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POLK'S OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA)
CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1928 XXXIX
INCLUDING ALAMEDA, BERKELEY, EMERYVILLE AND PIEDMONT
ntaining an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Privat Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Much Information of a Miscellaneous C. cacter
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GENERAL INDEX
Abbreviations
245-246
Advertising Department.
109-214
Alphabetical List of Names
247-1568
Apartment Houses.
1571
Associations, Clubs and Societies
1714
Bank Department
119
Buildings, Blocks and Halls
1594
Business and Commercial Associations
1714
Business Directory
1'569
Buyers' Guide.
109-214
Cemeteries
1598
Churches
1600
City and County Government.
58
Classified Business Directory
1569
Clubs
1608
Colleges and Private Schools.
1610
Consular Officers.
1612
County Government
59
Directory Library.
11
Federal Government Officers
1462
Fire Department.
38
Fraternal Organizations.
1714
General Directory of Names
247 -1568
Hospitals, Homes and Sanitariums
1649
Introduction
10-11'
Justice Courts
58
Labor Organizations.
1659
Libraries and Reading Rooms
1665
Military
60
Miscellaneous Information
58-61
Parks and Playgrounds.
1686
Piers
59 and 1691
Police Department.
58
Population
10
Postoffice Department.
1207
Public Library ..
1665
Schools and Colleges
1708
Schools -- Public
60
Societies-Secret and Fraternal.
1714
State Officers and Boards 1462
Street and Avenue Guide. 62-94
Superior Courts. .
60
Trade and Labor Organizations.
1659
United States Courts and Officers
1462
Wharves
59 and 1€
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Page
A to Zed School ........ right side lines and 196 Abbott John W C ...... right side lines and 166 Advertising Service Bureau ... 111
Alameda County Title Ins Co ... .. left side lines, 110 and 206 152
Alhambra Water Depot. . right side lines and
119 138
Anderson's Carpet House ..
Appleton G W ...... right bottom lines and 154 Armstrong College ...... right side lines and 196
Austin Realty Co .... right bottom lines and 188
111
Automobile Glass House The ..
Baker-Hansen Mfg Co .... left top lines and 185 Baker Herbert D ...... .. right top lines and 164
Bank of Italy .. 120
Bardwell Horace R
.left bottom lines and classified tab Barnes Milk Sanitarium. .left top lines and 194
Beeson System ...... right bottom lines and 155 Bell Harmon. See Legal Section
116
Bell & Boyd.
Bennetts Collection Association.
.left side lines and 146
Bentley Margaret School. .right bottom lines and 200
Berger & Hollidge .. right bottom lines and 166 Berkeley Chamber of Commerce. 178 16
Berkeley Gazette Publishing Co.
Berkeley Steel Construction Co Inc. 205 Best Steel Casting Co.right bottom lines and 168
125
Blythe, Witter & Co. 125 Bond & Goodwin & Tucker Inc ..
Breuner John Co ... .. front cover, right top lines and 157
Bridge Realty Co ... .. right top lines and 192
Brown Everett J and Ledwich Thomas J ....
. . see legal section
Bullis Benson S Dr ...... left side lines and 142 Button Fred L Law Office ...... see legal section
Calaveras Cement Co .....
133
Hotel Federal.
California Builders Co .. top stenclì edge and 131
California Compressed Gas Co. 181 Hotel Piedmont.
California Crematorium and Columbarium. 148 California Door Co The ... 151 California Health Food (The Venus)
California Pottery Company. . . left side lines and 159
California School of Arts & Crafts. .right bottom lines and 197
212
California Wire Cloth ..
Capwell H C Company The ..
right top lines and 140
Cavalier Wm & Co ... . Front cover and 126
Central Construction Co. 147
Central National Bank (Bond Dept). 129 Jungck D L Co.
121
Central Savings Bank ...... Front cover and
Central Shuey Creamery. 205 177 Kent Company. Kerr & McCandish 167 Central Title Co .. 116
Chanslor & Lyon Co.
Chicago Rubber Stamp Co.
184 and
194
Chinn-Beretta Optical Co.
Clark N & Sons ...
166
Lane H G & Co ..
.left top lines and 127
Clay, Hotchkiss & Schroeter.
Colonial Cafeteria .. right bottom lines and 138 La Salle Extension University . tab insert opp name
144
Cosgrave's Inc ...
117
167
Counsellor Sanitarium.
right bottom lines and 195 Creditors Association of Oakland. .left top lines and 144 Crosby & Crosby . see legal section
Curtain Store The Inc.right side lines and 149 Dean Lippis Ford Corner ... back cover and 114 DeVriese Moe Private Convalescent Home. 148 Dickson & Holbrook. 204 Dr. Wong Him Herb Co. .right bottom lines and 140
Drucquer & Sons.
.left side lines and 142
Dunn, White & Alken .. . see legal section
Duplex-Everclear Filter Co .. .left side lines and 153
Durant Hotel.
Duthie & Co .. right top lines and 173 East Bay Title Ins Co .... see top classified tab 211 Marwedel C W right bottom lines. 178 * 1 208 Mason-McDuffle Company Inc ... 190
East Bay Water Co. 144
Eastern Outfitting Co. 174
Eby Machinery Co ...
116
Miller W E ..
....... right bottom lir.e
151
Elliott-Horne Co The.
129
Fageol Motors Co ..
Fairbanks Morse & Co.
.... left bottom lines and 175
Farmers & Merchants Sav Bk .... .. left top lines and 122
Finn John Metal Works.
177
Fireman's Fund Ins Co.left side lines and 165
First National Bank in Berkeley ..
...
125 First National Bank in Oakland. .left side lines and 123
111
Foothill Nursery ...... left bottom lines and 178
Foster and Kleiser Co.
Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney Und Co 209
Freitas Jos A .. .right side lines and 183
116
French J E Co ...
Fuller W P & Co .. .back cover and 182 4
Gaines-Walrath Co .. 180
Giurlani & Bro ...
Glasson W C Co ... right bottom lines and 188
Glen Taylor School ... right side lines and 202 Globe Employment Agency. .left bottom lines and classified tab insert Goyette E J Machine Works. .right side lines and 185
Griffin Carlos P ...
.left top lines and 182
Gring's Iricide Co ..
Gunn Carle & Co ..
132 Hall-White Co Inc .. left bottom lines and 173 and 184
Hamilton R B ...
.inside back cover
Harbor Tug & Barge Co .... back bone and 170 Harrington-McInnis Co ... left top lines and 184 Harrison H O Co ...... right side lines and 117 Haskins & Sells. .See Tab Insert facing Classified Section Hazzard Lona School ... right side lines and 200
.back bone and 137
151 166
Hink J F & Son Inc ..
Home Fire Insurance Co. Horton School The .. right bottom lines and 197
Hotel Claremont ...... left bottom lines and 160 .. right top lines and 162
.right side lines and 162
Hotel Menlo. .
right sides lines and 163
.right top lines and
163
Hotel San Pablo ..
163
Hotel Woodrow
.front cover and
112
129
Hutchinson Co The.
Italian American Realty Co.
178 and
184
167
Inter-City Publishing Co ... International Harvester Co. of America. .back cover and 113
158
167
175
Jenison Machinery Co. 192
Jones Henry Z ........ left bottom lines and 192 Kehoe Display Fixture Co ..... right bottom lines 146
Kling-Dawers Stationery Co .. .right bottom lines and 204
117
Knudsen Harold D Co.
133
Krause E J Co ..
left bottom lines and 127
134
Latham Square Bullding. Laufer F W Inc .. .right top lines and 181
Lawrence Harry M.
Lavton M C ..
LeDue R L. .
. front cover and 189
Lehnhardt E.
.left top lines and 147 L'Hommedieu J H Co Inc. right top lines and 190 Liberty Ornamental Iron & Wire Works .. .left top lines and 169
Littlefield R W
... insert opp page 4
McClure-Hayes Co Inc.
. back cover, legal section and 128
169
Mackay Austin Valve Co.
Maiden Rittigstein & Co ..
.... right top side lines and 192
Marlon Madsen ...
.right side lines and 200
Market Laundry Co Inc .. left side lines and 172
Martin Joseph Co.
.right side lines and 168 and 193
Maxwell Hardware Co.right side Ires and 1'9 Mercantile Credit & Adjustment Cc. 145 Merchants Express & Draying Co ..
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163
Howard Auto Co.
Hunter-Dulin & Co.
148
Jackson Furniture Co ..
Jackson S & Sons ..
Heald College. .
Hotel Leamington ..
4
180
Contra Costa Building Material Co. 133
182
.left side lines and 164
American Trust Co. ..
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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Miracle Co The .... .. right top lines and 193
Monteverde-Rolandelli & Parodi Inc .. . inside back cover
Montgomery Ward & Co's Retail Dept Store .front cover and 176
Mortensen's Rug Cleaning.
Murdock C P Inc ... .. right bottom lines and 194
.right side lines New Process Laundry Co.right top lines and 172 Nielsen Harold A .... left bottom lines and 115 Oakland Bank The. 124 Oakland-California Towel Co
right top lines. pgs 2 and 208 12
Oakland Chamber of Commerce ..
Oakland College of Commerce .. .right side lines and 200 161
Oakland Hotel Company ..
Oakland Ornamental Compo Works. .right bottom lines and 212 Oakland Title Ins & Guaranty Co .... .front edge, map and 207 .See legal section
Oliphant David D jr.
Orton A E Master Builders. right bottom lines and 130
Pacific Auto Painting Co .. .left bottom lines and 118 135
Pacific Building 195
Pacific Manufacturing Co ..
Co of Calif.
Pacific Mutual Life Ins .left top lines and 164
Pacific Nash Motor Co ..... left side lines and 117 Page Alva F .back cover and 193
Parker-Goddard Secretarial School. .left top lines and 202 right top lines
Parnay M Y .. 129 Peirce Fair & Co ..
Pelican Pure Water Co .... left side lines and 153
Philips Calvin & Co. .left top lines and 173
.backbone and 186
Porter F F Company .right top lines and 191
Quinlan Nash W .. .left side lines and 205
Radston's ...
Rauer's Law & Collection Co .. .left bottom lines 111 and 146
Read's Bonded Adjustment Bureau .. .right bottom lines and 145 187
Realty Syndicate Co. .back cover and 152 White Brothers.right bottom lines, 159 and 174 White Star Laundry Co ... bottom edge and 171 168 Whitthorne & Swan ...... right top lines and 151 Willis School ... .left side lines and 199 130 Redwood Manufacturers Co.
Reliance Life Ins Co ..
Reo Motor Car Co of California Inc .. Rhodes-Jamieson & Co ....
Richmond-San Rafael Ferry & Transporta- ... left side lines and 155
132 tion Co ..
Rupp Chas P. ...... tab insert facing classified Salbach Carl .. ... right side lines and 179
San Francisco College ..... left side lines and 201
Page San Francisco Law School. 201 Schlesinger B F & Sons. . right top lines and 150 School of Dramatic Technique ... left side lines and 198
Sequoia Manufacturing Co. left side lines and 195 Seulberger Dunham & Co. left top lines and 193 Sherman Clav & Co. „.left top lines and 177 and 183
Simonds Machinery Co ..
right top lines and 204 Smith Bros.
Smith Hardward Co. .see classified tab
.see legal section
Snook Snook & Chase. 118 Sohst Auto Repair Co.
right side lines and 180
Spencer Collection Service.
Spencer G A B Mrs .. .inside back cover Standard Fence Co ...... right side lines and 154 Steel Marshall Co .. .left top lines and 143
Storie Chas G Co .. .right top lines and inside back cover
Straus S W & Co. 4 128 Stripp Fred S.
Strei W E Co .. right side lines and 168 Sturgis Probasco & McLean ..... see legal section Sunset Mausoleum. .. left side lines and classified tab insert Sussman Wormser & Co ...... back cover and 158 Sutro & Co. 130
181
Swanson-Uhl Paper & Paint Co. 136
Syndicate Building. System Radio Shop The .. right top lines and 185 Taft & Pennoyer Co .... left top lines and 150
118
Taylor & Smith Inc ...
Tennyson Nursery Co ...... left top lines and 179 ... F Thomas Parisian Cing & Dyeing Wks .. .. back cover and 143
Truman Undertaking Co.front cover, 3 and 210 Union Pacific Laundry. .left bottom lines and 4
Vaniteria Inc The.
.left side lines and classified tab insert
Venus The Inc ..
. left side lines and 147
Walnut Grove Creamery ... left top lines and 177
Webb Motor Co ..
.. right side lines and 118
203
Weber C F & Co. .left side lines and 202
Wellesley School ..
Western College of Radio .. right bottom lines and 198
Western Normal Inc ... .. left side lines and 199
Wong Him Herb Co .. right bottom lines and 140
Wong & Wong Herb Co. . right side lines and 141
Wood Chas M Co ..
.front cover and 189
Wood E K Lumber Co
... right side lines and 174
Wood Fred T Co Inc .... right side lines and 191
Witter Dean & Co ...
115
Piedmont Memorial Co ... right side lines and 158 Polytechnic Business College Inc ... .both sides (end of buyer's guide) and 202
139
Pacific Coast Shredded Wheat Co.
Southern Jessie. . 145 Oakland Clinic ... ... left top lines and 183
. right side lines
INTRODUCTION
R. L. Polk & Co. (publishers of more than 700 other city, county, state and national directories) presents to its subscribers and to the general public this 1928 edition of the Oakland Directory (which also includes Alameda, Berkeley, Emeryville and Piedmont).
Confidence in the growth of Oakland and its wealth, industry and population, as well as in the advancement of its municipal and social activities, will be created as sections of this directory are consulted, for truly the directory is a mirror reflecting Oakland to the world.
The enviable place occupied by R. L. Polk & Co.'s directories in offices, stores, libraries and homes throughout our country, causes the publishers to forecast the belief that the Oakland directory will fulfill its mission as a source of authentic information of any and every kind pertaining to our city. With an unrivaled organization having the courteous and hearty cooperation of the business and professional resi- dents, the publishers feel that the result of their labor will meet with the approval of every resident of the city.
Population
The estimated population of the East Bay is 515,172 based on the number of individual names in the alphabetical section of the Directory, with due allowance for women and children, whose names are not in- cluded. Territory immediately adjacent, which is part of the city, as far as business and social life are concerned, is included in the Directory.
Five Major Departments
The several essential departments are arranged in the following order:
The Miscellaneous Department, pages 57 to 60, presents a variety of information, such as city government, county officials, courts, State and Federal officials, churches, post office, schools, fraternal and secret societies, a statistical summary, historical sketch, industrial, retail and wholesale surveys, etc.
The Buyers' Guide pages 109 to 214, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and profes- sional interests of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to the substantial ele- ments of the city. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descriptive of the business represented. This is reference advertising at its best, and as such, merits a survey by all buyers keen to prime themselves on sources of supply. The city's activities, in many interesting phases, are interest- ingly pictured to reveal what it has in its show window. In an ambi-
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tious and progressive community like Oakland the need of this kind of information readily at hand is very great and frequently pressing. Gen- eral appreciation of this fact is evidenced by the liberal patronage the City Directory enjoys in the many fields which it serves.
The Alphabetical List of Names of residents, business firms and cor- porations is included in pages 247 to 1568. (A new feature of this sec- tion is the inclusion of wives' names in parenthesis following that of the husband.)
The Street and Avenue Guide of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley covers pages 62 to 94. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order.
The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 1569 to 1734. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and pro- fessional 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 Section 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 give emphasis to their desire to broadcast this information over the country, the publishers have placed copies of this issue of the Directory in Directory Libraries, which are maintained in all the larger cities of the country, where they are readily available for free public reference and serve as perpetual advertisemnts of Oakland Alanda and Berkeley, for business men the country over realize that the City Directory rep- resents the community as it really is.
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The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the patronage of those progressive business and professional men who have expressed their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium with assur- ance that it will bring a commensurate return.
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. . . Your City . . . OAKLAND
Lovely homes, beautiful gardens, a population of substantial worth * *
* clubs that kindle fellowship, churches that make for inspiration, halls of learning that quicken intelligence * * * quiet hills of green and brown, waters on lake and bay that bring refreshing coolness, a sweeping panorama of cities, mountain and Gate. In all the world, no place to live like this!
Factories of modern design, up-to-date equipment, uniform employment * * * shops with the personal touch, never ending variety, unparalleled opportunity for advancement * * * twentieth century offices, congenial workers, a spirit of high conquest. In all the world no place to work like this!
Glorious sunshine, cooling fog and sea breezes, a climate that in infinitely kind * * * beaches with the salt tang of the ocean, air that is sea-pure, sleep, sound sleep * * * links to putt on, gardens to dig in, radiating open roads to the play- ground of America. In all the world, no place to play like this!
Take Pride In Your City OAKLAND CHAMBER of COMMERCE
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OAKLAND
"Industrial Capital of the West" STATISTICAL SUMMARY Commission Form of Government
Area-60.25 square miles.
Altitude-Zero to 1800 feet.
Assessed valuation-$250,770,100 with 199 mill tax.
Parks-44, with acreage of 628.
White population-322,616.
Colored population-19,384.
Males-175,900. Females-166,100.
Native-born population-76.8 per cent.
Predominating nationalities-Italian, German, English, Portuguese, Canadians, Irish and Swedes.
City's bonded debt is $30,184,000.
Financial : 49 banks, 7 trust companies, with total deposits of $188,863,- 436, December 31, 1927 ; clearings of $969,103.181 annually.
Post Office receipts of $1,981,349.
Churches-209.
Building and construction : Value of building permits, $20,794,669, with 7770 permits.
Real estate transfers total 25,557, valued at $129,517,481. About 42 per cent of homes owned. Dwellings-total number 70,297.
Industry : Number of establishments-1289 manufacturers employing
45,825, paying wages of $62,400,000 annually and having products valued at $430,000,000 annually.
Trade: Territory (retail) serves 1,310,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of 20 miles. Jobbing territory serves 1,610,000 people within a radius of 40 miles.
Hotels: There are 120 hotels, with a total of 10,000 rooms. Newest hotel was built in 1928.
City served by 4 railroads.
Amusements: Largest auditorium seats 10,000 people. There are 39 theaters, with a total seating capacity of 30,000 people.
Hospitals number 26, with 2000 beds.
Education : 3 colleges, 66 schools, including 7 high schools. Number of pupils in public schools, 60,426. Total of teachers, 2400.
There are 146,304 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage, 676 with 508 miles paved and approximately 20 miles under construction or ordered ; 544 miles of sewers. Capacity of water works (private), 32,714,000 gallons daily average, with 1391 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at $32,000,000. Fire department employs 382 men, with following equip- ment : 10 autos, 24 engines, 8 hose and chemical wagons, 7 hook and ladder trucks, in 24 station houses. Value of fire department with property is $934,539. Police department has 387 men, with 3 sta- tions and 45 pieces of motor equipment (14 motorcycles and 31 auto- mobiles).
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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 1200 plants, making a total of more than 2300 different products in this great east bay district.
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.
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