Packing Houses, Packing Sheds and Other Industrial Structures in Central and Northern California

Historic Packing Houses, Packing Sheds and Other Industrial Structures
in Central and Northern California

Contributing Photographers:
Paul Ayers, Bob Chaparro, Gene Deimling, Keith Jordan, Jim Lancaster, Gene Martin, Bill Messecar,
Cliff Prather, Carl Rodolf, Randy Sunada, John Signor and Joseph Stearns.

Web Page Created June 2, 2004
Last Updated August 25, 2007

This is Version 2 and was installed on August 24, 2007.
It is a work-in-progress and replaces Version 1 created in 2004.

Contents

The images are now divided into five groups with each group on its own web page. Click on the header to open the page (except for the Eastside Lines page which is not yet available).

The image locations are listed south to north geographically within each group. New pages to be added or pages with new photos to be added are identified by New. When the pages or photos have been added the date will be shown in orange font.

Bakersfield to Stockton on the Southern Pacific

Edison New
Famoso New
Selma New
Fowler New
Mendota
Firebaugh
Atwater
Turlock

Bakersfield to Stockton on the Santa Fe

Shafter
Wasco

Pond

Hanford

Fresno

Merced

Riverbank

Eastside Lines: Southern Pacific, Santa Fe and Visalia Electric New

The Eastside Lines page will contain very extensive coverage and will be available in a few months. In the interim you can see some of the Eastside Lines packing houses at Richgrove, Sunland, Porterville Junction, Lindsay, Hillmaid and Orange Cove by going to California Packing Houses with Sawtooth, Factory-style Roofs.

Richgrove New
Ducor New
Terra Bella New
Ultra New
Magnolia New
Sunland New
Porterville Jct. New
Porterville New
Euclid New
Strathmore New
Lindsay New
Neil New
Exeter New
Visalia New
Ivanhoe New
Hillmaid/East Redbanks New
Woodlake New
Redbanks New
Rayo New
Cutler New
East Orosi New
Orange Cove New
Sultana New
Dinuba New
North Dinuba New
Reedley New
LacJac New
Parlier New
Del Rey New
Lone Star New
Mattei New
Sanger New

North of Stockton

Acampo Added 8/24/07
Lodi New
Loomis

Miscelaneous Locations

Santa Maria
Santa Rosa

Visit the companion web site:

Historic Packing Houses and Other Industrial Structures in Southern California

Other Photos and Related Resources

Ken Hairstine has photos of packing houses from Winters, CA and the Victorville portion of Lodi, CA. The reuse of any of Ken's images for non-commercial use is subject to the conditions described by the Creative Commons License.

You can search for historic buildings on the Library of Congress HABS/HAER web site by visiting the Home Page.

If you have any comments or questions please feel free to contact me at ljames1at (i.e., @) ix.netcom.com (no spaces).