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Slauson Ave & Slauson/I-110 Metro J Line Station. Slauson Avenue is a major east–west thoroughfare traversing the central part of Los Angeles County, California.It was named for the land developer and Los Angeles Board of Education member J. S. Slauson.
California Steel Industries is a steel processing and finishing company that operates a facility near Fontana, California. The Fontana plant was built in 1942 by Kaiser Steel , which operated it until December 1983, when it was shuttered as part of the general termination of Kaiser's steel business. [ 1 ]
Almost simultaneously to the above expansion of U.S. Steel into the Far West, the first such acquisition of U.S. Steel west of Illinois and Alabama, Bethlehem Steel acquired the Pacific Coast Steel Company and the "independent" Consolidated Steel Corporation was formed by the merger of 3 Los Angeles based companies (the Llewellyn, Baker, and ...
Kaiser Steel, Fontana. Arcadia Publishing Library Editions. ISBN 978-1531628260. Compilation by a local historian of photos and personal accounts related to the mill. Davis, Mike (2018) [1990]. "7. Junkyard of Dreams". City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles. London: Verso. pp. 335– 394. ISBN 978-1-78663-589-1.
The Consolidated Steel Wilmington shipyard) in Wilmington, California was an emergency yard built in 1941 in the Port of Los Angeles West Basin after Consolidated Steel was awarded Maritime Commission contracts. At its peak, it employed 12,000 people, working on eight shipways on the 95-acre facility at 1100 W Harry Bridges Blvd, Wilmington.
It provided for the demolition of many famed Pacific Electric Railway red cars and Los Angeles Railway yellow cars as those public transit systems were eliminated in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Also, a number of the very heavy coal-fired Southern Pacific class AC-9 articulated locomotives were demolished here. For operational reasons, they ...
Brothers Reese Llewellyn, David Llewellyn, William Llewellyn, and John Llewellyn, of Amman Valley, Wales, [1] first organized the company in 1886. [2] The iron works, which had an anti-union leadership team, was bombed on Christmas Day 1910, most likely by Ortie McManigal, an associate of those responsible for the L.A. Times bombing two months earlier.
KCAA (1050 AM) is a commercial radio station located in Loma Linda, California, United States, broadcasting to the Inland Empire, with studios located at 1378 Industrial Park Avenue in Redlands. KCAA airs news, talk, music and brokered programming .