The Puritan Ice Companies

The Puritan Ice Companies
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Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages : 207
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ISBN-10 : 9781614238096
ISBN-13 : 161423809X
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Book Synopsis The Puritan Ice Companies by : David Petry

Download or read book The Puritan Ice Companies written by David Petry and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise and fall of a California business in an era of rapid technological change—includes historic photos. The Puritan Ice Companies operated at Santa Barbara, California, from 1922 to 1986, opening the vegetable markets in the Santa Maria and Lompoc Valleys to wide distribution by pioneering the use of refrigerated railcars. Puritan ran the world’s largest poultry plant and, during the World War II homefront era of the 1940s, was pivotal in facilitating Mexican labor in California, expanding vegetable and melon markets at Blythe, and providing ice for General Patton’s Army Desert Training Center near Indio. The rise and fall of one company parallels stories of domestic ice usage and the impact of ice on the rail business, which declined with the rise of interstate refrigerated trucking. Join Santa Barbara historian David Petry as he examines the history of one unique Central Coast corporation’s impact on the national scene.


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