Shamrock Materials, SE of Rice Drive

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Comment by Steve Atnip on August 1, 2018 at 8:54pm

Just found this " Camgros building at 532 Francisco Boulevard" hope it helps

Comment by Steve Atnip on August 1, 2018 at 8:50pm

Green is Shamrock, McPhails was red, Camgros I recall was orange, but I could be wrong on that one.

Comment by Dan Whitton on August 1, 2018 at 3:22pm

Are there any photos of Camgros or McPhail's businesses? I would like model the area of Anderson ave for switching and these plants would be cool.

Googling Camgros results with a lot of newspaper articles but no images strangely.

Comment by David L ILLICH on July 18, 2018 at 5:44pm

Richard is wright there was 3 cement plants that had rail service plus i think Benkins moving and storage

used to get a railbox car some times this was 1977 when i walked home from san rafael

Comment by Richard Steingruber on July 18, 2018 at 3:17pm

There was another readymix co in San Rafael named camgos. All 3 used rail.

Comment by Dave S. on July 18, 2018 at 7:23am

Jack G:  your friend is likely correct.  I now seem to recall that it was Shamrock, not McPhail's, that was at the Irwin and Francisco Blvd. W. site, or what is now Shamrock Center.  If someone were to search long enough, they would find photos of a Shamrock cement truck on this website with a knuckle coupler used for moving freight cars around their San Rafael facility.  Maybe someone can find an article about the McPhail's sale (around 1994?) and/or Shamrock move.

Another mistake on my part:  I'm confusing McPhail's with Ghilotti Construction!  It was Ghilotti with the Partridge Family style construction vehicles.  They've toned it down over the years, but red, yellow, and black figure prominently in their color scheme.  I don't think McPhail's was ever into construction, but they sold construction materials, including ready-mix, and propane.  At one time they even sold appliances.

This is all terribly embarrassing.  I certainly don't want to appear cavalier with facts, but it appears I really blew it on this one!  However, the good thing about this website is that we can collectively improve recall and cement (pardon the pun) the historical record with the best information available so that future visitors can benefit.

Steve Atnip provides another avenue for related research:  Camgros Ready-Mix, also of San Rafael.  Did they have an NWP connection?

Comment by Don Underwood on July 18, 2018 at 12:42am

"Who's on First?..."

Comment by Steve Atnip on July 17, 2018 at 1:40pm

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=25&ved=2a...

Comment by Steve Atnip on July 17, 2018 at 1:36pm

Camgros had a cement plant in the same area

Comment by Dave S. on July 17, 2018 at 12:46pm

Steve:  can you elaborate?  Who are the Camgros?  And what is the tie-in to the McPhail's site?

I can find that Camgros may have done some development up by 5th Ave, and I see a few obituaries for family members.  Please fill us in!

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