A House Moves "Piggyback" 3,OOO Miles to Find New Home on Lake in Kentucky

To Charles Rohmann family of Louisville, Kentucky, living has become suddenly and wonderfully comple* with a home in the city and another one-which they won in a national contest-on a lake.

The vacation home they won came all the way from Lynnwood, Washington, #here it was constructed by Panelbild Systems, fnc., a subsidiary of United States Plywood Corp. The house was shipped by rail "piggyback" to Chicago, then over the highway to Rough River reservoir, some 75 miles southwest of Louisville, near Leitchfield.

The home was presented to the Rohmanns upon its completion by L. B. Olmsted, U. S. Plywood vice president in Louisville on the twelfth birthday (July 14, 1961) of the Rohmann's daughter Donna. Coincidentally, the Rohmanns originally had been notified on their twelfth wedding anniversary, August 3, l9@, that they had won top prize in the Weldwood Vacation Time promotion in which more than 1,000 U. S. Plywood dealers participated.

"Number 12 sure has turned out to be our lucky number," said "Bud" Rohmann, 34-year-old photoengraving plant manager in Louisville. His entry was drawn from more than 275,OOO submitted all over the country.

The Rohmanns had a year in which to select a site anywhere in the continental limits of the United States. But "Bud" and his family decided there was no place like Kentucky for a vacation retreat.

^ T-ouring the Bluegrass from one end to the other, they finally settled _on Timbercrest, a development along thi newly-created Rough River reservoir, and picked a heavily wooded site sloping steeply to the water's'edge. The Rohmann's prize, worth $10,000, included price of the site and clearing and preparing the lot. The family lives in a ranchstyle home built only 18 months ago and Bud's attractive wife, Norma, admits she sometimes has the "shivers" about keeping both places going.

"But this new cottage on the lake looks so easy to keep that I don't think it will take us very long to leain how t-o care for both houses, it's a dream," says Norma. "We're so plo.lrd of our Weldwood vacation home that it will be a good while before we get all our friends and relatives oui for visits."

Louisville builder, Keith Breitenstein, assembled the house. He is a director of Associated Home Builders of Louisville and a member of National Associated Home Builders. Erecting the Panelbild-designed vacation cottage was 'something like putting a simple puzzle together, it ill just fell into place," he declared. -

The cottage is of contemporary design, 24 x 24 feet with an unusual "flying deck" along one side and across the end overlooking th,e lake. It has two bedrooms; a large living room with a Cavalier uni-bilt fireplace, a compact range-, sink and refrigerator unit; bathroom with Ascotlnstantaneous water heater, Skipper shower cabinet and AmericanStandard-fixtures; Plugmold electrical multiple outlet sys- tem; a Van-Packer tile-lined chimmey. and 1ll floors covered with Excelon vinyl asbestos floor-tile. The materials of the house are pre-cut from Douglas fir plywood with interloc-king panels. The Rohmanns chose a pale, cottage-green paint for the exterior.

It was a little over a year ago that Rohmann entered the vacation Weldwood contest while making a purchase at Boland-Maloney Lumber Co., U. S. Ply-wood dealer in Louisville.

Sonlo Fe Lumber Hits The Ooklond Troil

After more than 50 years of doing business at the same old stand (Drumm and California Streets, San Francisco), A. J. "Gus" Russell and Earl Carlson have moved across the Bay to Oakland and established offices for Santa Fe Lumber, Inc. at 3871 Piedmont Avenue. iust a few blocks off N{acArthur Blvd. Having commuted'across the Bay by ferry, and since 1936 on the-San Francisco Bay Bridge, thi venerable pair of lumbermen gave the bridge toll collector the last two-bits he'll receive from them on August 31.

DOUBLE CETEBRAIION-Tho Chorlas Rohmqnn fomily of louisville, Kentucky, embroce on thc "fying deck" of lhair new Waldwood vocotion home won in o notionwide .onterl 3ponsored by U. S. Plywood. It wds presenfed to them on doughrer Donnc's twclfih birrhdoy. l- B. Olmsted, compqny vice president in Louirville, hcd nolified rhe fomily of their good for?une obout q yeor eorlier (see inset) on the Rohrncnn's twelfth wedding onniversory. They hod o yoor lo select o site, chore onc 75 niles soulhwost of louisville on Rough River reservoir. The building, dcrigncd by Ponclbild Systems, Inc., Lynnwood Wcshingron, o U. S. Plywood subsidicry monufqclurer of components, wos shipped, knocked down some 3,0fl1 milcs ond erectad ot thc site by o locol builder.

Both Gus and Earl have spent nearly 6O yeari in downtown San Fr-ancisco, Gus arriving before the '06 quake as sales agent for the old Portland Lumber Company. His original offices were in the Rialto Building, but Afril 18, 1906, and the massive destruction which followed on that day, forced him into temporary quarters in a livery stable on Channel Street. Later, the City on the mend, Gui moved into the St. Clair Building at -16 California Street, just across the street from the Fife Building (#1 Drumm Str6et) where both he and Earl have hung their hats since 1908 when Santa Fe Lumber was incorporated.

The new address again-3871 Piedmont Avenue, Oak11"9 11, 'phone Olympic 8-6000. They both might be a little homesick for the City for a while so give 'em a ring -they'd like to hear from you !