexeter.com/about-8187/gallery/historical/1910s-219 City of Exeter Historic Photos].</ref>. The company expanded the plant in 1914<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=CnpRAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=g9WebrCbLB&sig=4czliF5Wm0wMXVma7OEcdGX-FG4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIMTAF#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false Canning Notes].  October 10, 1914 California Fruit News.  "Work will soon be started on another large industrial plant in Exeter, Tulare County, by Hunt Bros. Company, owner of the large Exeter cannery, says the Exeter Tribune.  The new plant... will pickle and prepare olives for the market."</ref> and supposedly was idled in 1921<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=va3mAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA10-PA28&lpg=RA10-PA28&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=n3ZdeJODMT&sig=qSD80vZDX_-DcM4MNbU4wlViP98&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIKTAD#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false Cannery News].  December 1921 Canning Age.  "The Hunt Bros. Cannery Co. of Exeter, California, are calling for 100 tons of fresh California figs to follow their peach run next summer.  The Exeter cannery remained idle during the past season, but losses thru overhead and depreciation on idle machinery have warned against any repetition of this policy in future years."</ref> and never reopened. (Strangely, Hunt Brothers claimed they were going to be doubling the size of the cannery in 1922<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&pg=RA8-PA49&lpg=RA8-PA49&dq=hunt+brothers+cannery+exeter&source=bl&ots=17e2B9Uqxw&sig=ySJU4xgiDAZy5kPVuq42s2RT2ns&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj54pzk9p3SAhUqwFQKHSrgAeAQ6AEIJzAC#v=onepage&q=hunt%20brothers%20cannery%20exeter&f=false California Canneries].  January 1922 Western Canner and Packer.  "Announcement is made that the Exeter cannery will be doubled in size and extensively improved.  Cookers and equipment suitable for canning of almost any kind of fruit or vegetable will be installed so the cannery can operate several more months in the year."</ref>.  Became C. B. Williams Co. and Pacific Fruit Exchange<ref>Sanborn map, Exeter CA.  June 1926, Page 6.</ref>.
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-| Gridley || 1903-1920<ref>Ruth Ann King et all, Gridley.  Arcadia Publishing.  "As the cannery grew, it became the property of Libby, McNeil, and Libby."</ref><ref>Leigh Hadley Irvine, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hLUcAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA632&ots=F8tzcq4z27&dq=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20gridley&pg=PA632#v=onepage&q=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20gridley&f=false History of the New California].  Lewis Publishing Company, 1903.  "The Hunt Brothers Company also owns a fruit packing establishment and cannery at Gridley, Butte county, California, which has a capacity of thirty thousand cases annually."</ref><ref>Ruth Ann King et. al., [https://books.google.com/books?id=0l62CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA80&ots=Rvr96JKzzW&dq=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20cannery&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20cannery&f=false Gridley], Arcadia Press.  "Hunt Brothers built a cannery in Gridley to take advantage of the new method of preserving fruits and vegetables."</ref> || || Sold to [[Libby, McNeil, and Libby]] by 1920.
+| Gridley || 1903-1920<ref>Ruth Ann King et all, Gridley.  Arcadia Publishing.  "As the cannery grew, it became the property of Libby, McNeil, and Libby."</ref><ref>Leigh Hadley Irvine, [https://books.google.com/books?id=hLUcAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA632&ots=F8tzcq4z27&dq=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20gridley&pg=PA632#v=onepage&q=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20gridley&f=false History of the New California].  Lewis Publishing Company, 1903.  "The Hunt Brothers Company also owns a fruit packing establishment and cannery at Gridley, Butte county, California, which has a capacity of thirty thousand cases annually."</ref><ref>Ruth Ann King et. al., [https://books.google.com/books?id=0l62CgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA80&ots=Rvr96JKzzW&dq=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20cannery&pg=PA80#v=onepage&q=%22hunt%20brothers%22%20cannery&f=false Gridley], Arcadia Press.  "Hunt Brothers built a cannery in Gridley to take advantage of the new method of preserving fruits and vegetables."</ref> || 100 block of Kentucky Street || Sold to [[Libby, McNeil, and Libby]] by 1920.
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 | Hayward || 1891-1981 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=A%2C%20B%2C%20C%20street%20at%20railroad%20tracks,Hayward A, B, C street at railroad tracks] ||

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 In the 1927 season, Manager W. F. Gasman started canning apricots in early July.  The cannery required 350 workers, filling the cannery's 55 cottages and 15 tent houses<ref>Los Gatos Starts Apricot Canning in Coming Week: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ckoiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=-6MFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3359,3957997&dq=cannery+los+gatos&hl=en June 30, 1927 San Jose Evening News].</ref>.
-In the 1928 season, Hunts produced 582,000 pounds of apricots, 12,000 pounds of plums, 1.3 million pounds of pears, and 6 million pounds of peaches<ref>[[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=plUiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7aMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7288,1407884&dq=cannery+los+gatos&hl=en apricots article]</ref>.  In the 1930 season, the manager E. K. Sullivan oversaw apricots and peaches, with four railroad cars of tuscan peaches arriving in mid-July for canning.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AQgvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DKQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3412,2707864&dq=cannery+los+gatos&hl=en Peach PAcking Begins in Los Gatos Cannery].  July 25, 1930 San Jose Evening News.  "Hunt Brothers Cannery of Saratoga Ave. yesterday began their peach pack which is expected to last until September 25, according to E. K. Sullivan, manager.  Four carloads of Tuscans arrived from the San Joaquin Valley and one car from Yuba County via the Southern Pacific, Friday morning.  Next week the cannery will finish their apricot pack and about August 1 will begin canning the mid-summer and Philip variety of peaches, which are a better canning variety than Tuscans.   There will be some pears packed before the cannery closes, but not many, Manager Sullivan said.  More than 400 men and women are employed at the plant.  New equipment which was installed during the winter was put into use for the first time yesterday."</ref>.
+In the 1928 season, Hunts produced 582,000 pounds of apricots, 12,000 pounds of plums, 1.3 million pounds of pears, and 6 million pounds of peaches<ref>[[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=plUiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7aMFAAAAIBAJ&pg=7288,1407884&dq=cannery+los+gatos&hl=en apricots article]</ref>.  In the 1930 season, the manager E. K. Sullivan oversaw apricots and peaches, with four railroad cars of tuscan peaches arriving in mid-July for canning.<ref>[http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AQgvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=DKQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=3412,2707864&dq=cannery+los+gatos&hl=en Peach Packing Begins in Los Gatos Cannery].  July 25, 1930 San Jose Evening News.  "Hunt Brothers Cannery of Saratoga Ave. yesterday began their peach pack which is expected to last until September 25, according to E. K. Sullivan, manager.  Four carloads of Tuscans arrived from the San Joaquin Valley and one car from Yuba County via the Southern Pacific, Friday morning.  Next week the cannery will finish their apricot pack and about August 1 will begin canning the mid-summer and Philip variety of peaches, which are a better canning variety than Tuscans.   There will be some pears packed before the cannery closes, but not many, Manager Sullivan said.  More than 400 men and women are employed at the plant.  New equipment which was installed during the winter was put into use for the first time yesterday."</ref>.
 All the fruit and sugar tempted the local bees into the cannery in the 1922 season<ref>Canners Vexed by Problem of Swarm of bees: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=5hwxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZeQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1906,654552&dq=cannery+los+gatos&hl=en July 14, 1922 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.
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 Some of the Los Gatos cannery fire prevention equipment went to Sunsweet in 1944<ref>[http://www.oocities.org/fire_events2003/sj_fire_museum/index.html San Jose Fire Museum hose reel]</ref>.
-The Hunts Cannery building disappeared some time between 1953 and 1956; the empty lot where the cannery formerly sat was used by travelling circuses<ref>Judy Peterson, [http://www.mercurynews.com/2010/08/16/two-los-gatos-italians-form-a-brotherly-bond-around-food-and-cars/ Two Los Gatos Italians form a 'brotherly bond' around food and cars".  August 16, 2010 San Jose Mercury News. "Although Zanardi bought a portion of the Los Gatos Shopping Center in 2001, he just completed purchasing the rest of it a few weeks ago. He estimates the shopping center was built in late ’50s or early ’60s, but way back when, it was a Hunt’s packing plant.  “When I was a kid, this shopping center was a big, empty lot,” Zanardi said. “The carnival used to come here every year. We couldn’t wait for the carnival.”</ref> until a new strip mall was built in the 1960's.
+The Hunts Cannery building disappeared some time between 1953 and 1956; the empty lot where the cannery formerly sat was used by travelling circuses<ref>Judy Peterson, [http://www.mercurynews.com/2010/08/16/two-los-gatos-italians-form-a-brotherly-bond-around-food-and-cars/ Two Los Gatos Italians form a 'brotherly bond' around food and cars"].  August 16, 2010 San Jose Mercury News. "Although Zanardi bought a portion of the Los Gatos Shopping Center in 2001, he just completed purchasing the rest of it a few weeks ago. He estimates the shopping center was built in late ’50s or early ’60s, but way back when, it was a Hunt’s packing plant.  “When I was a kid, this shopping center was a big, empty lot,” Zanardi said. “The carnival used to come here every year. We couldn’t wait for the carnival.”</ref> until a new strip mall was built in the 1960's.
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