Came across this on the internet

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

Now that's a collectible for the Big Boys...

"How many x-metals in your collection?"

"With or without including the factory?"

And at 63K+ square feet, it might even be big enough to hold Frank's collection... or at least most of it...

 

[XMetalAddict]

Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn...... someone should suggest that I buy that.

I think that would be a brilliant idea. Just imagine you might find lost X-Metal treasures in there!

 

[XMetalAddict]

Now that's a collectible for the Big Boys...

"How many x-metals in your collection?"

"With or without including the factory?"

And at 63K+ square feet, it might even be big enough to hold Frank's collection... or at least most of it...

The ultimate Oakley display cabinet!

 

[kronin323]

I think that would be a brilliant idea. Just imagine you might find lost X-Metal treasures in there!

Maybe there's more x-metal "blobs" on the floor like that one guy listed on ebay...

 

[XMetalAddict]

Maybe there's more x-metal "blobs" on the floor like that one guy listed on ebay...

For a minute I thought you had written Oakley Bob LOL. Maybe the Oakley "Blob" was his cousin!

 

[digi7alph0enix]

So sad...because everything moved to china

Nothing that was in that location moved to China.

EDIT: I take that back, the golf clubs probably moved to China. Those weren't Oakley anyway though.

 

[SiRacer420]

If you go back to 2007, they were hiring.

Google Maps

 

[digi7alph0enix]

If you go back to 2007, they were hiring.

Google Maps

Interesting find. Personally I'd rather know what other properties, if any, are still held by Oakley in that area. That building doesn't look big enough to hold much but the machinery required and the materials to make the glasses. I'd be willing to bet within a short drive they had some kind of storage facility.

That makes me wonder something else too. Does anyone know where xmetals were assembled? I know that plant was used for casting the parts, but did those same people handle assembly? I can't see that happening. I also find it hard to believe they'd truck everything back to Cali to put it back together. It would make more sense to assemble and distribute from a facility near the point of origin. That would be the place to find.

 

[OakleyFrankFMJ]

Interesting find. Personally I'd rather know what other properties, if any, are still held by Oakley in that area. That building doesn't look big enough to hold much but the machinery required and the materials to make the glasses. I'd be willing to bet within a short drive they had some kind of storage facility.

That makes me wonder something else too. Does anyone know where xmetals were assembled? I know that plant was used for casting the parts, but did those same people handle assembly? I can't see that happening. I also find it hard to believe they'd truck everything back to Cali to put it back together. It would make more sense to assemble and distribute from a facility near the point of origin. That would be the place to find.

There is a storage facility not far from there. Not that I would know anything about that at all.

 

[kronin323]

Interesting find. Personally I'd rather know what other properties, if any, are still held by Oakley in that area. That building doesn't look big enough to hold much but the machinery required and the materials to make the glasses. I'd be willing to bet within a short drive they had some kind of storage facility.

That makes me wonder something else too. Does anyone know where xmetals were assembled? I know that plant was used for casting the parts, but did those same people handle assembly? I can't see that happening. I also find it hard to believe they'd truck everything back to Cali to put it back together. It would make more sense to assemble and distribute from a facility near the point of origin. That would be the place to find.

Whether or not they were assembled in that specific building or in a nearby facility, they were assembled local to that area, including markings, lenses, and packaging, and had been entered into inventory by the time they shipped out.