Sixty car orders & other recollections

By Stephen G. Freeman Stephen G. Freeman & Co. Newport Beach, Ca.

EEADING my junk mail (it floffsets lumber biz boredom) a Mt. Prospect, Il., outfit advises: "CONGRATULATIONS on the im- portant 35th Anniversary your firm is celebrating in 1984."

Following up on lost month's reminiscence, (seeThe Merchant, July, p. 66) longtime lumberman Steve Freeman herewith remembers the huge lumber volumes of yesteryear as he "interviews" himself on those halcyon days-ed.

Egad, those Mt. Prospect snoopers are right; 35 years of peddling this stuff! And there were a few years preceding when I shilled lumber for another firm.

Yet on this apocryphal occasion not a single reporter or feature writer has beaten on my door for an interview. Damp on them; I'll interview myself:

Q. 35 years! How does it feel?