Frank Paramino's 71 Years in the Lumber Business

\I'/HEN Frank Paramino celebrates his YV 85th birthday this April 23, he will do so as a healthy, prosperous businessman. And celebrate he should because his station

^IIO CeleDrate Decause ms stau in life today is certainly not accidental. Frank, as he prefers to be called in spite of his dignified age, is active daily in the management of Paramino Lumber Company in San Francisco, a wholesale lumber firm he established on his own during early 1918. But we're getting ahead of our story, so let's start at the beginning.

Frank Paramino was born on April 23, 1881, in Jackson, California, the 9th in a sizable family of 12 children. He attended gr€rmmar school in Jackson in a one room school where you just moved over one row when you graduated to the next grade. At the age of 14, he decided it was time to get down to work. That makes 7l years of work if our arithmetic is correct.

His first job in Los Angeles as an errand boy for his brother-in-law was almost a disaster. He arrived in Los Angeles expect-