Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco city directory, 1933, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1930
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1480

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Wells PATLO Union

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Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Co.

2 Offices: Market at Montgomery Street Market at Grant Avenue

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300 Russ Building Phone DO uglas 6495 San Francisco

Coldwell, Cornwall & Banker

Realtors

57 SUTTER STREET SU tter 5420

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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

Alphabetical List of Names

Apartment Houses

1753

Associations, Clubs and Societies

1769

Buildings, Blocks and Halls

1745

Business Directory

1701

Buyers' Guide

1772

Cemeteries

1774

Churches

1026

City Government

1745

Classified Business Directory

1781

Clubs

1784

Consular Officers

1026

County Government

Directory Library

1111

District Courts of Appeal

382

Federal Government Officers

1027

Fire Department

1878

Fraternal Organizations

1814

Hospitals, Homes and Sanitariums

Index to Advertisers

Introduction

1026

Justice Courts

1827

Labor Organizations

1836

Libraries and Reading Rooms

1881

Military

1854

Parks and Playgrounds

931

Piers

1026

Police Department

Population

383

Postoffice Department

1027

Public Library

Removals, Alterations and Additions

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

1758

Societies-Secret and Fraternal

1110

State Officers and Boards

10-14

Statistical Review

17-34

Street and Avenue Guide

1026

Superior Courts

1111

Supreme Court

1827

Trade and Labor Organizations

United States Courts and Officers 382

931

Wharves

1701

Alterations, Removals, Etc.

1748

1878

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Abbens Confidential Service

front cover and 1719

American Trust Co 1706

Ames Harris Neville Co left side lines and 1704

Anderson C A .left top lines and 1722

Anglo California National Bank 1707

Associated Oil Co

Atkins Robert S Inc

right side lines and 1716

Baldwin & Howell

1742

Bank of America

1708

Bank of California 1709

Bankers & Shippers Insurance Co 1734

Bateman Wm

1705

Bethune J Evan .right side lines and 1734

Billings Geo E Co.

1734

Brandt W B & Co

left top lines and 1730

California Artistic Metal & Wire Co 1736

California Barrel Co 1717

California Insurance Co

.front cover and 1730

Chapman & Co

1731

Coffin-Redington Co

1720

Coldwell Cornwall & Banker

front cover

Continental Insurance Company

.right side lines and 1731

Costello Bureau of Investigation 1720

Crocker First National Bank .backbone and 1710

Durham Dorothy School for Secretaries.

. front cover and classified tab insert

Engineering Society Employment Service

.right top lines and 1721

Foster and Kleiser Co

1702

General Detective Bureau

General Fireproofing Co

back cover, right side lines and 1720

left side lines and 1739 Glens Falls Insurance Co 1732

Golden Gate College left side lines and 1742

Gracier S B & Sons 1724

Griffith-Durney Co

left side lines and 1716

Grisez Chas J Co

right top lines and 1741

Harris Z H left top lines and 1744

Heald College classified tab insert

Healey Wm & Son .right side lines and 1734

Herbert Vogel & Mark Co 1717

Hermann Safe Co

.classified tab insert

Hesthal Wm J

.left side lines and 1736

Home Insurance Co front edge and 1729

Hopewell John W 1721

Hotel Harcourt 1728

Hotel Sutter 1727

Hotel Whitcomb & William Taylor Hotel 1727

Howard Automobile Co . right side lines and 1703 John Hancock Mutual Life Ins Co ... right top lines and 1735 Johnson Lincoln V .top edge and classified tab insert

Kehoe Joseph

.left top lines and 1702

Keystone Brokerage Co .left top lines

Knight E D 1702

Lybrand, Ross Bros & Montgomery

1702

Mangrum-Holbrook Co

.backbone and 1725

Massachusetts Mutual Life Ins Co

front cover

McAlister James W Inc

1703

McCormick Chas R Lumber Co

.front cover, left side lines and 1737

McCormick Steamship Co

left side lines

McGilvray Raymond Corp

. right top lines and 1715

Monteverde, Parodi Inc

.right top lines and 1724

Morgen Jewelry Co

.right side lines and 1737

NY K Line .

1744

O'Brien M F & Co 1735

Olympic Hotel

1726

Overland Freight Transfer Co 1721

Pacific Foundry Co

left side lines and 1722

1711

Pierce E A & Co

1714

Rathbone, King & Seeley Inc

1735

Recorder Printing & Publishing Co .. left side lines and 1740 Retailers Credit Assn 1718

Richards & Rhorcr 1732

Salvation Army

Salway W H Agency Co

left top lines and 1735

San Francisco Bank

1712

San Francisco Institute of Accountancy .. back cover and 1742

San Francisco Law School 1742

Seeley & Co

1733

Straus S W & Co

1715

Sudheimer-Jamieson & Co

.right top lines and 1741

Suhr H F Co Inc

.left top lines and 1723

Suhr & Wieholdt

.left top lines and 1723

Sussman Wormser & Co

.left top lines and 1724

Swett & Crawford

1733

Swim Collection Service

right side lines and 1716

Townsend Jeff R Co

left top lines and 1704

1703

United Milk Co

. bottom edge and 1738

United Mutual Life Ins Co

left top lines and 1736

Wells Fargo Bank and Union Trust Co . front cover and 1713

1739

West Virginia Pulp & Paper Co

Western Cooperage Co

.left top lines and 1718

Western Pipe & Steel Co 1737

White Samuel A

1723

William Taylor Hotel

1727

Witter Dean & Co

1715

Woodin & Little Inc

1740

Pacific National Bank

Shreve Treat & Eacret

tum Stiden & tum Suden

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 1933 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 787,950, 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 1744, 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 1272.

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 1745 to 1896. 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."

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) ; 681,325, July 1, 1933 (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, $1,433,248,497, all property, with $3.96 tax rate. City's funded debt is $161,906,200.

Financial: Twenty-six banks, eleven combination bank and trust companies, with total deposits of $1,- 838,943,290 (1931) ; resources, $2,203,409,663 (1931), capital, $108,405,250 (1931), and clearings of $5,053,- 854.000 (1932) annually ; savings banks with $1,149,966,823 (1931) total deposits.

Post-Office receipts of $8.006,085 (1932). Telephones in service, 246,841 (end of 1932). Churches number approximately 250.

SAN FRANCISCO-THE CITY OF HOSPITALITY

Building and construction : Value of building permits, $16,427,915 (1932).

Real estate transfers total 7139, valued at $47,418,096.

Industry : Number of establishments, 2526, employing $45,482 total wage-earners, paying wages of $67,- 911,982 annually, and having products valued at $483,712,296 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.

City served by 4 transcontinental railroads, as follows : Southern Pacific, Western Pacific, Santa Fe and Great Northern; also Northwestern Pacific; also served by 133 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, 186 public, including 20 high schools and a number of parochial and dio- cesan schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 108,484 ; in private schools, 14,000.

There are 448,824 volumes in the libraries of the city.

City Statistics : Total street mileage, 870 miles, with 641 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), 62,500,000,000 gallons.

SAN FRANCISCO (Prepared by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce)

San Francisco is located centrally on the coast in 37° 47' 22-25" 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 July 1, 1933, was 681,325.

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.

SAN FRANCISCO-THE CITY OF HOSPITALITY

GOVERNMENT-San Francisco has a combined City and County Government functioning as a Mu- nicipal Corporation, which began January 8, 1932, to operate under a new Charter (Freeholders). Under this new Charter the Legislative Powers are vested in a Board of Supervisors consisting 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, Department of Public Works, Department of Electricity, Street Traffic Advisory Board, Department 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 17 miles of berthing space and this is constantly being added to; 178 acres ; 1,930,000 tons of cargo; 43 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.

The harbor is controlled by the State of California and is governed by a board of harbor commissioners appointed by the Governor. Of the 43 piers, most of them are assigned to steamship companies having their own fleets and operating their own schedules. Repairs and maintenance average $1,500,000.

The water-borne commerce of San Francisco has trebled since pre-war days and now ranks second of all ports in the United States. San Francisco, according to the U. S. Department of Commerce, at the close of 1931 ranked fourth among the 49 custom districts of the U. S. in the value of imports and exports. Arrivals and departures of vessels show the following increases :

Arrivals

1923

6792

1932.

5919

Registered Tonnage 15,049,446 16,891,342

Departures

6830 6015

Registered Tonnage 14,802,870 17,012,058

Exports Imports

1931 $112,257,000 85,756,000

The principal exports are mineral oil, gasoline, canned and dried fruits, barley, raw cotton, automobiles, cigarettes, tobacco, rice, flour, canned milk, redwood, canned salmon.

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Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco city directory, 1933, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1930 Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1480

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1930
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1480