At Giles Lumber You Just Drive-in

The Giles Lumber Company in Ingle. wood, Calif., doesn't run a bar, but it does run a successful yard that acts as do-ityourself headquarters for so many people in that area that on some Saturdays nearly 100 cars pull into the yard or the parking lot.

Headman Bill Giles explains that their location at 11307 Hawthorne Blvd. has little or no foot traffic so the vard is specifically set up to handle the drive-in traffic. When the home handymen converge on the yard on Saturdays, Giles Lumber has a boy on hand whose sole iob is to direct traffic.

The firm handles most everything in lumber, building materials, builders' hardware and tools. After lumber in dollar volume of business comes hardwood plywood, followed by reject No. 2 doors, both items being highly popular with the home remodelers.

The capacious, 125 square-foot ware. house at the rear of the nearly two acre yard houses the 4x4 and up and 2xB and up lumber. The smaller sizes are stored up front under wide-roofed shedding as that part of the inventory is never around long enough to need warehousing.

Jim Giles, Bill's brother, is assistant manager and heads a staff of six that includes Bill's son, Roy Giles. Other members are Walt Zinda" Chuck Evans and Gladys Froegel, who handles correspondence, bookkeeping, and on busy days does practically everything else except run the rip saw.

Virtually everyone is a longtimer with the firm and is able to handle any jobs (Continu,ed, on Page 90)

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