CALIFORNIA BRICKS

L.A.P.B.Co.

Donated by David Garcia

Brand name: L.A.P.B.Co.

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: Face brick

Description: Company name impressed in small letters with periods within a shallow rectangular frog. Screw impressions visible.

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: Hauled clay 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.

Comments or questions are welcomed.
Please send email to Dan Mosier at danmosier@earthlink.net.