John S. Roberts dried fruits - Revision history

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 Robert's plant was a large, barn-like structure wedged between the Southern Pacific Los Gatos branch railroad tracks and the new San Carlos Street viaduct.  The building, built for [[Pacific Fruit Products]] in 1902, was three stories high with grading machinery on the top floor, storage bins in the middle, and packing rooms at the bottom.  [[Abinante and Nola]] would use the same building after World War II.  A sulfur room was attached on the southeast side of the building<ref>Apricots Are Burned:
 [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AAJgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QyANAAAAIBAJ&dq=750-west-san-carlos&pg=2836%2C264883 Sept. 2, 1942 San Jose Evening News].  "Originating in a pile of sulphur, fire spread to consume 100 trays of dying apricots at the John S. Robert dried fruit plant, 750 West San Carlos Street, last night.  Firemen confined the blaze to the single small sulphur house."</ref>.
 Roberts may also have had a Fresno dried fruit plant.

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-'''John S. Roberts''' was a dried fruit packer, active in San Jose from 1934 to 1945.  J.S. Roberts had worked for [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Company]] in the early 1930's.  He appears to have restarted the  company in the same plant after their disappearance.  PHotos of the building in 1934 (after the San Carlos Street overpass was complete) show the J.S. Roberts name on the building.
+'''John S. Roberts''' was a dried fruit packer, active in San Jose from 1934 to 1945.  J.S. Roberts had been a vice president for [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Company]] in the early 1930's.  He appears to have restarted the  company in the same plant after their disappearance.  PHotos of the building in 1934 (after the San Carlos Street overpass was complete) show the J.S. Roberts name on the building.
 Robert's plant was a large, barn-like structure wedged between the Southern Pacific Los Gatos branch railroad tracks and the new San Carlos Street viaduct.  The building, built for [[Pacific Fruit Products]] in 1902, was three stories high with grading machinery on the top floor, storage bins in the middle, and packing rooms at the bottom.  [[Abinante and Nola]] would use the same building after World War II.  A sulfur room was attached on the southeast side of the building<ref>Apricots Are Burned:
 [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=AAJgAAAAIBAJ&sjid=QyANAAAAIBAJ&dq=750-west-san-carlos&pg=2836%2C264883 Sept. 2, 1942 San Jose Evening News].  "Originating in a pile of sulphur, fire spread to consume 100 trays of dying apricots at the John S. Robert dried fruit plant, 750 West San Carlos Street, last night.  Firemen confined the blaze to the single small sulphur house."</ref>.
 ==Locations==
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 [http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,380 Del Monte and J.S. Roberts dried fruit.  From John C. Gordon Panoramic Collection, San Jose State University]
-==Details==
+==References==
 [[Category:San Jose]]
 [[Category:Dried Fruit Packer]]
 [[Category:West San Jose]]

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-Dried fruit packer, active in San Jose from 1934 to 1945.  J.S. Roberts had worked for [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Company]] in the early 1930's.  He appears to have restarted the  company in the same plant after their disappearance.  PHotos of the building in 1934 (after the San Carlos Street overpass was complete) show the J.S. Roberts name on the building.
+'''John S. Roberts''' was a dried fruit packer, active in San Jose from 1934 to 1945.  J.S. Roberts had worked for [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Company]] in the early 1930's.  He appears to have restarted the  company in the same plant after their disappearance.  PHotos of the building in 1934 (after the San Carlos Street overpass was complete) show the J.S. Roberts name on the building.
-Robert's plant was a large, barn-like structure wedged between the Southern Pacific Los Gatos branch railroad tracks and the new San Carlos Street viaduct.  The building, built for [[Pacific Fruit Products]] in 1902, was three stories high with grading machinery on the top floor, storage bins in the middle, and packing rooms at the bottom.  [[Abinante and Nola]] would use the same building after World War II.
+Robert's plant was a large, barn-like structure wedged between the Southern Pacific Los Gatos branch railroad tracks and the new San Carlos Street viaduct.  The building, built for [[Pacific Fruit Products]] in 1902, was three stories high with grading machinery on the top floor, storage bins in the middle, and packing rooms at the bottom.  [[Abinante and Nola]] would use the same building after World War II.  A sulfur room was attached on the southeast side of the building<ref>Apricots Are Burned:
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 ==Details==
 Hints at a Robert packing house in Fresno - perhaps a Fresno-related business?

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 Dried fruit packer, active in San Jose from 1934 to 1945.  J.S. Roberts had worked for [[Higgins-Hyde Packing Company]] in the early 1930's.  He appears to have restarted the  company in the same plant after their disappearance.  PHotos of the building in 1934 (after the San Carlos Street overpass was complete) show the J.S. Roberts name on the building.

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 ==Photos==
-[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,380 Del Monte and J.S. Roberts dried fruit  John C. Gordon Panoramic Collection, San Jose State University]
+[http://digitalcollections.sjlibrary.org/u?/jcgpanorama,380 Del Monte and J.S. Roberts dried fruit.  From John C. Gordon Panoramic Collection, San Jose State University]
 ==Details==