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"The day we opened was really hectic."

"The plastering wasn't done yet on the store building and we were up on ladders trying to finish it. As people would get lumber out of the yard, we would come down off the ladders, take their money, and then hurry back to plastering."

The man talking is Alvin L. Wenholz, who with partner Lyle W. Timm started the Timm-Wenholz Lumber Company in \947.

Since the erection of the first, small building at 12254 East Carson Blvd., in Hawaiian Gardens on the fringe of Greater Los Angeles, they have made four additions to enlarge the salesroom, storage and offices to handle the increased trade that is the result of good business practices.

EVERY BUITDING NEED''

Timm-Venholz Lumber is a do-it-yourself yard that has an inventory capable of putting real meaning into the phrase, "Every Building Need." The store and yard cover over an acre and are close to the neighboring town of Artesia.

One of the storerooms ofi the spic-and-span salesroom is devoted to a specialty of the company, flashings. Lined up in neat rows for quick saleability and ease of handling and inventory are over 50 kinds of flashings.

Fifteen years ago the firm was mainly oriented toward the rural end of the trade, but with the growth of the subdivisions in the bedroom communities growing up around Los Angeles and in nearby Orange County the firm has turned to servicing the contractors and to handling the constantly growing do-it-yourself trade of the new homeowners.

Alvin Wenholz has been associated with the lumber business since coming to California in 1926. He handles the lumber division of the firm. Lyle W. Timm joined the lumber business after leaving the Air Force in 1945. He handles the pricing and estimates for the company.

Robert Timm, Lyle's brother, joined the firm in 1947. He is a salesman and handles the paint division.

The other salesman for the firm is Orville Wenholz, Alvin's son who has been with the firm since 1950. In addition to his sales duty he specializes in the paint department.

Harold Marquette is yard foreman and works with Berness Ferguson, Kenneth Munson and Mark Gray who are employed as truck drivers and salesmen in the yard.

Personable Helene Jordon ably handles the office and has been with the firm since 1955.

Efficient Operation

Immediately behind the store is the large, orderly yard with its well-stacked lumber standing like soldiers on parade by the straight aisles for. quick-action delivery by the yard crew. Nine units of mobile equipment expedite the jobs of moving, stacking and delivering. The slick efficiency of today is a {ar cry from opening day when the yard was a pasture covered by several inches of alkali.

The success of these savvy retailers is undoubtedly due in main to the reputation the firm has built over the years as being always ready to put time and effort to realize the customer's wishes and wants.