Expert Garage Door Repair,
Service, & Installation in
Anaheim, CA

Anaheim's build record does not come to a point. The census counts 24,853 of the city's 110,278 housing units finished between 1950 and 1959 and 25,840 through the 1970s — 987 units between them, a gap the margins published on each count cannot separate. Two decades twenty years apart, level with one another, and the year on the house gives up two answers instead of one. DASMA's history of the industry is what makes that worth saying out loud, because it dates the material: most doors produced in the 1940s and 50s were wood, steel appeared in the fifties but in commercial work, and steel only began taking the residential market in 1980, with nearly every manufacturer building a steel raised-panel door by 1985. Both of Anaheim's heavy stretches of building sit on the far side of that date — 65.7% of the housing here went up before 1980, against 13.0% since 2000, which is well inside the steel era. What none of that will tell us is which door is hanging in your opening. It is a record of what the factories were shipping, not of what survived on a given house, and a house put up at the 1973 median has had the better part of a working lifetime to be re-doored. So where the original is still up, its decade says what the trade was selling the year it went on; everywhere else the door answers for itself — which way it lifts, what the sections are made of, and what weight the springs are actually holding.