San Francisco Retail Lumber Firm Installs Two Modern Display Rooms

With the installation of display rooms at each of its two plants in San Francisco, H. S. Thompson, In,c., well known 'retail lumber and mill concern, has initiated an aggressive merchandising campaign to sell articles made of wood.

Both stores are situated on Mission Street, a great main artery of traffic traveled by many thousands daily.

The door of the office and display room at the main yard at 3650 Mission Street is a Philippine Laminex entrance door, and a number of other fine front doors of the Laminex line are prominently displayed. This door exhibit includes an ufiusual modernistic front door of mahogany and maple.

A main feature of the display is a complete Peerless kitchen unit. Other units of the Peerless Built-In Furniture line shown are telephone cabinets, wall tables, mirrored medicine cabinets, a corhbination ironing board and table, and a combination telephone nook and seat.

The front of the counter is used for the display of panels of gum, oak, Philippine and Douglas fir.

Red River Log Cabin Siding in various width and patterns has a prominent place, and a sample of Anzac Redwood Siding is displayed.

The display at 1775 Mission Street is also a very attractive one. Here also Laminex front and interior doors are featured, and built-in fixtures of all kinds made in the firm's own manufacturing plant at this address take up the majority of the display space. This display includes various kinds of medicine cabinets, kitchen fixtures, telephone cabinets. etc.

Redwood Cbreboard, manufactured by the Hammond Lumber Co., is one of the lines recommended and sold by this firm.

A specialty which will be manufactured at this plant is a miniature hot house, which although not yet produced in quantity, has proved to be a popular line. Sand boxes for children are also manufactured and displayed.

H. S. Thompson, Inc., has made arrang'ements with the Weyerhaeuser Sales Company to carry a stock of their famous 4SQUARE line of improved precision lumber, and will be the first authorized 4-SQUARE Dealer in the Bay Counties. They are now building a new model shed 23 f.eet high by 96 feet long to accommodate the initial stock which will be on hand by September 5.