National Label history

In 1853, he dispatched Christopher A. Shelton to California with a large inventory of stock for the nursery, which the Santa Clara Valley desperately lacked.

The 1876 map of the area around the Alameda and Stockton Avenue shows the diversity of activity in the neighborhood.

Rambo was born in San Jose in 1894 and grew up on a prune orchard near present-day Cupertino.

Built in 1904, the Jose Theater was one of the city’s most popular Vaudeville stages and movie houses.

The Pure Food and Drug Act, passed in 1906, created a federal agency charged with protecting the nation’s consumers, today called the Food and Drug Administration.

Binder designed San Jose’s first steel frame building, the 7-story Garden City Bank Building, which was completed in 1907.

The Montgomery Hotel opened in 1911.

Del Monte was the premium brand marketed by the California Fruit Canners Association, which became part of the California Packing Corporation in 1916.

Sketch of child with geese, Ralph Rambo, 1930.

Santa Clara, CA: Published by the author, 1965.

He held the title of Art Director until his retirement in 1966.

Ralph Rambo wrote that Bentley was “a gay blade with irresistible personality and charm” who “had the inherent propensity of combining successful business transactions with the joy of living.” Robert Bentley died in 1968 at the age of 80.

Santa Clara, CA: Published by the author, 1970.

San Jose, CA: Rosicrucian Press, 1973.Plant Life: A Rambling Treatise on the rearing and early culture of a common indoor plan (Muirson labellus) / by Homer Sapiens.

San Jose, CA: Smith-McKay Printing, 1975.Map of Santa Clara County Ranchos: a delineation of Spanish-Mexican government land grants on ranchos and pueblo sites in early Santa Clara Valley.

San Jose, CA: Rosicrucian Press, in cooperation with the San Jose Historical Museum Association, 1987.Lady of Mystery / edited by William R. Rambo, illustrations by the author.

The NLEA’s requirements for the content of the nutrition label were very similar to those in FDA’s 1990 proposal except that the NLEA included complex carbohydrates and sugars in the list of required nutrients.

That campaign changed food labeling and marketing dramatically, as other companies, in the absence of regulatory action, began making similar claims (Geiger, 1998).

The theater reopened as the home of the San Jose Improv in late 2001.

The Muirson buildings, listed as Structures of Merit on the City of San Jose Historic Resources Inventory, were razed in 2003, despite the efforts of local preservationists to save them.