Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1926, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1924

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J. H. A. SHEALEY EAST OAKLAND PROPERTY

HOMES BUSINESS LOCATIONS HOME SITES

4800 E. 14th Street Phone Fruitvale 2490

PHONE LAKESIDE 9600

WM. CAVALIER & CO. STOCKS & BONDS MEMBERS SAN FRANCISCO STOCK AND BOND EXCHANGE FIRST NATIONAL BUILDING, OAKLAND SAN FRANCISCO Full Information on Page 130 BERKELEY

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INVITE YOUR COMMERCIAL AND SAVINGS ACCOUNTS

CENTRAL NATIONAL BANK CENTRAL SAVINGS BANK

14th and Broadway

Oakland, California

Alameda County Title Insurance Co.

Strength, Safety and Service

SINCE 1861

14th and Franklin Sts.

Oakland, California

Resources over $3,000,000.00 Oakland Mortgage & Finance Company

1432 FRANKLIN STREET Telephone Lakeside 2866 We own and offer for sale 7% 1st mortgages on improved Oakland Real Estate. Unlimited funds for Real Estate Loans ---- 6% and 7% Interest.

REALTOR -CHARLES M. WOOD-APPRAISER

300 SYNDICATE BUILDING

TELEPHONE LAKESIDE. 366

Oakland Parlors 2630 Telegraph Ave.

2945 East 14th St. Fruitvale Parlors

FREEMAN & COX-ROACH & KENNEY CO.

2414 Grove St. Berkeley Farlors

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TRUMAN Undertaking Company

Telephone, Day or Night, Lakeside 7400

Telegraph Ave. and Thirtieth St. Oakland, California

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1006 Tribune Tower OAKLAND

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Tel. Oakland 1927

Oakland, Calif.

WM. H. PARKER

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Oakland, California

Phone: Fruitvale 2083

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R. W. LITTLEFIELD GENERAL CONTRACTOR

Architectural and Engineering Construction OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

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

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POLK'S

OAKLAND BERKELEY :: ALAMEDA

CITY DIRECTORY 1926

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 470 13th St., Oakland, Cal.

" The

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DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYERAN.SELLER"

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(Member Association of North American Directory Publishers)

INTRODUCTION

The publishers present the 1926 edition of the Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda Directory to its patrons and users with confidence as to the complete and correet 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 226. 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 directory will be found interesting.

The Miscellaneous Section, giving information as to Churches, Fra- ternal and Secret Societies, Lodges, Civic and Miscellaneous Organiza- tions, Parks, Ete .. , will be found on pages 41 to 56.

The Street and Avenue Guide commences at page 57.

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

Names eoming in too late to appear in the regular Alphabetical Sec- tion will be found on page 56.

Population

The cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, Emeryville and Albany have now grown together into one compaet whole. The popula- tion estimated by the publishers of the 1926 Directory is 474,220. The number of names contained in this volume is 189,684. Owing to the fact that the names of married women and minor children living at home have been eliminated the publishers use the multiplier 21/2, which gives the esti- mated population of 474,220.

Directory Library

A library of City and County Directories is maintained by the pub- lishers at 470 13th street for the free use of the ripatrons. 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 wish.

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 Berke- ley Chamber of Commerce, and the Alameda Chamber of Commerce for the following interesting data, commencing at page 11.

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Know and Show Your City

Thousands of visitors come to Oakland each year. Many of them are convention dele- gates ; others visit friends and relatives, and still others come as total strangers.

Most of them know nothing of the com- munity although they are anxious to learn as much as they can concerning it.

It is the duty of every resident to equip himself so that he may intelligently inform the newcomer should he be called upon to do so.

Facts that you may consider unimportant and commonplace will doubtless be of in- terest to the visitor.

There is much to see and much to know about Oakland.

The printed literature of the Chamber of Commerce aims to give such information and is gladly furnished upon request.

OAKLAND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

13th and Alice Sts. Telephone 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, artistically designed, set in gardens of perennial bloom.

ALAMEDA Chamber of Commerce

Object: To Promote the Civic, Economic and Social Welfare of the People of Alameda

Invites you to visit the isle of beautiful homes, surrounded on all sides by the waters of the San Francisco Bay.

FACTS ABOUT ALAMEDA

Ideal climate throughout the entire year. Unsurpassed industrial facilities.

A water frontage of 14 miles, five of which border on the Estuary, providing splendid shipping conveniences for all kinds of deep-water vessels.

A summer Mecca for those seeking an ideal vacationland. The Beaches offer bathing, boating, dancing and many other sources of amusement.

The Chamber of Commerce offers an extensive supply of literature, which may be obtained at its office, or will be mailed upon receipt of name and address.

ALAMEDA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE CITY HALL ALAMEDA 161

OAKLAND

Oakland, situated on 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. Stretch- ing away from the bay there is ample room for a city of several million popula- tion before reaching the sloping hills which have become the exclusive residential section of each of the several cities along the eastern shore of the bay.

It is only in compartively recent years that industries, recognizing the advantages 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 2000 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 available here for the fleets of the world. Oakland lays claim to the largest floating dry docks 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 either 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- ucts 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 manu- facturing conditions on the Pacific Coast. The manager of one of the largest fruit packing plants in the United States recently said that, in his judgment, an Oakland fruit packing plant's advantages in efficiency of labor over a similar plan in the Secramento or San Joaquin valleys amount 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 hot for comfort and the nights are always cool. 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 out 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 hetween 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 the 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 incidentally 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-undouht- edly 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 been 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 metropo- lis, with three transcontinental railways, its position on one of the world's great- est 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 hand 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 height 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 board 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 con- nected with the University grounds.

The Berkeley postoffice has recently made an accurate count of the popula- tion and found that there are at present 78,658 inhabitants, including some 5000 students of the University from outside homes. Of this number 6683 are com- muters having their business in San Francisco. The metropolitan area of San Francisco and the East Bay cities includes in a compact district on the shores of the central Bay area a population of about 1,125,000 inhabitants, distributed between the cities of San Francisco, Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Richmond, Sausalito and the smaller intervening cities.

From the standpoint of climate, site, living conditions and educational oppor- tunities, Berkeley is today a magnet attracting those who appreciate the better things of life. The great problem today is to keep up with the growth in popu- lation by making proper provision of schools, playgrounds, parks and other neces- sities of a rapid-growing community.

The University of California is located in the very heart of Berkeley on six hundred acres of beautiful hill slope and plain, with Strawberry Canyon in its midst, cutting back into the Berkeley hills. In the classic white granite buildings with red tile roofs, clustered around the graceful campanile, some 15,000 students pursue their studies in the regular session, the intersession and the summer session of the University. Included in the scope of its activities are one of the foremost colleges of mines in the country and a college of agri- culture that is reaching out over the entire State in creating untold values to the land by its investigations of means for destroying 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 in the art of creat- ing buildings nobly conceived in the light of 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 guardians of life and health of the people of tomorrow with new standards of proficiency. So in law, economics, commerce, the natural sciences, pedagogy, the classics, history, art and letters, the University of California, under the presidency of the eminent astronomer William Wallace Campbell, is training the leaders 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 nations. The Cosmopolitan Club of the University Y. M. C. A. has in its membership several hundred students from other lands, chiefly of countries 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 and interpreting 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. The fact that Helen Wills is a resident of Berkeley, a student of the University and that she received her training in tennis here. while Helen Jacobs and many other tennis champions are products of the Berkeley courts, is evidence of the athletic superiority of Berkeley girls.

Residents of Berkeley have a singularly favorable chance of rearing all their children to maturity. The infant mortality rate over a period of years has been one of the lowest in the country and the general mortality rate has also been very favorable. The death rate per thousand inhabitants for 1925 was 2.47, which is an exceptionally good showing.

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 diseases, cancer and apoplexy.

Another field in which Berkeley is doing pioneer work is in the Police Depart- ment. The basis of Chief August Vollmer's work is the education of children who have established bad or unsocial habits. In this work he is now ably sec- orded by a highly trained policewoman. Many of the police officers are college graduates or students, chosen for a combination of physical and mental pro- ficiency. They are gaining a training which makes many other communities look to Berkeley for police chiefs. The lie detector, the highly developed finger- print department and the expert work in criminal identification have made the Berkeley police system internationally famous.

All charity, welfare and social agencies receive public contributions under the Community Chest plan which has now served twenty-one agencies for the past three years.

Berkeley has operated for the past three years under the City Manager form of government, which has been conducted in a thoroughly business-like way and has gained very general approval from the community. John N. Edy has served a .: City Manager since the revised charter was adopted and Frank D. Stringham has been the Mayor. Both have gained the confidence and respect of the citi- zens by the manner in which the government has been conducted.

['nder the able leadership of Superintendent Harry B. Wilson, Berkeley has an exceptionally efficient and successful school department. It has the only com- plete 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 effectivbe in training. Under this system the children are being encouraged in initiative and trained to make their own textbooks and creates scenes and plays expresssive of what they are learning.

On the waterfront Berkeley has over a hundred factories which produce over $50,000,000 of diversified products annually. Coconut oil, soap, automobile, marine and airplane engines, ink, and various types of metal, wood and food products, are among the larger industries, but the articles manufactured cover

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Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1926, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1925 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1924

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1924