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#489956 - 02/25/08 03:21 PM
Tweedy Factory
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Grandpa
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Registered: 07/10/07
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FYI For the West Coast Buick Guys:
In 1936, GM built a large assembly plant in South Gate. South Gate is an industrial area south of downtown Los Angeles. The GM plant's address was 2700 Tweedy Blvd., South Gate, CA 90280. GM closed the plant in April 1982. The GM plant buildings are gone today, replaced by a schools and an industrial park. The plant built all of the GM cars and trucks there, except Cadillac and La Salle. At one time, LA was the second largest producer of autos in the USA.
The former plant site is bounded by:
North: Tweedy Blvd.
South: Century Blvd. / MLK Blvd.
West: Alameda St.
East: The back of lot line of the homes on Stanford Ave.
I am not totally sure about the southern boundry limit. Good images of the former plant site can be found on Google Earth.
The plant was serviced by the Southern Pacific Railroad, which has tracks running parallel to Alameda St. During the plant's operation Southern Pacific had a switching yard there, know as the Tweedy Yard. The tracks for the switching yard have been removed. However, the tracks along Alameda St. are still in use today. The GM South Gate plant was also known as the Tweedy Plant. The Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. also had a large plant in South Gate, serviced by the Southern Pacific. The Firestone plant is still there today, but no longer owned by Firestone.
If any forum members have information, photos, or stories about GM's Tweedy Plant, please post them.
Thanks,
Grandpa
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#489994 - 02/25/08 06:21 PM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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DaveCorbin
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Registered: 02/19/06
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Loc: Texas
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Dear Grandpa:
For additional info, the first Buicks at Southgate were 1937 models, starting with 160 cars in October 1936
Regards, Dave Corbin
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#490100 - 02/25/08 11:39 PM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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shorttimer
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Loc: LA, CA
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I think the southern end of the plant was at Seminole. GM sold the property to the City in 1985. The buildings along the north side of Seminole were built in 1989, whereas some of the buildings immediately south of Seminole were built in 1934, which would make them older than the GM plant.
I've done research on other properties in this immediate area and there is older aerial photography out there. Try Terraserver. They may have aerial imagery that shows the plant.
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#490246 - 02/26/08 03:12 PM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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Grandpa
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Origin of the name for Tweedy Blvd.:
The Tweedy family was one of the original families to settle in the area. Mr. R.D. Tweedy was born in 1812 in Illinois and came to California in 1852. The family owned 2,000 acres of the land that South Gate is now built on.
Grandpa
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#490444 - 02/27/08 08:33 AM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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1DandyDaves
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#490654 - 02/27/08 09:16 PM
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Thriller
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Dave...I'm so disappointed that you don't know it is Tweety Bird...with a t. 
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#490705 - 02/28/08 06:51 AM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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1DandyDaves
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#490902 - 02/28/08 07:53 PM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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Thriller
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I'm not entirely convinced Easterners can be called rednecks... 
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#491126 - 02/29/08 04:49 PM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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1DandyDaves
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#492320 - 03/05/08 07:32 PM
Re: Tweedy Factory
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Centurion
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Grandpa and others,
Was the Fisher Body plant that furnished car bodies for South Gate assembly located in the same factory complex? Or, as was the case with some of the assembly plants, were the car bodies trucked in from a more distant Fisher Body plant?
Many of the full-size Buicks (depending upon model) sold on the West Coast were South Gate built, well into the 1970's.
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Dave!
Ya had me worried for a moment that things were loony around there.
Dave!
