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1958 / 1950s
Sign reads “inspecting cling peaches. Gridley”GMC flat bed truck pulls through shed yard. Tractor with two flat bed trailers are pulled up to inspection in front of shed. Workers stand by and look at boxes. Shot broadens to show the GMC on the other side of the shed. Man pulls out a printed card that has grading code. CU of card. Man goes to side of GMC laden with boxes and points out other factors on card and others. He then climbs up the boxes and chalks a code on the side of the boxes. MS of men emptying a box of peaches onto a table that has a funnel at one end. Peaches are sorted and culled. Then peaches are pushed through funnel back into a box. CU various types of grading issues: Bruises can be measured; soft sections evaluated. Peaches sliced to show variability. MS of culled peaches (the unacceptable ones) are put into a bucket measured and weighed. Card filled out.