WORKING IN LONG BEACH  

Procter and Gamble

Procter and Gamble employed workers at its Long Beach plant from 1931 to 1987. If one or more of your ancestors worked for this company in Long Beach, you may be interested in the online links below.  

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Read a short history of P&G’s Long Beach plant in the June 29, 1987, article “An Institution Is Fading Away In Long Beach : Procter & Gamble Closing Plant It Opened in 1931,” published in the Los Angeles Times at http://articles.latimes.com/1987-06-29/business/fi-125_1_long-beach.

The Port of Long Beach blog post of July 8, 2011, “Soap, Shortening and More,” can be found at http://portoflongbeach.blogspot.com/2011/07/soap-shortening-and-more.html. 

“Procter and Gamble Celebrates 50 Years in Harbor,” Port of Long Beach Harbor Highlights, vol.5, no. 1, Fall 1981, is online at http://www.polb.com/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=11529.

Four photographs commemorating the 20th Anniversary of P&G in Long Beach are available at the USC Digital Library Archives http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/ref/collection/p15799coll44/id/1449.

A full-page ad for Ivory Flakes, “made in Long Beach,” can be found on page 8 of the October 26, 1948, issue of the Long Beach Independent at http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/74956193/.

RESEARCH TIP: When doing genealogy research, don’t forget to look in company archives and at in-house company publications.