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Title: Gladding, McBean and Company
Alternative Title: Security Pacific National Bank Photo Collection
Date Created and/or Issued: 1924
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: Initially built in 1901 for the Art Tile Factory, Gladding, McBean and Company purchased the facility on Los Feliz Boulevard in 1922. The factory remained open until 1985 and was eventually demolished. A shopping center, containing restaurants, a Costco, Toys R Us, and Best Buy, was later built on the site.
Aerial view of Gladding, McBean and Company (formerly Tropico Potteries), located in Atwater Village.
Type: image
Format: 1 photograph :b&w
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00047002
Security Pacific National Bank Collection
Industries-Ceramics; G-001-999 4x5
CARL0000051903
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/102386
Subject: Gladding, McBean and Company
Ceramics factories--California--Los Angeles
Ceramic industries--California--Los Angeles
Ceramics--California--Los Angeles
Industrial facilities--California--Los Angeles
Lost architecture--California--Atwater Village (Los Angeles)
Aerial photographs
Griffith Park (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Los Feliz Boulevard (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Atwater Village (Los Angeles, Calif.)
Time Period: 1921-1930

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