Tire Manufacturing at Citadel Outlet & Win a set of Four!

The Citadel in East Los Angeles, alongside the 5 freeway, is often mistakenly noted as being the "Goodyear" building.  Not so.  That facility was in Los Angeles on South Central Avenue. It is now a U.S. Post Office distribution facility.  Although at one point Mr. Goodyear did own some shares of the original owner, US Tire & Rubber company.

• 1892 - Nine rubber companies in Naugatuck, Connecticut join together to become US Tire & Rubber company, which later became one of the original 12 stock companies of the DJIA
• 1896 - Dow Jones Industrial Average, established with nine railroads and two industrial companies. When did the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) begin? (investopedia.com)
• 1918 - Adolph Schleicher establishes "Sampson Company" in Compton, named after the Biblical hero to symbolize strength & endurance.
• 1929 - Construction begins in East Los Angeles ($8 million current dollars) of a new facility for Sampson Rubber Company
• 1930 - Construction completed
• 1930 - Chrysler opens a manufacturing facility near the Sampson Rubber factory 
• 1931 - US Tire & Rubber buys Sampson Rubber company and the new facility
• 1940's - As manufacturing increased the areas of Bandini, Rosewood, and Laguna decided on "Commerce" for the new area carved out of nearby communities.
•  1982  - The Uniroyal building is named to the National Register of Historic Places
• 1960 - Commerce, 6.5 square miles, is incorporated Commerce, CA | Home    
• 1962 - US Tire & Rubber becomes Uniroyal 
• 1971 - Chrysler closes their facility
• 1978 - Uniroyal closes the facility   
• 1983 - City of Commerce purchases the property, to prevent demolition of the landmark building
• 1989, Trammell Crow  signs a long-term ground lease with City of Commerce Redevelopment Agency.
• 1990 - Uniroyal acquired by French based Michelin  Collection: Uniroyal, Inc. Records, 1917-1990 | Special Collections and Archives Research Portal (uwec.edu)
• 1990 - Trammell Crow Company breaks ground for the now infamous "Citadel Outlet", preserving the factory iconic facade, originally built to emulate a 7th Century B.C. ancient Assyrian palace.  The project is 742,000 square feet mixed-use at a cost of $118 million.  The oldest daughter of Adolph Schleicher uses the silver shovel and pick she used 61 years earlier for the original groundbreaking.

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