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Los Angeles District Business Open House
Image by U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District
Open house for business opportunities
By Dave Palmer
LOS ANGELES -- During an open house July 25, more than 200 business owners met division chiefs and project managers from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District to learn about contract opportunities and, in some cases, simply to learn, how to get started in doing business with the Corps.
Based on the sheer size of the District’s area of responsibility, 226,000 square miles across Southern California, southern Nevada, a slice of Utah and all of Arizona, leadership feels it would be cost prohibitive to get everyone involved in the project process out to job sites to meet the contract partners.
“You really have to develop those relationships with the companies that do the work for us,” said Col. Mark Toy, District commander. “It’s (open house) a very efficient way for our contractors to meet everybody.”
Major District projects are diverse; as construction of the border fence for Department of Homeland Security, rehabilitation of Veterans Affairs facilities, the California High-Speed Rail and the world’s largest groundwater recharge system in Orange County, Calif.
“Hopefully we’re seeing a lot of partnering and mentoring going on between larger and smaller companies,” added Toy. “Not only are we increasing the opportunities, for these companies to work with the Corps, we’re also creating a platform for them to do this partnering amongst themselves. And that’s a good thing, too.”
The open house was held in two sessions, morning and afternoon, in the District's Emergency Operations Center and adjoining conference room with project and program displays and brochures listing various interdisciplinary branches of the Corps.
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Williams, Arizona Egg Race
Image by “Caveman Chuck” Coker
Egg Race on Street in Williams, Arizona
This photo of an egg race on a business street in Williams, Arizona was taken sometime between 1890 and 1920. It shows 11 men running down the street holding spoons with eggs resting in them.
My guess is that this would be either Bill Williams Avenue or Grand Canyon Avenue. (Bill Williams Avenue carried Route 66 eastbound and Grand Canyon Avenue carried Route 66 westbound. However, this photo pre-dates Route 66.) Maybe someone who has photos of, or is traveling through, Williams can help identify some of the buildings.
Two of the buildings on the right side of the street have names that can almost be deciphered. I think they are Jacob Salzman and Grand Canyon Drug Store.
I was unable to find any information on Jacob Salzman.
I found a paragraph on page 1226 in the September 19, 1918 (Volume 26, Number 24) issue of The NARD Journal ("The Official Organ of the National Association of Retail Druggists"):
A.M. Harmer is now proprietor of the Grand Canyon Drug Store,
Williams. The purchase was made by Mr. Harmer from the J.E. Ruffin
estate.
The November 4, 1943 edition of Williams-Grand Canyon News reported:
The Grand Canyon Drug Store was damaged to the extent of several
hundred dollars Monday night by a fire that apparently originated with an
overheated freezing unit motor. The fire broke out shortly before
midnight, less than 40 minutes after the proprietor had closed up for
the night. It was discovered and the alarm was turned in by a passer by.
J.E. Ruffin came west from Ohio and landed in Flagstaff, Arizona. He did business as the Ruffin Drug Company. After many years, he moved to Phoenix and continued the drug business there. Eventually he sold his business in Phoenix and moved to Williams where he started the Grand Canyon Drug Store. He died of pneumonia in Needles, California in 1918.
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