Two Attractive Building Material Stores

San Pedro Lumbcr Co. Yard at Compton

Co. Yard at Whittier

The San Pedro Lumber Co. are now meeting their trade in the Compton and Whittier districts in modern establishments where they have constructed new building material stores, lumber sheds, and made other improvements. Grand openings were recently held at each plant and were largely attended.

The accompanying photographs show the Cotnpton and Whittier yards. The store buildings are of California colonial ar,chitecture with pine siding exteriors. The interior of both the stores is finished in knotty pine and in natural color, while the ceilings are finished in Weatherwood insulation board. Many of the materials they sell are on display both in the store and in the large plate glass windows in front, and each of the stores is equipped with a Neon electric light sign that can be seen for a long distance at night. The exterior of all the buildings at both yards is painted in a cream ,color, and lvithin the yard enclosures plenty of parking space is provided for their customers.

Treated Sisalkraft is used as backing for the siding and the concrete floors rvere cured with Sisalkraft paper.

The Compton yard was the first branch established by the company in 1883 and this yard has been in continuous operation on the same site at Palm and Alameda streets. The store building here is 32 leet by B0 feet; the store is 32 feet by 50 feet, with the olfices in the rear' The new luml>er shed is 60 feet by 110 feet, built of pine siding, and has a capacity of 150,000 feet of lumber;all the lumber is carried under cover. George Clough is manager of the yard; A. R. Brown, who has been connected with the Comp' ton yard for the past thirty vears, is assistant manager; Miss E. R. Brown is office manager; and Robert !\rilliams is in charge of the hardrvare department.

The Whittier yard rvas started in 1886 and is located at West Philadelphia Street and Whittier Boulevard' The store building is 28 feet by 50 feet. the store occttpying the front and the offices are in the rear of the building. In addition to the large warehouse, there are tr,vo lumber sheds and a small mill at this yard. The main lumber shed is new and built of pine siding, and all lumber carried is under cover. A. R. EnEarl is yard manager; Roy C. Kinsman, offr,ce manager; ar-rd L. C. Corkendale, yardman.

The headquarters of the San Peclro Luml:er Co. are in Los Angeles. T. L. Ely, who has been ,connected with the company since 1898, is general manager. J. C. Jenkins, credit manager, joined the company in 1912, and A. B. McKee, Jr., is manager of retail yards. The company has also made improvements and brightened up the buildings with a new coat of paint at their Long Beach and Westminster yards. Their large lumber distributing plant and mill is at San Pedro.

The architects of the new store building's were Russell Collins at Compton, and Dave Bushnell at Whittier.

lTestern Pine Semi-Annual July 28th

The semi-annual meeting of the Western Pine Assoc,iation will be held at the Palace Hotel. San Francisco, July 28. The directors of the Western Pine Association will meet in the morning. Directors of the N. L. M. A. and members of the Redwood industry will attend the afternoon session. Pres'ident Walter Nettleton of the N. L. M. 4., Wilson Com,pton, R. G. Kimball and John Woods will address the afternoon meeting.

LUMBERMEN'S SON INJURED

Brian Bonnington, l5-year old son of G. F. "Jerry" Bonnington, Wendling-Nathan Co., San Francisco, received a serious leg injury when he was ,caught in a dam in the Russian River, June2t, but is making satisfactory progress towards recovery.

Change Of Name

The name of the Home Lumber Co., Lomita, has been changed to Gard,iner Lumber Yard, Inc.

VISITS S. F. BAY DISTRICT

V. A. Nyman, vice-president and manager of the Aberdeen Plywood Company, Aberdeen, Wash., left for the Northwest by United Air Lines plane July 7 af.ter a twoday visit to San Francisco and Oakland. While in the Bay district he ,conferred with G. H. Brown, Oakland, the comDanv's Northern California sales representative.

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