A lost art: crate labels for fruit & veg companies

You've gotta stand out somehow, so these brands each tried something different from the usual scenes of sunlit lemon groves. All are from California in the early 1940s, most likely before US entry into World War II, except for Buckingham which is from the 1920s.

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I collect old postcards with pictures of trolleys. This one was tempting, but the asking price of $129 (!) is a bit steep for an old postcard. Nothing to stop me from grabbing the scan off of eBay and sharing it with you guys though.

This shows tracks of the Watsonville Transportation company at Port Watsonville, CA (there is a still a place by that name, but it seems to have migrated a few miles north along the beach). There's a Wikipedia page with a map of the exact spot: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watsonville_Traction_Company

The WTC was an electric railway that ran from Watsonville to the ocean. It's main function was to get agricultural products onto boats, but they also ran excursions to the beach, where there was a dance hall.

I have a webpage showing postcards that I *do* own here: http://trainweb.org/trolleypostcards/

That's some authentic 1990's handcoded html there, too. It started out on #geocities

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