In the early (1915) Sanborne maps, this was marked as the "Pacific Fruit Products Co."; on the 1915-1950 map, it is "Abinante and Nola". The Sanborn maps show that the building had four floors. The first floor was warehouse space; processing and fruit bins were on the second floor; the third and fourth floors help packing and grading. Sulphuring was done on the third floor. A separate boiler house, fuelled by oil from an underground tank, provided power and steam.
Beyond the Sanborn map details, I don't much about the place. The building no longer exists. (See Google Maps satellite view.) I do know that Abinante Nola was a prune processor and packer, and existed into the 1960s (when they opened a plant in Fairfield, CA). Pacific Fruit Products was another packing company; Eugene Sawyer's "History of Santa Clara County" from 1922 states that Pacific Fruit Products packed dried fruit under contract from the California Prune and Apricot Association -- also known as Sunsweet. (The reference to Pacific Fruit Products is in a biography of James Edwin Blaurock.)
The Model
I built my model using a Campbell "Tower's Flowers" warehouse kit as a starting point. The front and back walls were combined for the front of the new structure. As with most of the industries on my layout, it's large (about 20" in length), holds a reasonable number of cars (two boxcars and a tank car with oil), and uses materials typical of the Santa Clara Valley's industry of the 1930's.
