![]() Meanwhile, Victor had hit pay-dirt back home in one of their newly converted film soundtrack recording studios in Camden with soundtracks to films like ‘The Jazz Singer’, and the company became critical to providing cutting edge sound design for every major film company in the quickly expanding movie industry. By the mid 1920s, the record and record player industries were feeling the competition, so expansion at Oakland was cancelled. ![]() The idea being that the area would support expansion, with a proposed Victrola assembly and woodshop to be added in the same manner as Victor’s sprawling Camden Plant. ![]() Victor’s Oakland Plant was an impressive but quaint 10 acre plot featuring a single 2 story factory building designed to act as a pressing plant, distribution center, and recording studio for California’s budding music and film industries. The introduction of the radio slowed record and record player (Victrola) sales by a serious enough amount for Victor to be forced into entering two industries that were developing, radio and film. Victor’s competition in the market grew between those years to include an entirely new industry: RADIO. Oakland, California during the scouting period between 19 appeared to be ‘the next big thing’ on the West Coast, with many industries (including Columbia Phonograph Co.) setting up shop in the kinder climates north of southern California. was Victor’s 2nd plant on the West Coast following the establishment of the Oakland, California Plant several years prior. The Los Angeles Plant of the Victor Talking Machine Co.
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