CALIFORNIA BRICKS

CITY BRICK CO.

Donated by David Garcia

Brand name: CITY BRICK Co.

Company: City Brick Co.

Location: Plant at 1900 West Manchester Ave. (now 86th St.) and Western St., and office at 4354 West Third St., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, CA

Years: 1922-1928

Type: Common brick

Description: Brand name with raised block letters within a shallow rectangular frog.

Equipment: Scrapers, incline tram, hopper, disintegrator, pug mill, soft-mud six-brick press, drying sheds, rope conveyors, gas-fired open kilns.

Deposit: Surface deposit of loose, sandy loam, worked by a shallow pit.

Comments: Not to be confused with an earlier company in Los Angeles by the same name which operated in Chavez Canyon, Los Angeles.

Source: California State Mining Bureau 12th Annual Report of the State Mineralogist, 1894, p. 381; California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 100; California State Division of Mines Bulletin 102, 1929, p. 169; Los Angeles City Directories 1922 to 1928.

For further details about this company, see City Brick Company (Manchester Ave. Plant), Los Angeles.

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