Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1941, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1200

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GENERAL INDEX

MAR 5 1941 Call-Bulletin Library

MAR 5 1941

Abbreviations

Advertising Department

opposite

1044

Alphabetical List of Names Apartment Buildings

1046

Associations and Clubs - Commercial

1050

Bank Department

Buyers' Guide

Buildings - Office and Public

1061

Business and Commercial Associations

1050

Business Directory

1045

Buyers' Guide

1044

Cemeteries

1062

Churches

1064

City Government

Alameda

Berkeley

113

Oakland

709

Classified Business Directory

1045

Clubs

1069

Colleges and Private Schools

1123

County Government

Directory Library

Federal Government Officers

321

Fire Department - Alameda Berkeley

113

Oakland

709

Firm Abbreviations

Fraternities and Sororities

1080

Hospitals and Dispensaries

1090

Introduction

Justice Courts

Labor Organizations

1095

Libraries and Reading Rooms

1098

Military

321

Parks and Playgrounds

1109

Piers

1112

Police Department - Alameda

Berkeley

114

Oakland

710

Population

Postoffice Department

321

Public Library

1098

Schools and Colleges

1123

Schools - Public

1123

Societies - Secret and Fraternal

1126

State Officers and Boards

903

Street and Avenue Guide

Superior Courts

Trade and Labor Organizations

1095

United States Courts and Officers

321

Wharves

1112

opposite

Page

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

(Page numbers below refer to Buyers' Guide opposite page 1044)

Page

Alameda County-East Bay Title Insurance Co

front cover and 48

Alameda Steam Laundry & Dry Cleaners 36

Alcosta Credit Adjustment Co .... right side lines and 17

American National Detective System

right side lines and 25

American Trust Co. back cover and 3

Anglo California National Bank

Austin Realty Co. left side lines and 43

Auto Loan Service Co.

left top lines and 34

Bank of America National Trust & Savings Assn. 5

Bank of Commerce

left top lines and

Bekins Van & Storage Co.

left side lines and 47

Bennett's Bonded Collection Service .. left side lines and 17

Berger Hollidge & Conley left top lines and 34

Binning Mel H right side lines and 17

Blyth & Co. 10

Brandon's Memorial Studio 38

Breuner John Co left side lines and 30

Brown Albert Undertaking Co. right top lines and 28

California Crematorium & Columbarium

front cover and 21

Campbell J A Dr Dentists. right side lines

Caporgno & Co

right top lines and 28

Capwell H C Co. left top lines and 22

Capwell Sullivan & Furth right top lines and 22

Central Bank

front cover and 7

Coldwell Banker & Co. 43

Colonial Cafeteria left side lines and 12

Columbia Outfitting Co left side lines and 13

Cooperative Adjustment Bureau. .left side lines and 17

Cowell Henry Lime & Cement Co.

back cover, right side lines and 10

Davidson & Licht Jewelry Co. right side lines and 35

Del Monte Cleaners left side lines and 13

East Bay Credit Service. right side lines and 18

Empire Collection Co. left side lines and 18

Evergreen Cemetery Assn 12

Farmers & Merchants Savings Bank .. left top lines and 8 Federal Outfitting Co right side lines and 14

Field E B Co. bottom edge and 44

Fireman's Fund Insurance Co

back cover, right top lines and 32

Fong Wan left top lines and 13

Frederick L B Co top edge, left side lines and 44 Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney .... left top lines and 29 Fuller W P & Co right top lines and 41

Golden State Co. left top lines and 38

Goldman's right side lines and 14

Goodwill Industries of Oakland 47

Gregg Collection Service. right side lines and 18

Guarantee Collection Service. left side lines and 18

Hale Bros. left top lines and 23

Heald College.

Hink J F & Son.

Hitchcock Patrol and Detective Service .... right side lines

Holmes Collection Agency right side lines and 19

Horwinski Printing Co. left side lines and 41

Hotel Claremont. left side lines and 31

Hunter Advertising Co. right top lines

Insurance Building 11

Inter-City Express Publishing Co. right side lines and 40

Inter-City Printing Co

right side lines and 41

Intercity Title Co

.back cover and 48

Jackson Furniture Co

right top lines and 30

Jewelry Nook The

right side lines and 35

Johnson R F & Son

right side lines and 10

Kahn's.

right top lines and 24

Local Loan Co. right side lines and 37

Magnin I & Co

Maiden F Bruce & Co. right side lines and 45

Market Laundry Co. left side lines and 36

Mason-McDuffie Co. right top lines and 45

Maxwell Hardware Co.

right side lines and 31

McCormick Steamship Co.

left side lines and 38

Mercantile Collection Service.

right side lines and 16

Merchants Collection Association of Oakland front cover and 15

Miller Grant D Mortuaries

left top lines and 29

Miller Jewelers

Mitchell & Austin

45 Z

Montgomery Ward & Co.

.back cover and 24

Moore Ltd

right side lines and 14

Morris Plan Co of Oakland.

right top lines and 37

Mother's Cake & Cookie Co.

right side lines and 2

Oakland-California Towel Co.

A, right top lines and 36

Oakland Chamber of Commerce.

left side lines

Oakland Collection Bureau left side lines and 19

Oakland Crematorium

right side lines and 21

Oakland Real Estate Board

.left top lines and 42

Oakland Title Insurance and Guaranty Co

left top lines and 49

Office Equipment Co of Oakland. .left top lines and 40

Pacific Bond & Mortgage Co

left side lines and 37

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. right top lines and 26

Pearl Assurance Co ...... front cover, right top lines and 33 Polytechnic College of Engineering

opposite page 44 and 46

Pope & Talbot Inc.

Porter F F Co front edge and 45

Porter F F Phillips & Co

front edge and 34

Post-Enquirer The

Professional Collection Service

Professional Credit Assn right side lines and 19

Retailers Credit Assn backbone and 20

Rhodes & Jamieson Ltd. back cover and 14

Richardsons

Schroeter & White right side lines and 34

Sears Roebuck & Co.

Signature Loan Corp left side lines and 37

Spencer Collection Service left top lines and 16

Street & Costello.

C Sunset Mausoleum right top lines and 12

Tower F B Dr

left side lines and 13

Tribune Publishing Co Truman Co. B, left top lines and 27

United Parcel Service right side lines and 41 Western Union Telegraph Co right side lines and 47

Willis College of Business. right top lines and 46 Wood Bill Motor Co Ltd. back cover, left top lines and 2 Wood Charles M Co front cover and 46

40 19

East Bay Municipal Utility District. 50 Patterson Bros. left side lines and 40

Monteverde & Parodi

Mason Brothers

INTRODUCTION

R. L. Polk & Co. (publishers of more than 750 other city, county, state and national directories) presents to its subscribers and to the general public this 1941 edition of the Oakland City 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 City 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

MAR 5 1941

The estimated population of the East Bay is 553,000 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 Street and Avenue Guide of Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley covers pages 19 to 42, on white paper. 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 1044, on white paper.

The Buyers' Guide, beginning opposite page 1044, and separately paged from I to 50, on golden rod paper, contains the advertisements of the leading manufacturing, business and professional inter- ests 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 refer- ence 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 progressive 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 1045 to 1136, on yellow paper. 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 City 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 edu- cational 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 & CO. DIRECTORY LIBRARY

Through the courtesy of the publishers of the Oakland City Directory, a Directory Library is maintained at the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, for free reference by the general public. This is one of more than 500 Directory Libraries installed in the chief cities of the United States and Canada by members of the Association of North American Directory Publishers, under whose supervision the system is operated.

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.

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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 Sierras, situated on "The Heights" 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; and the new Broadway low-level tunnel through the hills to the northeast expedites travel to Contra Costa County and the inter- ior; 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 87 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 distant. And, adjoining Oakland on the north, is Berkeley, site of the great University of Cali- fornia.

For Further Information About

OAKLAND CALIFORNIA

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OAKLAND

Industrial Capitol of the West

STATISTICAL REVIEW Council-Manager Form of Government

Area-61.6 square miles.

Altitude-Zero to 1800 feet.

Call-Bulletin Library

Assessed valuation-$263,224, 766-1940-1941.

Parks-48, with acreage of 694.

White population-295,660.

Colored population-8,564. Males-158,128.

Females-156,781.

Native-born population-79.3 per cent.

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

City's bonded debt is $8,793,160.

Financial: 57 banks, 7 trust companies.

Churches-190.

Building and construction : Value of building permits, 1939-$11,083,083 with 10,560 permits.

Real estate transfers (trust deeds recorded) total 13,066, valued at $53,020,964 (1939). About 48.6 per cent of homes owned. Dwellings total number 82,050.

Industry : Metropolitan Oakland-Number of establishments-959 manufacturers employing 30,031, paying wages of $41,392,263 annually and having products valued at $321,340,023 annually.

Trade: Territory (retail) contains 1,500,000 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 47,- 571. Total of teachers 1,900.

There are 275,001 volumes in the libraries of the city.

City statistics: Total street mileage, 714, with 511 miles paved; 708 miles of sewers. Traveled roads and unimproved streets-204 miles. Capacity of water works (public) 125,000,000 gallons daily, with 1,752 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 1939, Oakland enjoyed 249 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 is native white. There are over 8 miles of berthing space in Oakland Harbor, 127 national industries have chosen Metropolitan Oakland for the base of their Pacific Coast oper- ations. 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 Oakland, began to claim the excellent factory sites along the bay shore. Today there are 959 plants, making a total of more than 2,300 different products in this great Metropolitan Oakland Area.

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.

U.S. NAVY

Two of the Navy's largest defense projects now are under way in the Metropolitan Oakland Area at a total cost of $37,000,000.

Nearing completion is the Naval Air Station in Alameda, which will be the general repair base for planes and the Pacific Coast base for all types of sea planes and land planes assigned to the Navy. It will be one of the largest air stations in the world, with more than 6,000 officers, men and civilians assigned to duty there.

Across the Oakland Estuary from this huge air station and located in Oakland's Middle Harbor is the new $17,000,000 Navy Supply Depot. The new depot will furnish supplies, clothing, ammunition and other materials to the Pacific Fleet. It will be the chief supply base for fleet operations on the Pacific Coast.

CLIMATE

Oakland's climate is extremely equable. The average temperature for the twelve months is 58.0 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 1939 was 11.3 per thousand residents. During the past fourteen 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 1939, the rate of infant mortality was reduced to only 35 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. In 1940 preliminary figures show 304,909, or a gain of 7.3 per cent over 1930.

The cities of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Emeryville, Piedmont, San Leandro, Albany, Richmond and El Cerrito have now grown together into one compact whole. These nine cities have 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 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 49 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 acquisition 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 around 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 "City of Finer Living"

STATISTICAL REVIEW

Name of City-Berkeley.

Altitude-0 to 1300 feet.

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

Population-Census of 1930-82,109; estimated total 1940-100,000; White, 1930 Census-77,- 508; Other, 1930 Census-4,601.

Education-15 elementary public schools, 3 junior high schools, 2 high schools, 4 divinity schools, 6 commercial, 7 private, 3 parochial, 6 small children, 1 blind, 1 deaf, and the University of California. Number of pupils in public schools, October 18, 1940-12,254; Number of pupils in evening high school, October 18, 1940-3,327; Number of teachers in public schools, October 18, 1940-420; Number of teachers in evening high school, October 18, 1940-97.

Public library and branches contain 169,068 volumes as of November 1, 1940.

Two transcontinental steam railroads serve the city-Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, and Southern Pa- cific.

Hotels-10 with combined total of more than 1,315 rooms.

Churches-75 congregations.

Amusements-8 motion picture theatres, ice rink, bowling alley, tennis courts, golf courses, and many spectator sports at the University of California; in addition many musical, cultural, and dramatic events are held in the community each year.

Hospitals-2.

Parks-24 with combined area of 217 acres.

Attendance at Berkeley recreation centers from July 1, 1939 to June 30, 1940-1,715,021.

Trade-1,155 retail stores, 497 service establishments, and 36 wholesale houses; with 4,871 proprie- tors and employees; producing an annual volume of $30,750,000.00 in sales and services.

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Polk's Oakland (California) city directory, 1941, Part 1

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1928 Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1200

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1928
Publisher: Oakland, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1200