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Owens-Illinois Plant Numbers and Dates

Plant Number

Plant Location

Dates of Operation
1 Toledo, Ohio 1930-1937
2 Fairmont, West Virginia 1930-present 1
3 Huntington, West Virginia 1930-present 1
4 Clarksburg, West Virginia 1930-1944
6 Charleston, West Virginia 1930-1963
7 Alton, Illinois 1930-present 1
8 Glassboro, New Jersey 1930-1939
9 Streator, Illinois 1930-present 1
10 Newark, Ohio 1930-1939
11 Evansville, Indiana 1930-1940
12 Gas City, Indiana 1930-present 1
13 Chicago Heights, Illinois 1930-1940
14 Bridgeton, New Jersey 1930-present 1
15 Okmulgee, Oklahoma 1930-1940
16 Cincinnati, Ohio 1930-1932
17 Clarion, Pennsylvania 1932-present 1
18 Columbus, Ohio 1932-1948
20 Brackenridge, Pennsylvania 1932-1940
25 Terre Haute, Indiana 1934-1950
26 Muncie, Indiana 1936-1949
15** Waco, Texas 1938-present 1
20** Oakland, California 1946-present 1
23 Los Angeles, California 1949-present 1
10** Atlanta, Georgia 1960-present 1
21 Portland, Oregon 1960-present 1
4** Rockport, New York 1962-present 1
8** New Orleans, Louisiana 1962-present 1
22 Tracy, California 1962-present 1
11* North Bergen, New Jersey 1963-present 1
5* Charlotte, Michigan 1968-present 1
16* Lakeland, Florida 1967-present 1
19 2 Crenshaw, Pennsylvania ?-present
* All dates are approximate. Toulouse used a graph that was not precise.
** Plant numbers with two asterisks are ones where the number was reassigned after the original plant ceased operations.
1 Present = 1971, the date of Toulouse's book, Bottle Makers and Their Marks.
2
This was not in Toulouse's original table.

Source: "The Dating Game: Owens-Illinois Glass Co." by Bill Lockhart, Bottles and Extras, Summer 2004, Vol. 15, No. 3, pgs. 24-27.


Source: Collecting Applied Color Label Soda Bottles, Third Edition, page 72.
Published by the PSBCA.

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