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Ah - you have an eye for quality, my friend. What you are looking at there is a 12" Single Bull Nose Dark Iron Spot from Pacific Clay Products of Lake Elsinore, California. You can have as many of those as you want for only about $3.25 a piece 
They're good brick, though. Consistent size and quality, and very hard.
They're good brick, though. Consistent size and quality, and very hard.
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I guess that little pic I posted was just the tip of the iceberg.
The hive was about 3 1/2' long and 8"-10" square. Bee guy said it was probably about 6 months old.
The hive was about 3 1/2' long and 8"-10" square. Bee guy said it was probably about 6 months old.
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Pacific Clay Products - ah, the memories.
I work in Santa Fe Springs. PCP was a major company in SFS for the better part of the 20th century. They only recently (~25 years) moved away from SFS to the Fallbrook area. They had a huge clay pit mine just off of Norwalk Blvd and Telegraph Rd which they worked for I don't know how long. But a long time. The pit was eventually filled, and that entire area is a business park now.
I spent/wasted my youth as a welder/mechanic, and we built many pieces of pipe handling equipment for PCP. I got to work closely with some of their engineers working out the details for the turning cradles. I don't know if they even made brick at that facility, they may well have, but we were only involved in the sanitary clay pipe stuff.
This was so long ago that their blue prints really were blue.
I work in Santa Fe Springs. PCP was a major company in SFS for the better part of the 20th century. They only recently (~25 years) moved away from SFS to the Fallbrook area. They had a huge clay pit mine just off of Norwalk Blvd and Telegraph Rd which they worked for I don't know how long. But a long time. The pit was eventually filled, and that entire area is a business park now.
I spent/wasted my youth as a welder/mechanic, and we built many pieces of pipe handling equipment for PCP. I got to work closely with some of their engineers working out the details for the turning cradles. I don't know if they even made brick at that facility, they may well have, but we were only involved in the sanitary clay pipe stuff.
This was so long ago that their blue prints really were blue.
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We used to go and buy sweet corn straight from the field over there off of Norwalk blvd. when I was a little kid.
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Probably from the Nieto family. Los Nietos is named after the family. I remember their produce stands like it was yesterday. The last one that I visited was on Los Nietos Rd, just east of Norwalk along the RR tracks.
I mentioned the pit mine in SFS. But now that I look for info on it, I can't find where the mine was actually there. I was told that they mined the clay here, but it was before my time so it might not be true. I do remember open pits right off Norwalk Blvd, even right behind our building, but it might not have been for clay. What I can find says the actual clay came from Alberhill. Those pits were used for dumping by the early industries in SFS and Los Nietos, and now tracks of the are on the superfund cleanup list.
Pacific Clay || Home Page
Pacific Clay Products Inc.: Information from Answers.com
Edit:
Both of these articles mention the clay pit in SFS.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/27/local/me-then27
http://digarc.usc.edu/search/control...er-m14690.html
Well, interesting to me anyway.
I mentioned the pit mine in SFS. But now that I look for info on it, I can't find where the mine was actually there. I was told that they mined the clay here, but it was before my time so it might not be true. I do remember open pits right off Norwalk Blvd, even right behind our building, but it might not have been for clay. What I can find says the actual clay came from Alberhill. Those pits were used for dumping by the early industries in SFS and Los Nietos, and now tracks of the are on the superfund cleanup list.
Pacific Clay || Home Page
Pacific Clay Products Inc.: Information from Answers.com
Edit:
Both of these articles mention the clay pit in SFS.
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jan/27/local/me-then27
http://digarc.usc.edu/search/control...er-m14690.html
Well, interesting to me anyway.
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He said that it wouldn't be possible to save them in this instance, but they do try to save them whenever they can. They use a shop vac a lot of the time for that.