Whitney’s Cannery – customers preparing ingredients, CH Sugar boxes on table – 1958
Courtesy Shelly Bigley, Old Market Pub and Brewery
Mark and Leona Whitney and the Whitney Cannery, 1950-1976
Mark and Leona Whitney and the Whitney Cannery, 1950-1976
Whitney’s Cannery – customers preparing ingredients, CH Sugar boxes on table – 1958
Courtesy Shelly Bigley, Old Market Pub and Brewery
Garden Home History Project 
I believe that is Melba Cook on the right, middle lady. In 1965-66, after retuning from the Navy, I worked part time at Whitney’s Cannery. One of my jobs was mixing hot batches of sugar (50 lb. bags) syrup in a large vat and pouring it into the cans of fruit when they came down the line just before being sealed and going through the cooking bath. A fellow worker and I made wooden pallets for Mark Whitney that he used to stack the commercial canned fruit and large bins of pears covered with a tarp to ripen. I also remember going one time with Mark & Doug (son) to the Monastery in McMinnville to deliver several pallets of gallon cans of fruit and vegetables.
Comments by Bob Day (GH resident 1943-59 & 2004-2015).
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As a high school student, our son John delivered flowers for Mrs. Whitney. In the pre-computer era, he would call us to say he was at a certain street in Milwaukie perhaps, “Where am I?” Elaine Shreve