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AUSTIN
A. CHANNELS
A
man with twenty-three years’ experience in the construction business, general
contractor Austin A. Channels has made his own way to success. Specializing in kitchen and bathroom
remodeling, Mr. Channels, whose business is almost entirely in the San Gabriel
Valley area, also handles new construction of small commercial buildings,
alterations and additions to commercial, industrial, and residential buildings,
concrete breaking, demolition, and cement work.
Formerly in partnership in the firm of Channels and Simon, General
Contractors, Mr. Channels has been in business for himself since 1956 at 1513
West Chestnut in Alhambra, having moved to that city three years earlier. His experience includes buildings in
pre-stressed concrete, tilt-up concrete buildings, and buildings in the hydraulic
lift concrete field. He does most of the
carpentry work himself, and is presently acquiring equipment which will enable
him to go into heavier construction. Mr.
Channels is licensed and insured and also arranges financing.
A
West Virginian, Austin Channels was born in Parkersburg on July 9, 1917. His father, now deceased, was Samuel E.
Channels who worked in the West Virginia oil fields; his mother is Clara (Bise) Channels who is presently living in West
Virginia. Mr. Channels received his
elementary education in his home state and came to Huntington Park, California,
at the age of sixteen, attending high school there and, toward the end of his
high school days, working in construction by day and attending classes at
night.
From
June, 1941, until December, 1945, Mr. Channels served in the United States
Army, spending two and one-half years in the Aleutian Islands and a year in
France and Germany.
Returning
to the construction business in 1946, Mr. Channels was with Pozzo
Construction Company in Los Angeles for four years in carpentry work and as
supervisor and foreman, spending the next four years in the employ of Donald F.
Shaw before starting his own business.
Mr.
Channels has a daughter, Pamela Jayne Channels, living in Lynwood.
A
real outdoorsman, Mr. Channels’ favorite recreation is hunting.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: Historical Volume & Reference
Works Including Alhambra, Monterey Park, Rosemead, San Gabriel & Temple
City, by Robert P. Studer, Page 477, Historical Publ.,
Los Angeles, California. 1962.
© 2013 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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