A veneer clipper is shown at Northwest Door Company. Pulleys and belts dominate this view of the machine. Ordered by Wheeler-Osgood.

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Company salesmen at plant, Northwest Door & Plywood Sales, Mrs. Thompson. Nine of the company's sales force stand outside by a round cut of a log from the forests of the northwest.

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ca. 1946. The unveiling of the giant cross section of a tree trunk at the Northwest Door Company. The Northwest Door Co. plywood and veneer plant was founded in 1935. In the summer of 1946, the company logged a gigantic old growth Douglas Fir on their logging property southwest of Mt. Rainier. The tree was almost 14 feet in diameter. A cross section of the trunk was removed and sent to the Tacoma plant for display. Here the section is covered by a curtain prior to its unveiling. The cross section of fir was moved in 1965 to the Lakewood branch of the Pierce County Library system. See image #3 for the unveiling.

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ca. 1946. A section of Douglas Fir tree trunk almost 14 feet in diameter arrives at the Northwest Door Co. plywood plant. Anthony A. "Spike" Maras perches on top of the trunk, which is marked with a white 14 and sits on a logging truck. The "14" is the measurement of the diameter of the tree. On the ground, Fred R. Davis, left, and Percy J. Maras crane their necks to see the top of the trunk. The men are the owners of the Davis & Maras Co., which was hired by Northwest Door to fell the tree. The giant trunk will not be made into plywood, but will be put on display. (identification supplied by Anthony "Spike" Maras)

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ca. 1946. A section of Douglas Fir tree trunk almost 14 feet in diameter arrives at the Northwest Door Co. plywood plant. Marilyn Maras (now Cade,) daughter of Anthony "Spike" Maras, peeks from the top of the trunk, showing by comparison the huge size of the log. The log was cut by the Davis & Maras Co. from the Northwest Door Co.'s logging lands southwest of Mt. Rainier. A section of the log remained on display at Northwest Door from 1946 - 1965, when it was moved to the Lakewood branch of the Pierce County library.

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ca. 1946. The unveiling of the giant cross section of a tree trunk at the Northwest Door Company. In the summer of 1946, Northwest Door Co. cut down this tremendous old growth Douglas Fir tree southwest of Mt. Rainier. They shipped a cross section of the stump to their Tacoma plant. The tree was almost 14 feet in diameter. The small signs on either side of the section of tree show what years each ring represents and events that occurred that year. A crowd turned out in the rain to watch the unveiling of the log. The cross section of fir was moved in 1965 to the Lakewood branch of the Pierce County Library system.

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Douglas Fir Plywood Association. A young girl looks up at the enormous log section. The annual rings show the tree was 586 years old. It would have provided much good lumber even before Columbus landed in America. Long over-ripe, rot had begun to appear just inside the bark at the base of the trunk and much of the upper part was decayed. (T.Times, 10/16/1946, p.4; TNT 8/21/1946, pg. 1)

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In this photograph from October 1946 for the Douglas Fir Plywood Association, a young woman on a step ladder, Shirley (Mrs. C.E.) Magarity, measures a large cross section of a log that is almost 13 feet in diameter. It used to stand outside the Northwest Door Company at 1203 East D St. when Herman E. Tenzler was president of the company. You can still see this section of a giant Douglas Fir standing by the entrance to the Lakewood Branch of the Pierce County Library system. It was moved there in 1965. (TNT 8/21/1946)

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Douglas Fir Plywood Association. Two women measure a 12 foot, 9 inch log section. This was the biggest cross section ever felled by man as of this date. It was cut in the prime forests southwest of Mount Rainier in the center of western Washington. This short butt section of the tremendous tree was on view at Northwest Door Company, a local plywood and door manufacturing firm in whose logging operations the tree was brought down. (T.Times, 10/16/1946, p.4, TNT 8/21/1946) TPL-7962

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This enormous tree section, cut from an old-growth Douglas fir, has just arrived via flat-bed truck at the Northwest Door Company in early August of 1946. Anthony A. "Spike" Maras, of the Davis & Maras Co., is standing on top measuring it with a yard stick. The huge section is from a tree almost 14 feet in diameter cut on Northwest Door's timber lands near Mt. Rainier. The section weighs over 18,000 pounds and contains 516 cubic feet of wood and bark. The Northwest Door Co. will cut a cross section and place it on display outside the building. Northwest Door opened at 1203 East D Street in December 1935. It was founded by Herman Tenzler and J.H. Gonyea. (photo identification supplied by Anthony "Spike" Maras)

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A mobile chest x-ray unit made a stop at Northwest Door, 1203 East D Street, in April of 1945, to offer x-rays to detect the presence of tuberculosis in the company's workers. A Northwest Door employee is having a chest x-ray taken by Ellen Tuttle. Unknowing adults could develop an advanced case of the highly contagious disease and spread it to others before they showed any definitive symptoms. Mark Lauderback's name is on the clip Ms. Tuttle is putting into the x-ray machine. (T. Times, 3/22/1945, p.1; 4/4/1945, p.4; TNT, 5/11/1945, p.3)

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New office building for Northwest Door Company, 1203 East D. Two story streamline modern building with rounded corners, ribbon windows which open inwards, one story wing to rear.

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ca. 1936. Interior of Northwest Door Company, for Joe Cornish. Plywood being placed in a dryer rack. (filed with Argentum)

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ca. 1936. Interior of Northwest Door Company, for Joe Cornish. (filed with Argentum)

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ca. 1936. Interior of Northwest Door Company, for Joe Cornish. (filed with Argentum)

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ca. 1936. Interior of Northwest Door Company, for Joe Cornish. (filed with Argentum)

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