BOBCO METALS LLC is one of the oldest metal companies in Los Angeles. It has been existence for over 50 years when Bob Blaugrund came back from Pacific Theater and built a scrap and secondary yard for metals in which on his ideas evolves Bobco Metals, “The Supermarket of Metals”, which is a wholesale and retail distributor of metals for industry and construction needs.

Around 50 years ago, Bobco moved to a narrow one acre of land between 20th and 22nd street on Alameda St., and built two rectangular metal buildings, one is fully covered for the non-ferrous and one open building for the steel and of course, for the open yard. The location is in the industrial section of downtown Los Angeles were most freeways meet, few blocks from the produce district, fashion district, seafood district, toy and general merchandise warehouses. Alameda Street is not just other side of the tracks, the tracks virtually used to run in the middle of it all the way to the harbor and last few years with the completion of Alameda Corridor, the double-deck trains are open underground tunnels, take billions of dollars of merchandise to be distributed back east. For a mile, each side of Alameda is one of the most fertile, industrial zones of United States. Most of the buildings on the surroundings are very old-style warehouses and metal buildings, few trees, mostly asphalt and cement.

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