Procter & Gamble

How the People of Long Beach Built, Defended and Profited From Their Harbor

The Procter &#038; Gamble plant, seen here in probably the late 1940s, was located on the Seventh Street Peninsula, now Pier C and the site of the Matson/SSA terminal today.

June 18, 1930 -- A woman &quot;launches&quot; a ship made of Ivory Soap, likely at the dedication of the Procter &amp; Gamble plant.

Camay, Duz and Ivory are some of the many Procter &#038; Gamble products stored in a Port of Long Beach transit shed in 1948.

A mound of copra is stored at the P&#038;G plant.

An aerial view of the Procter &#038; Gamble plant, sometime in the 1970s.

Interior of Procter &#038; Gamble plant, Port of Long Beach, probably 1981.

Rose Hart inspects bottles of Crisco on a conveyor at the Procter &#038; Gamble Long Beach plant, probably 1981.

Al Anglin positions rolls of Cascade over-wrap, Procter &#038; Gamble plant, Port of Long Beach, probably 1981.

Another aerial view of the plant, taken in the late 1980s, probably after the facility closed. The World Trade Center tower in the background isn&#039;t quite completed.

A 2009 aerial of the former Procter &#038; Gamble site, now Matson/SSA.