Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco city directory, 1932, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1930
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1580

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Phone SU tter 3820

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The information in this Directory is gathered by an actual canvass and is compiled in a way to insure maximum accuracy.

The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the correctness of all information furnished them nor the complete absence of errors and omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.

The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their atten- tion of any inaccuracy so that it may be corrected in the next issue of the Directory.

R. L. POLK & CO., of California, Publishers.

GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations

Advertising Department

1701

Alphabetical List of Names

Alterations, Removals, Etc.

Apartment Houses

15, 16 1776 1781

Associations, Clubs and Societies

Buildings, Blocks and Halls

1799

Business Directory

1773

Buyers' Guide

1701

Cemeteries

1802

Churches

1804

City Government

1067

Classified Business Directory

1773

Clubs

1811

Consular Officers

1815

County Government

1067

Directory Library

District Court of Appeals

1157

Federal Government Officers

394

Fire Department

1068

Fraternal Organizations

1917

Hospitals, Homes and Sanitariums

1847

Index to Advertisers

Introduction

Justice Courts

1068

Labor Organizations

1860

Libraries and Reading Rooms

1869

Military

1919

Parks and Playgrounds

1890

Piers

968

Police Department

1068

Population

Postoffice Department

395

Public Library

1069

Removals, Alterations and Additions

15, 16

Societies, Clubs, Associations, Bureaus, Charitable and Civic Organizations

178

Societies-Secret and Fraternal

1917

State Officers and Boards

1157

Statistical Review

10-14

Street and Avenue Guide

17-34

Superior Courts 1068

Supreme Court

1158

Trade and Labor Organizations

1860

United States Courts and Officers

394

Wharves

968

. . . .

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

A to Zed School ... front cover and 1769 Abbens Confidential Service ... front cover and 1723 Allec J New Parisian Dyeing & Cleaning Works 1726 Allis-Chalmers Mfg Co .. 1754 American Insurance Co 1738

American Trust Co. 1706 Ames Harris Neville Co ..... left side lines and 1705 Ames W R Co. right top lines and 1749

Anderson C A

.left top lines and 1728

Anglo California Trust Co

1707

Associated Oil Co ..

1759

Atkins Robert S Inc.

.right side lines and 1719

Baldwin & Howell. 1766

Bank of America. 1708 Bank of California 1709

Bethune J Evan ..

.right side lines and 1744

Billings Geo E Co

1745

1738

Brandt W B & Co.

.left top lines and

Bulotti C F Machinery Co.

1754

California Artistic Metal & Wire Co .. 1748 California Barrel Co. 1721 California Insurance Co. ... front cover and 1739 Carrillo Alexander C .hack cover and 1760 Chapman & Co 1739 City National Bank of San Francisco.

right side lines and 1713 Clark N & Sons. 1717

Coffin-Redington Co .. .right side lines and 1726 Coldwell, Cornwall & Banker .. front cover and 1764 Connecticut Fire Ins Co. 1740 Continental Ins Co ..... right side lines and 1740 Cook H N Belting Co 1714 Corwin Carl N Co. 1741 Costello Bureau of Investigation .. 1725 Crocker First National Bank .... backhone and 1710

Dunloe Hotel. 1734

Durham Dorothy School for Secretaries. .. left top lines and 1768 Dyer Bros Golden West Iron Works .. 1749

Eby Machinery Co. 1755 Engineering Societies Employment Service .right top lines and 1726 Enterprise Foundry Co. 1727

Fairbanks, Morse & Co ..... left side lines and 1762 Federated Metals Corporation. .left side lines and 1756 Fire Association of Philadelphia ... 1745 Foster & Kleiser 1702 Franciscan Hotel. .left side lines and 1734

General Fireproofing Co .... left side lines and 1758 Glens Falls Insurance Co .. 1741 Golden Gate College YMCA .. left side lines and 1770 Goldman A S & Associates .. left top lines and 1720 Gracier S B & Sons. 1730

Griffith-Durney Co ... .left side lines and 1719 Grisez Chas J & Co ....... right top lines and 1763

Ham-Jackson Co.

.back cover and 1702

Harrington Location Service.left top lines and 1725 Harrison H O Co. .left side lines and 1703

Heald College classified tab insert

Healey Wm & Son

.right side lines and 1745

Heller Bruce & Co. 1716

Hendy Joshua Iron Works. . right top lines and 1754

Herbert, Vogel & Marks Co.

1721

Hermann Safe Co.

classified tab insert

Hesthal Wm J ..

.left side lines and 1750

Hewitt & Co ..

.left top lines and 1716

Hinchman H M Co

Holm John

.hack cover and 1751

1746

Bankers & Shippers Ins Co.

1744

Home Ins Co.

front edge and 1737

Bateman Wm

1705

Hotel Harcourt

.right side lines and 1734

Hotel Sutter

1735

Bay Counties Building & Loan Assn.

1718

Bay District Claim Service.

1719

Jenison Machinery Co ..

.. front cover and 1753

John Hancock Mutual Life Ins Co ..

Johnson Lincoln V ..

top end and classified tab insert

Kehoe Joseph F

.left top lines and 1702

Kelber George C & Co .... right side lines and 1716

Keuffel & Esser Co.

1703

Knight Edward D.

1703

Location Bureau

..... back cover, right side lines and 1724

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Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery.

1702

Lynch John P Co.

1751

Madison & Burke.

1766

Mangrum-Holbrook Co

.backbone and 1731

Marsh & McLennan-J B F Davis & Son ......

1746

McCann Mark A

.backbone and 1765

McCormick Chas R Lumber Co ...

front cover, left side lines and 1752

McCormick Steamship Co.

.left side lines

McGlivray Raymond Corporation.

right top lines and 1718

McGuire Walter E.

Merchants Neighborhood Credit Bureau ... .back cover and 1722 Monarch Iron Works. .. right top lines and 1748 Monteverde, Rolandelli & Parodi Inc ........ .right top lines and 1730 Morgen Jewelry Co. .right side lines and 1750 Muldoon School .left side lines and 1769

Muliin-Acton Co

1742

NY K Line.

1771

Nauman H A & Son ..

1746

Neal, Stratford & Kerr ..... left side lines and 1770

O'Brien M F & Co.

1747

Ocean Shore Iron Works

1748

Olympic Hotel

1733

Overland Freight Transfer Co.

1727

Pacific Foundry Co ...

.Jeft side lines and 1727

Pacific National Bank.

1713

Pacific Pump & Supply Co. right side lines and 1763

Paraffine Co's Inc.

1760

Patent Service Assn

. back cover and 1761

Patrick and Moise-Klinkner Co ..

.right top lines and

1787

Pierce E A & Co ..

1715

Prudential Ins Co of America

1736

Rathbone, King & Seeley

1747

Recorder Printing & Publishing Co.

.. left side lines and 1762

Results Collection Agency.

1720

Retailers Credit Assn of S F.

1722

Richards & Rhorer.

1742

Rincon Foundry Co

1728

Roeblings John A Sons Co

1771

Salvation Army

Salway W H Agency Co ...... left top lines and 1747

San Francisco Bank

1711

San Francisco Institute of Accountancy ..... .back cover and 1768 San Francisco Law School 1768

Seeley & Co

1743

Shreve, Treat & Eacret.

Sierra Financial Corp.

.front cover

Simonds Machinery Co.

right top lines

State Mutual Life Assurance Co left top lines and 1747

Steffen's

right side lines and 1751

Straus S W & Co.

left top lines and 1716

Sudheimer-Jamieson & Co .. right top lines and 1768

Suhr H F Co.

.left top lines and 1729

Suhr & Wieboldt ..

.right side lines and 1729

Sunset Towel Supply Co .... left top lines and

Sussman, Wormser & Co .... left top lines and 1730

Swett & Crawford.

1743

Swim Collection Service ... right side lines and 1720

Townsend Jeff R Co ......

.left side lines and 1704

tum Suden & tum Suden ..

1703

Union Automobile & Casualty Co .. 1744 United Milk Co. .bottom edge and 1757 United States Lime Products Corp ..... 1752

Watt R P. . hack cover and classified tab insert Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co .. .front cover and 1712 West Coast Detective Agency. left side lines and 1725 West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co 1760 Western Builders Supply Co right side lines and 1718

Western Cooperage Co ...... left top lines and 1722

Western Pipe & Steel Co.

1755

White Samuel A.

1729

William Taylor Hotel.

1732

Williams AI

1761

Witter Dean & Co.

1717

Woodin & Little

1763

Hotel Whitcomb and William Taylor Hotel ... 1732

Hotel Willard

1735

Rix Co

1755

Howard Automobile Co .... right side lines and 1704

... right top lines and 1746

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 1932 edition of the San Francisco Directory.

Confidence in the growth of San Francisco's wealth, industry and population, and in the advancement of its municipal and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for the directory is a mirror truly reflecting San Francisco to the world.

The enviable place occupied by R. L. POLK & CO.'S directories in offices, stores, libraries and homes throughout the country has been established by rendering the best in directory service. With an unrivaled organization, having the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional men and resi- dents, the publishers feel that the result of their labors will meet with the approval of every user, and that the San Francisco Directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information pertaining to the city.

POPULATION

The estimated population of San Francisco is 659,938, 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 1772, 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 1329.

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 1773 to 1934. 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 sınall 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."

MUNICIPAL PUBLICITY

The directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site and as an educational center. To broadcast this information, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the directory in Directory Libraries, where they are readily available for free public reference and serve as perpetual and reliable adver- tisements of San Francisco, for business men, everywhere, realize that the city directory represents a com- munity as it really is.

THE SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTORY LIBRARY

Through the courtesy of the publishers of the San Francisco City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained in the offices of the publishers at 604 Mission street, for free reference by the general public. This library is one of the system of more than 400 installed and operated in the chief cities of the U. S. and Canada, under the supervision of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, of which R. L. Polk & Co. is a member.

The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the recognition by those progressive business and professional men who have demonstrated their confidence in the city directory as an advertising medium, with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.

R. L. POLK & CO. of California, Publishers.

STATISTICAL REVIEW

Name of city, San Francisco.

Slogan or sub-phrase, "On the Median Line of Pacific Coast Population, Finance, Industry and Agri- culture."

Form of government, combined City and County, Board of Supervisors.

Population, 634,394, 1930 (U. S .- official) ; 659,938, 1932 (Chamber of Commerce estimate).

White population : 441,583.

Colored population : Negro, 3803. Other races : 35,622.

White population of age : Males, 54 per cent ; females, 47 per cent.

Total colored population, 0.50 per cent.

Native born population (white) is 69.6 per cent of whole population.

Predominating nationalities in city are American, Italian, German, Chinese, Irish, English and Canadian. Area, 42.19 square miles. Altitude, sea level to 965 feet.

Average temperature, 62.1°.

Parks and playgrounds number 94, with 2900 acres.

Assessed valuation, $1,640,760,958, all property, with $4.04 tax rate.

City's bonded debt is $155,104,400.

Financial : Twenty-six banks, eleven combination bank and trust companies, with total deposits of $2,- 021,047,977 (1930) ; resources, $2,360,791,464 (1930), and clearings of $9,558,594,000 annually ; savings banks with $1,242,112,878 total deposits.

Post-Office receipts of $9,090,597.

Telephones in service, 263,856. Churches number approximately 250.

Building and construction : Value of building permits, $22,726,994.

Real estate transfers total 8528, valued at $84,675,630.

Industry : Number of establishments, 2521, employing 45,098 total wage-earners, paying wages of $66,- 461,917 annually, and having products valued at $475,618,387 annually.

Trade: Territory (retail) serves 1,882,683 people within the trading area covering a radius of 75 miles. Jobbing territory serves 2,655,331 people within a radius of 250 miles. Many firms distribute to the 11 West- ern States, as San Francisco is Western headquarters for 1500 firms of national distribution.

Hotels : There are approximately 1700 hotels, with total accommodations of approximately 85,000 persons. Newest hotel was built in 1930.

SAN FRANCISCO THE CITY OF HOSPITALITY

City served by 4 transcontinental railroads, as follows: Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Santa Fe and Great Northern ; also Northwestern Pacific; also served by 137 steamship companies.

Amusements : There are approximately 75 theaters, with a total seating capacity of approximately 100,000 persons. Largest theater or auditorium seats about 12,000 persons.

Hospitals number 32.

Education : Number of schools, 184 public, including 20 high schools and a number of parochial and dio- cesan schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 108,197 ; in private schools, 14,000.

There are 424,656 volumes in the libraries of the city.

City Statistics : Total street mileage, 870 miles, with 634 miles paved. Miles of gas mains laid, 1005; of sewers, 97 miles, main trunk; electric street railway, 368.46 miles. Capacity of water works (municipal), 48,000,000 gallons per day.

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. Its elevation extends from sea level to 965 feet. The city covers an area of about 42.19 square miles and is built principally on hills. The population as of January 1, 1932, was 659,938.

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. Jolin 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 functioning as a Mu- nicipal Corporation, which, beginning January 8, 1932, operates under a new Charter (Freeholders). Under this new Charter the Legislative Powers are vested in a Board of Supervisors which will consist of 15 members until January 8, 1934. Thereafter the number will be reduced to 11 members. The Administrative Powers are vested in a Mayor and a Chief Administrative Officer, who is appointed by the Mayor, and other officers elected by the people. The people elect the Mayor, Assessor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Public Defender, Super- visors, District Attorney, City Attorney, Municipal and Superior Court Judges and the members of the Board of Education.

The salary of the Mayor is $10,000 per year and the major Departments under him include the Police, Fire, Park, Recreation, and Library, the Art Commission, the Utilities Commission, Civil Service Commis- sion, and City Planning Commission.

The Chief Administrative Officer, appointed by the Mayor, receives a salary of $12,000 a year and has under him the following Departments. Departments of Finance and Records, Purchasing, Real Estate,

SAN FRANCISCO-THE CITY OF HOSPITALITY

Department of Public Works, Department of Electricity, Street Traffic Advisory Board, Departinent of Pub- lic Health, County Welfare Department, Coroner's Office, Horticultural Inspection Department, and Depart- ment of Weights and Measures.

The Controller is responsible to the Mayor and is appointed by him subject to the confirmation and approval by the Board of Supervisors.

HARBOR AND COMMERCE-Centered in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco is an important port of general commerce, handling a large and valuable domestic and foreign trade. It is the main gateway of commerce for the vast territory of the Central Pacific Coast Area and Intermountain States. The Bay extends from the Golden Gate to the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers on the northeast, and to a point near San Jose on the South, covering an area of 450 square miles. The deep-water commerce enters San Francisco Bay through the Golden Gate, which is but one mile wide, thus affording natural pro- tection from the ocean to the waters of the San Francisco Bay. To this has been added the most compre- hensive docking and berthing facilities, rail and freight connections, modern and well-equipped warehouses, etc. San Francisco harbor has 18 miles of berthing space and this is constantly being added to; 7,369,015 square feet of cargo space ; 48 modern piers; facilities to dock the largest vessels ; seven drydocks; 160 spur tracks; 58 miles of belt railways connecting piers and warehouses; car capacity for more than 2900 cars; 42 cranes, derricks and aerials.

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Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco city directory, 1932, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1930 Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1580

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1930
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1580