Hazard Contracting Co

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The history of Hazard Construction Company dates back to the early 1920s when the company founder, Roscoe Elwood Hazard, Sr., known as "Pappy," began laying the foundation for what would become one of San Diego's largest general engineering contracting firms. An entrepreneurial spirit prompted Pappy to buy a fleet of trucks and wagons with nearly every available horse and mule in the region. Thus began his hauling, excavation and site construction business which helped to shape modern San Diego. In 1926, Pappy founded R.E. Hazard Contracting Company as a California corporation, with headquarters in downtown San Diego. The company performed road construction and excavation throughout the San Diego area, including the grading and paving of much of Rancho Santa Fe. R.E. Hazard's eldest son, Bruce R. Hazard, entered his father's business in 1935 at the age of 17. He quickly learned the ropes of the business by working in the field and observing his father's business techniques. During the height of the Great Depression, R.E. Hazard Contracting Company expanded its business operations into concrete block manufacturing. To facilitate the operation, the company moved its headquarters to a 42-acre site on Friars Road at Highway 163 in Mission Valley, which became known as "The Brickyard." At its peak, the manufacturing plant was producing as many as 400 different varieties of block and brick...

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