Made in Ontario Business Series: Graber Olive House
Once a month the City of Ontario will give you a sneak peek into one of our many businesses here in the City. The new Made in Ontario Business Series provides our community with testimonials from our business leaders on why Ontario is the most business-friendly city in Southern California and how Ontario is strategically located for business success and is the perfect place where you can live, work and play. Thank you to Cliff Graber and Robert Graber for participating in this business series!
[Wikipedia] Graber Olive House
The Graber Olive House in Ontario in the U.S. state of California is the oldest operating olive packer in the United States.
In 1894, two years after planting olive trees in Ontario, CC Graber began selling vat cured olives. The house is a historical site.
On a tree-shaded residential street in Ontario sits the city's oldest business, one that blends so well into the neighborhood you would hardly know it's there.
The Graber Olive House has been an Ontario institution since 1894, two years after Clifford C. Graber and his brother, Charles, arrived from Clay City, Ind. Then only 19, Clifford Graber began growing citrus on his newly acquired acreage.
Delighting in the taste of the locally grown olives cured by neighboring ranchers, he started curing his own. They proved so popular that he soon launched a small- scale business. In the beginning, his wife, Georgia Belle Noe, whom he married in 1905, sold fresh olives right out of the vats used to hold the olives after they'd been picked.
By 1910, Graber had developed his own rope-propelled contraption for grading the olives by size. He also began canning them. A decade later, seeking to expand his operations, he planted his trademark Manzanilla olive tree's in Hemet.
In 1934, Graber enlarged his cannery on the Ontario site. Nine years later, sons Robert and William took over the business, although Cliff remained active until his death in1955 at age 83. By 1963 Robert (Bob) Graber, who was born in the wood-frame family house on the Graber Olive property in Ontario, had become sole proprietor of the business.
Bob Graber and his wife, Betty, continued to work in the family business along with their son Cliff, who lives in the family home.
In 1963, Bob Graber moved the growing operation to 75 acres of olive groves in the San Joaquin Valley near Porterville, where it remains.
It is from Porterville that the company's olives are trucked south to Ontario during the harvest season, which lasts about two months each fall.
Our olives are unique because they are tree-ripened before they are picked, said Flo Duncan, personnel director for Graber Olive House.
Once at the Ontario site, the olives are graded by size, then cured in one of 550 concrete vats for three weeks. Water and salt solutions are changed daily. After they are removed from the vats, the olives are fed through a filling wheel, where employees scoop them by hand into aluminum cans running on a conveyer belt. We are not computerized here, said Duncan with a touch of pride.
A Panama paddle packer machine creates a 200-degree steam bath as cans are sealed tight with aluminum lids. Giant pressure cookers called retorts then pressurize the cans and their contents for 62 minutes at 242 degrees. After the cans cool, a labeling machine applies their identifications and sizes from the smallest (12) to the largest (16).
In a little more than three weeks, Graber Olives progress from tree to can. In a good season, the business processes about 150 tons of olives, which they ship to markets and gourmet stores around the world, Duncan said.
Although canning season lasts about two months (October and November) at most, Graber Olive House is open year round for tours of the plant. The residence itself is not part of the tour. Two gift shops on the premisses sell olives and related gift items.
Docents are available to give tours at all times, although groups of more than 10 are advised to call ahead.
Hours of operation are 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Canning operations are in full swing Saturday's and Sunday's during our season (fall). A small museum on the grounds offers glimpses of Ontario life circa 1900 through photographs, farm implements, old canning labels and other memorabilia.
The Graber Olive House grounds, at 315 E. 4th street, may be rented for private functions. For more information, call (800)-996-5483.
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Graber-Olive House EVPs (7/13/13)
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Some Class-C EVPs we captured at the Graber-Olive House in Ontario, CA on 7/13/13.
Lead Investigators were Christiane, Christine, and Don Staggs.
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Having lived on the East Coast all my life, my visions of California were fraught with surfer dudes, bikinis, beautiful beaches, Hollywood celebrities, and rappers with guns driving around in shiny Rolls Royce's.
After spending a bit of time in Ontario, California, all of that changed. Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed my visit to Ontario. In my opinion, some of the typical Cali stereotypes still apply. For starters, the people were super friendly. I didn't hear anybody say right on but a few random strangers did say good morning and hello to me.
I didn't see Paris Hilton or Lindsay Lohan, but I did see lots of fashionable people at the Ontario Mills shopping mall.
I wasn't able to visit Grauman's Chinese Theatre but I did visit the olive vat room at Graber Olive House. Who knew that Ontario, California was home to the oldest operating olive packer in the United States?
Once I arrived in Ontario, I realized I wasn't that close to the highlife of LA. I wanted to know a few things to do in Ontario, so I grabbed the local newspaper from the hotel. Even though the hotel was located just outside Ontario International Airport (ONT) there were a few things within walking distance. The front desk even provided me with an Ontario, California map!
For an inland California city, Ontario was pretty bustling. There were lots of restaurants, shopping malls, and apartments. When I was walking around, I noticed that lots of business in the Ontario area were hiring. Ontario, California Jobs! I'm not sure about houses for sale, but Ontario seemed to have quite a nice stock of luxury residential homes.
Initially, I was disappointed that Ontario was so far from Hollywood and LA. When we landed, I was asking myself, where is Ontario CA? Just when I was quietly wondering, I heard the girl behind me say, Where is Ontario California? It's clear that Ontario isn't the most popular place in California. But it's a cool city and I'm glad I visited!
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