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Title: Firestone Tire & Rubber Co., South Gate, looking north
Alternative Title: Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Photo Collection
Creator: Kelly, Howard D
Contributor: Made accessible through a grant from the John Randolph Haynes and Dora Haynes Foundation
Date Created and/or Issued: 1955
Publication Information: Curlett & Beelman.; Kelly-Holiday
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Title supplied by cataloger.
Built on a 40-acre site which was part of a historic Spanish rancho granted to Don Antonio Lugo, the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant was designed by Architects Curlett & Beelman. The $7,000,000 plant, located at Santa Fe Avenue and Firestone Boulevard, manufactured its first tire in 1928. The factory closed in 1980.
Aerial view of the Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. plant located at 2525 Firestone Blvd. in the city of South Gate; view is looking north. Alameda St. is top left corner to bottom left; Santa Fe. Ave. curves from top left, behind the factory at center, down to lower right; Long Beach Blvd. is top middle, to middle right; Calden Ave., Beaudine Ave. Firestone Plaza and Tope Ave. run vertically at the forefront from middle to right; Firestone Blvd. is middle left to lower right. Construction to expand the plant is underway along center left. Photograph dated 1955.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;10 x 13 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00104511
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KH 125 C-1
CARL0005192885
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5964
Subject: Firestone Tire and Rubber Company
Building construction--California--South Gate
Industrial facilities--California--South Gate
Tire industry--California--South Gate
Warehouses--California--South Gate
Industries--California--South Gate
Dwellings--California--South Gate
Streets--California--South Gate
Parking lots--California--South Gate
Automobiles--California--South Gate
South Gate (Calif.)--Aerial views
South Gate (Calif.)
Aerial photographs

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