Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. Opens New Store

The new and modern home of the Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. at Lone Pine, Calif., which is pictured above, was formally opened on August 31.

The front of the building, with the windo.ws set in zigzag ma:nner to form a gradual curve or bay, is very striking, being entirely of g'lass pane's. The base below the windows is constructed of thin Roman bricks. The attractive doorway is framed with a column of glass blocks . The buildings have been constr,ucted on a large right-triangular lot.

The exterior upper walls of five-ply plywood, above the windows, carry a metal cap moulding the entire length of the building, while the lower walls south of the doorway are of Rustic Ponderosa Pine channel, eight inches wide. The outer walls are painted grey with rvhite trim. The company's name, over the display windows, is constructed of individual wooden letters cut from nine-ply veneer, and painted Spanish green. Final touches on the exterior are the window boxes fbr green ivy plants built into the low brick wall, the thin bricks being of mottled terra cotta color.

On entering the office and display noom, the "Lone Pine" inset in the congoleum floor covering attracts your attention. The walls and ceiling of this room, 24 by 66 feet and tapering to 12 f.eet at the north end are of Celotex. The ceiling is neutral tan, constructed of squares with key-joint units, while the walls are of vertical sections with blendton€ finish with just a suggestion of pale brown.

The window columns will be covered with "Flex-Glass" to give an effect of brilliancy.

Along the west wall of the office are three sections of shelving, the first contains paints, the second has thirty units for floor coverings, and the third is for builders' hardware.

The major portion of the floor space will be devoted to displaying large merchatrdise. The members of the clerical staff rvill be found in the south end of the room, where telephone connection is kept with the outside yard.

The office and display room are well lighted due to the large windows supplemented by flush-type fluorescent ceiling lamps. The windows will be covered with "Finisteel" Venetian blinds.

Opening from the main office is an 8 by B foot private office, decorated with a sand-blasted ceiling center piece.

Fro,m the ofifice, passing thnough large swingi;ng doors, one enters the stockroom, 16 by 6O feet, for hardware. The only other entrance is a large sfiding door that leads out onto a 8 by 4O foot covered cement loading dock, equipped with ceiling lights. The next unit, 16 by 26 feet, houses millwork such as sash, doors, etc. The back and roof of the building have been constructed with "Tyl-lyke" stormproof galvanized metal siding.

A wooden loading platfonm, 5 feet wide and 3 feet high, leads into the millwork room and remaining storage rooms, and under this ramp is storage space for soil pipe and fittings.

A storage room, 16 by 42 feet, houses plaster, roofing papers and tar, and the Celotex storage shed is 17 by 42 feet.

The main building, which has a frontage ol 28 f.eet, rests upon a cement and Redwood foundation.

The lumber storage shed, 32 by 115 feet, is situated at the south end of the yard. It has 64 main bins, subdivided by partitions, and a central cement-floored sawing, planing and ,milling shed, housing band, rip and cross-cut power saws and other milling equipment, and connected with the main office by telephone.

Stored in this shed are milled and finished lumber, moulding, pipe and corrugated iron.

The remainder of the yard, which is electrically lighted, is taken up with storage. In the open section near the loading ramp are found clay products, stucco wire, mine timbers, shingles, lath, Redwood planking, and a SGfoot well, housed in a low shed and ooncrete pit and equipped with a Fairbanks, Morse & Co. automatic pump and emergency pressure-equalizing storage tank.

Surrounding and protecting the property is a Columbia steel rvire fence over 84O feet long, tipped with strands of barbed wire, and entered by four sets of double-drive steel gates. The fence is 7 feet high.

The construction of a cement sidewalk and curbing has been delayed, pending the erection of boulevard park lights by the county.

R. R. "Rudie" Henderson is the owner of the Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co. Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Dow established the business in 1919. Back in 1926, Mr. Henderson, then a young newspaperman in the town, and who had also served as justice of the peace, asked the Dows for a "60day trial" as yard manager. He got the job and under his management the business made rapid growth. Early this year Mr. and Mrs. Dow sold the business to him.

Staff of the Lone Pine Lumber & Supply Co.

Mr. Henderson has surrounded himself with a courte'cvus and go-getter organization. T. A. Henderson, brother of "Rudie," takes care of the inside saleswork and clerical duties; Ben E. Smith, oldest employe in point of service, is office accountant and outside salesman; Bob Henderson, son of "Rudie," acts as office boy during the summer vacation; J. W. McKinney is yard foreman; Ben Budke, Jesse Browne, Edwin Hagen, Charles Harned, Maule W. Marsh and Stonewall Jackson Raper are members of the yard staff; and Frank Russell is night watch'man.