Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1925, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1884

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PROPOSED STREET OPENINGS

I have previously recommended the opening of Fallon Street, and although this matter has been permitted to lie in abevance temporarily, I believe it should again be brought before the Council and the proceedings brought to a satisfactory completion. Over a year ago the Conneil adopted a resolution directing that material taken from excavations in our streets be dumped at the end of First Street for the purpose of extending this street from Fallon Street to Fifth Avenue. Opening of Fallon Street and the extension of First Street, as'outlined above, will provide a much needed traffic artery for the heavy traffic operation on the harbor front and which now inust of necessity move to and from other parts of the city over the 12th Street dam.

Some years ago, at my direction, the City Engineer prepared plans for a harbor front street to extend from Oak east to 14th Avenue. Two years ago I introduced a resolution in this Conneil directing the Superintendents of Streets to have all the material excavated from new buildings dumped along the line of First Street, east of Fallon, to provide a base for this new street. This work has been neglected and should be revived, in order that the plans for this street can be carried on to completion. I believe that the time has come when this improvement should be carried out, in connection with the extension of First Street and the opening of Fallon. Completion of this project will completely remove the heavy traffic from the congested area on 12th Street.

The Russett Street opening from 50th Avenue easterly will provide an additional traffic artery from the eastern end of AAlameda County into Oak- land, and should be pushed to a rapid conclusion.

The Bond Street opening has been approved by the Council and this open- ing project should be completed in order to provide an additional traffic artery for traffie operating in the San Joaquin Valley and southern part of the state

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to come into Oakland through au- other channel in addition to Easi 14th Street and Foothill Boulevard, which are rapidly becoming over- crowded.

In this connection I wish to ad- vise your honorable body that at my suggestion the recent session of the Legislature adopted a bill which would have made Peralta Street a state highway from Seventh Street to its intersection with San Pablo Avenue. Peralta Street now car- ries a heavy traffic from Sacramen- to and San Joaquin Valley points, traflie too heavy for the present surface of that street. It will soon be necessary to repave Peralta Street with a heavier surface and I do not believe that the property Kahns Department Store owners on that street should bear this burden. This street is now a publie highway and costs of its repair should be borne by the state and by Alameda County.

At this point again I wish to recommend to your honorable body that strennous efforts be made for cities to receive a portion of the gasoline tax money collected by the state of California. It should be understood that the money paid in by Oakland people in gasoline tax for the maintenance and up. keep of state highways should have a portion devoted to the streets in this city which are highways in addition to being local streets. This condition applies particularly to East 14th. East 12th, Foothill Boulevard, Broadway, Telegraph Avenue, San Pablo Avenue and Peralta Street.

Municipal Auditorium

MAYOR'S MESSAGE, 1925

PARKS AND PLAYGROUNDS

With the general expansion of our city comes recognition of the necessity of providing adequate park and reereational facilities for our ever increasing population. We are doing that in a manner that more than keeps in advance of the demands. During the past year we have purchased the magnificent Sequyah Park area, 176 acres in extent in the wooded hill district of the city. Purchase of this splendid property provides for Oakland a mountain eity park which contains, I believe, the only growth of redwood trees, with one exception, to be found in a city park anywhere in America.

Although a bond issue for an extensive purchase of land adjacent to this particular park failed at an earlier date the purchase of the 176 acres by the city insured perpetual possession for park purposes of the choicest portion of that land.

I wish at this time to recommend again that the Council give serions con- sideration to the purchase for a park of the Durant Estate in the eastern por- tion of the city. The owner of this property, Cliff Durant, made an offer over a year ago to sell this property to the city at a price of approximately $700.00 per acre. The estate contains 500 acres of magnificent property, mueh of which has already been landscaped and should be immediately adopted as a park. The remainder of the area in its natural condition provides ideal opportunities for development of recreation camps, for an addition to our present municipal golf links, pienie grounds and general recreation center. Property surround- ing the Durant Estate is being sold at prices ranging from $1200 to $2500 per acre, and if Mr. Durant ean be persuaded to renew his offer at the former priee, I feel that the city should not fail to take advantage of the opportunity to purchase this property. I know that an attempt is now being made to pur- chase the property by private interests for subdivision purposes, and once this happens, the opportunity is gone forever.

We all realize that East Oakland is the most rapidly growing portion of Oakland and we must provide park and playground facilities for the popu-

Lakeside Park

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lation that will be there in a few years. This is an ideal opportunity. Let us take advantage of it. In the budget which I submitted for the Department of Public Affairs, I have included an appropriation for an initial payment ou the purchase of this wonderful park.

The Recreation Department has presented complete plans for the develop- ment of the municipal property behind the Oakland Auditorium. We have here the possibilities of a civie recreation center that can be unsurpassed by any city. With this beautiful area vailable for football. baseball games, track meets, races and similar opportunities: with the beautiful Auditorium near at hand in which literary exercises can be held : and with Lake Merritt and its multitude of water sport possibilities, directly opposite, there is an oppor- tunity here to develop a recreation center that will make Oakland renowned throughout the world. I have also included in my budget an appropriation to provide for the necessary improvements.

Our Recreation Department has won for itself a national reputation in the field of recreation. Their latest development has been that of municipal camps. The first of these, the camp established some years ago on the middle- fork of the Tuohne River in Tuolumne County has proven a splendid sue- cess. Its revennes have been such to finance improvements until we now have there a complete and modern recreation camp plant.

The camp opened last year on Spanish Creek in the Feather River terri- tory bids fair to be even more successful than its original in Tuolumne County. Extensive improvements are being made at the Feather River this summer and advance reservations indicate that it will have a highly snecessful season. The purpose of these camps is to provide our people with a mountain vaea- tion at a cost within the reach of all. The camps are not summer resorts but are purely camps and are maintained at a minimum of expense. They have proven their value and are an important part of our general recreation system.

Oakland's Changing Downtown Skyline

MAYOR'S MESSAGE. 1925

A Street Scene

I wish to recommend again to the Council the need for building a museum to house the Snow African Collection on the beautiful site purehased by the city on the shores of Lake Merritt. Money placed in the budget for this pur- pose in past years has been diverted to other uses. In the budget which I have submitted for the Department of Public Affairs for the current fiscal year I have included an appropriation of $200,000 to finance the construction of an initial unit of this building. There is a erying need for it and we have not kept faith with Mr. Snow, donor of the collection, by providing the fireproof build- ing he demanded when presenting his wonderful collection of African speci- mens to the city. The Museum building must be built and should be started in the immediate future. It is necessary from an educational as well as a recrea- tion standpoint, and the School Department has asked us again and again when the museum building would be provided for the school children of our city.

In no other city in the United States is there such an opportunity for in- structing school children in the natural history of the dark continent as we

Durant Motor- Co. of California, Showing Durant and Star Factories

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have in Oakland. Let us keep faith with the donor of this wonderful coller- tion and provide proper housing for the collection he acquired at such risk 10 himself.

Since 1921-22. $175,700 has been recommended in the annual budgets for a new museum building and for downtown comfort stations. Each year this money has been transferred out by the Commissioners and used for other pur- poses. The time has now come when the museum should be built, and not continue to divert the money to the use of other departments.

In addition to the park and recreation program advanced by the city the past year has seen the opening of the new Orpheum Theatre on Broadway. Since its opening the history of this beautiful show house has been one of com- plete success and has placed Oakland in the foreground of cities having mag- nificent homes on the Orpheum circuit. Oakland's valne as a theatre city is well evideneed by the fact that at the present time theatres are under con- struction in various parts of the city. Investment in new theatre buildings under construction at the present time will total well over $1,000,000 and these show houses under construction by the West Coast Theatres, the Golden State Theatre and Realty Company, the Ackerman and Harris interests, and others, indicate the confidence which these amusement men have in the future of our city by investing such large sums of money for the entertainment of our people.

CHARTER AMENDMENTS

I wish to present to the C'onneil certain additional recommendations, the first of them being an amendment of the city charter which will provide for the assessment and collection of municipal taxes by the Assessor and Tax Col- lector of Alameda County. I have previously recommended this matter to the Council and submit it again with the following figures to show the saving which would have been made to the city in the past years if the arrangement had been in effect. Adoption of this amendment would do away entirely with the duplication of assessments and tax collection. It would also release for other uses the space now accupied by the assessment and tax bill depart- ments in the City Hall. You will note that we would have saved enough money in the past five years to finance the construction of the first unit of a museum building or to carry on some other equally important public improve- ment.

Year

Taxes Collected

Highest Amount County Could Charge

Cost of City Assessing and Collecting $ 56.298

1919-20

$ 3,735,583

$ 18,677

1920-21

3,959.767

19.798

61.244

1921-22

3,788,772

18,943

64.887

1922-23

4,045,466

20.227

67.793

1923-24

4.279,086

21,395

77.807

1924-25

4.719.275

23,596

90.775

$23.527.949

$122.636

$418.804

The members of this Council feel a keen disappointment at the small in- crease in our assessment rolls this year. I am not surprised. In fact. I pre-

View of 3-Mile San Francisco Bay Frontage of Stone Property

MAYOR'S MESSAGE, 1925

13th and San Pablo Avenue

dieted just such an assessment. Had a charter amendment such as I recom- mend been adopted, and I believe our people desire it, the taxpayers would not have been burdened with the expense of the assessor's and tax collector's offices. This work would be done by the county at a great saving as well as added convenience.

1 also feel that the Mayor of this city should have the same power as that held by the Mayor of San Francisco and other large cities-that of removing from office for canse, members of boards appointed by the Mayor. The Charter places the responsibility upon the Mayor, but does not provide him with the necessary control to match the responsibility. Although this Council has pre- viously voted down such an amendment, thus depriving our people of the rights to express their opinion of these matters upon the ballot, I am again recommending that such an amendment be submitted to the voters at our next election. I submit this at this time with the thought that after earetul consideration your honorable body will see fit to include it in measures to be voted upon at the next municipal election.

In November of last year a situation arose in our Park Department which resulted in removing 150 employees in that department from civil service. Directors Sanborn, Campbell and King, members of the Board of Park Direc- tors, created two political positions to reward political friends. To do this they were obliged to suspend the rules of civil service. This in turn auto- inatically brought about the removal from civil service of every employee in the Park Department. All of these had qualified themselves for their posi- tions by examination in accordance with civil service provisions and felt them- selves secure in their employment so long as their work was satisfactory.

In order to protect them I proposed the adoption of a charter amendment which would automatically extend the provision of civil service to the em- ployees of the park, playground and library departments. Confidence of the people of Oakland in civil service was shown by the fact that they voted by a majority of two to one to adopt such a charter amendment and these em- ployees are now enjoying the benefits of that measure.

At my suggestion another charter amendment was also adopted which provides that our voters may be furnished with a statement in the future showing what changes are proposed in charter amendments that may be sub- mitted to the electors. Through an oversight in the original draft of the present city charter this provision was not made. The city was without authority to prepare any descriptive data on proposed charter changes. This

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condition has now been eliminated and I believe will insure a greater knowl- edge and more decisive action upon the charter amendments that may be presented to our voters in the future.

NINE YEARS DEVELOPMENT RECORD

I have made a brief statistical summary of our City's growth since I first took office in 1915. It is a wonderful record. one in which any city can well take pride. I do not believe that this message would be complete without the incorporation of these figures as a part, and I am including them for the purpose of showing briefly the growth which we have experienced :

1915

1924

Industries

School attendance

573 22.216

1.036 47.719

Number of schools

$10,000,000 bond issue will build twenty more schools this year.

Banks

Payrolls

$20.000,000

$85.000,000

Bank clearings

$188.464.820

$845.144.456

Postoffice business

$521.846

$1.363.543

Number of vessels arriving here

1.495

7.634

Merchandising cargo

$181.795

$1.157,076

Feet of lumber

4,443,000

239.677.000

Number of steamship lines docking here

Theatres

Building permits

$5.000.000

$31.125,000

Paid off $7.000,000 in bonds contracted for by previous administrations.

The past year has been a year of progress and development. During the year Oakland has again exceeded all former records of progress and taken a new place in its advancing status. We have everything to look forward to for future development and I predict that the prophecy of Mr. B. C. Forbes, referred to in the opening paragraphs of this message. will come to pass within a very few years and that Oakland will be known as one of the leading cities on the Pacific Coast and the United States.

Very truly yours. Jim Have

Mayor of the City of Oakland.

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GENERAL INDEX

Abbreviations 245-246

Alphabetical List of Names 247-1708

Buyers Guide 109-244

Classified Business Directory 1709-1879

Index to Advertisers 37-39

Index to Miscellaneous Information

Introduction 6

Miscellaneous Information 41-108

Removals, Alterations and Additions. 10

Street and Avenue Guide (Oakland) 55-78

Street and Avenue Guide (Berkeley) 79-90

Street and Avenue Guide (Alameda) 91-95

Index to Miscellaneous Information

Apartments (See Classified Section )

Buildings, Blocks, Halls

(See Classified Section )

Cemeteries

(See Classified Section )

Churches

41-44

City Officers 485-487

College Fraternities and Clubs 53-54

Clubs, Associations and Societies +4-46

Consulates 46

County Officers 527-528

Fire Departments 670-671

Homes, Hospitals, Etc.

(See Classified Section)

Labor and Trade Organizations 46-47

Libraries (See Classified Section)

Military

Military Fraternal Societies 54

Parks and Public Grounds 47

Police Departments 185-487

Postoffices 1310-1311

Public Schools 47-48

Secret and Fraternal Societies 48-53

United States Officials 54

INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Acme Bedding & Upholstering Co .. 240 Page

Acme Ice Cream Co ... 178 Addressograph Sales Co .... classified . left bottom lines and 131 City of Oakland .... 20 pages front section tab insert and right bottom lines Advertising Service Bureau 113 Alameda Chamber of Commerce 9 Alameda Co Realty Co .. right side lines and 178 Clark N & Sons 141 Clay, Hotchkiss & Schroeter 183 Coast Tire & Rubber Co .. right and left side lines and 116 College Hardware Co .right side lines and 169

Alameda Co Title Ins Co ..

.right top lines and 111

Alameda Times-Star

199

Alhambra Water Depot

.... right side lines and

163

Allen Wiley B Co

205

American Bank .. right side lines and 126

Anderson Edgar W Co

.. left bottom lines

and 228

Anderson's Carpet House

145

Andker & Petersen

237

Anglo London Paris Co 134

Annis Realty Co 217

Appleton Geo W

... right bottom lines and

164

Auto Glass House

121

Baker-Hansen Mfg Co 208

Bank of Alameda 132

Bank of Italy 131

Bates & Borland 156

Bay Cities Realty Co 217

Bay City Carpet Cleaning Co

.left side lines and 144

Bekins Van & Storage Co .

.backbone, right bottom lines and 234

Bell Harmon.

.insert opp 1715

Bell & Boyd

116

Bennett's Coll Assn 154

Bercovich David 116

Bergs Funeral Parlors

.. right bottom lines and 236

Berkeley Chamber of Commerce

Berkeley Gazette Pub Co

199

Berkeley Gent Hospital

.. left top lines and

173

Eggleston C P .... left side lines and 211

Ernst & Ernst ...

. backbone and

112

Berkeley Law & Coll Co 154

Berkeley Steel Constr Co 231 Fageol Motors Co

Berry R A Co 218

Bischoff's Surgical House

203

Blyth Witter & Co 134

Bowdish Realty Co 218

Bowman Drug Co. . right top lines and 164 Boyer & Havens insert opp 1715

Bradley W W 218

Brandes August R F 207

Breuner John Co .. right top lines and 167 Bridge Realty Co .. right top lines and 218 Brown Albt Undertaking Co . .left side lines and 238

Brown Chas F

219

Builders Service & Supply Co

... left hottom lines, 166 and 224

Builders & Owners Investment Co ..

.. front cover, 178 and

211

Cahill Jas & Co 241

California Bag & Paper Co 203

California Builders Co .. top edge and 136 California Crematorium 157 California Detective Bureau . right side lines and 161

California Door Co California Electric Service Co

.. left bottom lines and 156 California Health Food Service . .. left side lines and 171 Capwell H C Co .. right top lines and 159

Carruth & Adamson Co. . 206 and opp 458

Cary & Co . 135 Cavalier Wm & Co .. front cover and 133 Central Cal Creditors Assn

.. right bottom lines and 153 Central Nat] Bank .... front cover and 127 Central-Shuey Creamery Inc . . back cover and 158

Chanslor & Lyon Co

121

Chicago Rubber Stamp & Ptg Co ...

Chinn-Beretta Optical Co ..

201

Citizens Natl Bank of Alameda

Contra Costa Bldg Materials Co ..... 140

Cords Alfred

219

Corey Ross T .... left side lines and 121 Corona Typewriter Co.classified tab insert Cosgrave's Inc 148

140

Cowell Henry Lime & Cement Co .... Cozzens-Ball Inc .. 121

Crain Bros . left top lines and 208

Crane Co 205

Crellin Hotel 176

219

Curtain Store The right side lines and

157

Daahl-Thoms Awning & Canvas Co ..

.left side lines and 125

194 Davis K A Mfg Co. . left side lines and Dean Law & Collection Co .. 155 Dickson & Holbrook

. .. ... front cover, 167, 172 and 229 Dimond Feed & Fuel Co 151 Dr Wong Him Herb Co . .... right bottom lines and Dodge Sweeney & Co .. 168 147 Downtown Battery & Electric Co

.... left side lines and

117

Dunhar & Co .

....... back cover and

230

Duner Matheny Sash & Door Co ...

226

Dunn, White & Aiken .... insert opp 1715

East Bay Water Co

242

Eastern Outfitting Co 148

Eby Machinery Co 194

Edwards Mercantile Co .. opp end of classified

122

128 Fairbanks Morse & Co .... inside back cover, left bottom lines, 165, 195 and 226 Farmers and Merchants Savings Bank Ferriter Geo C 203 Field E B Co . . .... front cover and 209

Finn John Metal Works 197 First Natl Bank in Berkeley 132 Foster and Kleiser Co 113

Freeman & Cox-Roach & Kenney.

.front cover and 238

French J E Co

122

Fruitvale Roofing Co

.. right side lines and 225

Fuller Brush Co 135 Fuller W P & Co .... back cover and 202 Furch S Auto Painting Co 125 GES Co 117

Gaines-Walrath Co 4

General Fireproofing Co .left bottom lines and 200 Girard Piano Co .. right top lines and 204 Glenn-Connolly Co Inc . .left bottom lines and 212

163 Goodyear Rubber Co .right bottom lines and 225

Grant's Hygienic Food Products Co ..

.right side lines and 171

Graves Elwood

.. right side lines and 201

Gray Auto Equipment Co

, left bottom lines and 118

Gray P T .classified tab insert Green Bros Express Co . 234 Guaranty Bldg & Loan Assn .. left side lines and 141 Hall Gas Furnace Co. 167 Hall White Co Inc 189 Hamlin & Wichman. left top lines and 118 Hanks Agency ... back cover and 179 Hanrahan & Wadsworth

.207 and 226 .right side lines and 239

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INDEX TO ADVERTISERS

Page

Harbor Tug and Barge Co 186 Morton's 113

Harrington-McInnis Co ..

..... right bottom lines and 207 Harris Birr & Evey. left side lines and 183 Havens Wickham Inc ... right top lines and 212

Hayes, Oliphant & Dukette ..

.insert opp 1715

Healds Business Coll . . backbone and 143

Hebern Electric Code Inc .. 165

Hink J F & Son Inc 161

Hitchcock Patrol and Detective Ser-

vice ........ left bottom lines and 162 Home Insurance Co 183

Homer Arthur J

.. left bottom lines, 143 and 219

Hoover's Insurance Agency 220

Hotel Carlton .. . left side lines and 176

Hotel Claremont 174

Hotel Oakland 175

Hotel Touralne 176

Hotel Woodrow 176

Hourtane-McQuone Motors Co 122

Houx Bros Fender Shop 122

Howard Auto Co .. left side lines and 119 Howden Robt & Sons ... right side lines and 196

Hughson Wm L Co

.. right side lines and 123 192 Hunter Lumber Co. right top lines and Hutchinson Co 157

Illinois Pacific Glass Co 168

Insurance Service Co .. back cover and 180 Inter City Express Pub Co .. 199 and 207 Jackson Furniture Co 168

Jackson S & Sons 184

184 Johnson & Myers .left side lines and 224

Jones Henry Z . left bottom lines and 220

Jungck D L Co

Juster Emslie & Lorenz 220

Kahn's

.right top lines and

159

155

Kent Co

Kessler's Arcade Market .. left side lines

Key Realty Co 221

Kitchener Printing C 208

Klink Bean & Co 113

Knapp Ralph A .right side lines and 213

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Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1925, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1925 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1884

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1884