David Petry

Puritan Ice Companies: The Ice Empire of California's Central Coast (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781614238096
• Artikelnr.: 43076559

Autorenporträt

David Petry is a historian, technical writer and journalist. He wrote The Best Last Place: A History of the Santa Barbara Cemetery and enjoys telling offbeat stories of Santa Barbara County history.