CALIFORNIA BRICKS
Brand name: LAPBCo (Red)
Company: Los Angeles Pressed Brick Company, merged with Gladding, McBean and Company in 1926.
Location: Office at 406-414 Frost Bldg., Second and Broadway, Los Angeles, CA. Los Angeles plant at 952 Date St., Los Angeles, CA; Alberhill plant, Riverside County, CA.
Years: 1907-1925
Type: Red pressed brick
Description: Brand name impressed within a shallow rectangular frog.
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 to Gypsum Station on the Santa Fe RR and to company plant in Los Angeles. The Santa Monica plant at
Colorado Ave. and 25th St., Santa Monica, CA, produced common brick. This company also produced roofing tile, hollow
tile, mantel tile, vitrified paving brick, enamel brick, terra cotta, salt glazed conduits.
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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