Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1933, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 874

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SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1223 04590 1288

POLK'S OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA)

CITY DIRECTORY

VOL. 1933 XLI

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

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PRICE $22.50

DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER -SELLER"

R. L. POLK & CO., of California

Publishers 604 Mission Street SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Vory Libre ~ Use of Public at Oakland Chamber of Commerce ation of North American Directory Publishers

1933, by R. L. Polk & Co., of California

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DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY HETWEEN RL YER .. SELLER'

PUBLISHER'S NOTE

The information in this Directory is gathered by an actual canvass and is compiled in a way to insure maximum accuracy.

The publishers cannot and do not guarantee the correctness of all infor- mation furnished them nor the complete absence of errors and omissions, hence no responsibility for same can be or is assumed.

The publishers earnestly request the bringing to their attention of any inaccuracy so that it may be corrected in the next Directory.

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GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations

Advertising Department

57-96

Alphabetical List of Names

97-810

Apartment Houses

812

Associations, Clubs and Societies 815, 829

Bank Department

Buildings, Blocks and Halls

823-824

Business and Commercial Associations

815

Business Directory

811-880

Buyers' Guide

57-96

Cemeteries

824

Churches

825-827

City Government-Alameda

102

Berkeley

148

Oakland

574

Classified Business Directory

811-880

Clubs

. 815, 829

Colleges and Private Schools

830. 871

County Government

102

Directory Library

Federal Government Officers

296

Fire Department-Alameda

102

Berkeley

574

Fraternal Organizations

846, 870

Introduction

Justice Courts

103

Labor Organizations

850

Libraries and Reading Rooms

852-853

Military

296

Parks and Playgrounds

861

Piers

574, 863

Police Department-Alameda

102

Berkeley

148

Oakland

574

Population

Postoffice Department

296

Public Library

852-853

Schools and Colleges

830, 871

Schools-Public

871

Societies-Secret and Fraternal

873-876

State Officers and Boards

710

Street and Avenue Guide

19-40

Superior Courts

103

Trade and Labor Organizations

850

United States Courts and Officers

296

Wharves

574, 863

3 1223 04590 1288

148

Oakland

873-876

Hospitals. Homes and Sanitariums

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Acme Printing & Rubber Stamp Co

83 and 89

Alameda County Title Insurance Co .top end

Alcosta Credit Adjustment Co .... right side lines and 68

American Trust Co 61

Anderson's Carpet House

Kling-Dawrs Stationery Co

Lawrence Harry M

Maiden F Bruce & Co .left top lines and 88

Marion Madsen School for Business Training

.right top lines and 90

Market Laundry Co

. left side lines and 80

Maxwell Hardware Co

right side lines and 75

McCormick Chas R Lumber Co 91

Mitchell & Austin

Monteverde & Parodi Inc 82

Montgomery Ward & Co 71

Oakland California Towel Co ... right top lines, 2 and 91 Oliphant David D jr 80

Pacific College of Chiropractic and Drugless Thera-

peutics

Pacific Mutual Life Ins Co

left top lines and 76

Pacific Nash Motor Co

. left side lines and 60

Parker-Goddard Secretarial Schoo .left top lines and 90

Piedmont Memorial Co

right side lines and 75

Polytechnic College of Engineering

.90,95 and 96

Porter F F Co

front edge and 87

Read's Bonded Adjustment Bureau . . left top lines and 68 Retailers Credit Association of Alameda County 69

San Francisco Institute of Accountancy

. back cover and 89

Schroeter & White

Shernan Clay & Co

Fuller W P & Co 83

Gaines-Walrath Co

General Detective Bureau

.left top lines and 72

Golden State Co

Gring's Iricide Co

. left side lines and 75

Heald's Business College . backbone, left top lines and 67

Hink J F & Son

Howard Automobile Co

front cover and 59

Hutchinson Co

Inter-City Express

Inter-City Printing Co

Italian-Americar. Realty Co 77

Jungck D L Co

Kerr & McCandlish 77

Antiseptic Laundry Co

Baker-Hansen Mfg Co

front SET and 85

Bank of America

.backbone and 62

Bennetsen A M Mrs

classified tab insert

Breuner John Co

Broadway Laundry Co

California Crematorium and Columbarium 69

California School of Arts and Crafts 89

Capwell H C Co

right top lines and 70

Capwell, Sullivan & Furth 70

Central National Bank

front cover and 63

Clark J B & Son

. left top lines and 76

Clinnick Electric Co

right top lines and 86

Coins Mme French Laundry

Cooper Clarence N

classified tab insert

Cowell Henry Lime & Cement Co

Darnell & Co

East Bay Municipal Utility District 93

East Bay Title Ins Co ..

classified tab insert

Fageol Truck & Coach Co 60

Fairbanks, Morse & Co

.left top lines and 81

Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank

left top lines and 64

Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney Co

French J E Co 60

Silverstein & Silverstein

Simonds Machinery Co

. right side lines

Simpson John

. right top lines and 77

State Radio Service

.right top lines and 86

Sunset Mausoleum . left side lines and classified tab insert

Swanson-Uhl Wall Paper & Paint Co

Truman Co

front cover, 3 and 73

White Star Laundry

. bottom edge and 79

Whitthorne & Swan

.right top lines and 71

Witter Dean & Co

Central National Bank (bond department)

Laufer F W Inc

right top lines and 82

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 1933 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 con- sulted, for truly the directory is a mirror reflecting Oakland to the world.

The enviable place occupied by Polk'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 mis- sion 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 residents, 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 520,000, 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 included. 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 57 to 96, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and professional interests of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley. These pages will be found particularly interesting and instructive to the substantial clements of the city. The advertisements have been carefully grouped by departments and are indexed under headings descrip- tive 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 interestingly pictured to reveal what it has in its show window. In an ambitious and progres- sive community like Oakland the need of this kind of information readily at hand is very great and frequently pressing. General 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 corporations is included in pages 97 to 810.

The Street and Avenue Guide of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley covers pages 23 to 56. In this sec- tion the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order.

The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 811 to 880. This department lists the vari- ous manufacturing, mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate head- ings. 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 publish- ers 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 Oak- land 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 progressive business and profes- sional 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 potentialities . .. that is Oakland, California.

With its rapidly growing business and industry, its beautiful homes, substantial pop- ulation, churches, schools, scenic attractions 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, canyons 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 Oakland'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

OAKLAND

"Industrial Capital of the West"

STATISTICAL REVIEW

Council-Manager Form of Government

Area-60.25 square miles. Altitude-Zero to 1800 feet.

Assessed valuation-$255,608,253 with 205 mill tax.

Parks-46, with acreage of 628.

White population-267,473.

Colored population-7,503.

Males-142,434.

Females-141,629.

Native-born population-79.3 per cent.

Predominating nationalities-German, Italian, English, Portuguese, Canadians, Irish and Swedes.

City's bonded debt is $12,042,840.

Financial : 58 banks, 7 trust companies, with total deposits of $158,219,295, December 31, 1932; debits of $2,020,820,000 annually.

Churches-190.

Building and construction : Value of building permits, $2,388,773, with 2,528 permits.

Real estate transfers total 17,173, valued at $61,223,752. About 42 per cent of homes owned. Dwellings-total number 72,963.

Industry : Metropolitan Oakland-Number of establishments-1,227 manufacturers employ- ing 43,635, paying wages of $63,129,371 annually and having products valued at $638,- 528,600 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 43 hotels, with 15 rooms or more.

City is the physical terminus of three transcontinental railroads.

Amusements: Largest auditoriumn seats 10,000 people. There are 41 theaters, with a total seating capacity of 46,700 people.

Hospitals number 25, with 2,100 beds.

Education : 3 colleges, 73 schools, including 10 high schools.

Number of pupils in public schools, 62,114. Total of teachers, 2,400.

There are 172,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.

City Statistics : Total street mileage, 709, with 509 miles paved ; 660 miles of sewers. Capacity of water works (public) 125,000,000 gallons daily, with 1,500 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 487,839 on January 1, 1930. During the year 1931, Oakland enjoyed 235 full days of sunshine. The United States Census Bureau states that 94.1 per cent of Oakland's population is white and 76.7 per cent of it native white. There are over 8 miles of berthing space in Oakland Harbor, 121 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.

OAKLAND

Oakland, situated on the continental side of San Francisco Bay, is the third largest city in Cali- fornia, the fifth largest on the Pacific Coast, and the fastest growing industrial city in the West.

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

It is only in comparatively recent years that industries, recognizing the advantages offered by Oak- . land, began to claim the excellent factory sites along the bay shore. Today there are more than 1227 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 year 1933 marks the actual opening of a major construction program that will result in the expenditure of $133,000,000 within a radius of 20 miles of Oakland. Oakland and San Francisco are to be connected by a $75,000,000 bridge, and a $5,000,000 tunnel will provide fast transportation between Oakland and the rich central valleys. Near San Rafael, 15 miles from Oakland, the Government is building a bombing base, at a cost of $4,000,000, which will be used by the air service. The United States Army Air Base, now under construction across Oakland's inner harbor in Alameda, will cost $2,500,000, and on Government Island in the estuary separating the two cities headquarters for the Coast Guard Service, U. S. Bureau of Public Roads, and U. S. Forest Service are being built at a cost of $3,000,000.

Added to these projects is the Sunnyvale Dirigible Base, 20 miles from Oakland, where the Navy Department is spending $5,000,000 constructing a mammoth base to house dirigibles assigned to the Pacific Coast. The Golden Gate is to be spanned by a bridge costing $35,000,000 that will take three years to complete.

This vast expenditure is certain to reflect itself in industrial conditions and add to Oakland's strategic location in the geographic industrial center of the Pacific Coast states, its immediate access to sea lanes leading to the Orient, its unusual transportation facilities, and the availability of raw materials, power, water and fuel.

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 Oakland 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 resi- dents during the last fifteen years.

The death rate in Oakland in 1932 was 10.5 per thousand residents. During the past thirteen years Oakland has made a phenomenal improvement in its infant mortality rate. In 1920, seventy-one babies died out of every 1000 born, while in 1932, the rate of infant mortality was reduced to only 39 deaths in 1000 births.

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. In 1930, 284,063.

The cities of Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Albany, Richmond and El Cerrito have now grown together into one compact whole. It is these nine 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 60,000. 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 50 primary and grammar schools, 13 junior high schools and 10 high schools.

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS

Oakland's new park and playground development-a noteworthy feature of which was the acquisi- tion last year of extensive municipal golf links-undoubtedly will be conducive to a still higher level of health and well-being among residents 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 won- derful lawns and beyond these by beautiful, modern 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 thousands of wild ducks make Lake Merritt their home. Spring finds these traditional 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 California 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 metropolis, with three trans- continental railways, its position on one of the world's greatest land-locked harbors and with ample room in which to make a tremendous expansion, Oakland's future is assured.

BERKELEY STATISTICAL REVIEW

Name of city-Berkeley.

Form of government-council-manager.

Area-17 square miles, 9 land and 8 water.

Altitude-0 to 1300 feet.

Population-Federal census, 1930, 82,109; (govt. est., 1932) 87,539.

White population-77,508.

Other races-4,601.

Assessed valuation-$85,423,915. City tax rate-$1.48 (1932-33).

Bonded debt-$1,173,787 (June 30, 1932).

Parks-20, with 76 acres, including playgrounds.

Financial-2 banks (12 branches), 3 building and loan, 2 savings and loan associations.

Post Office receipts-$484,997.32 (1932).

Church buildings-51.

Telephones in service-28,244 (November 30, 1932).

Building and construction-value of building permits, $940,129, with 936 permits issued (1932).

Industry-312 manufacturers, employing 3379, with an annual payroll of $5,514,028, and hav- ing products valued at $38,455,193.

Trade-Territory (retail) serves 150,000 people within the trading area covering of ten miles. Hotels-There are 17 hotels with 25 rooms or more, with a combined total of rooms of 1,473. The newest hotel was built in 1928.

City is served by two transcontinental railroads.

Amusements-Largest theater or auditorium seats 1,800 people. There are 8 theaters, with a total seating capacity of 12,022.

Hospitals -- 3.

Education-Public schools, 20, including 4 junior high, 1 senior high ; 2 parochial ; 13 private ; 5 commercial; 4 divinity ; 1 blind ; 1 deaf. University of California.

No. of pupils in public schools-14,765. Total number of teachers, 566 (1931-32).

There are 117,000 volumes in the city library.

City Statistics-Total street mileage, 198, with 191 paved ; 228 miles of sewers.

Miscellaneous-Total fire loss for 1931 was $30,840, a per capita loss of 35 cents, one of the lowest in the nation for Berkeley's size class; infant mortality rate of 22.6 per 1000 live births in 1931 lowest in history of city. The Police Department employs 57, with total expenditure of $179,967 ; per capita cost, $2.07. Berkeley has put in operation the largest and most complete radio police communication network on the Pacific Coast. Attendance at Berkeley recreation centers for 1931-32 was 1,206,428, a gain of 200,000 over previous year.

BERKELEY

Situated on the eastern side of San Francisco Bay directly opposite the famous Golden Gate, Berkeley has been praised by world travelers as one of the most beautifully located cities in America. Many of its most attractive home districts are to be found on the gently sloping hills which rise to a height of fifteen hundred feet, commanding a magnificent panorama of San Francisco Bay.

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA

Berkeley is known internationally as the home of the University of California, one of the great institutions of learning of the world. More than 12,000 students are registered each year at the reg- ular fall and winter sessions, with approximately 5000 additional students enrolled at the inter-session and summer sessions. The campus of the University of California at Berkeley is one of rare natural beauty. It includes almost six hundred acres of ground, much of it beautifully parked with shrubbery and lawns and dotted with age-old oaks and giant eucalyptus. Among the outstanding buildings on the university campus are the open-air Greek theater, modeled after the famous ancient theater of Dionysus at Athens, the Sather Campanile, the California Memorial Stadium and the new three-million- dollar Life Science Building, the largest class room structure in America.

EDUCATION AND SCHOOLS

Four institutions of vocational religious training also are located in Berkeley, in close proximity to the university, and are rendering an outstanding service in their field. These institutions include the Pacific School of Religion, the Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, the Pacific Unitarian School and the Church Divinity School. As is natural, there also has grown up about the university a large number of private preparatory and finishing schools which give instruction to many students.

The Berkeley public school system, with twenty-three different school units, has received interna- tional recognition for its scientific methods in the study of children. Under the direction of The Bureau of Research and Guidance, annual city-wide surveys are made to discover cases of maladjustment in the public schools. To quote from the director of the bureau, every child in the Berkeley schools is studied "to the end that his present and future needs are being met in the most efficient manner in which the school and community are able to meet them."

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Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1933, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 874

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 874