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Pofs and Pans
I.umber.Compaly's good looking store, operated srnce last year by the parent :ompal)r, Fisher Lumber Compiny of Santa I\{onica.
LgT_b"r, under manager H. P. "Bud" Walling, operates as a complete building matlrial center with hardvuare and housewares, and prides itself as being stocked with everythins from.2x4's to pots and pans. Eveh chill drelr's toys and cookbooks are dis_ played in the big hardware section.
Though they get the famous of the area, most of the store's high floor traffrc is a cross section of peofle from fuIalibu Lumber's 2l-mile iadius trade area, who come into the store's pacific Coast Highway location at Malibu Beach.
A complete building materials center is no idle boast here. A partial list includes: concrete blocks, wire mesh, cement, sand, reinforcing steel, red brick, plumbing suppli6s, threaded stocks and machine bolts, a complete Iine of lumber, Orangeburg and 6ther pipe, metal mouldings, hardwood panel- ing, wood siding,- fiberglass panels, hand and power tools, paints (even custom mixed), electrical hxtures. cabinets and locks and keys. And when you're finished with thbse they have gardening srrpplies and artist's -paints.
The spacious yard in the rear of the iour-acre lot has a full inventory of Iumber, three trucks, two new fork- Iifts, and a loader in their roster of equipment to effect delivery of orders called into the office. Neweit vard feature is an 8,000 sq. ft. shed thai houses, among other things, Marine hardwood for the boat builders in the area.
Fisher Lumber Cornpany, since 1947 a pioneer among' lumber yards setting into the buildine materiils fieli. seei continued growth for Malibu Lumber in all its diverse lines.
UPPER LEFT: IVlclibu's offroctive showroom ond porl of the porking lot. UPPER RIGHT: Dick Roberts naking o sole under the giont hommer disploy In the hordwore section, IOWER LEFT: Srocks of boilding moleriols in lhe back lor. INSEI: ?wo of the compony trucks looded ond reody ro 9o. 1OWCR RIGHI: A look into the voried housewore soction.