Blue Goose

Company History: In 1945 the California Fruit Exchange (est. 1901) built a fruit packing shed located at Taylor and King Roads in Loomis. It was one of many in the region processing fruit. By the end of the 1950’s orchards occupied every usable acre of land at this end of Placer County. Peaches, plums and pears were brought in all summer from local farmers. The fruit was sorted, packed and shipped nationwide over the next three decades.

The last use of the Blue Goose was by the Loomis Fruit Growers Association. Fruit was picked, sorted and packed on each ranch and then delivered to the Association dock to be cooled and compiled into rail car shipments. The Association closed the doors in 2001. By then it was one of only three fruit sheds remaining in the Loomis Basin. They had already given the keys to the non- profit South Placer Heritage Foundation (SPHF) and put the care of the historic building into their hands.