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Title
Sylmar Packing Corporation
Alternative Title
Valley Times Photo Collection
Contributor
This project was supported in whole or in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered in California by the State Librarian
Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation and Photo Friends
Date Created and/or Issued
1950
Contributing Institution
Los Angeles Public Library
Collection
Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information
Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description
The Sylmar Packing Corporation, which was located at 448 South Hill Street in Sylmar, handled the product of the largest olive grove in the world and was once the largest industry in Sylmar. It was demolished in 1958 and there is no Hill Street in Sylmar today, but there is a Hill Crest Avenue and a Hillside Drive, both north of a street still called Olive View Drive.
A view of the Sylmar Packing Corporation - Sylmar Plant, a fully functioning business of more than 150 workers before its demolition in 1958. No further information has been provided.
Type
image
Format
1 photographic print : b&w ; 21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier
00032915
Valley Times Collection
HCNVT_d041_f35_i29
CARL0000035805
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/41683
Subject
Sylmar Packing Corporation (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Olive industry and trade
Olive--Processing
Packing-houses
Street-railroad tracks
Lost architecture
Sylmar (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period
1950-1959

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