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Originally Posted by HossC
This is 5500 S Soto Street in 1971, seven years after the factory closed, but it's virtually identical to the aerials back to 1948. I'm not sure that it matches the images above which appear to include a circular structure.
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I’m having my own doubts about the identity of those four photos. Wallace should have been a more modern facility. Maxine Nelson’s book “Collectible Vernon Kilns” gives some accounts of the earlier life as Poxon China. What was clear was Poxon had two gas-fired beehive kilns (14’ high by 15’ diameter) for the greenware firing, and one small glost kiln for the glaze firing. That looks like what we see in image 4. And the known frontal shot of Vernon Kilns Limited, before a later fire led to the new factory, looks to have 3 bottle kilns with wood structure for the plant. I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that someone may have confused the Poxon/Vernon plant with the Wallace one. And while Wallace was built in Huntington Park, it looks like the city borders may have been altered with the extension of Soto Street such that that upper part of H.Pk. became a southern portion of Vernon? It’s hard to tell if the folks in the photos might be wearing 1920’s clothing rather than 1930’s, and there’s no cars nor ad materials to date the images. Rather perplexing!
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