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Old Posted Aug 2, 2014, 11:03 AM
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Seeing as we've had "A Carload of Parfay", I went back to USC and found "A Truckload of Formay" - the product that started the Swift & Company discussion. I Googled "Wolf & Burk's Market Spot", and searched the City Directories, but got no results. The image is dated 1933.


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For e_r, here's a better picture of the Formay smokestack. It's part of a set of five photos called "View of refinery exteriors, Southern California, 1934". The letters appear to have neon tubes, so it must've lit up at night.


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And for Earl Boebert and Wig-Wag, here's another Swift refrigerator car. This one's got a "Carload of Swift's Brookfield mayonnaise for Peninsula Stores".


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Just be careful your interest in refrigerator cars doesn't go too far - it could end in ...


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