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Occidental Stove Company, San Francisco

The Occidental Stove & Foundry Company was in business in San Francisco around 1900.

In 1910: "Some ten years ago the first aluminum matchplate of record was put in operations in San Francisco, California, by the Pacific Stamping Company. This was a bench plate of four legs, for an air-tight stove and was made by Herbert Matthews, then foundry foreman of the Occidental Stove & Foundry Company, of San Francisco." (The Metal Industry (Dec. 1910) Vol. 8 No. 12 p. 506)

Listed in Annual Report - Board of Trade of San Francisco, Volume 64, Parts 1940-1941 as located at 221 11th St. in San Francisco.

Maybe left San Francisco for Irvington in the 1940s.

Acquired some time after WWII by "______ Corporation of Los Angeles, manufacturers of evaporative air coolers, fans, blowers and gas fired heating equipment, have acquired the firm of Gaffers & Sattler, Los Angeles, and the Occidental Stove Company of Irvington, California."