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Overview

This large automobile tire factory of the Akron, OH-based Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, opened in 06/1920. It operated until about 1980 on a 74-acre site. A nearby housing tract for tire company workers was known as "Goodyear Gardens."

Building History

A writer for the magazine, Golden West, reported of the economic development catalyzed in South Los Angeles by the construction of the Goodyear plant and its surrounding housing community in 1920: "The writer recently made a brief visit to the southern part of Los Angeles, lying in the vicinty of the Goodyear Rubber Company plant. For many blocks in every direction numerous improvements are being made and the demand for all kinds of real estate indicates that the development of that part of Los Angeles is but in its earliest infancy." (See "California Briefs," Golden West Semi-Monthly Magazine, vol. 2, no. 6, 09/01/1920, p. 23.)

Building Notes

The trade publication, the India Rubber World, said of the Goodyear plant in 1922: "The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company of California, Los Angeles, is getting ready for quantity production on its new 30 by 3 1/2 cross rib cord tire, a single-cure product, which will be sold at 25 per cent less to consumers than the all-weather fabric tire of the same size. The California factory is running at better capacity than a year ago, and the chances are this will be increased shortly. The stock of the company has recently scored an advance, as has that of the Goodyear Textile Mills." (See "The Rubber Trade on the Pacific Coast," India Rubber World, vol. 66, no. 3, 06/01/1922, p. 634.)

PCAD id: 20879