"The Maier Brewing Company started as the Ed. Preuss & Company Philadelphia Brewery in 1874. The following year, it became the D. Mahlstedt Company Philadelphia Brewery, and then the Maier & Zobelein Brewery, located in Los Angeles, in 1882. When Maier and Zobelein dissolved their partnership in 1907, the brewery became the Maier Brewing Company, located at 500 East Commercial Street, Los Angeles. Existing for several decades, the Maier Brewing Company was purchased by the General Brewing Company in 1971, but was later closed in 1974. Eastside Beer was bottled by Los Angeles Brewing Company, owned by George Zobelein, a former partner of Maier and Zobelein Brewery. After the two split in 1907, Zobelein named his new beer 'Eastside' since Los Angeles Brewing Company was located east of the Los Angeles River at 600 Moulton Avenue, and the 1920-2026 block of Main Street. The bottling facility was eventually sold and became the Pabst Brewery."
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LOS ANGELES IN THE 1850’S AS TOLD BY EARLY NEWSPAPERS, by Henry Winfred Splitter
"Its heart was sound, and its wood was, by virtue of its inherent nature, cross-grained and of the toughest kind. By conservative estimate the tree was at least sixty feet high, its general shape and proportion extremely graceful. Four feet above the ground the trunk measured twenty feet in circumference, and at a height of fifteen or twenty feet, it divided into several large branches which spread over an area some 200 feet in diameter."
THE LOS ANGELES DAILY TIMES 1898: featuring historic views of the Maier and Zobelein Brewery
"The Progress of a Home Industry. Maier and Zobelein Brewery. 'Make The best Beer In Southern California. The Only Strictly Home Beer Manufacturers in Los Angeles. Patronize Home Industry.' We make a specialty of best grades of Bottled Beer for family trade, and deliver to all parts of the city, in pints and quarts."



