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The Back Business Keeps 0n frrowing

Whoever wrote the line that "Big oaks from little acorns grow," could have had in mind Bill Back, of Los Angeles, or J. Wm. Back as he is formally called.

Here is a brief run-down on the series of events that make him today one of the most successful panel rrien in the State of California.

About 45 years ago his father, J. C. Back, a Los Angeles businessman, bought some property at 36th and Maple Avenue and put some store buildings thereon. Long afterward, in 1931, Bill Back rented one of the store buildings from his father, and started in the panel and plywood business. There was 800 square feet of floor space in his first panel plant.

A year later, the business showing growing pains, even in the depths of depression, he bought a lot adjoining his place of business and built his first real panel warehouse. The business grew right through the depression years, and, since Bill Back did most of the work it must be assumed that he did some hustling. To build and grow when nost of the business world was falling like crumbling bricks around his ears, was something of a triumph.

But he outgrew this enlarged place of business, and in 1937 he made his first big move. He bought two lots on the site his business now occupies on East 32nd Street, and on this built a new office and warehouse. He had 100 foot frontage and 17,500 square feet of warehouse space, and now he went into the panel business for certain with much enlarged and more varied stocks of both soft and hardwood panels. The place was modern and the offices attractive.

But even these essentials were not keeping up with the growth of the Back Panel Company, so in 1946 he replaced

Hardwood Plywood Institute

The National Lumber Manufacturers Association, Washington, D.C. reports that its board of directors has recently approved application for membership of the Hardwood Plywood Institute, whose offices are at 600 South Michigan Ave- these buildings with a new and modernized office and warehouse set-up that is something to be proud of. It is a steel and concrete two-story building, with extremely handsome interiors, many private offices, etc. The warehouse space is now 30,000 square feet. It is served by a private railroad spur that handles five railroads cars at the same time. There is 20,000 feet of black-top yard space in the rear for loading and unloading, and likewise a winter unloading unit, where materials may be handled even in the rainy season. There are three and one-half acres all told included in their buildings and yards. nue, Chicago, Illinois. This is the sixteenth affiliate of the National. President of the Hardwood Plywood Institute is Walter L. Jolin, of Shawano, Wisconsin, and the secretarytreasurer is Charles E. Close, of Chicago. Mr. Close is also executive vice president of the Veneer Association, also art affiliate of the National.

Their equipment consists of three lift trucks, and fottr delivery trucks.

In the year 1940 Mr. Back got extra ambitious and branched out. He created The J. Wm. Back Lumber Company, and opened a wholesale hardwood and softwood lumber yard right next door to the Back Panel Company plant. The lumber company has offices in the building of the Panel Company. Here large stocks of hardwood and softwood lumber are carried in stock, and sufficient sheds were erected to house the lumber requiring protection. This separate Back business has thrived and prospered from the day it started, and is one of the orvner's proudest possessions.

No attempt shall be made here to give further details about the Back businesses, the stocks carried, etc. This story simply goes to show what can be done in spite of panic and depression by a man who was too interested in the hard work he was doing to worrv abottt economics. Rill Back is a quiet, thoughtful, courageous man of business, who talks little, works hard and intelligently, and gets things done. His rock-ribbed integrity-never questioned-is the backbone of his business success.