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LIQUORE GALLIANO
A liqueur- Alcohol 40% by volume 100-110 Broadway
Telephones SU tter 1175-1176-1177
San Francisco 26
(See page 59, Buyers' Guide)
WELLS FARGO BANK & UNION TRUST CO.
Wells Fargo Office Market at Montgomery
Union Trust Office Market at Grant Avenue
Established 1852
Member F. D. I. C.
PEARL ASSURANCE COMPANY, Ltd. OF LONDON, ENGLAND
EUREKA-SECURITY Fire & Marine Insurance Company
MONARCH FIRE Insurance Company, Cleveland, Ohio
DAVID A. BARRY, Manager 369 PINE STREET, 4th Floor
PACIFIC COAST DEPARTMENT FRANK V. SMITH-Agency Superintendents-CHARLES MILLIMAN Tel. DO uglas 8400 SAN FRANCISCO 6
KANSAS CITY LIFE INS. CO. KANSAS CITY, MO.
Life Insurance - Annuities - Income and Endowment Policies Over $34,000,000.00 in California BROKERAGE ACCEPTED LIBERAL CONTRACTS Insurance in Force over $550.000,000.00 Assets over SI55.000.000:00
HUNTER AND HUNTER AGENCY 703. Market St., Central Tower. San Francisco 3
Tel. YU kon 0456
California's FUR DOCTOR and STAFF
FAMOUS FOR FUR VALUES
See Full Page Advertisement Yellow Buyers' Guide Section, Page 53
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PHONE MARKET 8181
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P. O. Box 37, Colma, San Mateo Co., California
Phone: RAndolph 0580
CREDIT
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Douglas 7100
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461 MARKET
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POLK'S CROCKER-LANGLEY SAN FRANCISCO CITY DIRECTORY 1944
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character ALSO A BUYERS' GUIDE and a Complete CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR DETAILED CONTENTS SEE GENERAL INDEX
R.L.Polk
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GENERAL INDEX
Page
Abbreviations
40
Advertisers' Index
8
Advertising Department
· opposite 1736
Alphabetical List of Names
41
Apartment Buildings
1740
Associations and Clubs
1745
Buildings-Office and Public.
1763
Business Directory
1737
'Buyers' Guide
opposite 1736
Cemeteries
1766
Churches
1769
City Government
1390
Classified Business Directory
1737
Clubs
1777
Consular Offices
1779
County Government
1390
Directory Library
10
District Courts of Appeal
1507
Federal Government Officers
511
Fire Department
1391
Firm Abbreviations
39
Fraternal Organizations
1884
Halls
1807
Homes and Asylums
1809
Hospitals and Dispensaries
1810
Index to Advertisers
8
Introduction
10
Labor Organizations
1827
Libraries and Reading Rooms
1836
Municipal Courts
1391
Navy Department
512
Parks and Playgrounds
1858
Police Department
1391
Postal Delivery Units
17-20
Postoffice Department
512
Public Library
1392
Societies, Clubs, Associations, Bureaus, Charitable and Civic Bodies
1745
Societies-Secret and Fraternal 1884
1506
State Officers and Boards
11
Statistical Review
21-38
Street and Avenue Guide
1391
Superior Courts
1507
Supreme Court
1827
Trade and Labor Organizations
511
United States Courts and Officers
512
War Department
(7)
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
(Page numbers below refer to Buyers' Guide opposite page 1736)
Page
AAA Brass Foundry right top lines and 46
AAA-1 Baker & Co
right side lines and 127
Eby L R & Co. .right side lines and 85
Eby Machinery Co
99
29
Elworthy & Co.
.right bottom lines and
17
Emporium The.
.left top lines and
34
Fairmont Hotel 66
Farnsworth & Ruggles.
40
American Trust Co.
. back cover and
8
Financial Center Building
104
Finn John Metal Works. B
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co
70
Foster and Kleiser Co. .left side lines and 2
Fruit Industries
128
Armstrong's U-Drive.
left top lines and
6
Associated Indemnity Corp.
left bottom lines and
73
Atkins Robert S Inc. . left side lines and 26
Atlas Assurance Co.
74
Baldwin & Howell. right top lines and 109
Bank of America National Trust & Savings Assn. 10
Bank of California National Assn.
11
Bankamerica Co
17
Bankers & Shippers Insurance Co .. left bottom lines and
Bateman Wm.
right bottom lines and
74 7
Bay Fur Co. right side lines and
55
Bentzen's Mrs Danish Cookie Co .left side lines and 7
Blue Network Co.
Blyth & Co. right bottom lines and
Bodinson Manufacturing Co.
97
Brown Chas & Sons.
60
.right side lines, 26 and 124
Brush Slocumb & Co. right side lines and 17
Business Maintenance Assn.
A
California Artistic Metal & Wire Co.
89
California Collection Agency. .back cover and
28
California Pacific Title Insurance Co. . right side lines and 125 California Savings & Loan Co ..... right bottom lines and 122 Carew & English. left side lines and 48
Central Manufacturers' Mutual Insurance Co. 75
Cimino Joseph Jr. .right side lines, 85 and 117
City of Paris Dry Goods Co. .right top lines and 32
111
City Title Insurance Co.
125 2 Hotel Plaza
61 66 67
Hotel St Francis.
67
Hotel Sir Francis Drake.
64
Hotel Washington 68
68
Hunter & Hunter Agency. .front cover,
right bottom lines and 79
Index Investment Corp
86
James Motors Co left side lines and 4
Jones S L & Co.
68
King George Hotel.
Krout & Schneider
left bottom lines and
39
Lambert Realty Co.
ABC Card and 113
Leary Bros left side lines and 49
Lee Don Inc. left top lines and 4
Liberty Mutual Insurance Co .. right bottom lines and 86
Liebes Arnold.
left bottom lines and
56
63 Liebes H & Co. .right bottom lines, 37 and 55
62
Livingston Bros
37
Dreamland Bedding Co.
left top lines and 99 London Assurance The
79
(8)
Dean Witter & Co. back cover and 16
Degen L P Belting Co .right side lines and 15
16
Cosgrave Cloak & Suit Co. .left top lines and 36
Crane Co
106
Crocker First National Bank. backbone and 12
Crocker-Union
95
Crum & Forster. left side lines and 76
Cummings John T
left side lines and 117
Cypress Lawn Cemetery Assn . front cover,
left bottom lines and 24
Eastman Kodak Stores. .right side lines and 92
Acme Breweries. .left side lines and 19
Acme Credit & Adjustment Bureau.
Ainslie Fred G.
.left side lines, 85 and 117
Alby Realty Co.
right side lines and 117
Allen Bruce M & Co
right side lines and 73
Ames Harris Neville Co
. left side lines and
6
Anderson C A.
backbone, left top lines and
47
9
Fur Doctor.
front cover, right bottom lines and
53
105
Gensler-Lee, Jewelers left side lines
Giorgi-Johnson
111
Giurlani A & Bro. right side lines and 60
Glens Falls Insurance Co 76
Golden Gate College. right top lines and 123
Golden Pheasant
left side lines and 121
Gorman E B
Granat Bros.
left bottom lines and
118 92
Gray N & Co
48 77
Great American Insurance Co of N Y.
Greer Realty Co.
left side lines, 85 and 118
Grisez Chas J Co. .back cover, left bottom lines and 112 Gump S & G Co. right side lines and 36 22
Gunn Carle & Co
Hale Bros Stores right top lines and 33
Halsted & Co right top lines and 50
Harris Ward Co. left bottom lines and 42 94 77 127 Hartford Fire Insurance Co. left side lines and Hart Alfred Distributing Co.
Haslett Warehouse Healey Wm & Son. back cover, right side lines and 78 121
Hermann Safe Co.
Heyman Brothers.
right side lines, 86 and 112
Hinchman-Rolph & Landis .right bottom lines and 86
Hoefler Harry 113 78
Home Insurance Co of New York. . backbone and Home Mutual Savings & Loan Assn ... left top lines and Hotel Mark Hopkins
Clark William A.
Cleveland Wrecking Co. .right bottom lines and 128
Coffin-Redington Co ..
.right side lines and 41
Coldwell Banker & Co.bottom edge, left bottom lines and 110 Columbia Outfitting Co. left bottom lines, 27 and 33
Commerce Trading Co .back cover
Commercial Union Group. right bottom lines and 69
Conrad Bruce & Co. .right side lines and
75
Brooks Equipment Co
108 17
Brandt W B & Co. .back cover and
120
Brumell Armand Smart Shops.
City Realty Co.
Hotel Whitcomb
68
Del Monte Properties Co. Dohrmann Hotel Supply Co.
Page
Anglo California National Bank. Anthony Earle C Inc. right top lines and 3
General Fireproofing Co
9
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS-(Continued)
Page
left side lines and 82
Procredit Co
28
Progressive Realty Co. .right side lines and 118
Rainier Brewing Co. .right top lines and 20
Ransohoffs Inc. right bottom lines and 39 Ray Oil Burner Co. .right side lines
Recorder Printing and Publishing Co and Sunset Press ..
left side lines and 107
Redlick-Newman Co
51
Regal Amber Brewing Co.
left side lines and 21
Retailers Credit Assn .... front cover, right side lines and 31 Roberts George R. .left side lines and 119
116
Roos Bros
left top lines and 27
Rousseau Oliver M, A Corporation ...
.left side lines and 29
Royal-Liverpool Group. left top lines and 72
Salvation Army
left side lines
San Francisco Bank. front edge and 13
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce. C
San Francisco Chronicle. 102 103
San Francisco Examiner.
Schmidt Lithograph Co left side lines and 95
Schwabacher & Co.
left top lines and
18
35
Sears Roebuck & Co.
Seeley & Co. left bottom lines and 83 101
Sherman Clay & Co.
Sloane W & J. .left top lines and 52
Sommer & Kaufmann .left bottom lines and 123
Star Realty Co.
right side lines and 116
State Realty
.right side lines
Stater Glen C Co.
.right side lines and
5
Sterling Furniture Co.
left bottom lines and
52
Stockton Fire Brick Co.
.right bottom lines and
21
Stovel Chas J General Agency right bottom lines and 83 50 88 Sun Life Assurance Co of Canada
98
Swett George E & Co.
Swett & Crawford. .left bottom lines and 84
Tesluck Co .. left side lines and 119 Thomas G W Drayage & Rigging Co ..... back cover and 40 Thompson M & Co. left side lines and 88 Title Insurance & Guaranty Co .. left side lines and 126 121
Townsend's California Glace Fruits Corp.
Turner N T Co.
.left side lines and 92
Tyl-Tub Co.
right side lines and 15
U S Realty Co.
left side lines and 119
Valente, Marini, Perata & Co. left side lines and 49 42 5 Walworth-California Co 35 14 Waters James F Inc. .right side lines and 84
Western Builders Supply Co. right side lines and 22 30
Western Cooperage Co.
Western Pipe & Steel Co. left side lines and 106
Western Service Corp.
left top lines and
95
Wickett John S.
119
Plaza Florists.
.right side lines and 44
Podesta & Baldocchi.
right top lines and
45
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Macey's Jewelers .left bottom lines and 91 Madison & Burke .right top lines and 114
Magnin I & Co .right top lines, 38 and 56
Majestic The. .right bottom lines and 27 57
Mann Royal C.
Maryland Casualty Co. right side lines and 80 Mason Brothers .. left side lines and 18 25
Masonic Cemetery Assn.
Maxferd Jewelry Co.
.right bottom lines and
90
McAlister James W Inc
.right side lines and
5
McAvoy, O'Hara Co ..
. Classified Tab Insert
McCarthy Daniel F.
right side lines, 87 and 118
McCormick Steamship Co
.left side lines and 96
Mckesson & Robbins.
41
Meherin Mark M & Son.
left side lines and
80
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Beane.
left bottom lines and
18
Meyenberg Milk Products Co.
100
Meyer Milton & Co.
.right side lines and 114
Miles Harvey & Co.
2
Minzesheimer Philip J. .right side lines and 115
Mission Auto Works.
Classified Tab Insert
Mission Bowl
19
Monteverde & Parodi. .front cover and 59
Moore Ltd.
.right side lines and
27
Morgen Jewelry Co. .right side lines and 91
Morris Plan Co of California. .right side lines
7
Nathan-Dohrmann Co .. 38
National Broadcasting Co.
109
right bottom lines and 81
Nelson A E Co. .left top lines and 108
Newman Frank Co. left top lines and 51
Nippert Paul M Co
87
Nome Fur Co.
.right bottom lines and
54
Northern Life Insurance Co.
87
Suhr & Wieboldt.
left bottom lines and
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Co.
right bottom lines and 87
Northwestern National Insurance Co ..
88
Norwich Union Fire Insurance Society. right top lines and
81
O'Brien M F & Blackman Co .left side lines and 88
O'Connor Moffatt & Co. .left top lines and 34
Office Towel Supply Co. . top edge, right top lines and 126 Olivet Memorial Park . left side lines and 25
Olson LeRoy Co. .right side lines and 43
Otto's Florist. right top lines and 44
Overland Freight Transfer Co. .right top lines and 45
Owl Drug Co.
.left side lines and
41
Pacific Coast Adjustment Co. .right side lines and 29
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
58
Pacific Greyhound Lines .. left bottom lines and 23 Weill Raphael & Co. .right bottom lines and Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co. 82 Wells Fargo Bank & Union Trust Co .... front cover and West Coast Life Insurance Co.
Pacific Pipe Co. .right top lines and 106 Pacific Pump & Supply Co. left top lines and 108 Palace Hotel 65
Patrick & Moise-Klinkner Co. .left bottom lines and 124
Pauson & Co. right top lines and 26 Pearl Assurance Co. .front cover, left top lines and 71 Perego Grace. .right side lines and 115
Pierce-Rodolph Storage Co.
.left side lines, 101 and 124
Yates & Van Stralen. left side lines and 89 Young Men's Christian Assn .right top and left side lines and 3
Mother's Cake & Cookie Co.
.right side lines and
National Fire Insurance Co of Hartford.
Pope & Talbot .front cover, left side lines and 96 Preferred Accident Insurance Co of N Y.
Romano Wm S Realty Co
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INTRODUCTION
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FIVE MAJOR DEPARTMENTS
The several essential departments are arranged in the following order :
THE INDEX TO ADVERTISERS, pages 8 and 9, on white paper, is an alphabetical list of the San Fran- cisco commercial, industrial and professional concerns that have demonstrated their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium, and thereby insured its regular publication.
THE STREET AND AVENUE GUIDE is embraced in pages 17 to 38, on white paper; in this depart- ment a list of Postal Delivery Units is followed by the names of all streets and avenues arranged alpha- betically, giving beginning and ending, and line of general direction.
THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF NAMES of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 41 to 1736, on white paper. Home property ownership is indicated by the character ®, placed immedi- ately after the residence address.
THE BUYERS' GUIDE, beginning opposite page 1736, and separately paged from 1 to 128, on golden- rod 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 purchas- ing factors. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under head- ings 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 pictured. 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 evidenced by the liberal support the city directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.
THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY is included in pages 1737 to 1900, on white paper. 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 CITY 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 500 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., Publishers.
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STATISTICAL REVIEW
(Prepared by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce)
Name of city, San Francisco.
Slogan or sub-phrase, "Center of Western Industry, Trade and Commerce-The Nation's Western Capital."
Form of Government, Combined City and County, Board of Supervisors.
Population, 634,536, 1940; Resident Population 700,735, April 1, 1944 (U. S .- official).
Total white population 658,455 (April 1, 1944).
Colored population: Negro, 17,395 (April 1, 1944).
Age-20 Years and over: Males, 256,825; females, 294,490. Native born population (white) is 74.4 per cent of whole population (1940).
Predominating nationalities in city are American, Italian, German, Irish, English, Canadian and Chinese.
Area, 44.82 square miles.
Altitude, sea level to 938 feet.
Average temperature, 56.1°. Daily mean maximum, 62.6°. Daily mean minimum, 50.3°.
Parks: 53, and 94 recreational units. Total acreage, 4450. Assessed valuation, $1,176,221,757 all property; with $4.36 tax rate (1943-1944).
City's funded debt is $125,596,100 (June 30, 1943).
Financial: There are nineteen banks, 14 under State super- vision and 5 national banks, with total deposits of $5,742,520,362 (1943); resources $6,085,920,409 (1943); debits to individual accounts, $17,489,513,000 (1943); clearings, $13,267,105,000 (1943); time deposits, $2,060,477,734 (1943); demand deposits, $3,682,042,628.
Post office receipts of $17,498,351 (1943).
Telephones in service, 307,830 (1941), latest available.
Churches number approximately 340.
Building and construction: Value of building permits, $12,090,187, number 3049 (1943).
Real estate transfers total 10,180, valued at $82,951,399 (1943).
Industry: Number of establishments 2172 (1939). Total wage-earners 1944, 70,000; weekly wages of $4,200,000.
Labor Force: About two-thirds of the eligible persons 14 years and over in San Francisco are in the labor force. Their
distribution as of April 1, 1944, is revealed in the following tabulation:
In labor force. 386,995
Employed 381 675
At full-time work 341,005
In civilian work.
323,610
In Armed Forces (living off reservation) 17,395
At part-time work .. 28,630
With a job but not at work. 12,040
Unemployed (seeking work) 5,320
Trade: Territory (retail) serves 2,127,117 civilians within the 9 county area covering San Francisco Bay. Metropolitan Area, jobbing territory serves 3,535,515 civilians within a radius of 250 miles. Many firms distribute to the 11 Western States, as San Francisco is Western headquarters for hun- dreds of firms with national distribution.
Hotels: The U. S. Census reported 577 hotels, with total 50,308 guest rooms, third highest in nation.
Converging in San Francisco are 4 Class I railroads oper- ating more than 27,000 miles of line, under normal conditions 177 steamship lines, more than 40 commercial carrier truck lines, 4 transcontinental bus services and 4 major air lines of the world.
Amusements: There are approximately 79 theaters, with a total seating capacity of approximately 87,000 persons. Larg- est theater or auditorium seats about 12,000 persons.
Hospitals number 25.
Education: Number of schools, 186 public, including 26 junior high and high schools. There are also a number of parochial and diocesan schools. Number of pupils enrolled in public schools, 146,879 during 1943; in private schools, 14,000 (est.).
There are 550,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage, 908 miles, with 752 miles paved. Miles of gas mains laid, 1005; of sewers, 97 miles, main trunk; street railway and motor coach lines, 378.35 miles. The storage capacity of water works (municipal), 64,126, 000,000 gallons.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Prepared by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce)
HISTORICAL
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 938 feet. The city covers an area of about 44.82 square miles and is built principally on hills. The population as of April 1, 1940, amounted to 634,536 (U. S. Census). Resident population, April 1, 1944, 700,735.
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.
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