Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1937, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1072

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POLK'S OAKLAND (CALIFORNIA)'

CITY DIRECTORY

VOL. 1937 XLIV

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 1

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GENERAL INDEX

PAGE

Abbreviations

Advertising Department

1201

Alphabetical List of Names.

Apartment Houses

1238

Associaions, Clubs and Societies

1241

Bank lepartment

1204

Buildings, Blocks and Halls.

1251

Busines and Commercial Associations.

1241

Busines Directory

1237

Buyers Guide

1201

Cemetries

1252

Churchs

1253

City Government-Alameda

Brkeley

106

akland

644

Classifd Business Directory

1237

Clubs

1258

Collegs and Private Schools

125.9 /

Count Government

Direcbry Library

Federl Government Officers

293

Fire lepartment-Alameda

Jerkeley

106

Jakland

644

Fratenal Organizations

1266

Hospals, Homes and Sanitariums

1274

Introaction

Justic Courts

Labo Organizations

1279

Libraries and Reading Rooms.

1282

Militry

293

Park and Playgrounds.

1291

Piers

1294

Polio Department-Alameda

Berkeley

106

Oakland

644

Popuation

Postoffice Department

293

Publa Library

1282

Schods and Colleges

1302 -

Schods-Public

1301

Societes-Secret and Fraternal

1304

State Officers and Boards

818

Street and Avenue Guide.

Superior Courts

Trade and Labor Organizations

1279

United States Courts and Officers

293

Wharves

1294

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Acme Printing & Rubber Stamp Co 1227 and 1232

Anglo California National Bank

1205

Anthony Earle C Inc

1202

Berger, Hollidge & Conley

back cover

Brandon's Collection and Credit Service

back cover and 12] ]

Brown Albert Undertaking Co

1219

California College of Arts & Crafts .... right top lines California College of Business right top lines and 1233

California Crematorium & Columbarium

front cover and 1214

California Marble & Granite Works left side lines and 1225

California-Western States Life Insurance Co .. 1223 Campbell J A Dr Plate Dentists 1215

Capwell H C Co 1216

Cavalier Wm & Co

right top lines and 1208

Central Bank of Oakland

front cover and 1206

Chambers Frank D Co

front cover and 1229

Christman's Beauty Shoppe

1230

Coldwell Cornwall & Banker

1219

Cooper Clarence N

1211

Co-Operative Adjustment Bureau 1208

Cowell Henry Lime & Cement Co

1224

Crystal Laundry & Dry Cleaners

East Bay Credit Service

1211

East Bay Municipal Utility District

East Bay Title Insurance Co

front cover and Classified Tab Insert

Emge & Stockman

back cover and 1231

End-Alco Method

right top lines and 1202

Evergreen Cemetery Assn 1209

Fageol Truck & Coach Co

1202

Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank

left top lines and 1207

Fidelity Title Co

right top lines and 1235

Field E B Co bottom edge and 1230

Financial Service Co left side lines and 1232

1211

Fink Geo B

Firem

Fund Insurance Co

back cover, right top lines and 1220

Fong

left top lines and 1210

Freema

`ox-Roach & Kenney Inc

1219

Fuller

1226

Golden

Goodwil

stries of Oakland

left top lines and 1234

Gregg Co. .1 Service 1212 Gring's Iri ) left side lines and 1219 Heald Coll 4

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Holmes Collection Agency

1212

Alameda County Title Ins Co .... top edge and 1235

Horwinski Printing Co

left top lines and 1227

American Trust Co

1204

Imperial Loan Brokers

1224

Insurance Building

1209

Inter-City Express

1226

Inter-City Printing Co

1227

International Accountants Society

left top lines and 1233

Kling-Dawers Stationery Co

1234

Laufer F W Inc

right top lines and 1226

Lawrence Harry M

1202

Loyalty Group

1223

Market Laundry Co

left side lines and 1224

McCormick Chas R Lumber Co

eft side lines and 1225

Mercantile Collection Servic:

1212

Mitchell & Austin

1231

Monteverde & Parodi

Classified Tab Insert

Montgomery Ward & Co

1215

Morris Plan Co of Oakland

1225

Munro Neil E & Sons

left side lines and 1223

Northwestern Mutual Fire Assn

ight top lines and 1222

Oakland-California Towel Co

Oakland Chamber of Commerce

Oakland Crematorium-Colunbarium 1215

Oakland Real Estate Board eft top lines and 1228

Oakland Title Insurance & Ciaranty Co

1235

Pacific Nash Motor Co

eft top lines and 1203

Pearl Assurance Co

richt top lines and 122]

1236

Permel Co

right side lines and 1217

Phillips Mercantile Agency

1212

Piedmont Memorial Co

Polytechnic College of Engin ering

pp page 44 and 1234

Porter F F Co

front edge

Poswa James

1212

Ramsey R J

1211

Read's Bonded Adjustment Bureau

Refrigeration Gas Appliance Co back cover and 1232 Retailers Credit Assn of Alaneda County

backbone and 1213

Rhodes & Jamieson Ltd

back cover and 1210

Schroeter & White

1223

Simpson John

right top lines and 1222

Spencer Collection Service

Stephenson Leydecker & Co left top lines and 1208

Truman Co

front cover and 3 and 1218

Watkins Chas N Detective Service 1216

Watson D D

left side lines and 1231

Whitthorne & Swan

1216

Willis College of Business .. nght top lines and 1233

Witter Dean & Co

1208

Wood Chas M

front cover and 1231

Hink J F &

1216

left top lines and 1210

1213

1225

Classified Tab Insert

Claremont Realty Co.

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right side lines and

1230

OAKLAND

Metropolis of the East Bay Empire

. OAKLAND, third largest city of California, is pleasantly situated on the east shore of San Francisco Bay, almost directly opposite the entrance to the Golden Gate, which is clearly in sight although some miles distant. With its ocean-going commerce and its fine Inner Harbor, Oakland has been described as the place "where rail, air and water meet." It is both a city of industry and a city of homes, with an attractive residential section occupying in part the hills which form its picturesque background.

Of its many attractions, Lake Merritt, the only tidal lake in the heart of an American city, is pre-eminent. This lake, one mile long and four miles around, has a beautiful setting and its waters are often scenes of aquatic sports and regattas.

Among tourists attractions are: Motor outings along Highland Drive and Skyline Boulevard with vistas of the great bay and surrounding terrain; the home of Joaquin Miller, poet of the Sierra, situated on "The Hights" at the head of Dimond Canyon; Chabot Observatory; the Oakland Public Museum and the Henry A. Snow South African collection of animals and birds, and many other places of interest.

Modern Engineering has been to the forefront in developing Oakland. The Posey Vehicular Tube, 4,436 feet long, laid on the bottom of Oakland Estuary, connects Oak- land with Alameda its sister city on the south; the Broadway low-level tunnel is near- ing completion through the hills to the northeast to expedite travel to Contra Costa County and the interior; and, most stupendous of all the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, one of the wonders of the modern world, was opened for vehicular traffic in November, 1936.

On the cultural side, Oakland is famed as the home of Mills College, which was founded nearly 85 years ago and which is the greatest college exclusively for women in the West. St. Mary's College, conducted by the Christian Brothers, is not far dis- tant. And, adjoining Oakland on the north, is Berkeley, site of the great University of California.

For Further Information About OAKLAND

CALIFORNIA Communicate with the Oakland Chamber of Commerce

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 1937 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 560,085, 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 Street and Avenue Guide of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley covers pages 19 to 42. In this section the names of the streets and avenues are arranged in alphabetical order.

The Alphabetical List of Names of residents, business firms and corporations is included in pages 45 to 940.

The Buyers' Guide, pages 1201 to 1236, 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 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 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 Classified Business Directory is included in pages 1237 to 1312. This department lists the various manufacturing, mercantile and professional interests in alphabetical order under appropriate headings. This feature constitutes an invaluable and indispensable epitome of the business interests of the community. "The Directory is the common intermediary between Buyer and Seller." As such it plays no small part in the daily doings of the business world. "More goods are bought and sold through the Classified Business Directory Section than through any other medium."

MUNICIPAL PUBLICITY

The Directory reflects the achievements and ambitions of the city, depicting in truthful terms what it has to offer as a place of residence, as a business location, as an industrial site, and as an educationl 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 450 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 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

"Industrial Capitol of the West" STATISTICAL REVIEW

Council-Manager Form of Government

Area-60.25 square miles.

Altitude Zero to 1800 feet.

Assessed valuation-$257,125,840 with 198 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 $10,702,585.

Financial: 57 banks, 7 trust companies, with total deposits of $158.778,724, December 31, 1935; debits of $2,107,028,000 annually.

. Churches-190.

Building and construction: Value of building permits 1935, $9,685, 368, with 5,412 permits. Real estate transfers total 9,055, valued at $45,000,000. About 48.6 per cent of homes owned. Dwellings-total number 78,500.

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: Territory (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 theatres, 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 1935, 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 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 1, 107 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 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 mil- lion and one-half dollars on the Oakland harbor.

INDUSTRIES

The year 1936 is the fourth 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 con- nected 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 service. The United States Army Air Base, now under under construction across Oakland's inner harbor in Ala- meda, 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 $35,000,000 that will take one year 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 56.8 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 1935 was 11.5 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 1,000 born, while in 1935, the rate of infant mortality was reduced to only 39.0 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 referred 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 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 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 won- derful 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. 1936) 95,000.

White population-89,000 (est. 1936).

Other races-6,000 (est. 1936).

Assessed valuation-$86, 125, 160. City tax rate: $1.36 (1935-36).

Bonded debt-$959,977.50 (July 1, 1936).

Parks-20, with 76 acres, including playgrounds.

Financial-2 banks (11 branches), 3 building and loan, 2 savings and loan associations. Post Office receipts-$558,271.00 (1935).

Church buildings: 51.

Building and construction-Value of building permits $2,046,071 (1935-36).

Industry-306 manufacturers, employing 3,63], 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 19 hotels, with combined total of rooms of 1,473. The newest hotel was built in 1928.

City is served by two transcontinental railroads.

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

Hospitals-3.

Education-Public schools, 22 including 3 junior high, 2 senior high, 2 parochial; 13 pri- vate, 5 commercial, 4 divinity, ] blind, 1 deaf. University of California.

Number of pupils in public schools-12,777.

Total number of teachers, 633 (1936).

There are 150,000 volumes in the city library.

City Statistics: Total street mileage, 197.9; with 190.3 paved; 225 miles of sewers.

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Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1937, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1072

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1072