Treasure From the Archive
Affordable Real Estate in California? - You may not believe...
Treasure From the Archive posted April 1, 2010 by Clorox Heritage
, last edited January 26, 2011 , tagged Our Roots, Photographs
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Affordable Real Estate in California?
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Affordable Real Estate in California? - You may not believe it now, but in May 1913, when The Clorox Company was known as the Electro-Alkaline Company, we bought our first bleach plant at 809 High Street in Oakland, California, for only $3,000!
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You may not believe it now, but in May 1913, when The Clorox Company was known as the Electro-Alkaline Company, we bought our first bleach plant at 809 High Street in Oakland, California, for only $3,000!
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Is it even possible to get anything of value for $3000 these days, let alone a commercial property? Wow!
Wonder what the property is worth now?
One thing I remember back when I started working for Clorox (1984) were the general business hours at the GO, which were 8 a.m. to 4:35 p.m. Why 4:35 p.m. I asked? Apparently the train would roll down the tracks in front of the plant at 4:30 p.m. so you if you worked at the plant, you could not leave until the train passed so they adjusted the hours of operations to 4:35 p.m.. That tradition carried on to the GO for quite some time.
I love it!
This location was also the first General Offices when the "new" Clorox Company was organized after the divestiture in 1969