{"id":1819,"date":"2016-03-18T14:03:18","date_gmt":"2016-03-18T21:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/?p=1819"},"modified":"2021-05-23T13:54:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-23T20:54:26","slug":"1819","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/?p=1819","title":{"rendered":"Carson is Headquarter for Oldest California Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Did You Know?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>That the oldest enterprise still doing business in California is headquartered in the City of Carson?&nbsp; &nbsp;In mid-1800, Charles L Ducommun walked to Los Angeles from Arkansas with a mule wagon full of goods to sell.&nbsp; Ducommun opened a general store in 1849 when the population of Los Angeles was 1,600.&nbsp; <!--more-->&nbsp;In the early 1900\u2019s Ducommun started supplying the emerging aerospace industry, which grew to their current role as a global provider of manufacturing and engineering services for aerospace, defense, industrial, natural resources and medical markets.<\/p>\n<p>[ezcol_1third]<a href=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CF-Docommun1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1821 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CF-Docommun1.jpg\" alt=\"CF - Docommun1\" width=\"138\" height=\"228\"><\/a>[\/ezcol_1third] [ezcol_2third_end]<a href=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CF-Docommun.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1820 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/CF-Docommun.jpg\" alt=\"CF - Docommun\" width=\"389\" height=\"222\"><\/a>[\/ezcol_2third_end]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ducommun-large-e1459283478489.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2126\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2126 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ducommun-large-e1459283478489.jpg\" alt=\"Ducommun large\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ducommun1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2055\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2055 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/carsonforward.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Ducommun1.jpg\" alt=\"Ducommun1\" width=\"198\" height=\"41\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did You Know? That the oldest enterprise still doing business in California is headquartered in the City of Carson?&nbsp; &nbsp;In mid-1800, Charles L Ducommun walked to Los Angeles from Arkansas with a mule wagon full of goods to sell.&nbsp; Ducommun opened a general store in 1849 when the population of Los Angeles was 1,600.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2126,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlight-business","wpcat-43-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1819"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1819\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carsonforward.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}