1929 Winfield Leslie Sample opens Winfield Pottery
in Pasadena, California. With just one kiln he produces a line of
distinctive art pottery and teaches 'clay working' to students at night.
1935 Margaret Mears Gabriel joins Sample. 
Cecil Jones opens La Mirada Pottery in LosAngeles.
1937 Gabriel designs the first square shaped dish line
produced in the USA.   'Bamboo' dinnerware introduced.
1939 Winfield Sample dies.                                                                            
Margaret Gabriel and husband Arthur take over.                                                
'Citrus' dinnerware is inroduced. 
Tom Hamilton buys La Mirada Pottery and creates American Ceramic Products.
1941 The Gabriel's build a new factory in Pasadena
with 3 kilns. New patterns 'Yellow Flower' 'Weed'
'Acorn' and 'Fallow' are introduced.  
1945 The Gabriel's approach Tom Hamilton to help with                       
a vast wartime backlog of dinnerware.  
1946 The Gabriel's sell the name 'Winfield'
to ACP.  Their Pasadena plant continues to produce but   
from here on all pieces are marked 'Gabriel  Pasadena'. 
The Winfield Division of ACP opens a state of the art factory and
show room  in Santa Monica, California. Using the Winfield name and molds
ACP mass produces dinnerware in some of Margaret's patterns
and creates new patterns including 'Gourmet' and 'Thunderbird'.
1947 Margaret and Arthur retire. The company is
purchased by investors including son Douglas Gabriel.
1962 The Pasadena plant closes after years of slow
sales caused by the flood of cheap plentiful imports.  
1963 Tom Hamilton sells the name 'La Mirada' but retains the
Mandarin line dinnerware molds. He still produces this dinnerware
but marks it Winfield.
1964 Tom Hamilton dies; son Tony takes over.
1967  Santa Monica plant closes.


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