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Letter from Paul Ecke Jr. to Kozuio Sugimoto
Letter from Paul Ecke Jr. to Kozuio Sugimoto regarding prospects in the San Fernando Valley.
Early days of field-grown production
Paul Ecke Sr. (left).
Transportation truck at Ecke Ranch
Lower right: Paul Ecke Sr.. The truck would head to the Encinitas Train Station to ship boxes of bare root poinsettias. Customers would plant them and they would grow into large plants. Cut poinsettias would then be harvested from them.
Paul Ecke Ranch Employees Photograph (group)
Group picture of employees
Workers in the greenhouse
Workers in the greenhouse
Paul Ecke Jr. (left) and Thony Maurer
Paul Ecke Jr. and Thony Maurer (Magdalena Ecke's brother) at Barn 1, Paul Ecke Ranch in Encinitas. Boxes in the background are filled with bare root poinsettias to be sent by rail car across the country. The large scale on the right was used to weigh…
Paul Ecke III and the Flower Fields Alliance
From left to right: Joel Goldsmith, Joseph Fischer, Faith Savage (employee), Paul Ecke III, Tom Doak and Richard Goldsmith.
Spring Flower Trial
From left to right: Andy Higgins (President, Paul Ecke Ranch, Paul Ecke de Guatemala), PEG employee, Andor Gerendas (head engineer, PEG), grower PEG, and Byron Calderon, (general manager, PEG).
Unidentified industry event
From left to right: Jim Mellano of Mellano and Company, Maureen Ecke (Paul Jr.'s wife), and Paul Ecke Jr. First the right: Bob Otsuka, market manager for the San Francisco Flower Market, H. Michael Mellano of Mellano and Company, ?, Monica Mellano,…
Spring Flower Trial at Goldsmith Seeds, Gilroy
Goldsmith employees and members of the Flower Fields Alliance.
Paul Ecke Jr. at the Flower Auction, Carlsbad
Paul Ecke Jr. at Flower Auction in the San Diego International Floral Trade Center, Carlsbad.
Paul Ecke Jr. at the San Diego International Floral Trade Center, Carlsbad
Paul Ecke Jr. at the San Diego International Floral Trade Center, Carlsbad. The Center was owned and developed by Carltas, the Ecke family real estate company.
Paul Ecke III's residence, Santa Clara, CA
Paul Ecke III's backyard in Santa Clara, when he worked for Hewlett Packard.
Rooted poinsettia cuttings in trays
Rooted poinsettia cuttings in trays going from greenhouse to barn to be packed up for shipping.
Dipping poinsettia bare root stock in a mercury based bath (presumably) before shipping
Picture taken south of the Encinitas Ranch House (in the background).