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Twentieth-Century California Potteries

Catalina Pottery (1927–1937)

William Wrigley of chewing-gum fame and fortune bought the island of Catalina in California in 1919. Wrigley and David Renton started a tile factory to provide clay building materials for a resort they were developing on the island. By 1927 the company, known as Catalina Pottery, was also making decorative pottery, which was outselling tiles by the 1930s.

Catalina Pottery (1927–1937)

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