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Title: Firestone Boulevard and Otis Avenue, South Gate, looking south
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: 1956
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.
Pabco became Fiberboard Paper effective May 1, 1956.
Aerial view of Pabco Products Corporation plant, located at 4231 Firestone Boulevard (horizontally, middle) in the city of South Gate; view is looking south. Otis Avenue runs vertically (bottom right to middle top), and the Southern Pacific Transportation Company railroad runs horizontally at the extreme forefront. Identifiable streets include (vertically, l to r): Bryson Avenue, Alexander Avenue, Bowman Avenue, McNerney Avenue, Otis Avenue, and Mallison Avenue; and (horizontally, bottom to top): Independence Avenue, Firestone Boulevard, Southern Avenue, Duane Way, Missouri Avenue and Tweedy Boulevard, to name a few. Photographed for Fiberboard Paper on October 2, 1956.
Type: image
Format: 1 negative :safety ;12 x 14 cm.
Photographic safety negatives
Identifier: 00089581
Kelly-Holiday Mid-Century Aerial Collection
KHAF 301-8
CARL0004952517
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/5101
Subject: Southern Pacific Transportation Company
Industrial facilities--California--South Gate
Warehouses--California--South Gate
Industries--California--South Gate
Railroads--California--South Gate
Streets--California--South Gate
South Gate (Calif.)
South Gate (Calif.)--Aerial views
Aerial photographs
Time Period: 1951-1960

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