Tarter, Webster & Johnson Celebrates Ten Years in San Diego with Great Open House

On Friday, November 2, the San Diego area lumber and allied building products distribution yard of Tarter, Webster & Johnson in National City celebrated their tenth anniversary in the district by hold' ing an open house for their retail lumber dealer and wood remanufacturing industrial customers.

The Tarter, Webster & Johnson yard, warehouses and planing mill cover $3/n acres at 1640 Tidelands Avenue in National City. To supply the retail lumber dealers and manu{acturing plants of the San Diego area, including Baja California, all o{ Imperial County including Brawley and El Centro, and Yuma, Arizona, an inventory of 6 million or more {eet of lumber and ll2 million feet of mouldings is kept in stock at all times. The company, which is the largest wholesale lumber distribution yard south of Los Angeles, also specializes in producing timbers with complete facilities for their manufacture and carries t/, million feet of timbers in stock at all times for immediate delivery.

TEN DISTRIBUTION YARDS

The l0 California distribution yards o{ Tarter, Webster & Johnson, of which the National City yard is one, are a division of American Forest Products Corporation which operates 12 sawmills in California and Oregon. In addition to their own source of supply of Sugar Pine, Ponderosa Pine, Douglas Fir, White Fir, Cedar and Redwood from their own mills, the National City yard uses the Port of San Diego facilities to receive large amounts of Douglas Fir and other lumber from Oregon mills by barge. They are local distributors and carry a large inventory of many allied building products. For instance, Tarter, Webster & Johnson are San Diego and Imperial County distributors {or all Celotex products.

Interesting figures about the TW&J National City distribution yard are: enioying lhe elqborole buftet. Bottom: Bill Pumircy, left, TWEJ Nolionql City rncnoger of millwork, moulding ond speciolly ifems deporlment, exploins lhe "reosons why" to on interesled guest inspecting one of lhe ollroclive disploys.

T'arter, W'ebster & Johnson's annual business in the San Diego area is $4,000,000 a year. 40 people are continuously employed, including salesmen, warehousemen, planing mill operators and office force.

The concern operates a fleet of 6 trucks, several carriers for dock handling of lumber deliveries, and several lift trucks.

Over 300 San Diego area retail lumber dealers and industrial executives attended the open house in conjunction with the birthday celebration. Tours were conducted through the warehousing facilities and attractive displays were arranged of plywood. Cedar-Bord, Bond-Bord, Celotex and Glasteel products. A hot bufiet luncheon was served continuously during the duy.

From a small office l0 years ago, the present National City operation of Tarter, V'ebster & Johnson has grown to become an integral part of the building, construction and manufacturing industry in San Diego and Imperial Counties.

(For oddilionol phoios of the greot Tqrter, Webster & Johnson Son Diego oreo operolion, see lop of poge 12.|

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at 6:09 p.m. with a copious amount of libations and good {ellowship in Sabella's Capri Room.

A first class banquet followed this pleasant interlude and then the party really got going in high gear. Wendell Paquette, a past president of San Francisco Hoo-Hoo Club 9, cut loose with a few thousand well chosen words praising the gals-and especially president Shirley Crumpler-for an exceptionally enjoyable evening "on the town".

Door prizes were then awarded, Bunnie Bidwell winning the "basket of cheer", and then it was back to the bar for more antifreeze, or a little twisting on the dance floor with the gal of your choice.

For those poor unfortunates who couldn't get a "pass" for the evening. cast your poor tired eye balls on the accompanying photos and see what you missed.