04-14-2011, 01:50 PM
I'm not sure where the pic was taken or what the industry would be. There are a lot of areas in So. Central LA, East LA, as well as Vernon, Cudahy, Bell, Maywood, Southgate, and Bell Gardens that looked a lot like that. Those sheet metal buildings could contain machine shops, cabinet makers, sheet metal shops, small casting shop, as well as wholesale/retail businesses specializing in industrial products. There are probably other industries that would have used those types of buildings that I'm not thinking of right now. If those buildings are all of one manufacturing complex, they might be light manufacturing. At one time we had the following commercial trailer manufacturers in Los Angeles building trailers for the rucking industry: Pike, Utility, Fruehauf, and Trailmobile. Utility moved out of Los Angeles to the City of Industry. The rest have either gone out of business or left So Cal.