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GLASS FIRM SETS PLANT SHOWINGOpen house will be held from I like it in this part of the coun-2 to 10 p.m. Tuesday at Samuels {try, and few if any like it any-Glass Company’s new plant, 221! where else.” Newell Ave.. Bay Samuels, vice-, president and general manager,; announced this week.data compared with i,J»i sates for $3,813,071 in May of last year. Previous peak month, wasman iiatx any j««vio sales and exceded total sales for each of the years 2944 and 2943.October, 1947. when sales aggre-j Sales during 1949 were 17,033 for1 A-rv m -igated $6,376,832.Five-month sales were 8,102 for $27,808,290 in 19-50, and 6,802 for $19,369,391 last year.$53,212,222.Average value per sale In San Antonio has risen from $1,705 in 1944 to $3,130 in 1949 and S3f-476 during the first five monthsSales during the first five jthis year, Voltin’s records show.week ends are the final eight day* of the showing.The houses are at 245Cato Blvd., Meadowbrook Estates, Goliad and Linn Roads; 248 Sandra Drive, McCreless Addition; 719 Elizabeth Road, Terrell Hills; and 314 Bryn. Mawr Drive, Terrell Heights.Designed by Bartlett Cocke.,{architect, the 60.000-square-foot; 1 structure was built by Lynn and Jiforscv. V7. E- Simpson Com-'pany 'did the structural, and iHaisey and Royer the mechanical. engineering.Construction is of tile, with brick, stone and glass front.The plant features a mirror-silvering department utilizing Equipment invented and built in the Samuels organization; over-.head bridge crane operating by j push-button control on a two-idirectional monorail system; 50,* '000 square feet of parking area ■in a private lot: unusually large ;loading docks opening on a pri-jvate dead-end street; metal stor-iage racks devised and made in •the organization; a drive-in auto-■glass department; a metal-working department, and a _ fabrication department for etching, beveling. V mitering, and drilling■ The firm operates state-wide ' and employes 75 people-Our plant already is attracting attention from coast to : coast,” Samuels said. J‘tVe be-; Sieve it answers our needs, and■ ^t-n. fVrr« 7Irt? JnntHgT' for GLASS BD71SS—Ehfrcmce' to the Samuels Glass Company's new plant at 221 Newell At*., to be shown to toe public from 2 to 10 p.m. Tuesday, stresses beaufy and simplicity to design and constniction( lt;mdleature. glass and melal ten ton the firi's own ships. Architect was Bartlett Cocke, W. E Simpson Company did to. structural engineering. torAn and Mprsey held to. contract ■
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San Antonio Express
San Antonio, Texas, US
Sun, Jun 11, 1950
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