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STANDARD
PAPER BOX CORPORATION
The
Standard Paper Box Corporation of Los Angeles, recognized as one of the leading
concerns on the Pacific coast engaged in the manufacture of paper boxes and
containers, was organized in 1922 by the three gentlemen who have since
directed the business. They are: Charles Ruble, president; Edward Reskin, vice president; and Benjamin Lourie,
secretary and treasurer.
In
the original located at 307 Central Avenue, Los Angeles, under the name of the
Standard Paper Box Company, Mr. Ruble did the actual work. At the end of six months, the business showing
a substantial increase, the concern was moved to 3833 Broadway Place, where it
utilized an area fifty by one hundred fifty feet. One year later a building was erected on the
north, doubling the space, and after two years another structure was erected on
the south, adding an equal amount of space.
In 1928 the fourth building and office, as at present, was erected.
In
1929 the Standard Paper Box Company merged with itself the Advance Paper Box
Company of 1900 West Sixty-second Street under the
name of the Standard Paper Box Corporation.
T. J. Barker, a pioneer of Los Angeles, organized the Los Angeles Paper
Box Company, which he sold to the Fleishacker and F.
W. Kewell interests in 1911. He then
reengaged in the business as The T. J. Barker Paper Box Factory and this he
sold to the Advance Paper Box Company in 1924.
The warehouses of the Standard Paper Box Corporation are situated at
3700 and 3815 Broadway Place. Some idea
of the growth and development of the business may be gained from the fact that
in the beginning the owners used only fifteen hundred square feet of floor
space and now utilizes over fifty-five thousand square feet. Theirs is a modern and sanitary plant in
every particular and in normal times they furnish employment to one hundred
twenty people. The output consists of a
highly assorted line of boxes, the raw material for which is largely supplied
by the Fibreboard Products Company of Los Angeles.
Transcribed
by V. Gerald Iaquinta.
Source: California of the South
Vol. IV, by John Steven McGroarty, Pages 563-564,
Clarke Publ., Chicago, Los Angeles, Indianapolis. 1933.
© 2012 V.
Gerald Iaquinta.
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