Ranch Style Factory
#1
Posted 23 July 2009 - 09:56 AM
Thanks,
John
#2
Posted 23 July 2009 - 03:01 PM
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#3
Posted 23 July 2009 - 07:33 PM
#4
Posted 27 July 2009 - 10:22 PM
Well, thanks for helping me to remember it. I was starting to wonder if I was imagining things.
If anyone happens across a photo showing the water tower, I'd like to see it again.
It was sort of a landmark back then.
John
#5
Posted 29 July 2009 - 12:01 PM
Thanks for the location. IIRC, it was painted to look like a giant can of beans. You can make out the top of it on HistoricAerials.com in the 1956-1979 images. By 1990 it's gone.
#6
Posted 23 November 2009 - 11:16 PM
ConAgra to close iconic Ranch Style Beans plant
Full Article Here
#7
Posted 24 November 2009 - 06:00 AM
#8
Posted 24 November 2009 - 10:36 AM
Yes, agreed. And Fort Worth isn't the only one. Corporate mergers have an homogenizing effect on products, and of course a monopololistic effect on pricing, but that is a federal issue I suppose. Are there precidents for local incubator/incentive programs for small business (non-tech) industry among US or even Texas cities. I know the SBA is out there and working within their funding resources, but what sort of matching local incentives are there if, for example, a group of local investors or a family wanted to put the bean plant back to use making a unique, local food product?
#9
Posted 19 June 2010 - 06:32 PM
#10
Posted 20 June 2010 - 10:55 AM
If you look closely at each location in the 1956 historicaerials.com image, both towers appear to be standing at that time.
#11
Posted 20 June 2010 - 04:58 PM
#12
Posted 21 June 2010 - 07:52 PM
New life for the plant was reported in the Star-Telegram last month:
The nearly century-old Ranch Style Beans plant off East Lancaster Avenue may soon become a vegetable canning operation for Arkansas-based Allens Canning Co., which could employ more than 100 workers at the idled facility.
Read more: http://www.star-tele...l#ixzz0rXi0JjEa
It looks like the City of Fort Worth is supporting the deal. And it looks like Allens completed the deal to buy the plant.
#13
Posted 09 July 2010 - 12:50 AM
#16
Posted 15 January 2016 - 11:42 AM
The Star Telegram has reported this evening of the factory's closing:
ConAgra to close iconic Ranch Style Beans plant
Full Article HereQUOTEWhen the last can rattles off the production line, the 96-year-old, 200,000-square-foot building with a six-story bean processing unit will be offered for sale. TAD values the property on East Lancaster near U.S. 287 at $3.9 million.
That link is gone.
#17
Posted 15 January 2016 - 11:45 AM
To the southeast of downtown was the Ranch Style Bean cannery building (owned by Great Western Foods, subsidiary of Waples-Platter). When you drove past the building on East Lancaster near the railroad underpass, (with the car windows down) you would notice an odor hat would be so bad you would hold your nose. My dad always said (as we passed the building) "that's where farts come from". That was the reason I would never eat those beans until I was an adult, and then discovered he was right.
#19
Posted 31 January 2016 - 11:37 AM
I didn't see this posted anywhere else, but it looks like the old bean cannery is becoming another local craft brewery: Wild Acre Brewing. It was announced early last year and I believe is expected to open early this year. Based on the list on the Rodeo City Steak House thread, perhaps we should start a beer thread.
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#20
Posted 11 March 2016 - 02:00 PM
Looks like a lot of work is going on here. Seen several of those barrel things (idk what they're called) being moved in, and it looks like some sort of patio is being built.
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