DEPENDABLE GRADES

New Davidson San Francisco \(/arehouse Puts Emphasis on Facilities

The San Francisco .ivarehouse of Davidson plyr,vood & Lumber Co., Inc., which opened June 1, is located at 1930 Carroll Avenue, at Newhall Street, San Francisco 24, and has an area ol 20,@O square feet. It has exceilent facilities for the quick loading of customers, trucks, and also operates its own trucks for deliveries to customers.

A large, well-rounded stock of soft.rvood and harclwood plyr,r'ood, and flush and panel doors is handled by the new warehouse. Also Etch Wood, Sketchr,vood, and Dinolite. The s;tock includes Douglas fir plyu,ood in a rvicle range of sizes. thicknesses, and grades; pine plywood, reclwood ply- t'ood. Philippine Mahogany, bircl.r, gum, oak, walnut, African mahogany, plyrvood, and otl-rer fancy u,oods; Merr_ gel hollorv core and solid core flush doors and panel doo:s.

Inquiries are invited on special specifications for plyrvood and doors.

Ralph Mannion is general rnanager. The salesmen ilre: Wayne (Dal) Dalbey, Art Grey, Don Cathcurrt, and Harol<l Fuerst, resident salesman in Fresno. Chuck Breitenbucheris on the orcler desl<. The office manaser and accountant is G. A. (Del) Mannion. Bett1, Geppert is office secretarv.

Los Angeles Warehouse

The new building recently opened, has adcled another 15,000 square feet to the total area of 48,000 square feet at the Los Angeles rvarehouse, which is located at 3136 Washington Boulevard, Los Angeles 23. This figure in_ cludes the Etch Wood plant. There is plentv of parking and loading space for customers trucks and cars. The rail_ road sltur accommodates three ca,rs ilt one time. The olt_ eriLtion is e'tirely mechanizecl, using four clark ancl trvr-r Tou'motor lift trucks. Seven of thg ;.,mpany's own t-rrclis are operated for deliveries to customers all over the Los Angeles area and Orange County. The aclvantage of the large yard loading space is that customers trucks can be loaded u'ithout delay.

Nornran Davidson is president of Daviclson plyr,vood & Lumber Co., Inc. Jack Davidson is vice president. Chandler Hlrrl is sccrelary.

Bob Brou'n is comptroller. Dewey Myers is warehouse su1>erir.r ten den t.

The Davidson sales staff includes : Orval Stewart, sales rnzrnager; Dick Bartlett, Bill Hecker, I)icl< Fantz, Tohn Martin, Tony Habig, Dave Webb, Bob Grant, Tom Adrvin, George Page, and Ken Wright. Telephone salesmen are Bus McNeii anci Bill Crippen.

'rhe Davidson organization has rrr*. been estzrblisrred l l ye:rrs in I-os Angeles.

It is the intention of this company to open rvarehouses in the future in a number of other Western cities.

Grcndlcthers' Column

Dick and Virginia Tu,ohy of palos Verdes became the proud parents of a baby daughter, Christine Virginia Twohy, on June 21. This gives Arthur Twohy, Los Angeles wholesale lumberman, three youngsters to call him "Grandpa."