Winter 1971

Soule steel News Volume 9 No. 4 Winter December 1971

THE SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA FLEET

Everyone is familiar with the massive transportation systems in this country, but you rarely hear of the thousands of small, highly organized and efficient transport operations run by companies for their own use.

Soule is one of those companies, and has a Southern California truck fleet operation with a safety record to make any professional common carrier envious.

It takes good men to maintain this record. You'll meet them in this issue.

The Soule Southern California trucking operation was started in early 1920 with one truck and driver. The driver, Cliff Mayo, now retired, delivered rebar to the job site with a bobtail type truck with solid rubber wheels.

*Photo: Safety awards won by Soule drivers.*

Since that time, Soule has experienced a steady growth to the present Southern California modern fleet of fourteen tractors, forty-two trailers, and two bobtail trucks under the supervision of Harry Durnil, Traffic Manager. Bart Gross and Howard Arnold dispatch the fifteen drivers. The present fleet handles approximately 350 tons of cargo each day and travels in excess of 450,000 miles per year delivering Soule products throughout the state of California.

*Photo: Bobtail truck is used to haul specialty items fabricated at Long Beach Fab Shop.*

To provide better support for the plant and field operations, a long-haul shuttle between the bay area and Southern California was initiated in 1960. This operation is vital to continued growth. Three tractors operated by Arby Hollingsworth, James Madden and Maurice Cates make two round trips each week transporting reinforcing bar from the mill and steel buildings from the Los Angeles plant. On the return trip the trucks are loaded at the San Francisco plant and bay area terminal with architectural products and supplies for our Southern California operations.

*Photo: A few of the fourteen powerful tractors that pull trailers loaded with Soule products.*

The fleet is based at and under the jurisdiction of the Long Beach reinforcing fabrication plant which is under the supervision of Morris Lamar.

*Photo: Soule Traffic Manager, Harry Durnil.*

A complete maintenance facility handles routine servicing, safety inspections, and preventative maintenance programs, as well as major overhauls.

*Photo: Vehicle washing program - only one of routine servicing requirements at Long Beach facility makes sure our fleet not only runs well, but looks good.*

During the past seven years Soule Southern California drivers have competed with other transportation companies for fleet safety awards which are administered through the Greater Los Angeles Safety Council. During this period the Soule Southern California drivers have taken first and second place awards. The awards were earned by the drivers having the fewest number of chargeable accidents. Soule competes with ten other companies in its category.

Soule Southern California drivers don't live on their past victories. They are now working on more first place awards.

*Photo: Bart Gross, Dispatcher.*

DRIVERS KEEP 'EM ROLLING

*Photo: Lewis Smith, 11 years service, 10 years safe driver.* *Photo: Robert Jones, 3 years service, 3 years safe driver.*

*Photo: Frank Kusy, 21 years service, 19 years safe driver.* *Photo: Arby Hollingsworth, 12 years service, 12 years safe driver.* *Photo: Bob Kelly, 1 year service, 1 year safe driver.*

*Photo: James Madden, 21 years service, 18 years safe driver.* *Photo: Maurice Cates, 9 years service, 8 years safe driver.* *Photo: James Daignault (L.A. truck driver), 3 years service, 3 years safe driver.*

*Photo: Frank Cascio, 19 years service, 18 years safe driver.* *Photo: Jack Burns, 8 years service, 6 years safe driver.*

Not shown are Howard Arnold, dispatcher, Gordon Shackelford, mechanic, and Wayne Spencer, driver with 10 years service and 8 years safe driving record.

MECHANICS KEEP 'EM RUNNING

*Photo: Richard Tubbs, 15 years service, 15 years safe driver.* *Photo: Ray Shambow, 3 years service, 3 years safe driver.* *Photo: Mechanics (l. to r.), Rudy Bawer and Ellis Lister.*

*Photo: Robert Main, 12 years service, 10 years safe driver.* *Photo: Louie Weston, 3 years service, 3 years safe driver.* *Photo: James McMillan, body repair expert.*

SOULÉ SHIPS FIRST PICO STAIRS

The Architectural Products Division recently shipped its first order of prefabricated Pico Safe Stairs to a commercial building job in French Camp, California. The four floors of stairs, to be used for normal access, as well as for emergencies, were delivered ready to install at the jobsite, and were easily lowered by crane into a newly-built four hour rated concrete block smoke tower.

These factory fabricated stairs are unique, in that they are ready to use when they are positioned at the job site. The stairs are shipped in towers of 2, 3, or 4 story units. Once the tower is positioned, it merely has to be fastened in place and the self-contained landing lowered into position. The stairs, complete with hand and wall rails, are designed as a permanent installation, yet they have the added advantage of being available for use by contruction personnel. This eliminates the need for costly temporary devices.

The Architectural Products Division manufactures the stairs in its San Francisco plant, and has sales offices in Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Diego to service California where they are the exclusive franchise licensee for Pico, a Maryland company.

Photo: Hans Muhleman, a long-time Soulé veteran has been appointed as Production Supervisor for Pico stairs. He stands beside a miniature unit.

Photo: The first load of Pico stairs ready to be transported to the job site.

NAMES IN THE NEWS

Frank McLaughlin has been promoted to Plant Manager of the new reinforcing facilities in Sacramento, Calif. He joined Soulé as a detailer in 1958 at Phoenix.

Keith Gates has been transferred from Detailing and Estimating Supervisor of the Portland office to the same position at Sacramento.

Ray Ricks has been promoted to Detailing and Estimating Supervisor for the Phoenix District. He joined the company as a Detailer-Estimator in 1962.

André Klein has been appointed as Project Manager, Architectural Products Division. He has most recently been a project engineer, and been working on some major projects of the division.

Peter Bauer has been appointed to the position of curtainwall salesman for the Los Angeles office of the Architectural Products Division. He has been with the company for over ten years and has held positions in production control, engineering and estimating.

PUG ENGLEMAN "I've called this family meeting to inform everyone that I'm putting a freeze on all allowances."

NAMES AND FACES

*Photo: (l. to r.) Walt Larson, John Garratt, plant engineer, Fritz Zwickel and Noah Bennight get ready to repair plant machinery.*

*Photo: (l. to r.) Karl Weiss, Demas Metante and Willy Feuerstack keep production rolling.*

*Photo: (l. to r.) Frank Lopez and Inocente Lopez moving materials around plant yard.*

*Photo: (l. to r.) Frank Menges, Joe Celeste, Bill Fought, Bruno Hamann and Charley Thompson, just after a lunch break.*

*Photo: (back row, l. to r.) Frank Arevalo, Ed Black, Gene Licardo, Mike Carnevale and Victor Rivera. (front row, l. to r.) Val Stepisnik, Linard White and Fernando Hilarro. This is the crew that form aluminum and steel sheets for curtainwall jobs.*

*Photo: Andy Fabbri (l.) and Harold Duke are happy at their work.*

*Photo: Ricardo Meza (l.) and Winston Brooks prepare to spot weld window parts.*

*Photo: August Prebeck (l.) and Tony Schagl (r.) join Alfred Psaila to watch his welding.*

*Photo: Otto Raskowsky (l.) and Fred Basconcillo get ready to put one on the big brake.*

*Photo: (l. to r.) Al Guaraglia, John DeGroot and Toby Martinez really love their forming brake.*

*Photo: [Architectural rendering of a cluster of high‑rise office towers, shown rotated 90°; no accompanying caption text on the page.]*

Soule City, 1975.

A 1500-ton skin of steel to enclose the Liberty Plaza. A smooth bronze aluminum face to adorn a Mies Van Der Robe building. 20 miles of extrusions to encase Atlantic-Richfield's twin towers.

Behind the sleek facades of some of America's more distinguished buildings, lies the name "Soule Architectural Products." One of Soule Steel's largest divisions.

Their 500 people across the nation are dedicated solely to designing, manufacturing and installing curtain wall facades for America's builders.

Enough facades to envelop an entire city.

Soule is proud of this division's 42-year history, and confident in its future, as an integral part of Soule's growth, and a vital link between the architects and the builders of the cities of the future.

Soule Architectural Products

For information, contact a Soule representa-

Photo:

1. Atlantic Richfield Pl., L.A. 2. 1 Gulf and Western Pl., Realty Equities of N.Y. 3. 1 Liberty Pl., N.Y.C.; Gailbreath-Ruthin Co. 4. 111 E. Wacker Dr. Bldg., Chicago; Metropolitan Structures, Inc. 5. Holiday Inn, San Francisco; Chinatown Financial Dist; Justice Enterprises, Inc. 6. Mutual Benefit Bldg., San Francisco; One California Co. 7. Fourth Nat'l. Bank, Tulsa; Kelley and Marshall 8. 3550 Wilshire Blvd., L.A.; Tishman Realty and Construction Co., Inc. 9. United Gas Bldg., Houston; Century Development Corp. 10. J. C. Penney, Salt Lake City; Zion 1st Nat'l. Bank 11. 180 N. La Salle Bldg., Chicago; Romanak-Golub and Co. 12. Equitable Life Assurance Society Bldg., L.A.; Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States.

IN THE S.F. PLANT

Photo: (l. to r.) Tony Romani, Augi Dimiceli, Marshall Rivera, Rudolph Ortiz and Eliseo Valencia work in curtainwall panel welding and assembly dept.

Photo: Preparing to remove parts already anodized are (l. to r.) Alfred Farrugia, Victor Abel, Anton Kugler, Mike Carnevale, Joe Chetcuti and Jim Francis (kneeling).

Photo: (back row, l. to r.) Joe Nakamishi, Ernest Punzet, Frank Cabrera, front row, l. to r.) John Mihalek and Charley Renya operate the tool and die shop.

Photo: Willard Loy (l.) and Jim Wiley in front of one of the many big forming presses.

Photo: Part of the crew of the Cutting and Preparing Dept. (l. to r.) Rodrigo Lippi, Vic Rivera, Arnaldo Corrales, Arturo Berroteran, and Joe Micallef.

Photo: Getting ready to run aluminum parts through the anodizing tanks are (l. to r.) Pinky Masters, Marion Shaw, Rafeal Ojeda, Daniel Evrard and Jim Simpson (seated).

Photo: More of the Cutting and Preparing Dept., are (l. to r.) Gerhard Glausch, Carlos Ubieta, Henry Storch, Kurt Michaelis and Joe Grech (kneeling).

Photo: (l. to r.) Ed Goesling, Nick Theodos, Marshall Courts and Emil Hipp prepare and ship hardware for the jobs.

Photo: Shown in the Special Assembly Dept., are (l. to r.) Eugene Lagrimas, Fritz Freund, Del Garner (Assistant Plant Manager), and Tom Pivk.

S.F. Plant (cont'd.)

Photo: (l. to r.) Henry Dressman, Al Carpenetti and Ray Michael are part of the Shipping Dept. crew.

Photo: Erick Krische is foreman of curtain-wall fabrication.

Photo: John Balston (l.) and Wolfgang Hellpap in the Anodizing Laboratory.

Photo: John Mosk (l.) and Orval Stovall stamp out hardware to go on windows.

Photo: Witnessing the Hurricane Test on the mockup of the 180 North LaSalle building to be erected in Chicago, at the San Francisco test stand recently, were: (l. to r.) Donald J. Doede, Engineered Erection Co.; Frank Thomas, Turner Construction Co.; Tony Bajuk, Turner Construction Co.; Robert P. Klein, Romanek & Golub Co.; Phillip Prince, Jr., Harry Weese & Assoc.: Trygve Oliversen, Turner Construction Co.; John Walker, Jack Pickner and Gary Asmussen, Soule Steel Co.; and Norman McDermid, Engineered Erection Co.

SOULÉ CITY, 1975

Inserted with this issue is an advertisement, "Soulé City, 1975," prepared for the Architectural Products Division which appeared in the "Wall St. Journal" nationally twice in November. It was designed to establish Nationwide recognition for the division.

Al Carpenetti, a talented cartoonist, who works in the San Francisco Sash Shipping Dept., uses his gifted pen to capture characteristic poses of his co-workers.

Photo: Frank Menges, Foreman of the S.F. Plant Carpentry Shop, contemplates his work.

Photo: Michael "Big Mike" Carnevalle who is a mechanic at the S.F. Plant, naturally, loves golf and cokes.

Winter 1971 Issue SOULÉ NEWS Published Quarterly by the Soule Steel Company 1750 Army Street San Francisco, California Howard S. Soule, Editor Associate Editors Niles O. Millar, Alumni Jerry Unrein Los Angeles Bill Bristol San Francisco Lucile Van Dusen Salt Lake Jo Davis Fresno Judy Cleveland Ventura John Rogachenko Dominguez Connie Specht Santa Ana Grace Johnson San Diego Ferman Davis Phoenix Nancy Messersmith Newark Gay Trimble Sacramento