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Fender Fullerton factory (Pomona Ave / S Raymond Ave / S Valencia Dr campus): guitar plant in Fullerton, CA, USA · Guitar Story

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Fender Fullerton factory (Pomona Ave / S Raymond Ave / S Valencia Dr campus)

Name: Fender Fullerton factory (Pomona Ave / S Raymond Ave / S Valencia Dr campus)
Address: Fullerton, CA, USA

Fullerton, CA, USA^{[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]}. Built for 1 brand on record.

Opened circa 1950: NPS (S439) says a brick building for expanded production went up on Pomona Avenue in May 1950; OC Weekly citing Smith (S440) says 'base of operations' 1953-1985. Wikipedia (S434) gives 500 S Raymond Ave and a larger building at 1300 S Valencia Dr from 1966; it is not confirmed that these are one campus, and no street number was found for the Pomona Ave buildings. Closed: production shut down Dec 1984 (S433), other sources say 1985 (S442). Owner was Leo Fender's company until 1965 and CBS 1965-1985; FMIC only leased space here in 1985 (S433). No coordinates sourced.

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Where it is

No location is on record for this plant (USA), so it is not mapped.

Brands built here

Every headstock this plant has built for, on record. A contract plant can sit behind several brands at once.

Brand	Lines	Years
Fender	Fender USA	1950–1985^{[1, 2, 4, 5]}

Who ran the plant

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Years	Operator	Source
1950–1965	Fender Electric Instrument Company (Leo Fender), Fullerton CA	unverified^{[1, 2]}
1965–1985	Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), via Columbia Records Distribution Corp. / CBS Musical Instruments division	unverified^[4]

Production record

Years	Brand	Line	Role	Source
1950–1985	Fender	Fender USA	full build	unverified^{[1, 2, 4, 5]}

Owners while this plant was building

The plant stays the same across these rows; the company behind the name does not.

Years	Line	Owner	Parent
1950–1965^{[6, 7, 1, 2, 4, 5]}	Fender USA	Fender Electric Instrument Company (Leo Fender), Fullerton CA	—
1965–1982^{[6, 7, 4, 1, 2, 5]}	Fender USA	Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), via Columbia Records Distribution Corp. / CBS Musical Instruments division	—
1982–1985^{[6, 7, 4, 8, 9, 1, 2, 5]}	Fender USA	Fender Japan, Ltd. (joint venture of Fender, Kanda Shokai, Yamano Gakki and FujiGen)	Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), via Columbia Records Distribution Corp. / CBS Musical Instruments division

Where its materials come from

No supply records for this plant yet.

Sources

Every numbered marker on this page points here: the document, its grade and the passages relied on. An era is computed, so it cites the facts it was derived from. A fact marked “no source” has no claim attached yet.

1
Fender's Radio Servicegraded primary
2
Relics of Fullerton: The Buildings of Leo Fendergraded secondary
3
Fender Musical Instruments Corporationgraded community
4
The End of the CBS Era: Inside the 1985 Fender Buyoutgraded community
5
Fender factoriesgraded community
6
Fender ownership historygraded secondary
7
Fender Musical Instruments Company Historygraded secondary
8
Fender Japangraded community
9
Fender Japan history (Fachblatt article, 1987)graded secondary

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