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 Southern Lumber Playset - San Jose, CA Posted by:  DougK
N 37° 18.980 W 121° 52.408
10S E 599819 N 4130560
Southern Lumber is a family owned business, located on the SE corner at the intersection of Monterey Road and East Alma Avenue. A children's wooden playset with slides is located on the roof of their building, visible from the intersection.
Waymark Code: WMEH52
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 05/30/2012
Views: 3
From the History of Southern Lumber webpage:
July 2nd, 1904 marked the end of the McAbee Brother Timber Company and the beginning of the Southern Lumber Company. Southern Lumber began as a logging operation in, what is today, Big Basin State Park in Boulder Creek. In it's early days, Southern Lumber made most of its business selling large timbers to the quicksilver mines in the Almaden Valley, and lumber to the orchards and farmlands of the Santa Clara Valley.
To better serve its customers, in 1910, Southern Lumber opened a distribution yard down in the valley, just south of San Jose. Over time, San Jose's boundaries would expand, placing the yard in the center of modern-day San Jose.
In April of 1936, Ed Pohle, a former logger and Forestry Major, purchased controlling interest in Southern Lumber Company and transformed it into a family owned business focused on providing customers with high quality woods. Ed Pohle effectively saved Southern Lumber from the grip of the Great Depression by transforming the business into a woodworker's paradise.
Today, Southern Lumber Company continues to be solely owned family business operated by the Pohle family.
Address:
1402 Monterey Highway
San Jose, California USA
95112
Web address or URL: [Web Link]
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