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are vacatinEJ without regrets," he emphasized.

He also announced the early opening of a new enterprise, l,itchfield's Toys, at 7I7 E. California in Glendale.

John Litchfield rvas named the active manager of the store, a two-story building of attractive design which is being erected directly across the street from the Glendale Fashion Center's surface parking area. It will be of brick rvith a glass front.

"So the old, makes wa,-y lor the neu)," P r es itl e nt Lit clr, fiel d, c omm e nt e d,, " a nd, p r o gress calls for toys in place ol lurnber."

The Litchfields view the transition from lumber to toys as both a pleasure and a challenge.

The roots o{ the Litchfield Lumber Co. go back to l8B5 when Charles A. Lirchfield started business in the small Minnesota town of Excelsior, 20 miles north of Minneapolis. Additional yards were opened in the course of time in the communities of Rice, Meriden and Dodge Center, all in Minnesota.

In 1908, Charles A. Litchfield decided that California offered opportunities which could not be overlooked. Investieation of possible sites resulted in leasc oi land in Palms, just west of Culver City, frorn the Southern Pacific Railroad Co. The Palms Lumber Co. was formed. Pleased with the outcome, Litchfield senior returned to Minnesota and sold his yards there to the Weyerhauser Timber Co.

Patms Yard Sold

The Palms yard was operated until April 5, 1911, when it was sold and the Glendale lumber yard purchased. The seller on that date was the Ganahl Lumber Co. The Glendale city directory of two years later lists Gaston A. Ganahl as owner of the Glendale Mill Co., while Ernest G. Ganahl was listed as a bookkeeper for the Litchfield company.

In the more than a half a century the Litchfield company has been in business in Glendale it has furnished buildins materials for the public Iibrary, city schools, commercial buildines and homes.

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President William Litchfield remarked that he long ago lost all count of the number of construction projects for which he supplied lumber. o'The number runs into many, many thousands," he remarked. Throughout the years the motto of Litchfield has been unchanged, "sincere service in lumber."

The origin of the business which Litchfield took over in Glendale occurred in the 1890s when Glendale was a place of small ranches devoted tofruit orchards and strawberries. A railroad, the Salt Lake Line, laid tracks on Glendale Avenue north to Clenoaks to tap shipments from the Ross and Sparr ranches. Orange packing houses were located near the end of the line.