Re: LIFE Magazine Photos- PFE Reefers
bowie1793
That is not Bisbee Arizona as far as I am concerned. My wife and I are from Cochise County of which Bisbee is the county seat. The area is not farmland but was mining and cattle ranching. Union Ice was a Southern California business, Crystal Ice was the major manufacturer in Phoenix. The PFE had its ice manufacturing plant in Tucson.
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Joe Jacques --- On Sat, 11/22/08, Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> wrote:
From: Tim O'Connor <timboconnor@...> Subject: RE: [STMFC] RE: LIFE Magazine Photos- PFE Reefers To: STMFC@... Date: Saturday, November 22, 2008, 9:40 AM Is that photo really from Bisbee Arizona? I thought Bisbee was only a copper mining town. I can't find any information in the PFE book on an icing plant or large produce facility in Bisbee. The wide valley with background mountains looks more like Colton or some other California location... It's not unusual for photos on web sites to be misidentified. Tim O'Connor Courtesy of Bruce Morden from Carpenteria, CA, we have this link to aExtremely 'cool' shot (sorry, bad pun). Would these reefers have been iced BEFORE this loading was [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] |
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