The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 11, 1935, Page 13

THE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE, FRIDAY, OCT. 11, 1935. L G 5 MRSt An Old Juneau Firm Opens | DYATOFRM In New Home Tomorrow (+ New Juneau Motors Struc- We Congratulate the , ture, Finished in Stucco, * Imposing Business House Juneau Motor Company’s New Building at Foot of Mam Street Juneau Motor Co. The Juneau Motors Company, long-established business firm, will| be at home to its many friends to- | morrow in its new location on wil-; loughby and Main. | The new home of Juneau Motors, | censtructed by the Foss Construc- | tion Company, is one of the most | ¢ Iimposing business places of the city. | A large two-story building with | general overall dimensions of 70 by 95 feet, it is constructed of No. 1 fir, and finished with three coats of stucco on heavy gauge stucco wire over waterproof building paper. | Besides providing a fireproof coat- ing and needing no painting, the waterproofing mixed in the stucco L makes it especially suitable for this climate. A It has a flat built-up roof of! roofing paper, tar and gravel in several layers. Design Modernistic The design of the building is a modernistic, with buff stucco orna- mented and trimmed in black. The copings, windows and marquee are all black. [ Large double doors, mounted on 2 spring operated overhead with | » door hangers that function at a touch, give sufficient clearance to allow the largest trucks and busses to enter. A covered logia on the corner is large enough to serve two cars, with two electric automatic calculating gasoline pumps, and an oil dis- penser for six different oils which are fed from oil tanks on the sec- ond floor, directly above. | The large double doors give ac-| cess to the repair room from either Willoughby or Main avenues, and{ a large display room with plate glass | windows faces upon Main. Floor Plans Plans for the ground floor are| as follows: » . The general repair room, 40 x 22 feet, and exceptionally well-lighted, v occupies the center of the floor, the doors leading to this room also ¥ opening upon the ramp to the up- stairs. Opening from this repair room is the display room, already mentioned. In connection with the display room are the parts room and the general offices of the company. On the Willoughby side, between the display and repair rooms, is a| e ey Weaver Special Preumatic W | Hungarian Fortunes Teacher. Turns Bandit |Chain Letters Are greasing, tire and repair service. y X | : Opening from the repair room to| Are slowly Dwmdlmgi RADOM, P Ragmg m Alutralia G SYDNEY, Oct. 7.— Despite po- the rear of the building, directly| oland—After villagers h h floor, | hereabouts had been terrorized a Apder the Jann 0 R lice warning, the chain letter craze recently popular in the United are the air compressors, the bat- BUDAPEST. — Hungary's lpeng::e{‘ year by a robber in a black mask. millionaires, a rating equivalent 0| . wag caught when a traveling States, is enjoying considerable pop- tery room and the boiler room. | . i el ot Wit | $500,000 are dwindling. A few years| cyjesman fought him, seizing his re- ago 25 of them were counted in All floors on the first story are, gugapest's “noble” district. Today’s cement. The first floor walls are ,fricia) figures reveal only six and of sealed 3-ply wood, painted light| i of them are just barely in the grey and white, a darker gray, easier | ;aq5 The other is rated at 6,000~ to keep clean, being utilized in the gy, pengoe. Daily Empire Want Ads Pay! repair room. The offices, and parzs' - A S - and display room floors, are paint- ed grey. The second story floors are deck- ed with heavy fir. This story has} approximately 500 square feet of storage space, holding 32 cars in| live storage, without efther columns or posts to interrupt convenience | of patrons. The roof is carried en- tirely by " trusses, the longest of which approximates 70 feet. | The ramp to this floor is ap- | proximately a 15 percent grade, eas- | ily climbed by any car. Three 40- » foot steel beams, each weighing three tons, carry the second floor | ¢ over the repair room. New concrete sidewalks surround | and Juneau on the erection of the new Juneau Motor Co.’s building, designed to meet the requirements of modern motor transportation. Its continuing service to Juneau will be a source of great satisfaction to us and to everyone who had a o part in its erection N. Lester Troast: and Associates ARCHITECTS g 0000000000000 volver although the bandit escaped.|Ularity and Australian government officials fear that money will be diverted from their lottery depart- ments which raise thousands of dol- ilars annually for hospitals through- out New South Wales. The gun was traced to a country school teacher. — e OUR CONGRATULATIONS! TO JUNEAU MOTOR CO. ON THEIR E ARE PLEASED to have been en- trusted with the erection of this build- BEAUTIFUL NEW HOME Wills Navigation Co. ing and congratulate the owner and the Juneau Motor Company on their foresight and evidence of faith in the growth of this city. We wish them y SHOP IN JUNEAU' s [ T prosperity in their new venture. : ¢ . 5 Our Compliments ., Anything that’s good for the betterment of . Juneau and the community at large is I:OSS CO"Strucuo" CO. & worthy of commendation. ', & , GENERAL CONTRACTORS ,‘ B Allen Shattuck, Inc. - B INSURANCE ; i 5 1 o i