CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: LAPBCO/1
Company: Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company.
Location: Office at 406-414 Frost Bldg., Second and Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles plant at 952 Date St.,
Los Angeles, CA.
Years: 1907-1925
Type: Fire brick
Description: Abbreviated company name impressed on the face with a number 1 beneath it. Wedge-shaped fire brick.
Equipment: Los Angeles Plant: 13 round, down-draft kilns, 4 terra cotta muffle kilns, 8 rectangular muffle kilns
Deposit: Alberhill fire clay deposit 20 ft. thick, overlain by 10 ft. of blue clay and some reddish plastic clay.
Comments: Merged with Gladding, McBean and Company in 1926. Hauled to Gypsum Station on the Santa Fe RR and to company
plant in Los Angeles. This company was established in 1887.
Source: California State Mining Bureau Bulletin 99, 1928, p. 101; California State Mining Bureau
Report 15, 1917, p. 494; Architect and Engineer, v. 28, no. 1, November 1909, p. 14; Architect and Engineer, v. 28, no. 2,
December 1909, p. 108-109.
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