Today's Julius Shulman post shows the Lever Brothers Company. It's
"Job 988: Welton Becket and Associates, Lever Brothers Company (Los Angeles, Calif.), 1951".
Here's the loading dock with a very short truck.
Around the back where the railroad tracks run through the site.
Mr Shulman could even make a fire escape interesting.
The final four shots show the interior, including some big boxes of Surf in the first.
All from
Getty Research Institute
The factory stood beside the Santa Ana Freeway in the City of Commerce, just south of E Washington Boulevard. You can read some of its history in
an article in the LA Times. If 10 Julius Shulman images aren't enough, there are 16 more pictures of the factory showing its 1951 opening in the
USC Digital Library. The view below on the left is from 1953, while the one on the right is from 2003. In the top-right corner of the 2003 image you can see the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company Headquarters that we saw recently in
post #34573
Historic Aerials