Dwayne Rogers got into collecting crate labels like a lot of other folks attracted to this hobby: He grew up in the fruit business. Rogers’ family owned a pear farm near Auburn. As a young man, he ...

WINTER GARDEN – Like postcards from the past, old citrus crate labels tell the story of Central Florida. When orange-growing was king, the colorful artwork helped distinguish each brand of fruit ...

A Sno-Kist fruit crate label, shown here in a provided photo, from before 1918. The labels were used to advertise the iconic fruits of the Northwest before the advent of cardboard boxes. Before the ...

For decades, Orange County lived up to its name as a major producer of citrus, despite significant ups and downs, until the killer freezes of the 1980s. On cool winter nights during our citrus heydays ...

Eye-catching images depicting California as a paradise of health and sunshine blanketed the country during the state’s citrus heyday from the mid-1880s to 1955. Paper labels with vibrant colors were ...

Colorful orange crate labels are just about all that is left to remind us that once Tustin was the center of a thriving orange packing industry. When early Orange growers, such as Dr. William Burgess ...

Like boys everywhere in America, Jim Thielen collected baseball cards from the 1950s and 1960s. Then he unloaded them -- to his everlasting regret. “Sold them to my cousin,” said the 52-year-old ...

Larry Kotz has never been a farmer, but for decades he has been maintaining an antique collection that makes his den at home in Vernon, B.C., look like a lush orchard during harvest season. The ...

Budweiser is having a throwback moment for the holidays. The Anheuser-Busch company is slapping vintage labels on 1.6 million cases of Budweiser beer bottles. The vintage labels include the last ...