tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post8874309937101778967..comments2024-03-03T17:14:05.768-08:00Comments on Robert's Vasona Branch Blog: Gem City Packing becomes Sunsweet Becomes Sewall BrownRobert Bowdidgehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14155962656525181088noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post-46874753050684174402015-03-27T21:20:14.668-07:002015-03-27T21:20:14.668-07:00Thanks, Chris - it's a great article! If you ...Thanks, Chris - it's a great article! If you like articles like that, also check out the Edith Daley columns from around 1920. She did a bunch of industry profiles - some shorter, but others that were along the same lines as the Sewall Brown article. I particularly liked the Pacific By-Products article (Stanley Hiller's company). I've got a list of her articles at:<br /><br />http://vasonabranch.com/packing_houses/index.php?title=Edith_Daley<br /><br />There was also a similar article on Larson Ladder in 1928, the makers of the orchard ladders:<br /><br />https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=yQgvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HaQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=986,3132977&hl=en<br /><br />Time to poke through those 1928 issues to find more long-form articles on local industries!<br />Robert Bowdidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155962656525181088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post-60566361283329272962015-03-26T10:09:52.269-07:002015-03-26T10:09:52.269-07:00Robert, Google recently made the following 1920s a...Robert, Google recently made the following 1920s article available. There's a photo of Sewall Brown that further hints at the considerable size of the building, and the content of the article is remarkable - it reads like an intro to a modeling article.<br /><br />https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1977&dat=19280723&id=wggvAAAAIBAJ&sjid=HaQFAAAAIBAJ&pg=1211,1841413&hl=en<br />Chris Palermohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17385444835824323364noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3912308714924865824.post-41292475987412993752011-12-15T21:26:21.098-08:002011-12-15T21:26:21.098-08:00Bruntz's "History of Los Gatos: Gem of th...Bruntz's "History of Los Gatos: Gem of the Foothills" gives more details. Sewall Brown started out with Howard Scott in 1925 as the "Scott and Brown Apricot Kernel Company"; both were employed by Sunsweet. The company was dissolved in May 1952 upon the death of Brown. They also had a branch plant in Santa Paula.Robert Bowdidgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14155962656525181088noreply@blogger.com