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POLK'S CROCKER-LANGLEY SAN FRANCISCO CITY DIRECTORY 1931
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character ALSO
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GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations 36
Advertising Department
1701
Alphabetical List of Names
37
Alterations, Removals, Etc.
15,16
Apartment Houses
1796
Associations, Clubs and Societies
1802
Buildings, Blocks and Halls
1820
Business Directory
1793
Buyers' Guide
1701
Cemeteries
1823
Churches
1826
City Government
1111
Classified Business Directory
1793
Clubs
1833
Consular Officers
1837
County Government
1111
Directory Library
9
District Court of Appeals
1203
Federal Government Officers
409
Fire Department
1112
Fraternal Organizations
1948
Hospitals, Homes and Sanitariums
1872
Index to Advertisers
8
Introduction
9
Justice Courts
1111
Labor Organizations
1888
Libraries and Reading Rooms
1897
Military
1953
Parks and Playgrounds Piers
1008
Police Department
1112
Population
9
Postoffice Department
409
Public Library
1112
Removals, Alterations and Additions
15,16
Societies, Clubs, Associations, Bureaus, Charitable and Civic Organizations
1802
Societies-Secret and Fraternal
1948
State Officers and Boards
1202
Statistical Review
10-14
Street and Avenue Guide
17-34
Superior Courts
1111
Supreme Court
1203
Trade and Labor Organizations
1888
United States Courts and Officers
410
Wharves
.
1008
1919
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
A to Zed School. .... 1733 .. . right side linea and 1785 Abben's Confidential Service ...
Abry. Kelber & Co ... .. right side lines and 1721
Addressograph Sales Agency. 1703
Alberton Realty Inc ........ right aide lines and 1782 Allec J 1734 Allen'a Press Clipping Bureau. . left aide lines and 1778 1784
Allis-Chalmers MÍR. Co ..
American Insurance Co of Newark, N J. 1749
American Trust Co ...
1708
Ames Harris Neville Co .... left side lines and
Ames W R Co ...
right top lines and
1761
Anderson C A . left top lines and 1737
Anglo-California Trust Co. 1711
Anglo London Paris Co .. 1721
Associated Gil Co.
1774
Atkina Robt 8 Inc ..
right side lines and
1729
Austin-Western Road Machinery Co
1764
Baldwin & Howell.
1782
Bank of America .. 1712 Bank of California 1713
Bankers & Shippers Insurance Co. 1755
Bateman Wm 1709
Bay Counties Building & Loen Assn.
right tep lines and
1728
Bay District Claim Service 1730
BillIngs Qeo E Co.
Bottomley L C.
.. left top lines and 1702
Bouton Wm E ..
right side lines and 1728
Brayton, Cutler & Cooke. 1721
1773
Brockway Pacific Co.
Brown Edw & Sons ..
1747
Bulotti C F Machinery Co 1764
California Artistic Metal & Wire Co. 1760
Callfornia Barrel Co ... 1731
California Insurance Co. 1750
California Mill Co .. 1776
California Mutual Bullding & Loan Assn ..
. left top lines and 1727
California Secretarial School .right side lines and 1784 Camp Wawona right side lines
Chapman P W & Co 1721 1750 1718
Clark N & Sons ..
1725
Coffin-Redingten Co ... . . right side lines and 1733
Celdwell. Cornwall & Banker. . front cover and Connecticut Fire Insurance Co.
1779 175
Connelly Jas A Co ...
. . left side lines and
1778
Continental Insurance Co.right side lines and 1751 Coek H N Belting Co .. 1719
Corporate Securities Co .. 1722
Costello Detective Bureau. 1732
Crocker First National Bank .... backbone aud 1714
Damon School for Boys .... right side lines and 1786 de Veuve Clarence .. . . left side lines and 1756 Dietzgen Eugene Co .... left top lines, 1706 and 1735 Dowe Harry S Jr ... .left top lines and 1756 Drew School. .left side lines and 1787 Durham Derethy School for Secretarles .. .left top lines and 1784 Dyer Bres Golden West Iron Works. 1761
Eby Machinery Co. 1769
Engineering Societies Employment Service.
.right top lines and
1735
Enterprise Foundry Co ..
1736
Fairbanks, Morse & Co ..... left side lines and 1777 Fashion Art Schoel ... .left top lines and 1787
Federated Metals Corp. left side lines and 1771 Finn John Metal Works 1770 Fire Assn of Philadelphia 1756 Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. left side lines and 1748 Fitkin A E & Ce .. 1722 Flynn Detective Service ... right side lines and 1733 Foster & Klelser Co .. 1704 Franciscan Hotel. .left side lines and 1744
Franklin Pacific Motor Co 1708
Fuller Jas H & Co .. 1722
Gainca-Walrath Co ...
Galtie L .. . . back cover and 1729
2765
Garfield & Co ..
Oencral Fireproofing Co .... left side lines and 1773 Gilley-Mank-Young Co .... right side lines and 1740
1787
Giuffre School of Languages.
Glens Falls Insurance Co .. 1752
Golden Gate College YMCA. . left side lines and 1788 Goodyear Rubber Co. 1783
Gracler 8 B & Sons. 1738
Graham Jas MÍR Co. right side lines and 1783
Graham-Palge Co of Nerthern Callf. 1708
Grisez Chas J Co. right top lines and 1781
Hamilton R G & Co.
.front cover and
4
Harrisen H & Co ..
.left side lines and 1708
Heald College . .
classified tab insert
Healey Wm & Sen ..
.right side lines and 1756
Heller Bruce & Co.
1722
Hendy Joshua Iron Works. . right top lines and 1768 Henry Carl A .. right side llaes and 1752
Herbert, Vogel & Mark Co.
Herberts-Moore Machinery Co.
.left top lines, 1768 and 1767
Hermann Safe Ce
classified tab Insert
Hesthal W J.
left side lines and 1782
Bethune J Evan ..
right side lines and
1755
1755
Hicklin & Redmond.
.front cover and 1702
Bessann & Hoffman.
right top lines and
1702
Hicks Randal
left side lines and 1775
Hinchman & Wentz. 1757
Hotel Harcourt
1745
Hotel Sutter
right side lines and
1744
Hotel Whitcomb and William Tayler Hotel ...
1742
San Francisco Law School.
1785
Hotel Willard
1745
San Jose Pacific Building & Loan Assn.
. top edge and
4
Scroggs Sara School ...... right side lines and
Seeley & Co ..
1754
Shaughnessy Frank C & Ce ..
Shreve Treat & Eacret
right side lines and 1724
Sierra Financial Corp ..
right top lines
2
Simonds Machinery Co
right top Ilnes
State Mutual Life Assurance Co.
Knight E D ..
1707
Steffen F
.right side lines and 1783
1724
Straus S W & Co.
.left top lines and
Sudhelmer Jamieson & Co. . right top lines and 1781
Suhr H F Co ..
left top lines and 1738
Suhr & Wiebeldt ..
. right side lines and 1737
Sunset Towel Supply Co .... left top lines and Z
Sussman, Wormser & Co ... . left top lines and 1739 Swim Collection Service ... right side lines and 1730
Thomas F
.front edge and 1734
Tommasini Frank P & Co ..
1724
Townsend & Co ..
.right side lines and 1724
tum Suden & tum Suden
1707
Twigg John Sons.
1719
United Milk Co ...
. bottom end and 1772
United States Lime Products Corp. .
1763
Van Dame Chas E & Co .... left side lines and 1703 Vincent Frederic & Co ...... left side lines and 1725
Wayland Co right side lines and 1706 Weaver Chester N Co. . left side lines and 1707 Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co ... . frent cover and 1726 West Coast Claims Bureau. right side lines and 1754 West Coast Wire & Iron Works. .right top lines and 1781
West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co 1775 Western Asbestos Magnesia Co. 1706
Western Builders Supply Co.
right side lines and 1726
Western Pipe & Steel Co. 1762
White Saml A ... 1738 Wholesale Typewriter Co .. . left side lines and 1780 William Taylor Hotel, 1742
O'Brien M F & Co ... 1758 Ocean Shere Iron Works. . right side lines and 1760 Williams Al . right top lines and 1776
Olympic Hotel 1743 Witter Dean & Co. 1725
Pacific Audit & System Ce.right side lines and 1735 Pacific Foundry Co ...... . left alde lines and 1738 Pacific Marine Insurance Agency. . .left side lines and 1758
Pacific National Bank. 1718 Pacific Pump Supply Co ... right side linea and 1778 Paraffine Companies 1775 Patrick & Motse-Klinkner Ce. right top lines and 1783 .back cover and
Paul K E Co ..
Pierce E A & Co.
1720
Potter W W & E G
.. left side lines and 1758
Price E K & Staff.
front cover and 1728
Prudential Insurance Ce of America ..
..... left top and right top lines, 1705 and 1748
Quandt A & Sons
.right top lines and 1775
Rathbone, King & Seeley.
.1758
Recorder Printing & Publishing Co ..
left side lines and 1777
Rellance Life Insurance Co.left side lines and 1759
Retailers Credit Assn ef 8 F.
1732
Richmond & San Rafael Ferry & Traasperta- tion Co .right top lines and 1789
Rincon Foundry
1736
RIx Co
1789
Roeblings John A Sons Co. 1792
Royal Indemnity Co
175g
Rudy's Typewriter Shop. 1790
St Gear & Co ..
1723
Salvation Army
X
San Francisco Baak .. 1715 San Francisco Institute of Accountancy. 1785
Howard Automobile Co .... right side lines and 1708
Jenison Machinery Ce .. , frent cover and 1768 John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.
Keuffel & Esser Co ..
1706
King Coal Co
1730
Layne & Bowler Pump Co.
3
Lybrand, Ross Bres & Montgomery,
1703
Lynch Jehn P Co ...
1763
MacAleer School for Private Secretarles ..
MacAuliffe Paul T.
.. back cever and 1757
MacHugh F A & Co.
.left side lines and 1703
Madison & Burke,
1782
Mangrum-Holbrook Co
. backbone and
1741
Marsh & McLennan ..
1753
Marshall Donald Detective Agency ..
back cover and
4
McCann Mark A .. backbone and 1780 McCormick Chas R Lumber Co. .left side lines, front cover and 1764 McCormick Steamship Co .. .lef side lines McGilvray Raymond Corp .. right top lines and 1726 McGuire W E. . back cover
McNear & Ce
left side lines and 1723
Miller Robt N & Co.
.left side lines and 1723
Monarch Iron Works.
. right side lines and
1760
Monteverde, Rolandelli & Parodi 1739
Montgomery Ward & Co ... .. back cever and 1769
Morgen Jewelry Co ..
right side lines and 1762
Muldoon School
, left side lines and 1786
Mullin Acten Ce.
1753
National Union Fire Insurance Co. 1757
Nauman H A & Son. .. 1758 Neal. Stratford & Kerr ..... left side lines and 1788 Neely Chas T & Co ... 1723 New York Belting & Packing Ce. 1782
Nippon Yusen Kaisha ..
1788
Western Cooperage Co.
.left top lines and
1732
Overland Freight Transfer Co.
1735
Woodla & Little.
1778
1738
1710
Arns & Arns.
. left top lines and
1755
Griffith-Durney Co.
.left side lines and 1728
1731
Hoffschnelder Bros Co
1734
Brandt W B & Co ..
.left top lines and
1749
Hotel Dunice
1744
. right top lines and
Chapman & Co ..... City National Bank. .. right side lines and
.right side lines and 1792
.left top lines and 1757
Stacey Engineering Co.
1792
1759
INTRODUCTION
R. L. POLK & CO .. publishers of the San Francisco Directory, as well as more than 700 other city, county, state and national directories, present to subscribers and the general public. this, the 1931 edition of the San Francisco Directory.
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POPULATION
The estimated population of San Francisco is 647.166. based on the number of individuals' names in the alphabetical section of the directory, with due allowance for children and for women whose names are not listed separately from those of their husbands.
FOUR MAJOR DEPARTMENTS
The several essential departments are arranged in the following order :
THE BUYER'S GUIDE, pages 1701 to 1792, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of San Francisco. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to substantial purchasing factors. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best and, as such, merits a survey by all buyers anxious to familiarize themselves with sources of supply. The city's activities, in many interesting phases, are authentically pic- tured. In an ambitious and progressive community like San Francisco, the necessity of having this kind of information available is very great and. frequently, pressing. General appreciation of this fact is evi- denced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 37 to 1379.
THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE is embraced in pages 17 to 35: in this feature the names of all streets and avenues are arranged alphabetically, giving beginning and ending, and line of general direction.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 1793 to 1972. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory than through any other medium."
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STATISTICAL REVIEW
Name of city, San Francisco.
Slogan or sub-phrase, "The City by the Golden Gate."
Form of government, combined City and County, Board of Supervisors.
Population, 634,394, 1930 (U. S .- official) ; 647,166, 1931 (Chamber of Commerce estimate).
1920 Census of Characteristics-only available data :
White population of age: Males, 54 per cent ; females, 46 per cent.
Total colored population, 0.50 per cent ; number of all males is 0.27 per cent and of all females is 0.23 per cent.
Native born population is 69 per cent of whole population.
Foreign born : White, 28 per cent; Orientals, 28 per cent.
Predominating nationalities in city are American, English, Italian, German, Irish and Oriental.
Area, 42.19 square miles.
Altitude, sea level to 956 feet.
Average temperature, 56.1º ; rainfall, 22.02 inches.
Parks and Playgrounds number 90, with 2842.14 acres.
Assessed valuation, $1,742,459,743, all property, with $4.04 tax rate.
City's bonded debt is $137,729,400.
Financial: Twenty banks, with total deposits of $1,874,933,303 (1929) ; resources, $2,241,915,235 (1929), and clearings of $15,055,143,000 (1930) ; savings banks with $1,098,094,953 (1929) total deposits.
Post-Office receipts of $9,287,704.
Telephones in service, 263,854.
Churches number approximately 250.
Building and construction : Value of building permits, $22,726,994.
Real estate tranfers total 8528, valued at $84,675,630.
Industry: Number of establishments, 2092 (corporate city limits), employing 41,909 total wage-earners, paying wages of $61,133,952 annually, and having products valued at $429,728,194 annually.
Trade : Territory (retail) serves 1,600,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of 50 miles. Jobbing territory serves 2,656,762 people within a radius of 250 iniles. Many firms distribute to the 11 Western States, as San Francisco is Western headquarters for 1500 firms of national distribution.
Principal products : A very broad diversification of products. Field, fruit and vegetable, forest, mineral and manufactured.
Newspapers, 4 daily, 2 evening and 2 morning.
Hotels : There are approximately 1700 hotels, with total accommodations of approximately 85,000 persons. Newest hotel was built in 1930.
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SAN FRANCISCO-THE CITY OF HOSPITALITY
City served by 3 transcontinental railroads, as follows: Southern Pacific, Western Pacific and Santa Fe ; also Northwestern Pacific; also served by 165 steamship companies. Great Northern is planning direct connection to San Francisco.
Amusements: There are approximately 75 theaters, with a total scating capacity of approximately 100,000 persons. Largest theater or auditorium seats about 15,000 persons.
Hospitals number 32.
Education : Number of schools, 111 public, including 3+ high schools and a number of parochial and dio- cesan schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 108,863 ; in private schools, 15,000; total of all teachers in public schools, 2811.
There are 420,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics : Total street mileage, 870 miles, with 634 miles paved and 236 miles unpaved. Miles of gas mains laid, 1005; of sewers, 97 miles, main trunk; electric street railway, 355.16 miles. Capacity of water works, 65,000,000 gallons per day, with 970 miles (entire system) of mains and value of plant estimated at $45,000,000 (does not include Hetch Hetchy, to be brought in in 1933). Fire department employs 1185 men with following equipment : 14 autos, 47 engines, 5 hose and 11 chemical wagons, 15 hook and ladder trucks, in 52 station houses. Police department has 1298 inen with 16 stations and 155 pieces of motor equipment.
SAN FRANCISCO (Prepared by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce)
San Francisco is located centrally on the coast in 37° 47' 22-55" N. Latitude and 122° 25' 40-76" W. Longitude and situated on a peninsula bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean. the north and east by the Bay of San Francisco and on the south by wooded hills and fertile valleys. 1ts elevation extends from sea level to 956 feet. The city covers an area of about 42.19 square miles and is built principally on hills. The population as of January 1, 1931, was 647,166.
The San Francisco Bay Region was discovered in July, 1769, by Don Gaspar de Portola's soldiers, who were seeking the Monterey Bay. In 1775 Don Manuel Ayala sailed the first ship through the Golden Gate into the San Francisco Bay. The San Carlos was the name of the vessel.
Years before, however, Sir Francis Drake brought his vessel, the Golden Hind, close to the Golden Gate and ran her ashore at what is now known as Drake's Bay. This was in 1579 and the first religious service in the English language was held on this continent by the chaplain of the Golden Hind.
In 1776 a land expedition commanded by Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza arrived on the San Francisco peninsula and established the Presidio and the Mission Dolores. In 1777 Padre Junipero Serra, father of the California missions, arrived in San Francisco. The settlement was known as Yerba Buena until 1847, when it became San Francisco.
In 1806 the Russians attempted to establish themselves in and about San Francisco. They established a settlement at Fort Ross, near Santa Rosa, but after a few years gave it up, disposing of all movable fixtures and arms to Capt. John A. Sutter of Sacramento.
'In 1846 war was declared by the United States on Mexico and on July 9, 1848, Capt. John B. Montgomery of the United States Navy arrived in the sloop-of-war "Portsmouth" and raised the American flag in what is now Portsmouth Square; thus without great excitement San Francisco passed from Spanish to Mexican and finally American rule.
San Francisco's greatest excitement perhaps came with the discovery of gold in 1848. People rushed here by every known mode of transportation and in thousands. The population increased steadily and the port became the most important on the Pacific Coast, which position it has steadily maintained.
Because of the number of lawless individuals during the fifties, the citizens organized the Vigilance Com- mittee and after a short campaign succeeded in ridding the city of the law breakers.
GOVERNMENT-San Francisco has a combined city and county government, with legislative powers vested in a board of supervisors consisting of 18 members, 9 of whom are elected every two years. The mayor, auditor, treasurer, assessor, tax collector, coroner, recorder, county clerk, sheriff, police and superior court judges are elected by the people and serve four years. The mayor receives $6,000 per annum, though all other elective officers receive $8,000 a year salary. The mayor appoints and may remove for cause mem-
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