Editing Burbank, California (section)

===Early manufacturing===
In 1887, the Burbank Furniture Manufacturing Company was the town's first factory.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/SFVH&CISOPTR=4183 |title=Burbank Furniture Manufacturing Company, 1887 |work=Oviatt Library Digital Collections |access-date=February 16, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120225125934/http://digital-library.csun.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=%2FSFVH&CISOPTR=4183 |archive-date=February 25, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1917, the arrival of the [[Moreland Motor Truck Company]] changed the town and resulted in growing a manufacturing and industrial workforce. Within a few years, Moreland trucks were seen bearing the label, "Made in Burbank."<ref>{{cite book |chapter-url=http://www.ci.burbank.ca.us/citymanager/PDF/Section%20G.pdf |title=City of Burbank Strategic Plan 2001–2010 |chapter=Fiscally Responsible City Governance}}</ref> Watt Moreland, its owner, had relocated his plant to Burbank from Los Angeles. He selected {{convert|25|acre|m2}} at San Fernando Blvd. and Alameda Avenue. Moreland invested $1 million in the factory and machinery and employed 500 people. It was the largest truck maker west of the Mississippi.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

[[File:morelandtruck.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Moreland Motor Truck Company]] in Burbank]]
Within the next several decades, factories would dot the area landscape. What had mainly been an agricultural and ranching area would get replaced with a variety of manufacturing industries. Moreland operated from 1917 to 1937. Aerospace supplier Menasco Manufacturing Company would later purchase the property. Menasco's Burbank landing gear factory closed in 1994 due to slow commercial and military orders, affecting 310 people. Within months of Moreland's arrival, Community Manufacturing Company, a $3 million tractor company, arrived in Burbank.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}

In 1920, the Andrew Jergens Company factory opened at Verdugo Avenue near the railroad tracks in Burbank. Andrew Jergens Jr.—aided by his father, Cincinnati businessman Andrew Jergens Sr. and business partners Frank Adams and Morris Spazier—had purchased the site and built a single-story building. They began with a single product, coconut oil soap, but would later make face creams, lotions, liquid soaps, and deodorants. In 1931, despite the Depression, the Jergens company expanded, building new offices and shipping department facilities. In 1939, the Burbank corporation merged with the Cincinnati company of Andrew Jergens Sr. becoming known as the Andrew Jergens Company of Ohio. The Burbank plant closed in 1992, affecting nearly 90 employees.{{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}