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Title: B.F. Goodrich plant, Commerce, looking northwest
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: 1957
Publication Information: 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.
In 1927, the Pacific Goodrich Rubber Company made an initial investment of $4 million dollars for a plant that was to be located on a 45-acre tract known as the Union Pacific Tract. The main building fronted about 1200 feet along the south side of Mines Ave. (now Olympic Blvd.) just east of Industrial St. (now Goodrich Blvd.) and was 250 feet wide.
Aerial view of the B. F. Goodrich plant, located at 5400 E. Olympic Boulevard (formerly Mines Ave.), and the corner of Goodrich Boulevard (formerly Industrial St.); view is looking north. The intersection of the Santa Ana (5) Freeway (middle left to bottom right corner), Telegraph Road (paralleling the freeway), Atlantic Blvd. (slightly left of center, curving up middle), and the Union Pacific tracks (horizontally lower middle) is visible at lower left. Goodrich Blvd. is slightly left of lower center to upper right and Olympic Blvd. is horizontally at middle behind the B.F. Goodrich factory plant (center right). Photograph dated December 3, 1957.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;11 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00101457
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 442-5
CARL0005149628
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/6233
Subject: B.F. Goodrich Company
Industrial facilities--California--Commerce
Rubber industry and trade--California--Commerce
Railroad tracks--California--Commerce
Express highways--California, Southern
Tire industry--California--Commerce
Warehouses--California--Commerce
Industries--California--Commerce
Railroads--California--Commerce
Streets--California--Commerce
Commerce (Calif.)--Aerial views
Commerce (Calif.)
Interstate 5
Aerial photographs

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