Sacramento Redevelopment: Old Sacramento 1968

Description: This film reel content is a promotional film for the California Sugar Beet Growers, advocating for the use for beet sugar over cane sugar. The film features several California companies. One of the companies featured in the film was The Spreckels Sugar Company which began in 1896 by Claus Spreckels. The company grew to have four sugar factories across California, and control over most of the sugar coming out of Hawai'i, becoming an important economic force that thrived despite the Depression in the 1930s and disease affecting the sugar beet plants across the state. The prosperity of the sugar company contributed to the personal wealth of Claus Spreckels and his sons John D. Spreckels and Adolph Spreckels, who were influential in the infrastructure and transportation development of the cities of San Francisco, San Diego and Coronado, CA. Presented by: Spreckels Suger Co. American Crystal Sugar Co. Holly Sugar Corp. California Sugar Beet Growers