PCAD - Chrysler Corporation, Production Facility, South Montebello, City of Commerce, CA

AKA: Chrysler Corporation, Manufacturing Plant, South Montebello, City of Commerce, CA

5800 Eastern Avenue
South Montebello, City of Commerce, CA 90040

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The City of Commerce Chrysler Plant stood near the intersection of Eastern Avenue and Slauson Avenue.

Overview

This Chrysler Corporation production plant began operations in 1932, and continued producing cars until 1971. According to one source, the sprawling plant exerted a huge economic impact on the City of Commerce: "By 1965, the plant, took up 86 acres and was making 57 cars per hour, nearly one per minute. 2,100 employees worked in the plant itself, and $14 million went to 75 local companies." (See L.A.T.E., Who Knew #8 L.A.'s Booming Auto Industry a Thing of the Past, accessed 11/05/2015.)

PCAD id: 19855

Chrysler Corporation, Production Facility, South Montebello, City of Commerce, CA (1932)