Editing Hayward, California (section)

===Former businesses===
====Hunt Brothers Cannery====
The economy of Hayward in the first half of the twentieth century was based largely on the [[Hunt's|Hunt Brothers Cannery]]. The cannery was opened in Hayward in 1895 by brothers William and Joseph Hunt, who were fruit packers originally from [[Sebastopol, California|Sebastopol]], California.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hunts.com/hunts_story.jsp |title=Hunt's corporate website |website=Hunts.com |access-date=November 13, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903052152/http://www.hunts.com/hunts_story.jsp |archive-date=September 3, 2011  }}</ref> The Hunts initially packed local fruit, including cherries, peaches, and apricots, then added tomatoes, which became the mainstay of their business. At its height in the 1960s and 1970s, Hunt's operated three canneries in Hayward, at A, B, and C Streets; an adjacent can-making company; a pickling factory; and a glass manufacturing plant. From the 1890s until its closure in 1981, Hunt's employed a large percentage of the local population. The air around Hayward was permeated by the smell of tomatoes for three months of each year, during the canning season. The canneries closed in 1981, as there were no longer enough produce fields or fruit orchards near the cannery to make it economically viable. Much of the production was moved to the [[Sacramento Valley]]. The location of the former canneries is marked by a historic water tower with the Hayward logo.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.hayward-ca.gov/citygov/meetings/cca/rp/2004/rp110904-05.pdf|title=City of Hayward Agenda Report - 5|date=11 September 2004|website=www.hayward.ca.gov|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100719095355/http://www.hayward-ca.gov/citygov/meetings/cca/rp/2004/rp110904-05.pdf|archive-date=19 July 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> A housing development now occupies much of the former cannery site.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=OKTB&p_theme=oktb&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F99329B642D7DAE&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM | work=Oakland Tribune, The | title=Housing OK'd for Hayward cannery site | date=December 21, 2001}}</ref>

====Gillig Corporation====

[[Gillig]], a bus manufacturer, was located in Hayward for more than 80 years before moving to [[Livermore, California|Livermore]] in 2017.<ref name="EBTimes-2017may19">{{cite news|last=Ruggiero|first=Angela|title=Final day in Hayward as bus manufacturing titan Gillig heads to Livermore|newspaper=[[East Bay Times]]|date=May 19, 2017|url=http://www.eastbaytimes.com/2017/05/19/final-day-in-hayward-as-bus-manufacturing-titan-gillig-heads-to-livermore/|access-date=June 18, 2017}}</ref>

====Other former businesses====
Much of the Bay coastal territory of Hayward was turned into salt ponds, with [[Oliver Salt Company|Oliver Salt]] and [[Leslie Salt]] operating there.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-m-z/pumping/-91-archimedes-screw-pump-%281890%29 |title=History – Biographies, Landmarks, Patents |publisher=ASME |access-date=January 8, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121127084253/http://www.asme.org/about-asme/history/landmarks/topics-m-z/pumping/-91-archimedes-screw-pump-(1890) |archive-date=November 27, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.haywardareahistory.org/collection/18-salt_photos |title=Salt Photos – Collection » Hayward Area Historical Society |website=Haywardareahistory.org |access-date=December 17, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110914002753/http://www.haywardareahistory.org/collection/18-salt_photos |archive-date=September 14, 2011  }}</ref> Much of this land has in recent years been returned to [[salt marshes]]. A 1983 image of the ponds appears on a 2012 U.S. postage stamp.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_21657101/hayward-photo-by-berkeley-photographer-chosen-stamp |title=Hayward photo by Berkeley photographer chosen for stamp |publisher=Inside Bay Area |access-date=January 8, 2013}}</ref> The [[Mervyns]] department store chain was headquartered in Hayward until it declared bankruptcy in 2008.