Overview

This branch of the Wheeling, WV-based glass manufacturing company opened in 1929. The firm operated a sales office in San Francisco during the late 1930s.

Building History

A consolidation of two WV glass companies, the Atlas Glass and Metal Company and the Hazel Glass Company occurred in 1902, with the new Hazel-Atlas Glass Company making its headquarters in Wheeling, WV. It initially had three glass-manufacturing facilities in Washington, PA, one in Clarksburg, WV, and a metal-working plant in Wheeling, WV. Over the years, the company's mason jars, lidded containers and decorative glassware sold briskly, allowing it to buy up smaller glass manufacturers elsewhere. The Oakland factory opened in 1929, the same year as a facility began operation in Lawrence, NY. By the late 1930s, Hazel-Atlas had 15 factories across the US, producing supplies for economizing Americans canning their own garden produce.

In 1951, the Hazel-Atlas Glass Company was one of the top three glass container manufacturers in the US, maintaining 13 plants across the US. Hazel-Atlas experienced financial reversals by the mid-1950s, and the giant metal container maker, the Continental Can Company, attempted to purchase Hazel-Atlas on 09/13/1956, but US Supreme Court blocked the sale as a violation of the Sherman Anti-trust Act. Continental sold all of its Hazel-Atlas holdings, (save for a new Plainsfield, IL plant erected in 1957), to the Brockway Glass Company in 1964, including its plants in Pomona, CA, and Oakland, CA.

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