Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1922, Part 4

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1736

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206 Hutchinson Bldg., 1706 Broadway

OAKLAND

PHONE FRUITVALE 1869

Voyer Realty Co. Real Estate, Loans and Insurance The Man You Want to See About to Buy or Build a New Home With Your Rent Money

4715 East 14th Street OAKLAND, CALIF.

WILLARD W. WHITE

ARTHUR P. POLLARD

White & Pollard Real Estate

INVESTMENTS EXPERT MANAGEMENT PROPERTIES APPRAISEMENTS-INSURANCE-LOANS-LEASES

1300 Webster Street

Telephone Lakeside 2700

REAL ESTATE DEPARTMENT

A Realty Investment Service

Including City and Country Property and Exchanges LEE A. WILSON

808 Syndicate Bldg., 1440 Broadway OAKLAND, CALIF.

Phone Oakland 1654

CHARLES M. WOOD

815 Syndicate Building OAKLAND

Phone Lakeside 366

Real Estate Appraisals, Loans, Sales and Leases Business and Income Properties, Factory Sites INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY INVESTIGATION AND REPORTS WATERFRONT PROPERTY INVESTIGATION AND REPORTS Subdivisions, Residence, Industrial and Agricultural Property Management or Supervision

RETINNING DEPARTMENT

Oakland Re-Tinning Co.

HOTEL, RESTAURANT and HOUSEHOLD UTENSILS and SUPPLIES - CREAMERY and DAIRY CANS - VATS, COILS and COOLERS-ALL KINDS OF TINWARE

Re-Tinned and Repaired 106 ADELINE PHONE LAKESIDE 7823

SASH AND DOOR DEPARTMENT

Duner-Matheny Sash & Door Co. Sash, Door and Screen Specialists

Office, Factory and Warehouses

E. 14th Street and 42nd Avenue OAKLAND, CALIF.

Phone Fruitvale 3670

SASH AND DOOR DEPARTMENT

Pacific Manufacturing Company

Doors, Windows, Mouldings, Etc. General Millwork TELEPHONE OAKLAND 7898

1001 Franklin Street

OAKLAND, CAL.

F. E. BANTA

L. WHALIN

Progressive Planing Mill Co. Mill Work, Sash and Doors

PHONE OAKLAND 1835

2628 POPLAR STREET

SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES DEPARTMENT

Armstrong School

Private Secretaries 2024 University Avenue BERKELEY CALIFORNIA

The business school that re- quires an education as a prerequisite for admission.

Bayliss Organ Studios EDGAR BAYLISS, DIRECTOR

Complete Training for THEATRE ORGANISTS Lessons and Practice on Full Sized Theatre Organ

Send for List of Graduates Now Holding Positions in Leading Theatres 1905 GROVE ST. PHONE OKLD. 4194

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SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES DEPT.

RAG-JAZZ

PIANO PLAYING TAUGHT IN TWENTY LESSONS

THE "CHRISTENSEN" WAY

The greatest entertaining music of the age. Anyone can learn and everyone can benefit by it as it means Pleasure, Profit and Popularity. You can learn, even if you don't know a note. Advanced courses if you already play. Christensen Schools in all large cities. Booklet Free. Established 1903 in Chicago

Christensen School of Popular Music Phone Piedmont 1624 OAKLAND 3847 Telegraph Ave.

CLAREMONT HEIGHTS OUT OF DOOR SCHOOL

IN THE BERKELEY HILLS For Girls and Boys from Kindergarten through Junior High- Individual Instruction-Boarding Department for Girls-Swimming-Tennis ELIZABETH PLACE, Principal BERKELEY Phone Bkly. 4883

54 Vicente Road

Garden Plants for Sale

GROWN BY OUR STUDENTS

at reasonable prices-great assortment of Fruit Trees, Roses and Ornamentals. Come and see our nursery and horticultural school.

NELSON NURSERY SCHOOL Phone Fruitvale 179. Foothill Boulevard and 25th Ave., Oakland

SHADE MANUFACTURERS DEPT.

WINDOW SHADES ESTIMATES CHEERFULLY FURNISHED

Metropolitan Window Shade Factory "A SHADE THE BEST"

1723 Telegraph Ave. Phone Lakeside 6718

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SHEET METAL WORKS DEPARTMENT

Antone Sheet Metal Works

AUTO FENDERS AND RADIATORS REPAIRED NEW AND USED STOVES SPARK RANGES Stove and Range Repairing-Water Backs Made to Order Copper Retinned, Steam Tables and Closets, Patent Chimneys, First-Class Hoods in Russian and Black Iron, Combination Water Heaters

4001 East 14th Street OAKLAND, CALIF.

PHONE FRUITVALE 317-W

Agents "FAULTLESS" Comfort Furnaces

Agents "VALJEAN" Oil Burners

DICKSON & HOLBROOK HEATING and VENTILATING SHEET METAL WORK TELEPHONE BERKELEY 347 2115 Haste St., Near Shattuck Ave. BERKELEY, CALIF.

Yager Sheet Metal Co.

GENERAL SHEET METAL WORK

Metal Stamping, Cornice Skylights and Patent Chimneys . LARGEST STOCK

BEST EQUIPPED IN ALAMEDA COUNTY

Corner Thirty-fifth and San Pablo Ave.

3509 Chestnut Street

Telephone Piedmont 471

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SHOE DEPARTMENT

antilever Shoe for Men Women

SOLE DISTRIBUTORS

SAN FRANCISCO Arcade Floor, Phelan Building Phone Garfield 691 LOS ANGELES 5th Floor, New Pantages Theatre Building. Phone 67240 OAKLAND Room 201-205 Henshaw Building 14th and Broadway Phone Lakeside 1227

THE WORLD'S GREATEST CORRECTIVE SHOE FOR APPEARANCE AND COMFORT CANTILEVER SHOE STORES, Inc. WOMEN'S CHILDREN'S MEN'S

STATIONERS DEPARTMENT

Telephone Berkeley 6774

RADSTON'S

BOOKS-STATIONERY OFFICE SUPPLIES

2225 Shattuck Ave.

BERKELEY

Smith Brothers

25 Efficient, Agreeable Assistants

Anxious to Serve You With

Office Supplies and Printing Social Stationery and Engraving Leather Goods and Kodaks Artists' Materials and Greeting Cards

13th Street Near Broadway

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STORAGE DEPARTMENT

BEKINS FIRE PROOF STORAGE

Finest on the Coast

Inspection Invited

Moving, Storing, Packing, Shipping

Private Railroad Track Sprinkler System, Lowest Rate of Insurance, Separate Locked Rooms or Open Space. Storage Household Goods and Automobiles

Main Office and Warehouse 22d and San Pablo Av. PHONE OAKLAND 907

STUDENTS

FIRE PROOF STORAGE

We have the most complete and up-to-date Warehouse on the east side of the bay.

PHONE BERKELEY 6700

Shattuck Av. at Ward

BERKELEY

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TAXI DEPARTMENT

AXI?

TA LIMOUSINES TOURING CARS

for FUNERAL SERVICE AND WEDDINGS

ACME AUTO & TAXICAB CO. OAKLAND TAXICAB CO. Superior Service - Reasonable Prices High Grade Equipment

2126 WEBSTER ST.

PHONE OAKLAND 100

TOWEL SUPPLY DEPARTMENT

Rent! Why Buy?

Clean towel service, napkins, table-cloths, table tops, white coats, white pants, profes- sional gowns, dental smocks, nurses' gowns.

Keep Clean and SERVE IT IN WHITE Rented from

THE OAKLAND-CALIFORNIA TOWEL COMPANY

TRANSFER DEPARTMENT

Drayage Service Corporation

Draymen and Freight Forwarders

OAKLAND Fourth SE. Cor. Castro Sts. Phone Oakland 933

SAN FRANCISCO 94 Stuart St. Phone Douglas 6798

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TRANSFER DEPARTMENT

Merchants Express and Draying Co. H. L. HINMAN, Manager

General Draying CARLOAD DISTRIBUTION A SPECIALTY Reliable Express Service Between San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda and Berkeley

400-406 ALICE STREET

PHONE LAKESIDE 6200

NO-D-LAY-

-NO-D-LAY - -NO-D-LAY

STORAGE LOWEST RATES MOVING, PACKING AND SHIPPING LOCAL AND INTERURBAN Incomparable Service With Oakland's Latest and Safest Giant Moving Vans REAL ESTATE-INSURANCE

SAN PABLO AT 24TH

OAKLAND 2608

STUDENTS Fireproof Storage STORAGE, MOVING, PACKING, SHIPPING PHONE BKLY. 6700 Shattuck Av. at Ward BERKELEY

E. B. HAUNSCHILD, President

C. H. SAMUELS, Secretary

U. C. EXPRESS & STORAGE CO.

FIREPROOF STORAGE General Forwarders PHONE BERKELEY 1082 and 1083 1942 SHATTUCK AVE. BERKELEY

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TRANSFER DEPARTMENT

PHONE OAKLAND 248

PHONE BERKELEY 8400 UNITED TRANSFER CO.

BAGGAGE CHECKED AT HOME TO DESTINATION

Only Company Authorized by Southern Pacific-Western Pacific-All Steamship Lines TWO TRIPS TO SAN FRANCISCO DAILY Main Office 538 Seventeenth Street, Oakland, California ALAMEDA SAN FRANCISCO Phone Douglas 83

Phone Alameda 1300

PACKING-MOVING-STORING-FREIGHTING

TYPEWRITERS DEPARTMENT

@ Century

TYPEWRITERS

ALL MAKES

Rented, 3 Months, $6.00 up Sold, $25.00 to $85.00 Guaranteed Factory Rebuilt

SUPPLIES AND REPAIRS FOR ALL MACHINES MANUFACTURERS OF THE CENTURY TYPEWRITER THE PRACTICAL PERSONAL MACHINE

AGENTS FOR THE NEW REMINGTON PORTABLE

American Writing Machine Co., Inc.

308 Twelfth St. OAKLAND

PHONE OAKLAND 2764

UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

Berg's Funeral Parlors FRANK A. BERG, Prop.

Phone Berkeley 138

1936 University Ave.

Berkeley, Cal.

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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

ESTABLISHED NOVEMBER 10, 1873

Albert Brown Company Undertakers

OAKLAND 582-584 THIRTEENTH STREET

I BERKELEY 2045 UNIVERSITY AVENUE

I ALAMEDA 2110 SANTA CLARA AVENUE

OAKLAND 18

Telephones: ALAMEDA 157

BERKELEY 981

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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

NICHOLAS J. MEINERT

ALBERT ENGEL

Phone Oakland 943

ENGEL & MEINERT

MODERN MORTICIANS "The Funeral Home of Service" LADY ASSISTANTS 2655 TELEGRAPH AVE.

OAKLAND, CALIF.

Corner 27th Street

Freeman & Cox- Roach & Kenney Undertaking Co. Incorporated FUNERAL DIRECTORS

OAKLAND PARLORS 2630 Telegraph Ave., Phone Lakeside 1181 FRUITVALE PARLORS 2945 East 14th St., Phone Fruitvale 210 BERKELEY PARLORS 2414 Grove St., Phone Berkeley 2538

Tel. Alameda 1297 Lady Assistant

George H. Hagy FUNERAL DIRECTOR PROMPT ATTENTION TO CALLS IN ALL BAY CITIES 1522-26 WEBSTER ST. ALAMEDA, CALIF.

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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

P. N. HANRAHAN CO. UNDERTAKERS

Phone Merritt 3534

510 East Fourteenth Street AT FIFTH AVENUE

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

Edward E. Niehaus Co. Funeral Directors

2434 Telegraph Ave.

TELEPHONE BERKELEY 850

BERKELEY

Charles Hj Truman

TRUMAN UNDERTAKING COMPANY

THOUGHTFUL CONSIDERATION given to every detail.

PHONE OAKLAND 5085 2935 TELEGRAPH AVENUE OAKLAND

1253

PHONE MARKET 109 1919 MISSION STREET SAN FRANCISCO

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UNDERTAKERS DEPARTMENT

Phone Oakland 284

Ernest A. Wollitz

FUNERAL DIRECTOR and EMBALMER WALTER F. FLIERL, Associate

1935 Webster Street

OAKLAND, CAL.

WALL PAPER DEPARTMENT

H. C. Swanson Company Wall Paper and Paints-Painters' Supplies DISTRIBUTORS OF MAGNER BROTHERS PAINT PRODUCTS AND GOODBAR-GOODWIN EXCLUSIVE WALL PAPER

361 Twelfth Street OAKLAND Tel. Oakland 3481

UHL BROS., INC. WALL PAPER, PAINTS, VARNISH, ENAMELS LINING, BURLAP, KALSOMINE, BRUSHES Painters' and Paper Hangers' Supplies Distributors Murphy Varnish Co.'s Architectural and Automobile Varnishes and Enamels PHONE OAKLAND 4928

375 12th Street Oakland, Calif.

WAREHOUSES DEPARTMENT

HERE'S A SERVICE FOR YOU

MERCHANDISE WAREHOUSING - Large and Small Lots POOL CAR DISTRIBUTION - Via Rail and Water OCEAN FREIGHT SERVICE - Coastwise, Coast to Coast, Round the World

LAWRENCE WAREHOUSE CO.

325 13th Street Telephone Lakeside 456

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WATER COMPANIES DEPARTMENT

How to Make Application For Water Service

When you move into a new house-whether owned by you or rented-the first requirement necessary is Water Service.

It is no trouble to get this service. You may come to the office and personally sign for meter connection-you may write your request for water-or if in the confusion of moving, it is not convenient to write or call, a telephone message will bring one of our service men to you at any time and place desired.

It is our desire to make it easy and convenient for you to get water service. Our Order Department is instructed to comply promptly with every reasonable request.

If you are a new comer to this community and have not previously paid water bills for a year and do not own your own home, you will be asked to make a deposit of $2.50, which will be returned to you after one year with interest at 6%. If, however, you are a property owner, or have previously been prompt in paying water bills for a period of one year, no deposit will be asked.

The Water Company is anxious to serve you in every possible way, and the development of this broad policy of handling orders is part of the service to you.

East Bay Water® Co.

DOMESTIC

INDUSTRIAL

OAKLAND 512 16th St. Tel. Lakeside 585

BERKELEY 2106 Bancroft Way Tel. Berk. 362

ALAMEDA 1412 Park St. Tel. Ala. 41

RICHMOND

717 Macdonald Ave. Tel. Richmond 95

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The Polytechnic College of Engineering 13th and Madison Sts., Oakland, Cal.

Well equipped with Extensive Machine Shops, Electrical Laboratory, Physical and Chemical Laboratories, Field Instruments, Assay Laboratory, Etc. Thorough, Complete and Practical Courses in

Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering Mining Engineering, Architecture Civil Engineering

Also Special Courses in

Machine Shop Practice and Auto Mechanics

Our plan of eliminating the non-essential branches and emphasizing all the essential branches required in actual engineering practice enables our students to secure a high standard technical training in about

One-half the Time Required in a Four-Year College Course

This College covers the full university field in Mathematics, Laboratory work, Graphic Statics, Hydraulics, Strength of Materials, Thermo Dynamics, Direct and Alternating Current Machinery, Mechanical and Architectural Draft- ing, Topographical Drafting, Surveying, Railroad Construction, Machine Design, Machine Shop, etc., giving a

Thorough and Intensified Technical Course

Preparing young men to go into immediate employment as engineers and mechanics. These courses appeal to the young man who wants a high standard course and who wants to specialize.

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POLYTECHNIC BUSINESS COLLEGE Thirteenth and Madison Sts., Oakland

A Private School for Private Secretaries

Offers the most complete and practical training in all secretarial, business and efficiency courses ever given in the west. The Polytechnic Business College appeals especially to those who want the best and who appreciate superior facilities, including expert teaching power, pleasant surroundings, a spirit of work and enthusiasm, courteous treatment, dignified discipline and results which make for success.

GIRLS, YOUNG LADIES, WOMEN

Your opportunity is here now as never before. No argument is necessary to convince you. It only remains for you to qualify-Salaries for Beginners $50.00 to $100 per month. Get started now. This college is in session the year round.

THE GOVERNMENT WANTS YOU

Thousands of Stenographers, Private Secretaries, Clerks-Bookkeepers- and Office Assistants are needed in every department of Business and Govern- ment service.

NOTE :- Business men who are in need of stenographers and private secretaries are requested to inform us a few days in advance in order that we may make recommendations adapted to the requirements.

Address Polytechnic Business College 13th and Madison Sts., Oakland, Cal.

The only Business College in California that owns and occupies its own buildings, representing an investment of $150,000.

Maintains a College Faculty whose standing and teaching experience are a guarantee to genuine service.

W. E. GIBSON, President

H. C. INGRAM, Vice-President

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OAKLAND BERKELEY : : ALAMEDA CITY

DIRECTORY 1922

Containing an Alphabetical List of Business Firms and Pri- vate Citizens of Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda, Piedmont, Emeryville and San Leandro, a Directory of the City and County Officers, Churches, Public and Private Schools, Benevolent, Literary and other Associations, Incorporat- ed Institutions, Etc.

AND A COMPLETE

CLASSIFIED BUSINESS DIRECTORY

Compiled and Published by Polk-Husted Directory Co. (Member Association of North American Directory Publishers) 470 13th St., Oakland, Cal.

PRICE

DIRECTORY IS THE COMMON INTERMEDIARY BETWEEN BUYER -SELLER

$12.50

INTRODUCTION

The publishers present the 1922 edition of the Oakland, Berke- ley and Alameda Directory to its patrons and users with confidence as to the complete and correct information contained therein.

The general arrangement is the same as in the past; the letter "A" following a name signifies Alameda, "B," Berkeley, "Pied," Piedmont and "San L," San Leandro. The Classified Section is segregated so that users may obtain listings for each town separately.

The "BUYERS GUIDE" occupies pages 7 to 114. This section includes advertisements of the leading manufacturers, business and professional men of the East Bay District, arranged by departments and indexed under classified headings. A careful perusal of this section of the directory will be found interesting.

The Miscellaneous Section, giving information as to Churches, Fraternal and Secret Societies, Lodges, Civic and Miscellaneous Organizations, Parks, Etc., will be found on pages 127 to 138.

The Street and Avenue Guide commences at page 139. The Classified Section in the back of the book is complete and lists every business and profession under correct headings.

Names coming in too late to appear in the regular Alphabetical Section will be found on page 125.

From information gathered in our canvass we estimate the POPULATION of the Oakland District, including Berkeley, Ala- meda, Piedmont and San Leandro to be 373,005. ·

Directory Library

A library of City and County Directories is maintained by the publishers at 470 13th Street for the free use of their patrons. As the latest Directories are issued they will be added to the Library, thereby keeping it up to date from year to year. We extend a cordial invitation to each and every one of our subscribers to make fre- quent use of this Library and to consult the Directories on file here as often as wished.

Advertising Oakland

The Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda Directory is placed in the Directory Libraries throughout the United States and in many of the larger hotels in New York, Chicago and other large cities, where it serves the public as a valuable book of reference and the city it represents as a splendid standing advertisement, for no other pub- lication can convey such an idea of the city, its business interests and all the various institutions and organizations.

We are indebted to the Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Orton E. Lucas, Publicity Director, and to the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce, Mr. Charles Keelor, Managing Director, for the fol- lowing interesting data :

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OAKLAND

Oakland, situated on the continental side of San Francisco Bay, is the third largest city in California, 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 mil- lion population before reaching the sloping hills which have become the ex- clusive 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 more than 500 plants, making a total of more than 2,000 different products in this great east bay city.

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 expendi- ture of more than a million and one-half dollars on the Oakland harbor.

INDUSTRIES

The recently issued government census shows that Oakland gained 175.3 per cent in the number of persons engaged in manufacturing in the five years immediately preceding the compilation of these figures. In the same period of time, Los Angeles gained 87.9 per cent and San Francisco 45.7 per cent.

In the matter of capital invested, Oakland gained 226.9 per cent, San Francisco gained 124.1 per cent, and Los Angeles 56.5 per cent.

Salaries and wages increased 378.6 per cent in Oakland, against 176.5 per cent in Los Angeles and 122.2 per cent in San Francisco; and the value of products manufactured gained 326.5 per cent in Oakland, 170 per cent in Los Angeles, and 157.1 per cent in San Francisco in this five-year period.

W. C. Durant, when head of the General Motors, said that the efficiency of labor in his Oakland plant was greater than in any other plant of the ex- tensive General Motors chain of factories throughout the United States. The fact that the new Durant factory was located in Oakland in the face of the greatest kind of competition from Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, con- firms the impression that the Durants were eminently well satisfied that Oakland offers the best manufacturing conditions on the Pacific Coast. The manager of one of the largest fruit packing plants in the United States re- cently said that, in his judgment, an Oakland fruit packing plant's advantages in efficiency of labor over a similar plant in the Sacramento or San Joaquin valleys amounted to 20 per cent.

CLIMATE

Oakland's climate is extremely equitable. The average temperature for the twelve months is 56 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 incidently Oakland is one of the largest ship- building centers in the world-were the ones to set one building record after another during the World War.

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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 be- come an increasingly more healthful place for residents during the last fifteen years.

In 1920 Oakland ranked second in smallness of death rate out of a list of forty-three larger cities compiled by the United States Government. The rate which was then 11.6 per thousand was exceeded only by Seattle, where the death rate was 10.5.

It is noteworthy that Oakland, as indicated by the death rate, exceeds in health conditions both Los Angeles and San Francisco; in one case 3.4 per thousand and in the other by 3 per thousand.

POPULATION

The population of Oakland was but 66,960 in 1900, and in 1920 it was 216,261, a gain of more than 306 per cent. During the ten-year period between 1910 and 1920, Oakland gained 66,087, approximately 44 per cent. With Ber- keley and Alameda and the other east bay cities which now have grown into one large metropolis, the total population is now estimated at 373,000.

SCHOOLS

Few cities in the United States can boast of a more perfect school sys- tem 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 45,000. 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 incidently one of the richest in the matter of endowment.

Oakland has 44 primary and grammar schools, 11 junior high schools, and 5 high schools.

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS

Oakland's new park and playground development-a noteworthy feature of which was the acquisition this year of extensive municipal golf links-un- doubtedly 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 sit- uated 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 thousand of wild ducks make Lake Merritt their home. Spring finds these traditionally 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 which 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 transcontinental 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.

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BERKELEY

Berkeley is a unique city that is making an ever-widening appeal to the highest type of home-seekers from all parts of the United States. Families with boys and girls who desire the advantages of university training are coming here to establish their residence in order that their sons and daugh- ters may have home life during their college years. Those who have no children come because Berkeley is an ideal home city. If they cannot find suitable occupation here they can take the street cars to Oakland, adjoin- ing on the south, a city of 250,000 inhabitants, or can go by electric train and ferry to San Francisco. It takes only 35 minutes to reach the metropo- lis from Berkeley; the fare is moderate and the service unexcelled in the world,

The climate of Berkeley is ideal for health and for work. The cool ccean breeze, frequently fog-ladened at morning and evening, tempers the summer air so that hot days are very exceptional. There is no rain during the summer months, and the rolling Berkeley Hills, hemming in the plain to the east, are brown and dry. During the winter months they are gloriously green from the frequent showers. At this season the air is washed bril- liantly clear, and from the heights, after a rainstorm the shapely profile of Mt. Tamalpais rises beyond the blue waters of San Francisco Bay with its most minute features distinctly revealed.

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Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1922, Part 4

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co Publication date: 1924 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co. Number of Pages: 1736

Author: Polk-Husted Directory Co
Publication date: 1924
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : Polk-Husted Directory Co.
Number of Pages: 1736