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TRUMAN UNDERTAKING CO.
INCORPORATED
Charles H. J. Truman, President
Telegraph Avenue at 30th Street · Oakland, California
Day and Night Telephone Service HO lliday 5700 ·
W. E. STREI CO. AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES
Goodyear Tires Campers' Supplies Mechanics' Tools
2505-2507 Broadway HO lliday 4431
Gaines-Walrath Company (INCORPORATED)
FURNITURE CARPETS DRAPERIES
1714 Franklin St.
Tel. HI ghgate 1800
Oakland, Calif.
WESTERN CLAY PRODUCTS CO. SUCCESSORS TO CALIFORNIA POTTERY COMPANY BURNT CLAY PRODUCTS Since 1873
Manufacturers of Roofing Tile, Face Brick, Salt Glazed Vitrified Pipe, Chimney Pipe and Fittings, Flue Lining, Drain Tile, Floor and Wall Tiles, Face Hollow Tile, Vitrified Salt Glazed Septic Tanks, and Kindred Clay Products. Works: Oakland San Francisco: Merced Niles Local Yard, 11th & Harrison Sts. Phone MA rket 9270
Oakland Offices and Yard: 2265 E. 12th St. Phone FR uitvale 0587
"The Hotel with the Friendly Service" THE CALIFORNIA HOTEL A. E. BERN, Manager Complete Service-Rates $1.50 to $3.50
ALSO
WEEKLY AND MONTHLY RATES-ROOMS AND APARTMENTS
3501 San Pablo Ave.
Free Garage
Tel. HU mbolt 4720
POLK'S OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA)
CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1930 XL
R. W. LITTLEFIELD
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W. E. STREI CO. AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES
Goodyear Tires Campers' Supplies Mechanics' Tools
2505-2507 Broadway HO Iliday 4431
A. E. BERN, Manager Complete Service-Rates $1.50 to $3.50
ALSO WEEKLY AND MONTHLY RATES-ROOMS AND APARTMENTS
3501 San Pablo Ave.
Free Garage
Tel. HU mbolt 4720
POLK'S OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA)
CITY DIRECTORY
VOL. 1930 XL
INCLUDING ALAMEDA, BERKELEY, EMERYVILLE AND PIEDMONT
Containing an Alphabetical Directory of Business Concerns and Private Citizens, a Street and Avenue Guide and Much Information of a Miscellaneous Character
ALSO
A BUYERS' GUIDE and a Complete
CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY FOR DETAILED CONTENTS SEE GENERAL INDEX
"The
PRICE
DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER ... SELLER
$20.00
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Copyright, 1930, by R. L. Polk & Co., of California
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The
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GENERAL INDEX
188a-188b
Abbreviations
101-188
Advertising Department
189-1459 1463
Apartment Houses
1468
Associations, Clubs and Societies
109
Bank Department
1487
Buildings, Blocks and Halls.
1468
Business and Commercial Associations
1461-1606
Business Directory
101-188
Buyers' Guide
1490
Cemeteries
1492
Churches
198
City Government-Alameda
27 1038
Oakland
1461-1606
Classified Business Directory
1499
Clubs
1501, 1583-1584
Colleges and Private Schools.
198
County Government
11
Directory Library
544-545
Federal Government Officers
198
Berkeley
1038
Fraternal Organizations
189-1459
General Directory of Names.
1534, 1582
Introduction
199
Justice Courts
1542
Libraries and Reading Rooms.
Y
Mayor's Message
545
Military
1564-1565
Parks and Playgrounds.
1038, 1569
Piers
198
Police Department-Alameda
280
Berkeley
1038
Oakland
10
Population
544-545
Postoffice Department
1547
Public Library
1501, 1583-1584
Schools and Colleges
1584-1585
Schools-Public
1589-1594
Societies-Secret and Fraternal
544
State Officers and Boards
63-96
Street and Avenue Guide.
199 Superior Courts
1542
Trade and Labor Organizations
544
United States Courts and Officers.
1038, 1569
Wharves
7
Oakland
1589-1594
Hospitals, Homes and Sanitariums
10-11
Labor Organizations
1547
Map of Oakland, Berkeley Alameda and Piedmont.
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Fire Department-Alameda
280
Berkeley
Alphabetical List of Names.
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
A to Zed School .. ..... right side lines and 172 Acme Printing & Rubber Stamp Co .. . 163 and 171 Advertising Service Bureau. 102
Aerochrome Engine Valve Co .. 151
Alameda County Adjustment Bureau
Alameda County Multigraph Co .. 132
Alameda County Title Insurance Co., . classified tab insert
Alcosta Credit Adjustment Co ..
top end and 179
.. right side lines and 132
Alhambra Water Depot. . right side lines and 137 Ambassador Hotel .. . .. right side lines and 143
Anderson's Carpet House.
Appleton G W .. .. right top lines and 138
Arts & Crafts Agency .. right side lines and 160
Austin Realty Co ...
.. left top lines and 167
B & M Chemical Co ..... right side lines and 161
Baker-Hansen Mfg Co ...... front cover and 164
Baker Herbert D.
right side lines and 142
Bank of Italy ..
110 and
Barneson H J & Co.
Bay District Claim Service.
Bekins Van & Storage Co .. .right side lines and 130
Y
Bennett's Collection Assn. . left side lines and 132 Bentley Margaret School. . left side lines and 173 Berkeley Gazette Publishing Co. 158 Best Steel Casting Co ..... left top lines and 150 Blyth & Co 119 Bohannon Cancer Institute ..
Bradford, Kimball & Co. .left top lines and 143
Brown, Ledwich & Rosson.
. legal section
Calaveras Cement Co
122
California Crematorium.
California Hotel 134
California Schools of Arts and Crafts. 173
California Wire Cloth Co ... 186
Capwell H C Co ........ right top lines and Capwell, Sullivan & Furth.
Cavalier Wm & Co.
.right top lines and
135
.front cover and
116
Central Construction Co.
133
Central National Bank.
.front cover and 112
Central National Bank (Bond Dept)
119
Central Title Co ...
. classified tab insert
Chan & Kong ..
.left side lines and 127
Chanslor & Lyon Stores.
160
Clark N & Sons.
122
Clay, Hotchkiss & Schroeter 146
Cochran & Celli ..
. right top lines and 106
Coffin-Reddington Co .... left side lines and 138 Colonial Cafeteria Co .... left top lines and 127 Commercial Letter Service ..
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Co .... .right side lines and 154 149
Contra Costa Building Materials Co ...
123
Cooper's Canary Cottage. . left side lines and 162 Crocker Florence Institute of Opportunity.
Curtain Store The back cover, Z and 172
. right side lines and 134 Dickson & Holbrook. . right top lines, 140 and 176 Durant Hotel
145
East Bay Credit Service. . right top lines and
132
171
East Bay Municipal Utility Dept
185
Pacific Mfg Co ..
120
East Bay Title Insurance Co.
Eby Machinery Co classified tab insert
Encinal Gardens 155
Ernst & Ernst 158
Fageol Motors Co. . 102
103
Fairbanks, Morse & Co .... left top lines and 155 Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank.
Fink Geo B. . . left top lines and 113
Finn John Metal Works.
157
First National Bank .. .left side lines and 147
. left side lines anp 114
Fish S C.
right top lines and 146
Fong Wan Herb Co.
.left side lines and 128
Foothill Nursery Co. .left top lines and 159 -
Foster & Kleiser Co. 103
Page Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney Undertak- ing Co 139 Freitas Plumbing & Heating Co .. right side lines and 163 French D E. French J E Co.
.left side lines and
167
Fujii Nursery Co.
103
Fuller W P & Co.
Gaines-Walrath Co
162 4
Gorman, Kayser & Co.
119 107
Gray's Auto Glass & Accessory House.
Gring's Iricide Co ...... left side lines and 146 Gunn, Carle & Co .... .back cover and 121 Harbor Tug & Barge Co .... .. backbone and 152 Heald's College. . backbone, left top lines and 126 137 Hink J F & Son.
Home Fire Insurance Co. 149
Hotel Piedmont right top lines and 145
111
Hotel San Pablo. .
145
Howard Automobile Co ..... front cover and 104 Hutchinson Co.
Inter-City Publishing Co ...
158 and
163
Jenkins Cora W School of Music.
Jungck D L Co. .
left side lines and
174
Kerr & McCandlish
Kling-Dawers Stationery Co.
119
Lanier Ermah.
right top lines and
177
Breuner John Co ...
Latham Square Corp
. back cover and
157
124
Laufer F W ..
right top lines and 161
Lawrence H M.
107
Liberty Ornamental Iron & Wire Works ..
Liening J Louis. .
left top lines and 151
170
Lippi's Dean Ford Corner .. back cover and 105 Littlefield R W. .insert opp 4 Madsen Marion School of Business Training
.right side lines and 174
135 Maiden Rittigstein & Co .. . right side lines and 170
Market Laundry Co .... left side lines and 154 Marwedel C W ...... left top lines, 156 and 181 Maxwell Hardware Co. . right side lines and 142 McCormick Chas A Lbr Co ...
.. right side lines and 176
Mitchell & Austin ..
... right top lines and 171
Monteverde, Rolandelli & Parodi Inc ......
160
Montgomery Ward & Co .... front cover and 156
Murdock C P Inc ....
. right side lines
National Credit Service Co ...
.. . left side lines and 130
Neal Stratford & Kerr. . left side lines and 177 New World Life Insurance Co. . 150 North German Lloyd .... left side lines and 178 Oakland-California Towel Co ..
Oakland College of Commerce .. . right top lines, 2 and 181
Oakland Hotel Co.
.back cover and 174
144 Oakland Title Insurance & Guarantee Co .. 180 Oliphant D D Jr.
Pacific Co.
.legal section
Pacific Mutual Life Insurance Co.
left top lines and
148
Pacific Nash Motor Co. left side lines and 107
Parker-Goddard Secretarial School.
Peirce. Fair & Co.
.left top lines and 175
120
Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co ..
Philips Calvin & Co ...
.right top lines and 150
.left top lines and 154
Piedmont Memorial Co. . right side lines and 142
Pierce E A & Co.
120
Polytechnic College
. . 175, 187 and 188
Porter F F Co ...
.front edge and 165
Potter W W & E G ....
.left top lines and 148
Radston's ...
left side lines and 178
Rauer's Law & Collection Co. .
.left top lines, 102 and 133
un S
right side lines and 159
Glasson W C Co ... .left top lines and 168 Glen Taylor School ...... right side lines and 174 American Hoist & Derrick Co ... Golden State Milk Products Co. 157 American Trust Co. 155 109
127
115
Hotel Woodrow
145
133
Italian American Realty Co
149
170
149
front cover, right top lines and 141
Bullis B S. .
left side lines and 129
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Merchants Express & Draying Co ... 182
Chinn-Beretta Optical Co 103 Miracle Co .. . right top lines and 170
Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.
133
INDEX TO ADVERTISERS
Page
Read's Bonded Adjustment Bureau.
.left top lines and 131
Realty Syndicate Co ... .back cover and 166
Reliance Life Insurance Co. 150
Remmer Bros .
107
Reo Motor Car Co
106
Reynolds Patricia .. . left side lines and 175
Rhodes-Jamieson Co.
Richmond & San Rafael Ferry & Transpor-
tation Co .. back cover and 139
Salbach Carl .right side lines
175
San Francisco Law School
Schlesinger B F & Sons. . right top lines and 136 Sherman Clay & Co .. left top lines, 157 and 162
Silverstein & Silverstein ... . . legal section
Simonds Machinery Co .. .. right side lines
Smith Bros ... right top lines and 177
Smith Hardware Co .. . classified tab insert
108
Spencer Collection Service.
131
Straus S W & Co.
118 4
Strei W E Co ..
Sunset Mausoleum.
Wong Him Herb Co.
127
Wood Chas M Co .. .front cover and 169
..... left side lines and classified tab insert Sunset-McKee Salesbook Co. . left top lines, 164 and 171
Sunset Nursery Co.
Sutro & Co. 120
Swanson Uhl Wall Paper & Paint Co. 184
Syndicate Building Co.
125
Taylor & Smith.
108 Z
Thomas Bros
Thomas F Parisian Cleaning & Dyeing
122 Works . .back cover and 129 Traver C L & Son ... ... left top lines and 168
Truman Undertaking Co. . front cover, 3 and 183 Tucker Hunter Dulin & Co .. backbone and 117
Valley View Nursery .... left side lines and 159
Vincent Frederic & Co. . left side lines and 118 Wakeman Helen ... . . left side lines and 176
121
Walsh-O'Connor Co ....
Webb Motors ... .right side lines and 108 Western Clay Products Co ... 4
Sohst Auto Repair Co.
Western Normal Inc .... left side lines and 173 White Star Laundry ...... bottom end and 153 Whitthorne & Swan .... right top lines and 136 Wilkinson's Spring Water Co .. right side lines
Witter Dean & Co. 121
Wood Fred T Co .. .right side lines and 169
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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 1930 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 tritly the directory is a mirror reflecting Oakland to the world.
The enviable place occupied by R. L. Polk & Co.'s directories in offices, stores, ilbraries 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 517,221 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.
Four Major Departments
The several essential departments are arranged in the following order :
The Buyers' Guide pages 101 to 188, 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- 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.
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INTRODUCTION
The Alphabetical List of Names of residents, business firms and cor- porations is included in pages 189 to 1459.
The Street and Avenue Guide of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley covers pages 63 to 96. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order.
The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 1461 to 1606. 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, depict- ing 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 advertisements of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley, for business men the country over realize that the City Directory represents the community as it really is.
The R. L. Polk & Company Directory Library
There are over 400 of these Directory Libraries in the chain. One of them is maintained at the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. The publishers invite use of it by the public whenever in the need of information on other cities.
The publishers appreciatively acknowledge the patronage of those pro- gressive business and professional men who have expressed their confidence in the City Directory as an advertising medium with assurance that it will bring a commensurate return.
R. L. POLK & COMPANY
OAKLAND
A city bent upon making the most of its resources and po- tentialities . . . that is Oakland, California.
With its rapidly growing business and industry, its beautiful homes, substantial population, churches, schools, scenic attrac- tions and sterling citizenry, Oakland builds for the future upon a firm foundation.
Its residents know sparkling Lake Merritt, lying like a jewel in the heart of the city, winding and scenic Skyline Boulevard, the imposing estuary tube, picturesque waterfront, towering can- yons of commerce in the city's business section, the world's largest municipal air field, Chabot Observatory, Mills College, Sequoia Park, the Municipal Auditorium, and scores of other attractions.
They eagerly show them to all visitors . . . they are proud of their city, and loyal to it.
Civic enterprise and strategic location tell the story of Oak- land's growth . . . with all of its advantages, it will continue to grow, for it is the ideal place to live, to work and to play !
For Further Information About
OAKLAND
CALIFORNIA
Communicate with the Oakland Chamber of Commerce
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OAKLAND
"Industrial Capital of the West" STATISTICAL REVIEW Commission Form of Government
Area-60.25 square miles.
Altitude-Zero to 1800 feet.
Assessed valuation-$270,094,991 with 211 mill tax.
Parks-46, with acreage of 628.
White population-354,568.
Colored population-9,400.
Males-186,868.
Females-177,100.
Native-horn population-76.8 per cent.
Predominating nationalities-Italian, German, English, Portuguese, Canadians, Irish and Swedes.
City's bonded deht is $11,704,182.50.
Financial: 52 banks, 7 trust companies, with total deposits of $194,092,773, Decem- ber 31, 1929; clearings of $1,020,614,224 annually.
Post Office receipts of $2,120,874.
Churches-190.
Building and construction: Value of building permits, $14,511,741, with 4,754 permits.
Real estate transfers total 20,921, valued at $85,628,163. About 42 per cent of homes owned. Dwellings-total number 72,219.
Industry: Number of establishments-1,533 manufacturers employing 50,255, pay- ing wages of $69,490,000 annually and having products valued at $522,000,000 annually.
Trade: Territory (retail) serves 1,420,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of 20 miles. Jobbing territory serves 1,730,000 people within a radius of 40 miles.
Hotels: There are 41 hotels, with 15 rooms or more. Newest hotel was built in 1929.
City is the physical terminus of three transcontinental railroads.
Amusements: Largest auditorium seats 10,000 people. There are 39 theaters, with a total seating capacity of 45,000 people.
Hospitals number 26, with 2,400 beds.
Education: 3 colleges, 72 schools, including 8 high schools.
Number of pupils in public schools, 62,432. Total of teachers, 2420.
There are 172,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.
City Statistics: Total street mileage, 708 with 503 miles paved; 622 miles of sewers. Capacity of water works (public) 125,000,000 gallons daily with 1496 miles of mains and value of plant estimated at 55,000,000.
Miscellaneous: Oakland is one of a group of nine contiguous cities which had a combined population of 587,000 on January 1, 1930. During the year 1929, Oakland enjoyed 202 full days of sunshine. The United States Census Bureau states that 94.3 per cent of Oakland's population is white and 73.4 per cent of it native white. There are over 8 miles of herthing space in Oakland Harbor. 131 national industries have chosen Metropolitan Oakland for the base of their Pacific Coast operations. California's two greatest poultry producing centers are located within 20 miles of Oakland.
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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 1533 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 amounts to 20 per cent.
CLIMATE
Oakland's climate is extremely equable. The average temperature for the twelve months is 57.1 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
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