Although it’s an east coast company, some of the H. J. Heinz descendants were in southern California.
Image of text: from 1974 Los Angeles Times article at http://articles.latimes.com/2004/oct/27/nation/na-teresa27/3 .
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Image: selections from 1939 Heinz brochure commemorating 70 years of company history.