The company began as Peerless Plastic Products in a rented four-car garage. A Quonset hut served as an early warehouse space. M.C. in the 1950s with a small scale operation. Manufacturing was simpler in the 1950s, shown here in an early South El Monte plant.   Return to the M.C. Gill History page.

Early products included lamp shades, place mats and table top overlays. Actress Janet Leigh famous for film roles including The Manchurian Candidate, Psycho, A Touch of Evil with Orson Welles. She was married to Tony Curtis and is mother of Jamie Leigh Curtis. In the 1950s she stopped by M.C. Gill Corporation to model a new line of Gillfab wall covering material. The Gill family got into the act to show that it was easy to clean plastic wallcoverings. Phil and Stephen Gill confer with an Angels Baseball player about the M.C. Gill Line of balsa bats and cork balls.