Name/Title
"Large Sales Room, Sentous Packing Co., Los Angeles, Cal.," ca. 1906.Entry/Object ID
2013.289.1.1Description
A postcard "Large Sales Room, Sentous Packing Co., Los Angeles, Cal.," ca. 1906. The image shows the multi-structure plant of the meat packing business, which opened in March 1906. The building at the right has the company name in large letters, this presumably being the sales room. A structure at the left has smoke stacks emerging from it and it was likely the slaughter and packing facility. Louis Sentous, born in France in 1839, came to Los Angeles first in 1859, left for a period and then returned in 1866. He ran a meat market with two brothers and then on his own, opening a plant at Aliso and Los Angeles streets in 1896. He had a wholesale butchery on North Main and then formed the Sentous Packing Company with a son-in-law, Ed Conet. The business was at 620 San Fernando Street. He also owned 1,800 acres of stock raising land on Rancho La Puente in present-day West Covina and Walnut on former Workman holdings and his brothers owned another 3,400 acres adjacent to it. Sentous sold his interest in the packing company in 1905 before it opened its new facility and then changed its name to Southwestern Packing Company. With heavy soiling and some edge abrasions, the condition is fair.Lexicon
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