In January 1999, a relic of Westwood’s past was found in the old Community Center at Hilt. It was a piece of vertical grain Douglas Fir 5 1/2 inches wide, 9 inches high and 1 1/2 inches thick. It was the last board cut in the dry lumber department at Westwood in 1956, signed by the last workers. The board was put on display at Fruit Growers headquarters, then located at Sherman Oaks. Since Fruit Growers has moved from location there is not telling as what became of it.

The board was signed by Joe P. Gonzalez, Ronald Edmonds, Roy Evans, J.A. Conrad, Haley L. Roper, Charlie Watkins, George Bliss, D.O. “Smokey” Phelan, Robert Cox, Joe Stripling, Thomas Cooper, H.A. Stevens, John A. Saborido, Florida Valdez, Tio Salveltti, Justin Temple, George C. Raymond, “Whitey” Weldon Snook, Jack Bates, Geo. H. Gowing, Reuben F. Larkin, William Doeering, Glen Snook, Albert Watkins, Wilbern Taylor, Alfred Mardesen, Jay Guttered, William A. Sievers, Everett Hall, Leonard F. Lagnear and Anthony Farrace.

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