Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1927, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1927
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2152

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POLK'S

OAKLAND BERKELEY :: ALAMEDA

CITY DIRECTORY 1927

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

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INTRODUCTION

The publishers present the 1927 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 222. 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, Etc., will be found on pages 43 to 57.

The Street and Avenue Guide commences at page 58.

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 100.

Population

The cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, Emeryville and Albany have now grown together into one compact whole. The popula- tion estimated by the publishers of the 1927 Directory is 504,225. The number of names contained in this volume is 201,690. 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 estimated population of 504,225.

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 repre- sents as a splendid standing advertisement, for no other publication can convey such an idea of the city, its business interests and all the various institutions 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 10.

Attractive Oakland

Oakland appeals to the homeseeker and the manu- facturer alike. Nature gave the city a most ideal climate, a strategic position on the Pacific Coast in respect to world ports, the Great Western markets and a scenic setting that is unrivalled.

The homeseeker finds in Oakland those things which are always associated with a home-city - good environment, splendid recreational facilities and educational advantages that rank with the best in the country.

The manufacturer finds that Oakland is nearer the source of important raw materials than any other Pacific Coast seaport; that production costs are lower; that it enjoys exceptional transportation facilities and that from Oakland they can serve the eleven Western States and countries bordering on the Pacific Coast at an advantage over any other Pacific Coast city.

Our industrial department will be glad to supply a technical engineering report to any industry interested.

OAKLAND

CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

Hotel Oakland

Oakland, California

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 Estu- ary, providing splendid shipping conveniences for all kinds of deep-water vessels, and six miles bordering on the San Francisco Bay, serving as a palatial residential district.

A summer Mecca for those seeking an ideal vacationland.

The Beaches offer bathing, boating, dancing and many other sources of amusement.

Beautiful Golf Course recently constructed.

See Alameda's Beautiful New Buildings-Community Hotel, High School, Sanatorium, Masonic Temple, Odd Fellows Home, all constructed within the last year.

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 HOTEL ALAMEDA 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 comparatively 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 plant in the Sacramento 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 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 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-undoubt- 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.

Posessed 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.

ALAMEDA

Alameda, known as the "city with unexcelled climate," is located on the San Francisco Bay. It is one of the most beautiful homesites in the Bay District.

The Beaches located all along the south shore are the greatest vacation attraction. They offer bathing, boating, playgrounds for children, dancing and all manner of amusements. These beaches attract the amusement seekers, not only from Alameda, but from the entire Bay District.

The Beaches are not the only source of amusement, for the city has just completed a Golf Course on Bay Farm Island in the south end of Alameda. This course is now open and attracting golfers from all around the Bay.

The Parks, one of Alameda's chief beauties, serve every residential section. Daily attendance averages 2085 people, the majority being children who seek outdoor amusement and recreation so generously offered by the Park Depratment.

With all these residential advantages, it is not to be assumed that Alameda's industrial attractions play a small part, for she is unsurpassed for industrial and manufacturing purposes, having a water frontage of 14 miles, five of which are situated on the estuary, offering splendid shipping facilities.

The Encinal Terminals, after looking over the entire East Bay District, found Alameda the most favorable site for its location. It has plans for the construction of seven more units such as the two already established.

The Alaska Packers Association, also located on the Estuary, is one of the largest salmon packing concerns in the world. Alameda was selected as a base because of the sheltered winter quarters furnished for its large fleet.

The Boyle Manufacturing Company have expanded their organization consid- erably during the past few years. They recently purchased an area of land near by their present factory and constructed a large factory.

Besides her natural beauty Alameda also has acquired embellishments in the form of beautiful buildings. The new million and a half dollar High School recently completed is the most beautiful and modern in the state. The Alameda Sanatorium, situated in a most ideal site on the south shore of the city, is another one of Alameda's new and modern edifices.

Alameda's most beautiful and outstanding building is the new Hotel Alameda, built of old Spanish architecture and furnished in similar style. This hotel is a transient-apartment hotel and serves as the social center of the city.

With its reputation as a manufacturing, horticultural and residential city, the social life is not overlooked. There are lodges and benevolent organizations such as the Elks Club, with its beautiful home, The Women's Adelphian Club, which has done wonderful work since its organization and now takes its place among the leading women's clubs in California. The Alameda Tea Club, the Shakespeare Club, the Research Club, the Alcyon Reading Club are among the women's clubs in active operation. Every school has a Mother's Club and the High School a Parent-Teachers Association.

Alameda has a population of 36,000. It is under the City Manager form of government. The complete system of paved streets, of which Alameda boasts, possesses electroliers placed at intervals of 75 feet. Alameda owns its electric light plant, which makes the electric rates about 25 per cent lower in Alameda than in neighboring cities. Tax payers in Alameda are not taxed for street or other public lighting.

Flowers grow in profusion in the city, the dahlia being the most prolific. A unique blossom festival, the annual Dahlia Show, participated in by flower growers of Alameda and held under the auspices of the Chamber of Commerce, brings out thousands of dahlias.

The Alameda Chamber of Commerce recently published a new booklet which gives some very valuable information on Alameda. They shall be very glad to send out any literature upon request.

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 way- farer 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.

Based on the comparative figures of the government census of 1920 and the Berkeley Postoffice and Chamber of Commerce survey of 1926, Berkeley has a population of considerably over 82,000 inhabitants, including some 5000 students of the Univresity from outside homes. Of this number over 7000 are commuters 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 estimated at 1,181,000 inhabitants distributed between the cities of San Francisco' Oakland, Piedmont, Berkeley, Alameda, Richmond, Sausa- lito, 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 necessities 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 ses- sion 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 agriculture 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 creating 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 Cali- fornia, under the presidency of the eminent astronomer, William Wallace Camp-

bell, 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 fo California is educating students from many states and from many nations. At the 1927 Commencement were graduating students regis- tered from China, Canada, Egypt, Philippine Islands, Russia, India, Spain, Japan, England, Holland, France, Australia, Finland, Canal Zone, Argentine, Germany, Syria, Denmark, Mesopotamia and South Africa. 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 brother- hood in the nations of the world.

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Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1927, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1927 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 2152

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1927
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2152