Ne* Plant \(/ell Located for Serving Customers

The new home of The California Door Company, announced in an advertisement on another page of this issue is located at 494O District Boulevard, Los An' geles, "District at 50th." This location is most convenient both for dealers' pickups and for deliveries by the company's trucks, and plenty of parking space is reserved for customers.

The building, which was recently purchased by the company, is 103 by 210 feet, of reinforced concrete con-

Gtenn O. Fogleacn struction, and completely fireproof. It is served by a private spur track on which two cars can be spotted for unloading.

An important feature of the building is the truck indenture, with room for four trucks to load at one time under cover.

All merchandise is on one floor. All doors and plywood are handled from the cars to the warehouse with hydraulic lift trucks, and of course lift trucks are used when loading trucks from the warehouse. This method results in the saving of much time in getting customers' trucks away with all possible speed.

The private office is paneled in ribbon grain Philippine Mahogany and the door of this office is also Philippine Mahogany.

All the woodwork in the general office, including the doors, is quartered White Oak. The ceilings in both private and general offices are of Armstrong Temlok Insulation panels, and Armstrong Asphalt Tile is used on the floors of both offices.

The glass in both offices is frosted Aklo glass, which eliminates all glare and prevents heat penetration. Glass blocks are used surrounding the main entrance doorway of the general office.

Glenn O. Fogleman, resident manager of The California Door Company, has spent most of his business life in the sash and door business, having been with this concern since 1918. He started his career in this line in 1904 with the Cresmer IVlanufacturing Co., Riverside, Calif., and from 1911 to 1918 was associated with the Bisbee-Fishburn Co., wholesale sash and door firm of Los Angeles.

Les Breiner, office manager, has been with the company for many years.

The three salesmen iarho cover the company's sales territory are R. V. Pye, who travels Ventura County and the Long Beach district; Russ Castell, Orange County, Kern County and Coast Counties, and Duke Calori, San Fernando Valley, San Bernardino and Riverside Counties, and part of Los Angeles County.

The history of The California Door Company covers a period of 91 years.

Bartlett Doe, about 1850, received by vessel from Boston via Cape Horn the first cargo of doors and windows to be landed at San Francisco, and in co-partnership with his brother, John S. Doe, began business as the firm of B. & J. S. Doe at 3G4O Market Street.

About the same time, George O. Wilson arrived on the Pacific Coast, going first to Puget Sound but returning to San Francisco a year or so later to establish with his brother, Nathaniel Irving Wilson, a business in doors, windows and blinds at the corner of California and Drumm Streets, under the firm name of Wilson & Brother.

In the 6O's, Charles Franklin Doe, a brother of Bartlett and John S. Doe, who operated a lumber yard at Spear and Howard Streets, acquired the business of John Hall & Son, which firm conducted a door and window business at ll+116 Market Street. E. H. Kittredge, who was associated with C. F. Doe, took charge of the business and the nime was changed to E. H. Kittredge & Company.

During the seventies these three pioneer firms combined, but retained their individual identities until July, 1884, when their separate interests were consolidated and merged under the corporate name of The California Door Company. Following this consolidation, the largest plant west of the Rocky Mountains manufacturing doors, windows and blinds, was built and operated at 15th and Wood Streets in Oakland, Calif., the output of which through its distributing branches in Oakland, San Francisco and Los Angeles, reached markets from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic Seaboard, New Zealand, Australia and South Africa.

At the turn of the century, to insure a future supply sufficient to meet its growing requirements in Sugar and Ponderosa Pine lumber, the company purchased in El Dorado County, California, a tract of some 30,000 acres of heavily timbered forest lands, and in 1924, f.ollowing the destruction of its sawmill at Caldor, built the present large, electrically equipped plant at Diamond Springs, its products now being distributed by carload, as well as truck and trailer, to local and interstate points.

The company's first Los Angeles warehouse was established in 1887 at Second and San Pedro Streets. The business was moved to 237-241 Central Avenue in 1905, and the recent move to the present location was made just 3(r years later.

Urge Action in "Famine Area s" ol Build'ng

For the past two months Northern and Southern California Homes Foundations have warned that suspension of non-Defense home building would be a calamity of nationwide proportions, particularly in small population centers in which building is the major source of employment, Bernard B. Barber and Orrie W. Hamilton, Chairmen of the Foundations, declare, in urging organized emergency relief action in California towns and cities which are not official Defense housing areas.

"Serious partial suspension of non-Defense home building is now in force, with the SPAB order prohibiting the use of steel, copper, bronze, brass and aluminum on projected non-Defense construction," they state. "OPM officials have already predicted a minimum 6O per cent reduction for 1942below L94l,in this construction category. Experience has taught us that the small town suffers most in a situation of this kind, and that the small businessman is commonly required to make, proportionally, the greatest sacrifice.

"The building industry is made up,nationally,of 250,000 enterprises. Typical of these is the building materials store of the average American community and the building contractor who works with his own hands in carrying on his business of making new homes for families of moderate or small income, or of erecting new farm buildings and repairing old ones.

"Thousands of these men are facing the threat of business extinction and thousands-even millions-more carpenters, mascss, painters and others of the building trades are f'acing unemployment. The great majority of them are ready to make extreme sacrifices for national defense, but they have the right to know all the evidence that may be had to prove the sacrifices absolutely necessary. And they have the right to complete assurance, on the basis of demonstrable fact, that other groups are not profiting from the famine of business and employment they are asked to undergo.

"The OPM has estimated that 800,000 persons will be thrown out of employment in construction under the new order. This, of course, is a figure of utmost optimism. Estimates from the Associated General Contractors of America are that 1,500,000 will lose employment in non-Defense construction and that 3,000,000 persons now producing, marketing or shipping noncritical materials will be idle.

"This blow will fall the hardest on the farm and small town which is located so as to derive comparatively small benefits from the Defense program. We of the building industry in this region can bear the blow, if the Defense program is furthered thereby, and if it is proven to us that we must bear it for the good of the country.

"But we must know these things. Because the building industry exists in small local units, this is a question of concern to all the citizens in every community in California. The Foundations urge organized local action on the problem; first, to find the facts; second, to take action on whatever course the facts dictate to be best for the community in its duty to national defense, and to its own men, women and children; and third, to devise measures of relief within the restrictions of the SPAB order."

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