Guggenhime and Company - Revision history

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 '''Guggenhime and Company''' was a large independent dried fruit packer in California, founded in 1897 by [[David J. Guggenhime]]<ref>David J. Guggenhime Passes Away: [http://books.google.com/books?id=hmFRAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA9&ots=gH_t6TBXj3&dq=d.%20j.%20guggenhime&pg=PA9#v=onepage&q=d.%20j.%20guggenhime&f=false May 18, 1918 California Fruit News].</ref>.  Guggenhime had packing houses in the Santa Clara Valley, San Joaquin Valley, Sacramento Valley, and Southern California.  Guggenhime packed "dried fruit, raisins, nuts, [and] honey"<ref>1916 California Fruit News advertisement.</ref>, packing under flower brand names: Pansy, Rosedale, Daphne, Carnation Pink, and Heliotrope<ref>Advertisement: [http://books.google.com/books?id=IW9RAAAAYAAJ&amp;dq=california%20fruit%20news&amp;pg=PA2#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=fals May 27, 1911 California Fruit News]</ref>
 David's brother, Berthold Guggenhime was vice president before 1918, but after David's death in 1921 ran the company.  Berthold Guggenhime was the company president in 1921, with Bert Katz, vice-president, Lester Lacher, second vice-president, Silas Harris, secretary, and Martin Lemeke, treasurer<ref>New Officers of Guggenhime & Co: [http://books.google.com/books?id=cRAdAQAAMAAJ&lpg=RA1-PA57&ots=16e-z5QqAt&dq=berthold%20guggenhime&pg=RA1-PA58#v=onepage&q=berthold%20guggenhime&f=false June 1921 Western Canner and Packer]</ref>.  Supposedly, the company became the largest independent dried fruit packer as [[Rosenberg Brothers]] declined<ref>John Reynolds and Michael J. Semas, [http://books.google.com/books?id=xCMouPQYMU0C&lpg=PA116&ots=NYM7Uv9u3v&dq=guggenhime%20fresno&pg=PA116#v=onepage&q=guggenhime%20fresno&f=false Frenso], Arcadia Publishing, 20xx.</ref>.

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 | Fresno || Plant 4, 8,12  || 1909, 1930s<ref>[http://www.ebay.com/itm/VTG-ANTIQUE-GUGGENHIME-COMPANY-FACTORY-BUILDING-CAST-IRON-SIGN-non-porcelain-/380768754700?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item58a7961c0c Sign on EBay] suggests that company was established in 1897, and the Fresno plant was built in 1916.

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 [[Phoenix Packing]] was merged into [[Guggenhime and Company]] by 1920<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=GW5RAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA16&ots=eBjJBFaIxc&dq=%22pacific%20coast%20raisin%20company%22&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=%22pacific%20coast%20raisin%20company%22&f=false March 20, 1920 California Fruit News].</ref>.   Both brands were advertised together in the California Fruit News, March 18, 1922.
-Guggenhime was bought by [[Hunt Brands]] in April 1946<ref>Guggenhime Plant Sold: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&amp;dat=19460617&amp;id=bSsiAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=RKQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=979,3825671 news article Jun 17 1946, San Jose News] "Guggenhime Plant Sold: Reports of court injunctions and other measures to halt the sale of Guggenhime &amp; Co to Hunt Foods Inc. had not materialized today when the deed transfering the San Jose real estate was on file with County Recorder Charles A. Payne. The notice of intended sale of all the Guggenhime fruit-processing enterprises had been published a few weeks ago."</ref>, and left the dried fruit business in September 1949.
+Guggenhime was bought by [[Hunt Brands]] in April 1946<ref>Guggenhime Plant Sold: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&amp;dat=19460617&amp;id=bSsiAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=RKQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=979,3825671 news article Jun 17 1946, San Jose News] "Guggenhime Plant Sold: Reports of court injunctions and other measures to halt the sale of Guggenhime &amp; Co to Hunt Foods Inc. had not materialized today when the deed transfering the San Jose real estate was on file with County Recorder Charles A. Payne. The notice of intended sale of all the Guggenhime fruit-processing enterprises had been published a few weeks ago."</ref> for a sale price of $1,500,000<ref>Hunt Foods Asks for Issue of New Stock: February 28, 1946 Hayward Review</ref>.  Hunts left the dried fruit business in September 1949.
 Guggenhime's last president was John Vellis, who had started at the company in 1904 and worked his way up from office boy.  At the time of the merger, Guggenhime had plants in San Jose, Modesto, and Fresno, with offices in San Francisco, and was the second largest dried fruit operation in California.  "He remembered that during the deadly experience of influenza in 1917, practically all the workers in the San Francisco plant were laid low, and he put on a mask and worked in the plant supervising the packing."<ref>April 6, 1950 Hayward Daily Review.</ref>  Vellis also claimed that 40 to 50 percent of all dried fruit was exported before World War II.

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 Guggenhime was bought by [[Hunt Brands]] in April 1946<ref>Guggenhime Plant Sold: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&amp;dat=19460617&amp;id=bSsiAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=RKQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=979,3825671 news article Jun 17 1946, San Jose News] "Guggenhime Plant Sold: Reports of court injunctions and other measures to halt the sale of Guggenhime &amp; Co to Hunt Foods Inc. had not materialized today when the deed transfering the San Jose real estate was on file with County Recorder Charles A. Payne. The notice of intended sale of all the Guggenhime fruit-processing enterprises had been published a few weeks ago."</ref>, and left the dried fruit business in September 1949.
 Guggenhime's last president was John Vellis, who had started at the company in 1904 and worked his way up from office boy.  At the time of the merger, Guggenhime had plants in San Jose, Modesto, and Fresno, with offices in San Francisco, and was the second largest dried fruit operation in California.  "He remembered that during the deadly experience of influenza in 1917, practically all the workers in the San Francisco plant were laid low, and he put on a mask and worked in the plant supervising the packing."<ref>April 6, 1950 Hayward Daily Review.</ref>  Vellis also claimed that 40 to 50 percent of all dried fruit was exported before World War II.
 ==Guggenhime and Company in San Jose==

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	Guggenhime was bought by [[Hunt Brands]] in April 1946<ref>Guggenhime Plant Sold: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&dat=19460617&id=bSsiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RKQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=979,3825671 news article Jun 17 1946, San Jose News] "Guggenhime Plant Sold: Reports of court injunctions and other measures to halt the sale of Guggenhime & Co to Hunt Foods Inc. had not materialized today when the deed transfering the San Jose real estate was on file with County Recorder Charles A. Payne. The notice of intended sale of all the Guggenhime fruit-processing enterprises had been published a few weeks ago."</ref>, and left the dried fruit business in September 1949.		Guggenhime was bought by [[Hunt Brands]] in April 1946<ref>Guggenhime Plant Sold: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&dat=19460617&id=bSsiAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RKQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=979,3825671 news article Jun 17 1946, San Jose News] "Guggenhime Plant Sold: Reports of court injunctions and other measures to halt the sale of Guggenhime & Co to Hunt Foods Inc. had not materialized today when the deed transfering the San Jose real estate was on file with County Recorder Charles A. Payne. The notice of intended sale of all the Guggenhime fruit-processing enterprises had been published a few weeks ago."</ref>, and left the dried fruit business in September 1949.
		+	Guggenhime's last president was John Vellis, who had started at the company in 1904 and worked his way up from office boy. At the time of the merger, Guggenhime had plants in San Jose, Modesto, and Fresno, with offices in San Francisco, and was the second largest dried fruit operation in California. "He remembered that during the deadly experience of influenza in 1917, practically all the workers in the San Francisco plant were laid low, and he put on a mask and worked in the plant supervising the packing."<ref>April 6, 1950 Hayward Daily Review.</ref> Vellis also claimed that 40 to 50 percent of all dried fruit was exported before World War II.

	==Guggenhime and Company in San Jose==		==Guggenhime and Company in San Jose==

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 ==Guggenhime and Company in Santa Ana==
-Guggenhime & Company also had plants in Southern California, with a walnut processing facility.  A 1921 news report noted that Guggenhime would be paying out a half million dollars in payments to walnut farmers<ref>Walnut Buyers See Banner Year Ahead for Local Growers: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/72291841/ August 29, 1921 Santa Ana Daily Register].  The manager that year was "Manager Smith".  The article mentions walnuts being harvested for 23 years since 1898, but it's unclear if that time represents cultivation in general, or Guggenhime's time in the area.  Another source claims Fern Bishop built the Guggenhime packing house in 1914<ref>Fern S. Bishop: in Samuel Armor, [http://www.mocavo.com/History-of-Orange-County-California-With-Biographical-Sketches-of-the-Leading-Men-and-Women-of-the-County-Who-Have-Been-Identified-With-Its-Earliest-Growth-and-Development-From-the-Early-Days-to-the-Present-1921/528391/897 History of Orange County], Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, 1921.  "In September, 1914, Mr. Bishop entered the building and contracting business for himself and has erected and equipped the following packing houses: the Guggenhime packing house and the Gowen and Willard packing house of Santa Ana; the Anaheim Walnut Growers Association packing house; the Fullerton Walnut packing house; the Golden Belt house of Fullerton (now the Benchley Packing Company); the Walnut packing house at Walnut. In Ventura County Mr. Bishop built and equipped the Saticoy packing house and reequipped the Santa Paula plant. At Whittier, Los Angeles County, he built and equipped the Whittier Walnut Growers Association house. It has a daily capacity of sixty tons. He also has to his credit the erecting and equipping of the packing houses at Irvine, at San Juan Capistrano, the Cudahy plant at Huntington Park and the Chino Walnut house. In 1920 he completed the packing house for the La Puente Valley Walnut Growers Association, the largest house of the kind in the world, with a capacity of 150 tons in ten hours, and it is the consensus of opinion that it is the most modern house for packing walnuts now in use, being fully equipped with machinery and appliances invented and patented by Mr. Bishop. He is now building a plant for the California Walnut Growers at Vernon for the manufacture of charcoal..."</ref>.
+Guggenhime & Company also had plants in Southern California, with a walnut processing facility.  A 1921 news report noted that Guggenhime would be paying out a half million dollars in payments to walnut farmers<ref>Walnut Buyers See Banner Year Ahead for Local Growers: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/72291841/ August 29, 1921 Santa Ana Daily Register].</ref>.  The manager that year was "Manager Smith".  The article mentions walnuts being harvested for 23 years since 1898, but it's unclear if that time represents cultivation in general, or Guggenhime's time in the area.  Another source claims Fern Bishop built the Guggenhime packing house in 1914<ref>Fern S. Bishop: in Samuel Armor, [http://www.mocavo.com/History-of-Orange-County-California-With-Biographical-Sketches-of-the-Leading-Men-and-Women-of-the-County-Who-Have-Been-Identified-With-Its-Earliest-Growth-and-Development-From-the-Early-Days-to-the-Present-1921/528391/897 History of Orange County], Historic Record Co., Los Angeles, 1921.  "In September, 1914, Mr. Bishop entered the building and contracting business for himself and has erected and equipped the following packing houses: the Guggenhime packing house and the Gowen and Willard packing house of Santa Ana; the Anaheim Walnut Growers Association packing house; the Fullerton Walnut packing house; the Golden Belt house of Fullerton (now the Benchley Packing Company); the Walnut packing house at Walnut. In Ventura County Mr. Bishop built and equipped the Saticoy packing house and reequipped the Santa Paula plant. At Whittier, Los Angeles County, he built and equipped the Whittier Walnut Growers Association house. It has a daily capacity of sixty tons. He also has to his credit the erecting and equipping of the packing houses at Irvine, at San Juan Capistrano, the Cudahy plant at Huntington Park and the Chino Walnut house. In 1920 he completed the packing house for the La Puente Valley Walnut Growers Association, the largest house of the kind in the world, with a capacity of 150 tons in ten hours, and it is the consensus of opinion that it is the most modern house for packing walnuts now in use, being fully equipped with machinery and appliances invented and patented by Mr. Bishop. He is now building a plant for the California Walnut Growers at Vernon for the manufacture of charcoal..."</ref>.
 Walnuts were the most common crop, responsible for more than 60% of the payments during the packing house's life, but the plant also packed fruit and honey.

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 By 1951, the former Guggenhime buildings appeared as Food Machinery Corporation on Southern Pacific engineering drawings<ref>San Jose: Proposed Track Repairs and Crossing for Food Machinery Corp.: [http://wx4.org/to/foam/sp/maps/drawings/sp_drawings-scv_o.pdf Southern Pacific Coast Division Drawing #28067], August 23, 1951, drawn by R.W.S.  E. O. Gibson collection, wx4.org.</ref>.
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 [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/gordon&CISOPTR=1248&CISOBOX=1&REC=2 Guggenhime and Company Dried Fruit Packing Plant 17  John C. Gordon Collection / San Jose Library]
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 Guggenhime planned a merger with several other dried fruit processors in [[Castle Brothers]], [[Rosenberg Brothers]], and [[Phoenix Packing]] in 1905, but the deal collapsed under accusations that [[Rosenberg Brothers]] used the merger as a ruse to gather competitive information<ref>October 6, 1905 San Francisco Call.</ref>.  Guggenhime was also a founding member of the [[Dried Fruit Association of California]] in 1907, with D. J. Guggenhime representing the company.
-Phoenix Packing was merged into [[Guggenhime and Company]] by 1920<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=GW5RAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA16&ots=eBjJBFaIxc&dq=%22pacific%20coast%20raisin%20company%22&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=%22pacific%20coast%20raisin%20company%22&f=false March 20, 1920 California Fruit News].</ref>.   Both brands were advertised together in the California Fruit News, March 18, 1922.
+[Phoenix Packing]] was merged into [[Guggenhime and Company]] by 1920<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=GW5RAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA16&ots=eBjJBFaIxc&dq=%22pacific%20coast%20raisin%20company%22&pg=PA16#v=onepage&q=%22pacific%20coast%20raisin%20company%22&f=false March 20, 1920 California Fruit News].</ref>.   Both brands were advertised together in the California Fruit News, March 18, 1922.
 Guggenhime was bought by [[Hunt Brands]] in April 1946<ref>Guggenhime Plant Sold: [http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1983&amp;dat=19460617&amp;id=bSsiAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=RKQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;pg=979,3825671 news article Jun 17 1946, San Jose News] "Guggenhime Plant Sold: Reports of court injunctions and other measures to halt the sale of Guggenhime &amp; Co to Hunt Foods Inc. had not materialized today when the deed transfering the San Jose real estate was on file with County Recorder Charles A. Payne. The notice of intended sale of all the Guggenhime fruit-processing enterprises had been published a few weeks ago."</ref>, and left the dried fruit business in September 1949.