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{{Infobox_Industry
| primary_business = Cannery
| primary_town = Los Angeles
| primary_dates = 1881 - 1899
| successors = [[California Fruit Canners Association]]
}}

The ''Southern California Packing Company''' was a jam and marmalade canner in Southern California incorporated in 1881. The company's principals were [[A.H. Judson]], [[W.H. Workman]], [[John Mackay Elliot]], and [[J. E. Hollenbeck]]. The superintendent was [[J. J. Groom]], who claimed to be a former superintendent of the [[Golden Gate Packing Company]], [[San Jose Packing Company]], and [[Santa Barbara Cannery]].

The company was merged into the great [[California Fruit Canners Association]] in 1899.

==Locations==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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| Los Angeles || || Macy and Aliso St. || Office and factory<ref>[http://finbotclub.blogspot.com/2014/01/socal-packing-jar.html Findlay Bottle Club article on Southern California Packing Co.]</ref>
|-
| Los Angeles || || Macy and Anderson St.<ref>Findlay Bottle Club, [http://finbotclub.blogspot.com/2014/01/socal-packing-jar.html Southern California Packing Co. jar]. Includes photo of cannery and workers, with note that it came from Huntington Library.</ref><ref>Blake Gumprecht, [https://books.google.com/books?id=2ftBJpp7aIoC&lpg=PA165&ots=kfpbMBm5xY&dq=huntington%20library%20%22southern%20california%20packing%20company%22&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q=huntington%20library%20%22southern%20california%20packing%20company%22&f=false The Los Angeles River: Its Life, Death, and Possible Rebirth], Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Photo of train of fruit going past cannery, with note that cannery was outside the levees protecting Los Angeles from the L.A. River</ref>||
|}
==References==
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	The ''Southern California Packing Company''' was a jam and marmalade canner in Southern California incorporated in 1881. The company's principals were [[A.H. Judson]], [[W.H. Workman]], [[John Mackay Elliot]], and [[J. E. Hollenbeck]]. The superintendent was [[J. J. Groom]], who claimed to be a former superintendent of the [[Golden Gate Packing Company]], [[San Jose Packing Company]], and [[Santa Barbara Cannery]].		The ''Southern California Packing Company''' was a jam and marmalade canner in Southern California incorporated in 1881. The company's principals were [[A.H. Judson]], [[W.H. Workman]], [[John Mackay Elliot]], and [[J. E. Hollenbeck]]. The superintendent was [[J. J. Groom]], who claimed to be a former superintendent of the [[Golden Gate Packing Company]], [[San Jose Packing Company]], and [[Santa Barbara Cannery]].

		+	The company's plant was on the east side of the Los Angeles River, along Macy Ave. The cannery sat between the Union Pacific tracks on the river bank and Mission Road<ref>Los Angeles Sanborn Map, 1906, volume 4, Pg. 444.</ref>
	The company was merged into the great [[California Fruit Canners Association]] in 1899.		The company was merged into the great [[California Fruit Canners Association]] in 1899.

Southern California Packing Company - Revision history

Robert Bowdidge at 07:23, 2 February 2017

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