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Schumacher Wall Board In One Job Five Hundred Thousand Feet of
It is natural that the Schumacher Wall Board Company, of Los Angeles, should be elated. They ARE. They sold 500,000 feet of their plaster board to the builders of the great Motion Picture Exposition, which oPens July first in Exposition Park, Los Angeles, and this tremendous mass of material is being used for constructing practically every booth, building, tower, sign, etc., in the Park for that famous event. Even the towers, 85 feet in height, are being built from this material.
It will appear to the casual observation of those who enter that the entire proposition is built of stucco, for that is the outward finish that is being given this big order of board. It is all being nailed on 4 foot centers without any - backirg, showling t?re strength of the board, and the confidehce that is being reposed in it by the 'builders of the Exposition.
.{n army of workmen has-been busy. for weeks erecting and constructing the buildings in the park, and on account of the speed and ease with which Schumacher Wall Board buildings can be built, the work has gone forward with startlirg speed, and buildings have sprung up like magic, and are completed in what seems like an impossible space of time. The joints of the board are cleverly sealed giving the one-piece wall effect, and 'making them look like'solid stucco walls. '
Thus is shown again the versatility of Schumacher Wall Board. Of course, the lumber folks know that it is used for permanent construction of the most expensive sort, big ho*"r, business buildings, stores, apartments, and offices beirg built with this matefial every day in all parts of California.
When, the big show opens on July second, one of the greatest demonstrations of the modern use of Wall Board will be there in the shape of practically every building in the Exposition.