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19 February 2006 Peg Price

Farmer John's Meats

1102 W. Grant

I don't know the history of this now-closed plant but the sign and the cinder block mural that borders the property are worth the trip to see.
... "Mentioned in the book 'Twentieth Century Folk Art Of The Americas', Australian-born artist Leslie Grimes arrived in California in 1928, where he worked as a scenery painter at the Fox and Charlie Chaplin studios. The former wrestler painted under contract from the Clougherty Meat Packing Company in the 1960s, on their plants in L.A., Fresno, Phoenix and Tucson, thus explaining the wall of Farmer John's Meats.... Most of the paint was laid on with rollers and huge brushes...." Excerpt from a 1990's TUCSON WEEKLY article


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PC 22-Feb-2010 22:02
I remember as a little girl in the late 1960's coming from Nogales, Son. to pick up my mother who was living in Tucson at the time to support our entire family; 8 kids, my grandmother, and a drunken father. She worked at a place near by assembling coolers I do believe the place was called Krueger's but I am not sure anymore. I was very young then. My mother looked happy everytime she saw us. She is now gone but the memory of having my mother back at least for the weekend stands strong.