Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1934, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 938

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GENERAL INDEX

Page

Abbreviations

Alphabetical List of Names

858

Associations, Clubs and Societies

Bank Department

869-870

Buildings, Blocks and Halls

861

Business and Commercial Associations

857

Business Directory

Buyers' Guide

871

Cemeteries

871-872

Churches

City Government-Alameda

127

Berkeley

597

Oakland

857

Classified Business Directory

861-876

Clubs

916-917

Colleges and Private Schools

County Government

Directory Library

291

Federal Government Officers

Fire Department-Alameda Berkeley

597

Oakland

919-921

Fraternal Organizations

891

Hospitals, Homes and Sanitariums

Introduction

Justice Courts

895

Labor Organizations

898

Libraries and Reading Rooms

291

Military

907

Parks and Playgrounds

909

Piers

Police Department-Alameda

Berkeley

597

Oakland

Population

291

Postoffice Department

898

Public Library

916-917

Schools and Colleges

916

Schools-Public

919-921

Societies-Secret and Fraternal

747

State Officers and Boards

19-40

Street and Avenue Guide

Superior Courts

895

Trade and Labor Organizations

291

United States Courts and Officers

597-909

Wharves

Advertising Department

Apartment Houses

861-876

127

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Acme Printing & Rubber Stamp Co .... 64 and 66 Alameda County Title Insurance Co 67

Allied Research Laboratories Inc back cover and 60

American Trust Co

Antiseptic Laundry Co

Bank of America National Trust & Savings Assn backbone and 45

Board of Trade of East Bay

front cover

Bonded Credit Exchange

front cover

Broadway Laundry Co

California Insurance Co

Central Bank of Oakland.

front cover and 46

Coins Mme French Laundry 61

Cowell Henry Lime & Cement Co

Curtain Store The

Dean Collecting Agency

East Bay Credit Service

East Bay Municipal Utility District 69

East Bay Title Insurance Co

front cover and classified tab insert

Fageol Truck & Coach Co

Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank

left top lines and 47

Fink George B

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co

First National Bank in Oakland

Fong Wan

left top lines and

Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney Co

Fuller W P & Co

Golden State Co

Gregg Mercantile Service 52

Gring's Iricide Co

left side lines and 57

Heald College

backbone and 50

Hink J F & Son

Holmes Collection Agency

Hotel Oakland

classified tab insert

Inter-City Express

Inter-City Printing Co 64

Kling-Dawers Stationery Co 67

Laufer F W Inc

right top lines and 63

Lawrence H M

Maiden F Bruce & Co

front cover and

McCormick Chas R Lumber Co

Mercantile Collection Service 53

Mitchell & Austin

Monteverde & Parodi Inc classified tab insert Montgomery Ward & Co 54

Oakland-California Towel Co 2

Oakland Chamber of Commerce

Oakland Crematorium-Columbarium

Oakland Title Insurance & Guaranty Co 68

Polytechnic College of Engineering 66, 71 and 72 Read's Bonded Adjustment Bureau

left top lines and 5 1

Retailers Credit Association

San Francisco Institute of Accountancy

left top lines and 66

Schroeter & White

Sherman Clay & Co

Silverstein & Silverstein

Simpson John

right top lines and 57

Sunset Mausoleum

front cover and classified tab insert

Tesio Louis J Co

Truman Co

front cover, 3 and 56

Watkins Chas N Detective Service Bureau .... 55 White Star Laundry Co bottom edge and 61

Whitthorne & Swan

right top lines .and 54

Willis College of Business

left top lines and 67

Witter Dean & Co

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 1934 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 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 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 residents, the publishers feel that the results of their labor will meet with the approval of every resident of the city.

POPULATION

The estimated population of the East Bay is 547,830, 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 Buyer's Guide, pages 41 to 72, 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 elements 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 source 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 73 to 856.

The Street and Avenue Guide of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley covers pages 19 to 40. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order.

The Classified Business Directory is included in pages 857 to 924. 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 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 per- petual 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 progressive business and pro- fessional 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 truly metropolitan city that has retained its friendly atmosphere and offers un- limited possibilities for industry and home owners.

Pulsing with new life and energy under the stimulus of huge expenditures for public buildings and enterprises, Oakland stands out as the center of real progress on the Pacific Coast. Its progress is steady, substantial and far-reaching.

Educational opportunities, beautiful homes, parks, gardens, scenic beauty, high- ways, thriving business and industrial districts, beaches and country clubs offer every variety and opportunity for the person seeking a permanent location.

Contiguous in their boundary lines and united in their interests, the neighboring cities of this important business district centering around Oakland, third largest munic- ipality in California, are Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro, Hayward, Niles, Livermore, Pleasanton, Emeryville, Piedmont, Newark, Albany, Alvarado and Decoto. This com- munity forms a group of more than 500,000 persons.

Civic enterprise and strategic location tell the story of Oakland's growth. With all its advantages it will continue to grow, for it is the ideal place to live, to work and to play.

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OAKLAND CALIFORNIA

Communicate with the Oakland Chamber of Commerce

OAKLAND

"Industrial Capitol of the West"

STATISTICAL REVIEW Council-Manager Form of Government

Area-60.25 square miles.

Altitude-Zero to 1800 feet.

Assessed valuation-$257,649,085 with 218 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 $11,173,955.

Financial: 57 banks, 7 trust companies, with total deposits of $131,873,316, December 31, 1933; debits of $1,910,412,000 annually.

Churches-190.

Building and construction: Value of building permits, $2,050, 116, with 2,275 permits. Real estate transfers total 14,771, valued at $54,658, 313. About 48.6 per cent of homes owned. Dwellings-total number 73,488.

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 44 hotels, with 15 rooms or more.

City is the physical terminus of three transcontinental railroads.

Amusements: Largest auditorium 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 1933, Oakland enjoyed 25 l full days of sunshine. The United States Census Bureau states that 94. 1 per cent of Oak- land'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 exclu- sive 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 1934 is the second year of a major construction program that will result in the expend- iture of $133,000,000 within a radius of 20 miles of Oakland. Oakland and San Francisco are being 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 completed 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 being 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 stra- tegic 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 residents during the last fifteen years.

The death rate in Oakland in 1933 was 10.1 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 1933, the rate of infant mortality was reduced to only 38.2 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 Oakland, 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, or Metropolitan Oakland, with a population of about 500,000.

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 ad- joins 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 acqui- sition 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 wonderful 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 sight- seers, 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-$80,637,925. City tax rate-$1.37 (1933-34).

Bonded debt-$1,120,335 (June 30, 1933).

Parks-20, with 76 acres, including playgrounds.

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

Post Office receipts-$454,444.61 (1933). Church buildings-51.

Building and construction-value of building permits, $760,173, with 746 permits issued (1932-33).

Industry-312 manufacturers, employing 3,379, with an annual payroll of $5,514,028, and having products valued at $ 38,455, 193.

Trade-Territory (retail) serves 150,000 people within the trading area covering ten miles. Hotels-There are 17 hotels with 25 rooms or more, with 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 pri- vate; 5 commercial; 4 divinity; I blind; ] deaf. University of California.

Number of pupils in public schools-14,898. Total number of teachers, 614 (1932-33).

There are 146,000 volumes in the city library. City Statistics-Total street mileage, 197.9; with 190.3 paved: 225 miles of sewers.

Miscellaneous-Total fire loss for 1932-33 was $56,200, a per capita loss of 65 cents, one of the lowest in the nation for Berkeley's size class; infant mortality rate of 22.9 per 1000 live births in 1933. The Police Department employs 58, with total expenditure of $169,489; per capita cost, $1.89. Berkeley has put in operation one of the largest and most complete radio police communication networks on the Pacific Coast. Attend- ance at Berkeley recreation centers for 1933 was 1.319.383.

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 regular 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.

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Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1934, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 938

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 938