Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco city directory, 1943, Part 2

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1930
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1796

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STATISTICAL REVIEW

(Prepared by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce)

Name of city, San Francisco.

Slogan or sub-phrase, "Hub of Western Industry, Trade and Commerce."

Form of Government, Combined City and County, Board of Supervisors.

Population, 634,536 (1940 U. S .- official). Dec. 1, 1942, wartime census 728,236.

Native white population: 472,430 (1940). (Latest available.) Foreign born: White population-130,271.

Total white population-602,701=95 per cent of total pop- ulation.

Colored population : Negro, 4846.

Citizens of age: Males, 251,440; females, 241,530.

Native born population (white) is 74.4 per cent of whole population.

Predominating nationalities in city are American, Italian, German, Irish, English, Canadian and Chinese.

Area, 44.82 square miles.

Altitude, sea level to 938 feet.

Average temperature, 56.1°. Daily mean maximum, 62.6°. Daily mean minimum, 50.3º.

Parks: 53, and 108 recreational units. Total acreage, 4450. Assessed valuation, $1,091,906,790; all property, with $4.48 tax rate (1942-1943).

City's funded debt is $132,901,600 (June 30, 1942).

Financial: There are nineteen banks, 14 under State super- vision and 5 national banks, with total deposits of $4,444,489,740 (1942) ; resources, $4,771,184,723 (1942); debits to individual accounts, $13,996,130,000 (1942); clearings, $11,336,876,000 (1942); time deposits, $1,722,131,300 (1942); demand deposits, $2,722,358,440.

Post office receipts of $11,662,103 (1942).

Telephones in service, 307,830 (1941).

Churches number approximately 340.

Building and construction: Value of building permits, $9,744,526, number 2978 (1942).

Real estate transfers total 8139, valued at $61,720,274 (1942).

Industry: Number of establishments 2172 (1939); employ- ing 42,880 total wage-earners, paying wages of $76,450,000, and having products valued at $535,490,000 (1941 estimate C. of C.)

Trade: Territory (retail) serves 2,108,846 people within the trading area covering San Francisco Metropolitan Area, job- bing territory serves 3,580,072 people within a radius of 250 miles. Many firms distribute to the 11 Western States, as San Francisco is Western headquarters for hundreds of firms with national distribution:

Hotels: The U. S. Census reported 577 hotels, with total 50,308 guest rooms, third highest in nation.

Converging in San Francisco are 7 major transcontinental rail routes, under normal conditions 177 steamship lines, more than 40 truck lines, 4 transcontinental bus services, 3 trans- continental air transport routes, and the famous transpacific Clipper fleet.

Amusements: There are approximately 76 theaters, with a total seating capacity of approximately 86,956 persons. Larg- est theater or auditorium seats about 12,000 persons.

Hospitals number 25.

Education: Number of schools, 188 public, including 26, junior high and high schools. There are also a number of paro- chial and diocesan schools. Number of pupils enrolled in public schools, 132,638 during 1942, in private schools, 14,000 (est.).

There are 520,000 volumes in the libraries of the city.

City Statistics: Total street mileage, 908 miles, with 752 miles paved. Miles of gas mains laid, 1005; of sewers, 97 miles, main trunk; street railway and motor coach lines, 378.35 miles. Capacity of water works (municipal), 64,126,000,000 gallons.

SAN FRANCISCO (Prepared by the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce)

HISTORICAL

San Francisco is located centrally on the coast in 37° 47' 22-25" N. Latitude and 122° 25' 40-76" W. Longitude and situated on a peninsula bounded on the west by the Pacific Ocean, the north and east by the Bay of San Francisco and on the south by wooded hills and fertile valleys. Its eleva- tion extends from sea level to 938 feet. The city covers an area of about 44.82 square miles and is built principally on hills. The population as of April 1, 1940, amounted to 634,536 (U. S. Census). January, 1, 1943, 728,236.

The San Francisco Bay Region was discovered in July, 1769, by Don Gaspar de Portola's soldiers, who were seeking the Monterey Bay. In 1775 Don Manuel Ayala sailed the first ship through the Golden Gate into the San Francisco Bay. The San Carlos was the name of the vessel.

Years before, however, Sir Francis Drake brought his vessel, the Golden Hind, close to the Golden Gate and ran her ashore at what is now known as Drake's Bay. This was in 1579 and the first religious service in the English language was held on the Pacific Coast by the chaplain of the Golden Hind.

In 1776 a land expedition commanded by Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza arrived on the San Francisco peninsula and established the Presidio and the Mission Dolores. In 1777 Padre Junipero Serra, father of the California missions, ar- rived in San Francisco. The settlement was known as Yerba Buena until 1847, when it became San Francisco.

In 1806 the Russians attempted to establish themselves in and about San Francisco. They established a settlement at Fort Ross, near Santa Rosa, but after a few years gave it up, disposing of all movable fixtures and arms to Capt. John A. Sutter of Sacramento.

In 1846 war was declared by the United States on Mexico and on July 9, 1848, Capt. John B. Montgomery of the United States Navy arrived in the sloop-of-war "Portsmouth" and raised the American flag in what is now Portsmouth Square; thus without great excitement San Francisco passed from Spanish to Mexican and finally American rule.

San Francisco's greatest excitement perhaps came with the discovery of gold in 1848. People rushed here by every known mode of transportation and in thousands. The popu- lation increased steadily and the port became the most im- portant on the Pacific Coast, which position it has steadily maintained.

Because of the number of lawless individuals during the fifties, the citizens organized the Vigilance Committee and after a short campaign succeeded in ridding the city of the law breakers.

GOVERNMENT

San Francisco has a combined City and County Govern- ment functioning as a Municipal Corporation, which began January 8, 1932, to operate under a new Charter (Freehold- ers). Under this new Charter the Legislative Powers are vested in a Board of Supervisors consisting of 11 members. The Administrative Powers are vested in a Mayor and a Chief Administrative Officer, the latter appointed by the

Mayor. The People elect the Mayor, Assessor, Treasurer, Sheriff, Public Defender, Supervisors, District Attorney, City Attorney, Municipal and Superior Court Judges and the members of the Board of Education.

The salary of the Mayor is $10,000 per year and the major Departments under him include the Police, Fire, Park, Rec- reation, and Library, the Art Commission, the Utilities Com- mission, Civil Service Commission, and City Planning Com- mission.

The Chief Administrative Officer, appointed by the Mayor, receives a salary of $12,000 a year and has under him the following: Departments of Finance and Records, Purchasing, Real Estate, Department of Public Works, Department of Electricity, Street Traffic Advisory Board, Department of Public Health, County Welfare Department, Coroner's Of- fice, Horticultural Inspection Department, and Department of Weights and Measures.

The Controller is responsible to the Mayor and is ap- pointed by him subject to the confirmation and approval of the Board of Supervisors.

HARBOR AND COMMERCE

Centered in the San Francisco Bay Area, San Francisco is an important port of general commerce, handling a large and valuable domestic and foreign trade. It is the main gate- way of commerce for the vast territory of the Central Pacific Coast Area and Intermountain States. The Bay extends from the Golden Gate to the confluence of the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers on the northeast, and to a point near San Jose on the south, covering an area of 450 square miles. The deep-water commerce enters San Francisco Bay through the Golden Gate, which is but one mile wide, thus affording nat- ural protection from the ocean to the waters of the San Fran- cisco Bay. To this has been added the most comprehensive docking and berthing facilities, rail and freight connections, modern and well-equipped warehouses, etc. San Francisco harbor has 17.5 miles of berthing space; there are 195.62 acres of pier and wharf area, with a capacity of 4,719,000 tons of cargo; 43 modern piers; facilities to dock the largest ves- sels; seven drydocks; 160 spur tracks; 51 miles of harbor trackage connecting piers and warehouses; car capacity for 3600 cars; 42 cranes, derricks and aerials.

The harbor is controlled by the State of California and is governed by a board of harbor commissioners appointed by the Governor. Of the 43 piers, most of them are assigned to steamship companies having their own fleets and operat- ing their own schedules. San Francisco harbor facilities are valued at more than $100,000,000.

The water-borne commerce of San Francisco ranked sec- ond in value of all ports in the United States and third in tonnage, and outranking all other Pacific Coast ports by more than 12,000,000 cargo tons in 1940.

Exports during 1940 amounted to. $113,683,277

Imports during 1940 amounted to. .$ 98,305,839

The principal exports by value have been bulk oil, dried and canned fruits, cotton, machine parts, barley, fresh fruits, auto parts, canned fish and lead.

The principal imports have been coffee, copra, Chinese wood oil, paper, burlap and raw silk.

The 1941 report of the U. S. Army Engineers shows the distribution of the cargo tonnage, domestic and foreign, dur- ing 1940 as follows:

Total tonnage, San Francisco Bay 30,863,291 Tons

Foreign tonnage 3,641,922

Inland waterway tonnage 8,272,193 99

Domestic Coastwise tonnage 18,918,176

Besides the movement of commodities by water, there is a large rail traffic in San Francisco; during 1942 it reached 300,994 carloadings and unloadings, not including less-than- carload business.

San Francisco is also the ocean port for the great inland empire of California, 500 miles in length, 50 miles wide and containing 16,100,000 acres of irrigable land, 5,000,000 acres of which is under irrigation.

San Francisco, normally a port of call for 177 steamship lines, is serving as one of the major embarkation centers for the nation's war activity.

TRANSPORTATION

Converging in San Francisco are seven major transconti- nental rail routes, under normal conditions one hundred seventy-seven steamship lines, more than forty truck lines, four transcontinental bus services, three transcontinental air transport routes, and the famous transpacific Clipper fleet.

Today San Francisco is the terminus of four Class I rail- roads and a number of short lines. These railroads thoroughly blanket California and neighboring States, and by means of seven major transcontinental routes with convenient connec- tions, provide fast, dependable service to and from all parts of the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Passenger trains second to none are operated to and from the city.

All railroads connect with the State Belt Railroad serving the San Francisco waterfront and many industries, and ab- sorb the switching charges on line haul carload traffic. Recip- rocal arrangements between all lines permit efficient handling of cars within the switching limits. Trap car privileges are available. Between all points in the San Francisco switching limits and those of Oakland and Richmond the rate is 77c per ton, minimum charge $16.50 per car.

Overnight freight service is provided to Los Angeles, to most points in the San Joaquin and Sacramento Valleys, to numerous points along the coast, to southern Oregon and western Nevada. A greater proportion of the territory west of the Rocky Mountains is reached to advantage from San Francisco than from any other Pacific Coast port.

Store door pick-up and delivery for less than carload traf- fic is available between San Francisco and many points in Arizona, Nevada, Utah, Idaho and Oregon.

Intercoastal water rates bring San Francisco as close to the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts as Chicago and northern Missis- sippi Valley. points; with frequent sailings to Atlantic Coast ports and to Gulf ports under normal conditions.

Departures for the Hawaiian Islands average 20 per month under normal conditions.

In normal times over fifty steamship lines operate between San Francisco and foreign ports providing frequent passenger and freight service to and from the major ports, in the Orient, Austarlia, New Zealand, the South Sea Islands, both coasts of Central and South America, Northern and Southern Europe

and certain ports in Africa. Round-the-world liners call at San Francisco. San Francisco is the home port of some of the most luxurious passenger lines operating on the Pacific Coast.

Coastwise lines furnish frequent service between San Francisco and other ports in California, Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia. A huge fleet of inland water carriers ranging from palatial passenger steamers to humble barges navigate San Francisco Bay and waters tributary thereto, carrying an immense tonnage to and from the ultra-modern docks of the city.

San Francisco is the focal point of two great bridges, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, a link in both U. S. Highways No. 40 and No. 50, and the Golden Gate Bridge, a link in U. S. Highway 101.

Over forty common carrier truck lines provide scheduled services between San Francisco and points in California and neighboring states. In addition, more than 600 truck opera- tors having headquarters or agencies in San Francisco hold intrastate contract carrier, radial common carrier, or city carrier permits from the Railroad Commission of California or interstate contract carrier permits from the Interstate Com- merce Commission. All rates and services are subject to regu- lation by these Commissions.

Bus lines which are also under regulation radiate north, east and south providing fast, commodious passenger service between San Francisco and all important points in California and the eleven Western states. There are also four trans- continental bus services. In addition, there are numerous sightseeing tours operating between San Francisco and neigh- boring points of interest. Busses are always available for charter parties.

Three modern air terminals in the San Francisco Bay Area are within thirty minutes of the heart of San Francisco. The recently enlarged Municipal Airport is the focal point of transcontinental and north/south services by the most mod- ern transport planes. San Francisco is the eastern terminus for the famous clippers providing service to and from the Hawaiian Islands, Australia, New Zealand and the Orient.

MANUFACTURES

The manufacturing industries in San Francisco comprise an important part of the city's activities, leading in number of employees and amount of payroll nine major activities in San Francisco. One-quarter of all the people engaged in industry and business in San Francisco are employed by the manufacturing industries. The 1941 estimated annual payroll amounted to $76,450,000 according to San Francisco Cham- ber of Commerce.

The value of manufactures in 1941 amounted to $535,490,- 000, compared to $313,253,000 reported in 1939 by the United States Census, or an increase of $222,238,000 in the two years.

Manufacturing Activity in San Francisco Reported by U. S. Census 1941 Estimate

Number of

C. of C. 1939

1937

Establishments 2,172

2,172

2,030

Wage-Earners

42,880

31,789

39,082

Wages $ 76,450,000 $ 44,723,211 $ 52,466,752

Cost of Materials $174,783,186 $187,975,890

Value of Manufactures . $535.490,000 $313,252,639 $334,930,684

1935

1933

Number of Establishments 1,959

1,683

Wage-Earners 34,399

30,691

Wages

.$ 40,946,670

$ 33,107,340

Cost of Materials. $159,145,695 $116,025,328

Value of Manufactures. $287,178,844

$221,325,675

The ten manufacturing classifications reported with high- est value of products in San Francisco in the 1939 U. S. Census, latest classifications available are:

Printing and Publishing $35,911,032

Bread and Bakery Products. 14,947,767

Meat Packing, Wholesale 14,560,954

Bags, Other than Paper. 7,211,634

Canned and Dried Fruits and Vegetables. 7,460,876

Mattresses, Bed Springs

5,831,208

Boxes, Paper 5,758,924

Confectionery 5,638,901

Paints and Varnishes

5,559,002

Ship and Boat Building (currently very high) .. (unreported)

San Francisco-Oakland Industrial Area*

The value of products in 1939 of the 3,441 manufacturing establishments in this area totaled $960,636,411, the expen- ditures for materials totaled $600,156,725, and the number of wage-earners amounted to 76,374 and wages to $110,964,281. Value added by manufacture amounted to $360,479,686.

1939

1937

Number of Establishments 3,441

3,261

Wage-Earners

76,374

88,414

Wages

.$110,964,281

$ 122,916,300

Cost of Materials

. $600,156,725

$ 695,532,112

Value of Products.

.$960,636,411

$1,052,353.275

1935

1933

Number of Establishments

3,133

2,649

Wage-Earners

76,963

66,313

Wages

$ 91,273,731

$ 71,108,819

Cost of Materials

.$533,329,610

$ 366,261,604

Value of Products

$825,618,381 $ 598,290,815

The ten manufacturing classifications reported with the highest value of products in the San Francisco Industrial Area in the 1939 U. S. Census amounted to $326,089,967, or 34.0 per cent of the area total. They are:

Petroleum Refining $112,043,874

Canned and Dried Fruits and Vegetables. 40,408,393

Meat Packing

39,179,995

Bread and Bakery Products 23,207,553

Tin Cans and Other Tinware. 22,637,907

Steel Works

21,318,750

Paints and Varnishes

21,214,450

Printing and Publishing, Newspapers

19,600,313

Malt Liquors

13,938,049

Ship and Boat Building (currently very high) .. (unreported)

Many of the large key industries in the San Francisco Metropolitan Area, with their plants outside the corporate

*Includes Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, and San Mateo Counties.

city limits, have their headquarters in San Francisco, from which they conduct their finances, purchases, and sales.

RETAIL TRADE AND SERVICE ESTABLISHMENTS

Retail trade, one of the major activities in San Francisco, ranks high in number of employees and amount of payroll among the various group activities. Sales in 1942 are esti- mated at 775,000,000 or double the 1939 sales.

Trade at retail in San Francisco of 11,339 stores amounted to $383,554,000, according to 1939 U. S. Census reports, or 28.5 per cent above the 1935 sales, compared to 27 per cent in the nation. These stores reported 12,007 active proprietors of unincorporated businesses and 44,829 employees. The annual payroll amounted to $58,135,000.

The per capita sales for San Francisco led all other im- portant counties in California. The retail sales per capita in San Francisco amounted to $604, in Los Angeles to $520, and in the State to $462.

FINANCE

San Francisco is the financial and insurance capital of the West. The expeditious handling of financial transactions of all kinds has helped to maintain sound industrial and trade relations in San Francisco and throughout the West.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the head- quarters of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District, which ranked third in volume of business during 1942, measured by bank debits.

Many hundreds of firms with national reputation have established their Western headquarters in San Francisco.

The San Francisco Stock Exchange, one of the major regional stock exchanges in the United States, is maintained in San Francisco. There is also the San Francisco Mining Exchange.

Six of the 19 banks in San Francisco are among the first 50 banks of the nation. Several of the banks operate branches and a few operate branch systems throughout the State. Of the 19 banks in San Francisco, 14 are under State supervision. Of these 14, 3 are commercial and savings, 1 strictly savings, 1 savings and trust, and 2 title insurance companies operating trust departments. There are 5 national banks, all of which operate trust departments. The trust departments are under State supervision.

San Francisco is the insurance center of the West. More than six and a quarter-billion dollars of life insurance is in force in California. More than 700 authorized insurance com- panies are doing business in California. The premiums and assessments of all groups amounted to $455,697,970 in 1941.

Federal Reserve District Debits-1942

New York $232,239,681,000

Chicago 94,889,170,000

San Francisco

54,153,990,000

Cleveland

44,895,391,000

Boston 34,540,562,000

Philadelphia 30,815,413,000

Debits to Individual Accounts-1942.

New York City $210,961,495,000

Chicago

51,486,278,000

Philadelphia

21,944,601,000

Detroit 20,337,710,000

Boston 19,941,469,000

San Francisco

13,996,130,000

S. F. Exchange Transactions

Stock

Curb

1937

$144,196,470

$27,477,753

1938.

90,477,407

(a)

1939.

99,452,140

(a)

1940.

83,864,070

(a)

1941

66,247,391

(a)

1942.

45,478,533

(a)

(a) Consolidated with Stock Exchange 1938.

S. F. Bank Clearings

S. F. Bank Debits

1937

$ 7,913,846,000

$10,992,930,000

1938.

7,052,520,000

9,482,219,000

1939.

7,350,410,000

9,631,228,000

1940.

7,773,877,000

10,095,002,000

1941.

9,548,190,000

11,917,685,000

1942.

11,336,876,000

13,996,130,000

Bank Clearings-1942

New York City

$192,933,494,000

Philadelphia

28,877,000,000

Chicago

21,194,090,000

Boston

16,517,143,000

Detroit

13,397,493,000

San Francisco

11,336,876,000

Building and Loan Association Assets

There were twelve associations, six State and six Federal, in San Francisco in December, 1942:

December, 1937

$58,545,357

December, 1938

56,231,969

December, 1939

65,463,637

December, 1940

62,921,198

December, 1941

67,117,430

December, 1942

67,170,209

Deposits and Resources-San Francisco Banks

Time Deposits

Demand Deposits

12-31-36.

$1,401,261,546

$1,175,048,500

12-31-37

1,455,331,436

1,102,258,890

12-31-38.

1,515,423,628

1,179,609,061

12-31-39.

1,514,591,894

1,317,168,861

12-31-40.

1,584,043,000

1,525,482,000

12-31-41.

1,651,486,000

1,842,890,000

12-31-42.

1,722,131,300

2,722,358,440

Total Deposits

Resources

12-31-36

$2,576,310,046

$2,848,811,490

12-31-37

2,557,590,326

2,836,353,780

12-31-38.

2,695,132,689

2,982,907,202

12-31-39

2,831,760,755

3,112,173,475

12-31-40.

3,109,525,000

3,434,606,000

12-31-41

3,494,376,000

3,819,965,000

12-31-42.

4,444,489,740

4,771,184,723

Postal Receipts

1937

$9,661,319

1940 $ 9,969,367

1938.

9,386,480

1941.

10,529,683

1939

9,939,027

1942.

11,662,103

Number of Individual Income Tax Returns

1934

69,358

1937 96,850

1935.

.83,348

1938.

98,488

1936.

92,240

1939 109,429

PUBLIC BUILDINGS

First comes the group in the Civic Center, declared by the Duke of Connaught to be the finest thing of its kind in the world. The group consists: (1) City Hall, of classic de- sign, surmounted by an immense dome, higher than the dome of the Capitol at Washington: cost $4,000,000. (2) Exposition Auditorium, seating capacity of 12,000 in the main auditorium, with numerous small halls; cost, $2,000,000. (3) San Francisco Public Library; cost, $1,500,000. (4) State Building; cost $1,000,000. (5) War Memorial group of buildings, as a part of Civic Center; cost, $4,000,000, consisting of civic opera house, American Legion halls, etc. A Federal Building, cost, $3,000,000.

California Palace of the Legion of Honor, in Lincoln Park, overlooking the Golden Gate, is a replica of the Palace of the Legion of Honor in Paris. It was presented to the city. The structure cost $2,000,000. United States Mint, lo- cated at Market street and Duboce avenne, built in 1937; Post Office Building, corner of Seventh and Mission streets; Ferry Building, at the foot of Market street on the water- front, built by the State in 1896 at a cost of $1,000,000. It is 659 feet long and 156 feet wide, and in addition to serving as a ferryboat terminal, contains many State offices. The Cus- toms House and United States Appraiser's Building will represent an expenditure of more than $4,000,000. In Golden Gate Park are located the De Young Memorial Museum, Academy of Sciences, Steinhart Aquarium, Museum of An- thropology. At Kearny and Washington streets is the Hall of Justice, erected in 1910 at a cost of $1,000,000, containing police courts and the criminal department of the superior court. The Golden Gate Bridge cost $35,000,000, was com- pleted early in 1937 and opened to traffic in May, 1937, and the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, at a cost of $78,- 000,000, was opened to vehicular traffic November 12, 1936. San Francisco East Bay Terminal (at Mission and First streets) is a $2,000,000 structure opened to interurban train service January 15, 1939. The $2,730,000 Rincon Annex Post Office was opened in 1940.

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Polk's Crocker-Langley San Francisco city directory, 1943, Part 2

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1930 Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1796

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1930
Publisher: San Francisco, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1796