Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1925, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1884

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E. B. FIELD CO.

13th and Harrison Streets and 3414 E. 14th Street

BUSINESS LOCATIONS FACTORY SITES HOMES Telephone OAK. 1391

PHONE LAKESIDE 9600

WM. CAVALIER & CO.

OAKLAND STOCKS & BONDS SAN FRANCISCO

MEMBERS SAN FRANCISCO STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE FIRST NATIONAL BUILDING, OAKLAND Full Information on Page 133

Two Strong Banks

INVITE YOUR COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK CENTRAL SAVINGS BANK

14th and Franklin Oakland, California

THE AHL GAS FURNACE

"As Good As Any-Better Than Many" IT'S GUARANTEED

DICKSON & HOLBROOK PHONE BERK. 347 2180 Dwight Way BERKELEY

RESERVED FOR

WESTERN NATIONAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY RAY BUILDING

BUILDERS & OWNERS INV. CO. BUILDERS-REALTORS-INSURANCE

N. A. BLODGETT, MES

2558 Seminary Ave.

Oakland

Tel Elmhurst 345

2630 Telegraph Ave.

Oakland Parlors

2945 East 14th St. Fruitvale Parlors

FREEMAN & COX-ROACH & KENNEY CO.

2414 Grove St. Berkeley Parlors

FUNERAL DIRECTORS

Borroughs Additional Towel System

"Next to My Hands -

and Face. the

Thing

I Like

Best

Is a Genuine

Cloth Towel"

The Management, Installing This Service, Shows Respect for Your Desire for Genuine Cleanliness

TOWEL SERVICE RENTED IN EAST BAY CITIES

Oakland-California Towel Co.

Phone Oakland 883

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SAN FRANCISCO

PUBLIC LIBRARY

REFERENCE BOOK

Not to be taken from the Library

TRUMAN Undertaking Company

Telephone, Day or Night, Lakeside 7400

Telegraph Ave. and Thirtieth

Oakland, California

38 YEARS IN THE BOND BUSINESS IN CALIFORNIA Since 1887 WM. R. STAATS CO. has afforded to careful investors a thorough knowledge of bonds which combine excellent security with consistent interest returns.

WM. R. STAATS CO. ESTABLISHED 1887

Alexander Building Montgomery Street, Cor. of Bueh SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES

1006 Tribune Tower OAKLAND

PASADENA

SAN DIEGO THE FIRST CALIFORNIA BOND HOUSE

GEO. A. LEWIS, President

ARTHUR R. MITCHELL, Secretary

LEWIS & MITCHELL

INC.

LICENSED REALTORS

412 15th St., Oakland, Calif.

Phone Lakeside 860

Gaines-Walrath Company

(INCORPORATED)

FURNITURE CARPETS DRAPERIES

1714 Franklin St.

Tel. Oakland 1927

Oakland, Calif.

SIXES

A N

D EIGHTS

Rickenbacker

Wills Sainte Claire

Distinct and Advanced Engineered Automobiles

WILSON-FRISBIE CO.

1450 Harrison St. Phone Oakland 3142-Oakland 7162

Oakland, Calif.

R. W. LITTLEFIELD GENERAL CONTRACTOR Architectural and Engineering Construction OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

REINFORCED CONCRETE, STEEL FRAME CONSTRUCTION, FIREPROOFING HEAVY MILL BUILDING, MASONRY

Member General Contractors Association

Warehouses, Office Buildings, Apartment Houses Garages, Hotels

357 TWELFTH STREET Telephones Oakland 994 and 995

626 THIRTY-THIRD STREET

Telephone Piedmont 612

POLK'S

OAKLAND BERKELEY : : ALAMEDA

CITY DIRECTORY 1925

Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Private Citizens of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, Emery- ville and Albany, a Directory of the City and County Officers, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Benevolent, Literary and other Associations, Incorporated Institutions, Etc.

AND A COMPLETE

CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Compiled and Published by R. L. Polk & Co. of California

(Member Association of North American Directory Publishers) 470 13th St., Oakland, Cal.

The DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON

PRICE

INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER .. SELLER

$15.00

INTRODUCTION

The publishers present the 1925 edition of the Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda Directory to its patrons and users with confidence as to the complete and correct information contained therein.

The general arrangement is the same as in the past; the letter "A" following a name signifies Alameda; "B." Berkeley, and "Pied," Pied- mont. The Classified Section is arranged in the same manner.

The "BUYERS GUIDE" occupies pages 109 to 244. This section includes advertisements of the leading manufacturers, business and professional men of the East Bay District, arranged by departments and indexed classified headings. A careful perusal of this section of the di- rectory will be found interesting.

The Miscellaneous Section, giving information as to Churches, Fra- ternal and Secret Societies, Lodges, Civic and Miscellaneous Organiza- tions, Parks, Etc., will be found on page 41 to 54.

The Street and Avenue Guide commences at page 55.

The Classified Section in the back of the book is complete and lists every business and profession under correct headings.

Names coming in too late to appear in the regular Alphabetical Sec- tion will be found on page 10.

For estimate of population see page 20 of Mayor's Message.

Directory Library

A library of City and County Directories is maintained by the pub- lishers at 470 13th Street for the free use of their patrons. As the latest Directories are issued they will be added to the Library, thereby keeping it up to date from year to year. We extend a cordial invitation to each and every one of our subscribers to make frequent use of this Library and to consult the directories on file here as often as wished.

Advertising Oakland

The Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda Directory is placed in the Directory Libraries throughout the United States and in many of the larger hotels in New York, Chicago and other large cities, where it serves the public as a valuable book of reference and the city it represents as a splendid standing advertisement, for no other publication can convey such an idea of the city, its business interests and all the various insti- tutions and organizations.

We are indebted to the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, the Ber- keley Chamber of Commerce, and the Alameda Chamber of Commerce for the following interesting data :

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Do You Know?

That during the past five years more than 1,500,000 people moved to California. Many thousands of them now live in Oak- land, the best located city on the Pacific Ocean. This desire to come to California is a constantly growing one and you can be of service to your city by inviting your friends and business associates in the East and Mid- dle West to come and enjoy life in this wonderful district.

Oakland is the industrial hub of the Pa- cific Coast. It is the educational center of California and its recreational features are among the best of Pacific Coast Cities.

OAKLAND IS

The City Where California's Promise Is Fulfilled

The Chamber of Commerce has an abundance of literature which it will gladly mail to your friends if you will only send in their names.

Oakland Chamber of Commerce

13th and Alice Streets Tel. Lakeside 6800

Berkeley Chamber of Commerce

Invites You to the Educational Metropolis of the Pacific Coast

Berkeley Looking Through the Golden Gate, Offers You:

An ideal living and working climate, cool in summer, mild in winter.

The most favorable health conditions of any city of its size in America.

A City Manager government.

A successfully financed Community Chest providing for Berkeley's 20 welfare agencies.

The most modern and progressive police and fire protection.

Exceptionally fine schools preparing for the entrance to the University.

The University of California, one of America's greatest institutions of higher education.

A high type of citizens interested in all that is best in American life.

Attractive homes, artictically designed, set in gardens of perennial bloom.

ALAMEDA Chamber of

Commerce

CITY HALL ALAMEDA

Devoted to the Interests of The City of Alameda

Try Alameda First

ALAMEDA invites you to the city of beautiful homes, fine schools, churches, parks and sandy beaches; also fine industrial sites with water and rail facilities.

Removals, Alterations and Additions

Names Received Too Late for Regular Insertion

Associated Realty Operators Inc Deckel- man bldg 17th and Telegraph av Balliet Forrest W (Stella) with The El- liott-Horne Co h538 55th

BERKELEY STAR MOTOR CO, Antomo- biles, 2210 San Pablo Av, Tel Bkly 5365

Brown Geo W lab h3908 Hopkins

Bruce Geo A mgr R G Hamilton & Co Inc h1398 Scenic av B

Carter Danl F mgr The Elliott-Horne Co r San Francisco

Chambers Frank D slsmn J G Tavares r 693 Excelsior av

Dudley Geo T bkpr The Elliott-Horne Co r San Francisco

Duncan Caspar J clk The Elliott-Horne Co r78 Glen av

ELLIOTT-HORNE CO THE, Daniel P Carter Mgr, Bonds, Specializing in Tax Free Street Improvement Bonds Since 1904, 1102 Tribune Tower, Tel Okld 1572

Everett Austin M (Florence) eng h214 Grand av

" Helen F sten Okld Chamber of Com r 214 Grand av

Godding Clyde L (Mabel) mgr Securities Dept Associated Realty Operators h 304 E 16th

HAMILTON R G & CO INC, Geo A Bruce Mgr, Real Estate, Loans, Bonds, Mort- gages and Insurance, 403 Alameda County Title Ins Co Bldg, 14th and Franklin, Tel Okld 3700

Heaslett John E (Ethel A) mgr Sun Life Assurance Co of Canada h1215 Shat- tuck av B

Irons Victor H (Nannie B) sec-treas Guar- antee Finance Co 1305 Franklin

Larrabee Geo (Cath A) h566 53d

Levy Harold B pharm Munn Drug Co r 1448 Jackson

Moore Elmer L (Ordria E) executive Pac Coast mgr Liberty Life Ins Co h78 Garland av

Mooser Carlos E sec Associated Realty Operators Inc r San Francisco " Louis H pres Associated Realty Opera- tors Inc r San Francisco

MUNN DRUG CO (Wm K and Jas C Munn), Clay cor 12th, Tel Okld 2119 " Jas C (Bernice; Munn Drug Co) h451 Jerome av Pied

" Wm K (Ethel; Munn Drug Co) h1120 Bay View av

PACIFIC PLUMBING FIXTURES, Trade Name Pacific Sanitary Manufacturing Co, Office and Show Room cor 17th and Webster

PACIFIC SANITARY MANUFACTTUR- ING CO, Newton W Stern Pres, M E Wangenheim V-Pres, P Mayblum Sec, Mfrs of Porcelain Enameled Cast Iron and Vitreous China Plumbing Fix- tures, Office and Show Room cor 17th and Webster, Works Richmond and San Pablo, California

Patrick Mildred sten r2021 48th av

Rubin Estelle Q office mgr J G Tavares r2445 Harrison

MORE GOODS ARE BOUGHT AND SOLD THROUGH THE CLASSIFIED BUSINESS LISTS OF THE DIRECTORY THAN ANY OTHER MEDIUM ON EARTH

OAKLAND

Oakland, situated en the continental side of San Francisco Bay, Is the third largest city In California, the fifth largest on the Pacific Coast, and the fastest growing Industrial city in the West.

Though it has grown with tremendous rapidity, both from the standpoint of population and the standpoint of industry, Oakland is a city of homes. Stretching away from the bay there is ample room for a city of several million population before reaching the sloping hills which have become the exclusive residential section of each of the several clties along the eastern shore of the bay.

It is only in comparatively recent years that industries, recognizing the ad- vantages offered by Oakland, began to claim the excellent factory sites along the bay shore. Today there are more than 500 plants, making a total of more than 2,000 different products in this great east bay city.

THE HARBOR

Oakland has 27 miles of deep water frontage on the greatest land-locked harbor in the world. Improved freight docking facilities have been installed by municipal and private interests, and repair facilities, superior to any on the Pacific Coast, are avallable here for the fleets of the world. Oakland lays claim to the largest floating dry decks in the world and the largest marine railroad. It has numerous other dry docks and marine railroads of lesser size.

A majority of the leading steamship lines, carrying elther coastwise or trans-Pacific freight, have made Oakland a regular port of call, and the volume handled on Oakland docks is growing with great rapidity.

United States Government engineers recently recommended the expenditure of more than a million and one-half dollars on the Oakland harbor.

INDUSTRIES

The recently issued government census shows that Oakland gained 175.3 per cent in the number of persons engaged in manufacturing in the five years im- mediately preceding the compilation of these figures. In the same period of time, Los Angeles gained 87.9 per cent and San Francisco 45.7 per cent.

In the matter of capital invested, Oakland gained 226.9 per cent, San Fran- cisco gained 124.1 per cent, and Los Angeles 56.5 per cent.

Salaries and wages increased 378.6 per cent in Oakland, against 176.5 per cent in Los Angeles and 122.2 per cent in San Francisco; and the value of prod- nets manufactured gained 326.5 per cent in Oakland, 170 per cent in Los Angeles, and 157.1 per cent in San Francisco in this five-year period.

W. C. Durant, when head of the General Motors, said that the efficiency of labor in his Oakland plant was greater than in any other plant of the extensive General Motors chain of factories throughout the United States. The fact that the new Durant factory was located in Oakland in the face of the greatest kind of competition from Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, confirms the impression that the Durants were eminently well satisfied that Oakland offers the best manufacturing conditions en the Pacific Coast. The manager of one of the largest fruit packing plants in the United States recently said that, in his judg- ment, an Oakland fruit packing plant's advantages in efficiency of laber over a similar plant in the Sacramento or San Joaquin valleys amounted to 20 per cent.

CLIMATE

Oakland's climate is extremely equable. The average temperature for the twelve months is 56 degrees. The days are never too het for comfort and the nights are always coel. Seldom, even in the so-called winter months, does the mercury drop to 32 degrees F. It is due to this ideal working climate that Oak- land shipyards-and incidentally Oakland is one of the largest shipbuilding centers in the world-were the ones to set one building record after another during the World War.

HEALTH CONDITIONS

In point of health Oakland has consistently ranked among the first cities of the nation for a long period of years, and statistics show that it has become an increasingly more healthful place for residents during the last fifteen years.

In 1920 Oakland ranked second in smallness of death rate ont of a list of forty-three larger cities compiled by the United States Government. The rate which was then 11.6 per thousand was exceeded only by Seattle, where the death rate was 10.5.

It is noteworthy that Oakland, as indicated by the death rate, exceeds in health conditions both Los Angeles and San Francisco; in one case 3.4 per thousand and in the other by 3 per thousand.

POPULATION

The population of Oakland in 1910 was 150,174, in 1920, 216,261, a gain of approximately 44 per cent in a ten-year period. At the present rate of growth it will register a materially larger percentage of increase during the ten years between 1920 and 1930.

The cities of Berkeley and Alameda and the municipalities of Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro and Albany have now grown together into one compact whole. It is these seven cities which are referred to as East Bay community.

SCHOOLS

Few cities in the United States can boast of a more perfect school system than Oakland, or more attractive school buildings. Noted educators from every section of the world have praised Oakland's educational facilities. The present school enrollment is in excess of 45,000. In Berkeley, which adjoins Oakland on the north, is the great University of California, the largest in the United States in point of enrollment and incidently one of the richest in the matter of endowment.

Oakland has 44 primary and grammar schools, 13 junior high schools, and six high schools.

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS

Oakland's new park and playground development-a noteworthy feature of which was the acquisition this year of extensive municipal golf links-undoubted- ly will be conducive to a still higher level of health and well-being among resi- dents of this favored city. Among the Oakland parks which have attracted the attention of tourists from all parts of the world is beautiful Lake Merritt and Lakeside Park. Lake Merritt, situated in the center of the city, comprises 160 acres, and is surrounded by wonderful lawns and beyond these by beautiful mod- ern homes and apartments. On one side of the lake is situated Oakland's new million-dollar auditorium.

The waters of Lake Merritt are dotted the year round with canoes and launches and during the so-called winter months many thousand of wild ducks make Lake Merritt their home. Spring finds these traditionally wild birds almost as tame as barnyard fowls. They walk on the lawns and among the sightseers, apparently recognizing that their safety is assured.

The annual visit of these ducks that have adopted this spot in sunny Cali- fornia as their home has heen made the occasion for pageants on the part of the people, and each January the now nationally known Wild Duck Pageant is held on the lake shore.

Possessed as it is of all those things considered essential for a great metropolis, with three transcontinental railways, its position on one of the world's greatest land-locked harbors and with ample room in which to make a tremendous expansion, Oakland's future is assured.

BERKELEY

Reaching along the base of the gracefully rolling Berkeley hills, the city looks westward over the glorious pageant of San Francisco Bay to the Golden Gate, the mystic portal through which the commerce of America and all the lands of the Pacific Ocean are interchanged. To the south of the Golden Gate it looks upon San Francisco built on its many hills. To the north It faces the Marin County hills rising into the gracefully chiseled profile of Mount Tamalpais. Close at hiand lies a long stretch of plain sweeping from the bay shore and crowded with dwellings and the buildings of trade and industry. The whole panorama as revealed from the heights of Berkeley is one of beauty and splendor.

Southward extends the fair city of Oakland, its ships lying beside the docks, its factories crowding the waterfront and the graceful towers of its tall office buildings marking the business center, with Lake Merritt glistening like a jewel in its setting of park.

During the past thirty years Berkeley has emerged out of the obscurity of a little college town of four or five thousand people to the present city. In those pastoral days the country roads were dusty in summer and deep pools of mud made walking difficult in winter. Two beard planks served as sidewalks and broad fields of grain and orchards of cherries and other fruit invited the wayfarer to loiter. The townsfolk carried their lanterns when they walked abroad at night. A few of the wealthy residents had horses and buggies, and a horse car went out from Oakland to Temescal, where a wheezy little steam dummy connected with the University grounds.

Today the metropolitan area of San Francisco and the East Bay cities in- cludes in a compact district on the shores of the bay a population of over a million and fifty thousand inhabitants, distributed between the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Richmond and the smaller towns.

From the standpoint of climate, site, living conditions and educational op- portunities, Berkeley is today a magnet attracting those who appreciate the bet- ter things of life. It is estimated that the city is growing at the rate of about 6,000 new inhabitants per year, which means that if the present rate continues, the city will double its population in the next twelve years.

The University of California is located in the very heart of Berkeley on six hundred acres of hill slope and plain, where over 10,000 students study under the guidance of a faculty of over 1,200 professors and instructors. To say it is the largest university in America gives little impression of the breadth and scope of its activities. It includes one of the foremost colleges of mines in the country and a college of agriculture that is reaching out over the entire state in creating untold values to the land by its investigations of means for destroy- ing pests of fruit and farm products, by teaching how to irrigate and to prune, by soil analysis and by removing the element of chance from husbandry and developing it into a science. Its college of architecture is training young men and women how to become creators of buildings nobly conceived in the light of the artistic traditions of the past and the engineering skill of the present. Its college of medicine is endowing the men and women who are to be the guar- dians of life and health of the people of tomorrow with new standards of profici- ency. So in law, economics, commerce, the natural sciences, pedagogy, the classics, history, art and letters, the University of California is training the lead- ers of thought and action to take their places in the great democracy which is destined to shape the course of world history.

In addition to the thousands of native sons and daughters of the Golden West, the University of California is educating students from many states and from many other nations. The Cosmopolitan club of the University Y. M. C. A. has in its membership several hundred students from other lands, chiefly of coun- tries bordering the Pacific, and including representative leaders from China, Japan, the Philippines, Siam, India, Siberia, Mexico, Central and South America. These young men and women are absorbing the training, customs and standards of American life and carrying them home to help in the great task of creating an interpenetrating world brotherhood in the nations of the earth.

The athletes of the University of California year after year carry off the honors in contests with all American universities, thus proving that California, with its equable coast climate, its out-of-door life and its abundance of fruit and vegetable food, together with exceptional sanitation and public health work, is producing a superior physical type of man.

Residents of Berkeley have a singularly favorable chance of rearing all their children to maturity. The infant mortality rate is one of the lowest for any city in the class of cities between fifty and one hundred thousand population in the United States. The rate for 1923 was 41.3 per thousand living births. The death rate for all ages is 9.2 per thousand. This makes Berkeley one of the favored cities of the country from the standpoint of health.

The thorough supervision of the milk supply by the Health Department, the unceasing care of the water supply by the East Bay Water Company, and the work of the Welfare Organization with its trained staff of visiting nurses, are important factors in this health record. By far the largest number of deaths in Berkeley occur in the age period between 60 and 80 years, from heart disease, cancer and apoplexy.

Another field in which Berkeley is doing pioneer work is in the Police De- partment. The basis of Chief August Vollmer's work is in the education of chil- dren who show symptoms of potential criminal habits. These children are all recorded on a pin map and the police have them under their supervision, aiming to train them into good habits. Many of the Berkeley police are college students and college graduates who are receiving a scientific training in modern police work.

Among the features of Berkeley's police system are the equipping of all police officers with Ford cars, a signal system covering the entire city under which police can be mobilized at any point in a few minutes after an alarm is given, and the mechanical lie detector which registers blood pressure and respira- tion and is believed to indicate any untruth told by a person when questioned. The great emphasis of the Berkeley police department is upon the correction of wrong habits, especially in children, and upon a scientific study of problem cases in order to ascertain the cause of delinquency and the cure.

All charity, welfare and social agencies in Berkeley have recently heen or- ganized under a Community Chest and the campaign to finance them was success- fully carried through.

Berkeley has adpoted a city manager form of government and the council with Frank D. Stringham as mayor has chosen John N. Edy, a man of eminent qualifications for the post as city manager.

Under the ahle leadership of Superintendent Harry B. Wilson, Berkeley has an exceptionally efficient and successful school department. It has the only complete Junior High School system in the United States. Children are taught under the new system of group projects, which is as inspiring and fascinating to the children as it is effective in training. Under this system the children are be- ing encouraged in initiative and trained to make their own textbooks and create scenes and plays expressive of what they are learning.

On the waterfront Berkeley has nearly a hundred industrial plants where diversified types of manufacture are in progress. Chemical, metal and food in- dustries are in the lead. Owing to superior climatic and living conditions, many manufacturers are today seeking locations in this favored city, where the work- ers live in comfortable Individual homes and where out-of-door life is agreeable all the year round.

The hills are attracting many of the leaders of business in the bay cities who commute from their charming homes set in gardens of perennial bloom. A ferry and electric train service unexcelled in the country carries them back and forth. Many retired army and navy officers, after seeing the world, have chosen Berkeley for a permanent home.

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Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1925, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1925 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1884

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1884