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  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Panama Pottery offers a going-out-of-business sale after has been located at same address for 99 years. 25% off everything and accepting only cash for purchases. The sale does not include one-of-a-kind art from the artists or items from La Casita. July 30, 2012
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Adam Cantaloube of Sacramento with his purchases at Panama Pottery Monday afternoon. Panama Pottery offers a going-out-of-business sale after has been located at same address for 99 years. 25% off everything and accepting only cash for purchases. The sale does not include one-of-a-kind art from the artists or items from La Casita. July 30, 2012
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Gerald Moore at left and Adam Cantaloube both of Sacramento shopping at Panama Pottery Monday afternoon. Panama Pottery offers a going-out-of-business sale after has been located at same address for 99 years. July 30, 2012
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Adam Cantaloube of Sacramento shopping at Panama Pottery Monday afternoon. Panama Pottery offers a going-out-of-business sale after has been located at same address for 99 years. July 30, 2012
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Jack keeps cool in the office at Panama Pottery Monday afternoon. His owner Mike Buch calls him Jack the yard dog. July 30, 2012
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Panama Pottery employee Mike Buch carries a wood pallet through the colored pottery Monday afternoon. Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after has been located at same address for 99 years.
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Erin Sevier of Sacramento with her purchases at Panama Pottery Monday afternoon. Panama Pottery offers a going-out-of-business sale after has been located at same address for 99 years. 25% off everything and accepting only cash for purchases. The sale does not include one-of-a-kind art from the artists or items from La Casita. July 30, 2012
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  •  Panama Pottery launches going-out-of-business sale after 99 years.
    Mike and Gwen Joy walk through the Panama Pottery yard with their purchase. Panama Pottery offers a going-out-of-business sale after has been located at same address for 99 years. July 30, 2012
    Manny Crisostomo | The Sacramento Bee
  • Lorena Santos, left, and her parents Arcie Santos and Ramon Santos stand with some of the clay pots they make at their company, Panama Pottery, in Sacramento, 2001
    Leilani Hu | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Panama Pottery
    Daniel Davidson, 42, center, clay master along with his tow assistants, Daniel Hynes, 25, left, and Trenton Ferguson, 19, show a sample of their flowerpots, in side one of the two concave brick kilns at Panama Pottery in Sacramento. March, 2007
    Michael A. Jones | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Trenton Ferguson, 19, is one of the two assistants who work along with Daniel Davidson, the new clay master, in charge of reviving life back into Panama Pottery, a Sacramento landmark. March, 2007
    Michael A. Jones | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Daniel Davidson, 42, loads the large concave kiln with the help of his two assistants, Daniel Hynes and Trenton Ferguson, for the firing process in which temperatures will reach 1,800 degrees. He is the new clay master at Panama Pottery, a Sacramento landmark, 2007.
    Michael A. Jones | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Lorena Santos stands inside a kiln at Panama Pottery in Sacramento, which is owned by her parents, Friday November 23, 2001. The company makes clay pots for plants, which they sell wholesale to nurseries. 2001, Sacramento Calif.
    Leilani Hu | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Esteban Lepe scoops up some clay to put into a mold he is using to make a clay pot for plants at Panama Pottery in Sacramento 2001.
    Leilani Hu | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Esteban Lepe makes a clay pot in a mold at Panama Pottery in Sacramento, 2001.
    Leilani Hu | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Esteban Lepe, left, helps Ramon P. Santos, president of Panama Pottery, load a mold for one of the large clay pots that are made at Panama Pottery in Sacramento near Sacramento City College. Santos, originaly from Tecolotlan, Jalisco, moved to Sacramento from Texas in 1958 were he worked as a cowboy. Since then he has been making clay pots and in the 1970's Santos became the owner of the factory which was founded in by Swedish immigrants. 1998, Sacramento, Calif.
    HECTOR AMEZCUA | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Ramon P. Santos, of Sacramento, sits in front of some of the pots that are made daily at his Panama Pottery factory in Sacramento. 1998, Sacramento, Calif.
    HECTOR AMEZCUA | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • Esteban Lepe, of Sacramento, finishes the lip on a pot at Panama Pottery Wednesday morning. The pots, which have to dry for at least 24 hours before they are baked, are distributed thru California. 1998, Sacramento Calif.
    HECTOR AMEZCUA | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo
  • February 19, 1998, Sacramento, Calif.-The Panama Pottery at 24 th Street in Sacramento is busy daily with the production of pots that decorate many homes in California.
    HECTOR AMEZCUA | Sacramento Bee Staff Photo

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