Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1935, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 994

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POLK'S

OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA)

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U.S

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CITY DIRECTORY

VOL. 1935 XLIII

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 DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER --- SELLER"

R. L. POLK & CO. Publishers 604 Mission Street SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA Directory Library for Free Use of Public at Oakland Chamber of Commerce Member Association of North American Directory Publishers

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GENERAL INDEX

PAGE

Abbreviations

Advertising Department

Alphabetical List of Names

Apartment Houses

916

Associations, Clubs and Societies

919

Bank Department

Buildings, Blocks and Halls

928

Business and Commercial Associations

919

Business Directory

915

Buyers' Guide

Cemeteries

929

Chu ches

930

City Government-Alameda

Berkeley

134

Oakland

633

Classified Business Directory

915

Clubs

934

Colleges and Private Schools

935

County Government

Directory Library

Federal Government Officers

308

Fire Department-Alameda Berkeley

134

Oakland

633

Fraternal Organizations

942

Hospitals, Homes and Sanitariums

951

In roduction

Justice Courts

Labor Organizations

955

Libraries and Reading Rooms

958

Military

308

Parks and Playgrounds

967

Piers

969

Police Department-Alameda

Berkeley

134

Oakland

633

Population

Postoffice Department

308

Public Library

958

Schools and Colleges

977

Schools-Public

976

Societies-Secret and Fraternal

979

State Officers and Boards

796

Street and Avenue Guide

Superior Courts

Trade and Labor Organizations 955

United States Courts and Officers

308

Wharves

969

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Acme Printing & Rubber Stamp Co .... 66 and 70 Alameda County Title Insurance Co top edge and 72

American Trust Co

Anglo California National Bank

Anthony Earle C Inc

Bakers Service

right top lines and 64

Brown Albert Undertaking Co

California College of Business

right top lines and 70

California Western States Life Insurance Co .. 6 1

Capwell H C Co

Cavalier Wm & Co

right top lines and 49

Central Bank of Oakland

front cover and 47

Chan Y L Herb Co

left top lines and 58

Coffin-Redington Co

Coldwell Cornwall & Banker

Connelley Liquor cure ....

right side lines and 63

Co-Operative Adjustment Bureau

Curtain Store

De Gloria J

left top lines and 65

Dodd School

left side lines and 70

East Bay Credit Service

East Bay Municipal Utility District

East Bay Title Insurance Co

front cover and Classified Tab Insert

Empire Collection Co

Fageol Truck & Coach Co

Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank

left top lines and 48

Field E B Co

backbone and 68

Fink George B

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co

Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney Co

Fuller W P & Co

Golden State Co

Gregg Collection Service

Gring's Iricide Co

left side lines and 58

Hancock John Mutual Life Insurance Co

back cover

Hink J F & Son

Holmes Collection Agency

Horwinski Printing Co

left top lines and 66

Imperial Loan Brokers

Insurance Building

Page

Inter-City Express

Inter-City Printing Co

Kling-Dawers Stationery Co

Laufer F W Inc

right top lines and 65

Lawrence Harry M

43.

Loyalty Group

Madsen Marion School for Business Training

righi topl nes and 71

Maiden F Bruce & Co

. front cover and 67

McCormick Chas R Lumber Co

McCulloch's

left side lines

Mercantile Collection Service

Merchants Credit & Collection Areucy

Mitchell & Austin

Monteverde & Parodi Inc ( lassite ) ab Insert

Montgomery Ward & Co

Morris Plan of Oakland

lef

Nordquist Gus

d lines and 72

Oakland-Californa Towel Co

Oakland Chamber of Commerce

Oakland Crematorium-Columbamm

Oakland Hotel Co

Class.od Tab Insert

Oakland Title Insurance & Guaranty C)

Pacific-Nash Motor Co

Pearl Assurance Co

Phillips Mercantile Agency

Polytechnic College of Engineer 1 g 71, 75 and 76

Porter F F Co

front edge

Professional Credit Assn

....

Read's Bonded Adjustment Bureau

left op lines and 5 1

Retailers Credit Assn of Alame a County .... 54

Schroeter & White

Simpson John

r.ght top lines and 61

Spencer Collection Service

Steffensen A

back cover and 68

Sunset Mausoleum

front cover and Cla sihec Tab Insert

Truman Co

font so re, 3 and 57

Watkins Chas \ Detective Se vice

White, Pollard, Fred T Wola In-

White Star Laundry Co

Whitthorne & Swan

Witter Dean & Co

Wood Charles M

front cover and 69

top lines and 60

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 1935 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 549, 187, 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 41 to 76, printed on tinted paper, contains the advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and profesisonal 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 77 to 913.

The Street . Id 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 915 to 984. This department lists the various manufac aring, mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This eature 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 buisness 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 - 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 expen itures for public buildings and enterprises, Oakland stands out as the center of red 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 una ofer every variety and opportunity for the person seeking a permanent location.

Contiguous in their boundary lines and united in their interests, ' h'boring cities of this important business district centering around Oakland, thin i rgast munic- ipality in California, are Berkeley, Alameda, San Leandro, Hayward, Me Li ermore, Pleasanton, Emeryville, Piedmont, Newark, Albany, Alvarado and De c 'l' is com- munity forms a group of more than 500,000 persons.

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

For Further Information About 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- $228,853, 137 with 217 mill tax.

Parks-46, with acreage of 628.

White population-281,095.

Colored population-7,885.

Males-149,688. Females-148,842.

Native-born population-79.3 per cent.

Predominating nationalities --- German, Italian, English, Portuguese, Canadian, Irish, Swedish, Scotch and Danish.

City's bonded debt is $11,203,670.00.

Financial: 57 banks, 7 trust companies, with total deposits of $143,333,345, December 31, 1934; debits of $1,931,138,000 annually.

Churches-190.

Building and construction: Value of building permits, $2,802,210, with 4,139 permits. Real estate transfers total 9,055, valued at $ 45,000,000. About 48.6 per cent of homes owned. Dwellings-total number 73,488.

Industry: Metropolitan Oakland-Number of establishments-1, 107 manufacturers employ- ing 32,560, paying wages of $43,683,884 annually and having products valued at $411,674,659 annually.

Trade: Teritory (retail) contains 1,420,000 people within the trading area covering a radius of 20 miles. Jobbing territory contains 1,730,000 people within a radius of 40 miles.

Hotels: There are 44 hotels, with 15 rooms or more, and 95 with less than 15 rooms. 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. Ca- pacity 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 1934, Oakland enjoyed 245 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 ? 8 miles of berthing space in Oakland Harbor, 121 national industries ha' Metropolitan Oakland for the base of their Pacific Coast .nerations. greatest poultry producing centers are located v -:

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 Oakland, began to claim the excellent factory sites along the bay shore. Today there are 1107 plants, making a total of more than 2,300 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 numer- ous other dry docks and marine railroads of lesser size.

A majority of the leading steamship lines carrying either coastwise or trans-Pacific freight, have mr.ade Oakland a regular port of call, and the volume handled on Oakland docks is growing with great rapi dity.

United States Government engineers recently recommended the expenditure of more than a million and or.e-half dollars on the Oakland harbor.

INDUSTRIES

The year 1935 is the third 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 has just completed building a bombing base, at a cost of $4,000,000, which will be used by the air serv- ice. 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.

The Golden Gate is being spanned by a bridge costing $35,000,00) that will take three years to complete.

This vast expenditure is certain to reflect itself in industrial condiions and add to Oakland's strategic location in the geographic industrial center of the Pacific Coast states, its immediate access na lanes leading to the Orient, its unusual transportation facilities, anc the availability of raw ma- wer, water and fuel.

CLIMATE

temperature for the twelve months is 57.1 ights are alwayscool. 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 1934 was 10.4 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 1,000 born, while in 1934, the rate of infant mortality was reduced to only 40.2 deaths in 1,000 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, a gain of 31.4 per cent over 1920.

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 refered to as the East Bay community, or Metropolitan Oakland, with a population of about 505,000.

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 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 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 these 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; (est., 1935) 83,595.

White population-77,508. (1930)

Other races-4,601. (1930)

Assessed valuation-$80, 161,915. City tax rate-$1.37 (1934-1935).

Bonded debt-$1,013,430 (April 8, 1935).

Parks-20, with 76 acres, including playgrounds.

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

Post Office receipts-$543,596.87 (1934). Church buildings-5 1.

Building and construction-value of building permits, $660,650, with 753 permits issued (1934).

Industry-306 manufacturers, employing 3,631, with an annual payroll of $4,484,324, and having products valued at $30,782,325.

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 private; 5 commercial; 4 divinity; 1 blind; ] deaf. University of California.

Number of pupils in public schools-14,953. Total number of teachers, 505. (1933-34).

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 1934 was $23,455, a per capita loss of 23 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 64, with total expenditure of $175,038. Berkeley has put in operation one of the largest and most complete radio police communication networks on the Pacific Coast. Attendance at Berkeley recrea- tion 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 5,000 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 Diony- sus 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."

COUNCIL-MANAGER GOVERNMENT

Berkeley has operated for the past twelve years under the Council-Manager form of government. The present City Manager is Hollis R. Thompson and the present Mayor is Edward N. Ament. Berke- ley has been frequently rated by experts as among the first two or three municipal governments in the United States from the standpoint of service to the people and general efficiency. Fundamental to the success of the government in Berkeley has been the clear separation between the legislative and policy making functions which are the responsibilities of the council, and the executive function, for which the City Manager is responsible. It is the responsibility of the manager to carry out the will of the council without interference after that body has arived at decisions. The result has been economy of operation with entire elimination of politics in the commonly accepted term of that word.

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Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1935, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 994

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 994