Window of the Sperry Flour Company Window of the Sperry Flour Company on the N.W. corner of Chestnut and Laurel Streets. The manager, Eugene M. Van Antwerp, would travel up the San Lorenzo Valley to take orders. He used carrier pigeons to send the orders back to the store in Santa Cruz. The items would be delivered the next day. Source of information: Museum of Natural History Directory, 1924.
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Window of the Sperry Flour Company on the N.W. corner of Chestnut and Laurel Streets. The manager, Eugene M. Van Antwerp, would travel up the San Lorenzo Valley to take orders. He used carrier pigeons to send the orders back to the store in Santa Cruz. The items would be delivered the next day. Source of information: Museum of Natural History Directory, 1924.
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