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\Tarehouse of Geo. E. Ream Co. Conveniently Located to Serve Dealer Trade
Fen'rvarehouses on the Pacific Coast are as r,vell equipped and located to serve the dealer trade as that of the Geo. E. Ream Company, Los Angeles, distributors of nationally advertised building materials.
Located at 235 South Alameda Street, this rvarehouse has a floor space of almost tr'vo acres, all under one roof. Its alleys are 42O feet long, running through to Central Avenue, the full length of the building.
There is an additional 3000 square feet of space on the loading platform, which has room for unloading five cars, is located right at Alameda Street and is very accessible for dealers' trucks getting in and out. /
This firm carries one of the largest plywood and Celotex stocks in California. Super-Harbord, the resin bonded waterproof plywood is carried in all sizes and thicknesses and in special lengths up to 16 feet long.
In addition Geo. E. Rean-r Company also distributes Sisalkraft, Therrnax, IJpson Boards, metal lath, stucco and poultry nettings, nails, corrugated iron, asphalt roofings and shingles, the stocks of many of these items being among the largest and most complete on the Pacific Coast.
At the rear of the main offices is the little Friendly Dealers' Service Theater, with its stage and moving picture equipment, designed to seat comfortably 6O people. Here sales promotional meetings are regularly held rvith dealers and their customers, as well as architects, in connectioh with the promotion of the uses of, and developing of markets for the various nationally advertised materials carried by the firm-all in the interests of the dealer.
The lvarehouse and display rooms are open at all times for the use of dealers' customers. Many dealers take advantage of this part of the service. The warehouse is so arranged that it is, in effect, a large display roorn, making it possible for dealers to show their customers the various types and sizes of materials with a minimum expenditure of time.
Under the merchandising slogan of "Friendly Dealers' Service," u'hich has been 'r'vell established by manv years of performance, the Geo. E. Ream Company serves the dealer trade rvith nationally advertised products of merit in clirect carload shipments or out of warehouse. The company has a most efficient organization, some of the members having been associated rvith Mr. Ream for the past 15 years.
