Parsons Lumber and Hardware Gives Service!

Solid Citizen. We could stare at this typewriter all clay and still not comr up with a more apt description of Vern Parsons, amiable Scnoma County businessman and founder of Parsons Lumber and Hardware,

Sprrings, California. Here is a man you'll not find warming his britches at a meeting if lris community'.; future is on the line. And it's darned apparent that Parsons and his family take their business seriously too.

Onc of the cleanest and sharpest all 'round retail building supply centers rve've seen re<'ently, Parsons Lumber & Hardware occupies a choice two-acre site on the Sonoma Highwuy just two miles north of

Sonoma. Although the rincvards in Sonoma \aller ar" gra,lrrallv giving ar,r ay to residential building. the transition has been grar:eful. Real country living. not "suburbia." seems to be the destiny of this area. Boyes Springs, cnce a thriving health re-solt area, -is now the center of an estimated (Contin.ued on Page l0)

Boyes Springs, Coliiornio. Top right: olthough Porsons completed his shorp new showroom iust two yecrs ogo, the new slore generoled such on incrmse in business thot o further exponsion wos necessory; dorker qreo on right side of building indicotes new oddition completed in July. Below: roodside view of entire operofion; older building to right is former store which now housas lhe lumber, plywood ond woll boord deportmenl.

Middle left: nole exponsc of gloss in this close-up of slore front; plenty of porking ovoiloble ond slore overhong ollows some disploy of invenlory in fronl of slore; slore hos lwo enlrqnces. fronl ond bcck. Middle righl: reor enlronce to yord is one block off moin highwoy; of tolol two-dcre site, neorly one-third is under cover; fuiure plons coll for remodeling ond odditions to buildings olong lefi side of yord.

Bottom lefl: old showroom will soon be converled into lumber ond plywood deportmenl, much the some os builders hordwore, Poinis, efc., in new slore; o seporole checkoul counler is indicoted ot fhis poinl. Bottom rightr Don Porsons unlooding plywood with compony's new Hysler liff; entire two-ocre yord is ospholl poved for oll-weolher mechonicol hondling.