Olives anyone?

I have never really liked olives - there is something to be said for

those black and sometimes bitter little guys...

But a week ago my girls and I and their GS troop went to the local

Graber Olive House in Upland and got to see their whole system and can I see

when you step back into it you really feel like you are part of that time...

I mean it is really run the way things were run back in the late 1800's..

mostly by hand...

here is a little tour...

this is the line up where the olives are sorted

the packed and canned olives

the vats where the olives are are washed and soaked

a huge scale - yikes I walked clear around that baby!

where the olives are packed

look at those huge machines so vintage and controlled by hand...

cool right?

Love this vintage  - old-school clock-in area...

all the cans waiting to be labeled

vintage OSHA posters {swoon}

and also - right outside the packing area was the bookkeeping & accoutning dept...with two little grey haired ladies working their way through the day and get this NO COMPUTERS coolness

BTW- we all LOVEd the green olives they served us here...

who'da thunk it!

also, did you know that those BLACK olives are totally dyed???

YUCK!

here's to you and your adventures...

xo

tina