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There ore o number of doors qt Doors, Inc., (in sddirion lo the st:ck of doors in the worehouse, we meon!) ond behind eoch one o new discovery! Your roving lePollel's first surprise come when the big worehouse doors ar 133 5. Ssn Anlonio Rood, Moun' roin View, rolled open bright ond eorly, ond o couple of trucks looded wirh plywood slorled on rheir dcily run to Son Jose, Eost Boy ond Son Froncisco. Another lruck wos looding with q number of speciolty items, including pre-finished woll poneling, reody for the weekly delivery to the Sqntq Cruz-Monlerey orec.

Through the door of fhe inner sonctum w€ wenl, ond found old "Smiling Jim" Oakley, monoger, olreodY on lhe iob' going down thot long list of items for o customer in the Eost Boy oreo' Thor phone number is WHitcclifi 8-6529.

Another Doors' door let us into tho o$ca where we coughl fhc only excuse for running this picture is thot we rhink ir shows Connie Reqd's smile bettar, ond wc ore ossured by people "in rhc know" thol Doors'crodit mqnogcl ir usuolly found smiling!

Joe Quintono, worehouse foremon, arriving lo check sorne slock detoils with Connie Reod, desk soles ond credit deport' ment, white or rhe righr, Jce Lynch tyPB uP on order.

Your leporlet hdd to do sorne lrcveling to keep up wilh ocfive solesmqn Woyne Gormon, bul cought up wirh him (lefi) in Bickell Bros. wqrehouse. relling the pleosont news to Hal Bickell, who looks os though he con hordly believe such good news! Woyne lrovels from Pqlo Aho to Monterey.

Pushing open onolher Doors'door, we found qccounlcnl Vol Belleisle' The reqson she's smiling so goilY is thot she lusr finished telling o hqppy customer thol he wos reoding his bill upside down, :o he doesn't owe qs much os he rhought!

Bock ro Bickell Bros., ond we found Woyne Gormon srilt rolking fo Hol Bickell, nnd believe il o? not, Woyne hod manoged to gel the conversotion oround to ., you guessed it doors!

When we got bock to DooB Inc., mcnoger Jim Ookley rold ur lhot "wholesole only" is thc motto lhe:e, ond o wcll-stocked worehou:e mokct it a mslter of cory tCephone ordering. Doors lnc. hqs exclusive locol distributorship of poly clod plywolt (prefinirhcd ond recdy to instoll) cnd Por file, on iocxpensive, prefinished wood block fiooring good for the Do-lt-Yourcelf trode. fhey olso dirtribute Bellwood, West Coost ond Nicoloi Cush and hordwood doors; domestic ond forcign plywoods of oll ?ypes, So-Ply hordwood ond fir plywood, mouldings qnd mony rpeciolty items. Jim told us thot thoy oro fhe only wholecole dictributor of plywood and

Eighreen "Birdies"

Just about everyone got the "bird" at the Annual Turkey Shoot sponsored 9_y Pl!r, T td., at the Crystal Springs Golf Club in Burlingame An Nov-embir 17. Host for the day was George Mon- nier who, although he couldn'i attend, saw to it that the members had a wonderful day, beautiful weather and a fine olnner.

About 35 members and guests teed o-tr , hoping to slice a tu;key rather than their drives. At the end of the day, 18 golfers had won birds which were.graciously donated by the followlng' oonors: doors between Sonto Claro ond Son Frcncisco, ond rhol rhoy qre oul fo keep their inventory ond selection obrcosl of the timer cnd their cu:lomers, nceds.

Boldt-Beacom Lumber Co.. Bonnell Lumber Co., Ralph Bowman Lumber 9o., California Pacific Sales Corp., Crane-French Lumber Co., Empriie Lumber Co., Georgia Pacific (Hammond Division), Golden Gate l-umber Co., Idaco Lumber Co.. Ellsworth Keene, Bob Kilgore, Sawmill Sales and Sun Valley Lumber Co.

Golf bills were given out to the others who were not lucky enough to "get the bird." Everyone came out a winner and enjoyed a fine tournament.

Not oll of the Doorc fomily wos ovoiloble for this picture-3lory, but on the iob olso ore Tony Neveu, worohou3emoni drivers John Hofimon, Honk Mor.se, ond Oscor l/lcCoy.

Ycr, we found rnony open doors when we visited Doors, Inc. qnd hod to decide it's o most oppropricle nomc!

Toll rhem you row their rmiling foces in the Colifornio lumber ltlerchont!

Turkey winners as follows: S. Scheer, Ralph Meyer, Fred Ziese, Hrgo N{iller, Bill Freeland, Chet Dennis. Wendell Paquette, Bob Miller, Ellsy_o1lh K_eene, John Polach, Jim Maher, Hollis Jones, Al Soulagei, Sr., Ev. Lewis, Bill Johnson, Bob-Raymer, Art Bond and Gran Geisert.

Dubs, Ltd., with a limit of 99 members, has room for about ten more lumber or building materials golfers. Tournaments and dinners are held on the third Friday of each month, December excepted. For applications contact: Walter Hjort, membership chairman, c/o Hobbs Wall Lumbel Co.. San Francisco.

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