Adohr Farms Dairy (Los Angeles, California)

USA / California / Calabasas / Los Angeles, California / Ventura Boulevard, 18000
 historical layer / disappeared object, dairy farm
Merritt Adamson established the large Adohr Farms dairy in 1916, at Ventura Boulevard and Lindley Avenue. It was named for his wife Rhoda, spelled backwards. His spread of Guernsey milk cows sprawled on both sides of Ventura Blvd. through World War II, but in 1948 — the year before Adamson died, encroaching suburbia squeezed Adohr Farms out of Tarzana.

Land was slowly sold during the Great Depression and in 1948 the remaining 500 acres were sold to developers when the dairy farm moved to Camarillo. The Camarillo farm was sold for the Westview Park subdivision in 1969. Only the Adohr milkmaid statue remains in front of the old Adohr Farms Creamery (now Saputo Dairy Foods) plant in Tulare, CA.

articles.latimes.com/1998/mar/01/local/me-24380
www.americassuburb.com/gone.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamson_House
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Coordinates:   34°9'44"N   118°31'37"W

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  • Adohr Dairy had an office, a processing plant and delivery station on La Cienega and Sawyer. It ran West to Holt Ave. During the war years tires and gasoline were rationed so delivery was by horse drawn wagon. I lived a few houses from the stables. We would visit the horses after their work was finished. We could run around in the processing plant and watch how everything was done. Best of all was a large baseball field with bleachers. No little league existed in our neighborhood, if at all, and we played baseball at the Adohr field. Again, no one ever confronted us or asked us to leave. Ahh for the good old days without personal injury lawsuits.
  • Evan: I'm a retired biology professor who grew up on Crescent Heights Blvd. chasing insects through the vacant lot of Adohr Farms on La Cienega Blvd. that abutted the dairy and the trucks. Do you have any photos of this facility? I only found photos from their main plant in Reseda. Glenn
  • I don't know why everyone says La Cienega and Sawyer - while it may have run to Sawyer on the south, the front of it was on the corner of 18th and La Cienega - I grew up three blocks from there. I don't think any of it ran as far west as Holt because I lived on Sherbourne around the corner from Holt. I played in their delivery truck graveyard daily.
  • My brother and I knew Adobe Farms well. We grew up on Corning St and Sawyer. We played around the farm most days after school. Rick Waldinger
  • My father and my uncle worked at the Adohr Farms in the early 1930’s. I have a picture taken in 1933 thanks to my cousin. Ernie Lanterman.
  • Agree; it was 18th & La Cienega
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