Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company - Revision history

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 | primary_business = Dried Fruit Packer
 | primary_dates = 1895 - 1906
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 [[File:santa_clara_valley_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co. building, early 1890's.]]

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 [[File:santa_clara_valley_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co. building, early 1890's.]]
-The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  D. Denslow Brooks was the manager<ref>D. Denslow Brooks, fruit packer.  [http://books.google.com/books?id=nKxKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PT123&ots=Fm8c8i9oIW&dq=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&pg=PT123#v=onepage&q=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&f=false In 1911 Polk's Santa Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory].  "Meridian Road, 1 north of Moorpark Ave."</ref><ref>[http://www.mocavo.ca/The-American-Florist-a-Weekly-Journal-for-the-Trade-1898-Part-2-Volume-13/848645/157 1898 The American Florist].  "The residence of D. D. Brooks, manager of the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company, was destroyed by fire February 19."</ref>.  Brooks' father-in-law was pioneer orchardist Sanford Coe<ref>S.A. Coe.  In H.S. Foote, [http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/sacoe.html Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, or Santa Clara County, California], 1888.  "... Three children were born to them: Alice J., wife of D. D. Brooks, of Minneapolis, Minnesota..."</ref>.  The company appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call]; Coe had died in 1894, so it's likely that Brooks took over his father-in-law's business land plant.   " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
+The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  D. Denslow Brooks was the manager<ref>D. Denslow Brooks, fruit packer.  [http://books.google.com/books?id=nKxKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PT123&ots=Fm8c8i9oIW&dq=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&pg=PT123#v=onepage&q=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&f=false In 1911 Polk's Santa Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory].  "Meridian Road, 1 north of Moorpark Ave."</ref><ref>[http://www.mocavo.ca/The-American-Florist-a-Weekly-Journal-for-the-Trade-1898-Part-2-Volume-13/848645/157 1898 The American Florist].  "The residence of D. D. Brooks, manager of the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company, was destroyed by fire February 19."</ref>.  Brooks' father-in-law was pioneer orchardist Sanford Coe<ref>S.A. Coe.  In H.S. Foote, [http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/sacoe.html Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, or Santa Clara County, California], 1888.  "... Three children were born to them: Alice J., wife of D. D. Brooks, of Minneapolis, Minnesota..."</ref>.  The company appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call];   " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  Coe had died in 1894, so it's likely that Brooks took over his father-in-law's business and plant.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
 A 1900 advertisement lists them as a happy user of the [[Anderson Prune Dipper Company]] prune grader<ref>Advertisement for Anderson Prune Dipper Co., [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19000728.2.18.1 July 28, 1900 Pacific Rural Press]</ref>

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 [[File:santa_clara_valley_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co. building, early 1890's.]]
-The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  D. Denslow Brooks was the manager<ref>D. Denslow Brooks, fruit packer.  [http://books.google.com/books?id=nKxKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PT123&ots=Fm8c8i9oIW&dq=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&pg=PT123#v=onepage&q=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&f=false In 1911 Polk's Santa Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory].  "Meridian Road, 1 north of Moorpark Ave."</ref><ref>[http://www.mocavo.ca/The-American-Florist-a-Weekly-Journal-for-the-Trade-1898-Part-2-Volume-13/848645/157 1898 The American Florist].  "The residence of D. D. Brooks, manager of the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company, was destroyed by fire February 19."</ref>.  Brooks' father-in-law was pioneer orchardist Sanford Coe<ref>S.A. Coe.  In H.S. Foote, [http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/sacoe.html Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, or Santa Clara County, California], 1888.  "... Three children were born to them: Alice J., wife of D. D. Brooks, of Minneapolis, Minnesota..."</ref>.  The company appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call].  " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
+The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  D. Denslow Brooks was the manager<ref>D. Denslow Brooks, fruit packer.  [http://books.google.com/books?id=nKxKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PT123&ots=Fm8c8i9oIW&dq=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&pg=PT123#v=onepage&q=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&f=false In 1911 Polk's Santa Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory].  "Meridian Road, 1 north of Moorpark Ave."</ref><ref>[http://www.mocavo.ca/The-American-Florist-a-Weekly-Journal-for-the-Trade-1898-Part-2-Volume-13/848645/157 1898 The American Florist].  "The residence of D. D. Brooks, manager of the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company, was destroyed by fire February 19."</ref>.  Brooks' father-in-law was pioneer orchardist Sanford Coe<ref>S.A. Coe.  In H.S. Foote, [http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/sacoe.html Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, or Santa Clara County, California], 1888.  "... Three children were born to them: Alice J., wife of D. D. Brooks, of Minneapolis, Minnesota..."</ref>.  The company appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call]; Coe had died in 1894, so it's likely that Brooks took over his father-in-law's business land plant.   " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
 A 1900 advertisement lists them as a happy user of the [[Anderson Prune Dipper Company]] prune grader<ref>Advertisement for Anderson Prune Dipper Co., [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19000728.2.18.1 July 28, 1900 Pacific Rural Press]</ref>

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 [[File:santa_clara_valley_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co. building, early 1890's.]]
-The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  D. D. Brooks was the manager<ref>[http://www.mocavo.ca/The-American-Florist-a-Weekly-Journal-for-the-Trade-1898-Part-2-Volume-13/848645/157 1898 The American Florist].  "The residence of D. D. Brooks, manager of the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company, was destroyed by fire February 19."</ref>.  They appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call].  " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
+The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  D. Denslow Brooks was the manager<ref>D. Denslow Brooks, fruit packer.  [http://books.google.com/books?id=nKxKAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PT123&ots=Fm8c8i9oIW&dq=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&pg=PT123#v=onepage&q=%22d.%20d.%20brooks%22%20san%20jose&f=false In 1911 Polk's Santa Jose City and Santa Clara County Directory].  "Meridian Road, 1 north of Moorpark Ave."</ref><ref>[http://www.mocavo.ca/The-American-Florist-a-Weekly-Journal-for-the-Trade-1898-Part-2-Volume-13/848645/157 1898 The American Florist].  "The residence of D. D. Brooks, manager of the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company, was destroyed by fire February 19."</ref>.  Brooks' father-in-law was pioneer orchardist Sanford Coe<ref>S.A. Coe.  In H.S. Foote, [http://www.santaclararesearch.net/SCBIOS/sacoe.html Pen Pictures from the Garden of the World, or Santa Clara County, California], 1888.  "... Three children were born to them: Alice J., wife of D. D. Brooks, of Minneapolis, Minnesota..."</ref>.  The company appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call].  " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
 A 1900 advertisement lists them as a happy user of the [[Anderson Prune Dipper Company]] prune grader<ref>Advertisement for Anderson Prune Dipper Co., [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19000728.2.18.1 July 28, 1900 Pacific Rural Press]</ref>

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 [[File:santa_clara_valley_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co. building, early 1890's.]]
-The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  They appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call].  " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
+The '''Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company''' was a dried fruit packer in San Jose, California.  D. D. Brooks was the manager<ref>[http://www.mocavo.ca/The-American-Florist-a-Weekly-Journal-for-the-Trade-1898-Part-2-Volume-13/848645/157 1898 The American Florist].  "The residence of D. D. Brooks, manager of the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company, was destroyed by fire February 19."</ref>.  They appeared in 1895<ref>[http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18950819.2.28 August 19, 1895 San Francisco Call].  " The first car of dried prunes from the new crop was shipped from this city yesterday, about eight days earlier than the shipment last year. There is always more or less strife to see who will make the first shipment of the year. The shipment this year is divided between George M. Herbert, the Sorosis Fruit Company, John B. Herbert and the Santa Clara Valley Fruit Company... The shipment was one of the largest carloads that ever left this city and was consigned to Chicago. On each side of the car were flaring banners announcing that it was the first of Santa Clara's output this year."</ref> using a location similar to the [[Riverdale Fruit Company]] run by Sanford Coe.  The company was also listed as a fruit dryer in the 1896 city directory.  The company was a drop-off location for fruit for the [[California Cured Fruit Association]] in 1903.
 A 1900 advertisement lists them as a happy user of the [[Anderson Prune Dipper Company]] prune grader<ref>Advertisement for Anderson Prune Dipper Co., [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19000728.2.18.1 July 28, 1900 Pacific Rural Press]</ref>

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 A 1900 advertisement lists them as a happy user of the [[Anderson Prune Dipper Company]] prune grader<ref>Advertisement for Anderson Prune Dipper Co., [http://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=PRP19000728.2.18.1 July 28, 1900 Pacific Rural Press]</ref>
-The company appeared in city directories between 1896 and 1906, though their plant was leased to [[J. W. Chilton]] for one year in 1903 following the collapse of Porter Brothers<ref>Porter Brothers Plant For Sale:  [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7CoiAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=QaQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;dq=chilton%20dried-fruit&amp;pg=820%2C2782774 September 12, 1903 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.  Advertisements for the company's fruit appeared in at least one eastern paper in 1903<ref>Advertisement: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53406175/ March 17, 1903 Brooklyn Daily Eagle].  "DOCTORS ADVISE THE LIBERAL USE OF our Santa Clara fruits: fresh, clean, 'more delicious and .... than others... for a few days only our fine flavored extra fancy packed prunes... Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co., xxxxxx.  (Paywall means only bad OCR available.)</ref>
+The company appeared in city directories between 1896 and 1906, though their plant was leased to [[J. W. Chilton Fruit Packing]] for one year in 1903 following the collapse of Porter Brothers<ref>Porter Brothers Plant For Sale:  [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7CoiAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=QaQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;dq=chilton%20dried-fruit&amp;pg=820%2C2782774 September 12, 1903 San Jose Evening News]</ref>.  Advertisements for the company's fruit appeared in at least one eastern paper in 1903<ref>Advertisement: [http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/53406175/ March 17, 1903 Brooklyn Daily Eagle].  "DOCTORS ADVISE THE LIBERAL USE OF our Santa Clara fruits: fresh, clean, 'more delicious and .... than others... for a few days only our fine flavored extra fancy packed prunes... Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co., xxxxxx.  (Paywall means only bad OCR available.)</ref>
 The photos of Santa Clara Valley Fruit company and the George Herbert plant look almost identical - a low, one-story wooden bulding with a false front.  They're also reminiscent of [[Start and Morrison]]'s plant on the east side, as well as many of the turn-of-the-century buildings in downtown Campbell.

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 ==References==
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 [[Category:West San Jose]]

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 {{Infobox_Industry
 | primary_town = San Jose
 }}
 [[File:santa_clara_valley_fruit.jpg|240px|thumb|right|Santa Clara Valley Fruit Co. building, early 1890's.]]
 ==Locations==
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 ! Location !! Years !! Address !! Details
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-| San Jose || 1896, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1906 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Paula%20Street%20at%20%20Northrup%20Streeta,San%20Jose Paula Street at  Northrup Street] ||
+| San Jose || 1896, 1900, 1902, 1904, 1906 || [http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Paula%20Street%20at%20%20Northrup%20Streeta,San%20Jose Paula Street at  Northrup Street] || On Paula between Northrup and Race<ref>Porter Brothers Plant For Sale:  [http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=7CoiAAAAIBAJ&amp;sjid=QaQFAAAAIBAJ&amp;dq=chilton%20dried-fruit&amp;pg=820%2C2782774 September 12, 1903 San Jose Evening News]</ref>
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-==Details==
+==References==
 [[Category:West San Jose]]