Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1926, Part 18

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1924

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Telephones : Oakland 48 and 47 106-111 Federal Realty Building

OAKLAND, CALIF.

KENT COMPANY

Money Secured Good Will Retained Personal Calls All San Francisco Bay Region

Collections

FINANCIAL SERVICE

M. E. COAKLEY Member of Commercial Law League of America and Co-Operative Bureau American Collection Service Phone Oakland 1442

702 Federal Realty Bldg.

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COLLECTION AGENTS

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J. J. RAUER, President ROY E. CLARK, Secretary RAUER'S LAW & COLLECTION CO. "A CORPORATION" Collections Made Everywhere-All Branches of Collections Promptly Attended To-No Collections, No Charge TELEPHONE GARFIELD 4583

608-610-612 Claus Spreckels Building, 703 Market Street SAN FRANCISCO

REFERENCE: DUN & BRADSTREET

CONFECTIONERS

ESTABLISHED

SINCE 1887

LEHNHARDT'S

OAKLAND'S LEADING CONFECTIONER

DINING SERVICE

ICE CREAM CANDY PASTRIES

Broadway, between 13th and 14th Oakland 496

The Venus Inc. OAKLAND

One of California's Finest Restaurant and Confectionery Establishments We Manufacture All Our CANDIES, FRENCH PASTRIES, COFFEE CAKES AND ICE CREAM We Use Only the Best Quality of Merchandise Obtainable

1422 BROADWAY Phone Lakeside 5268

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CONTRACTORS

Central Construction Co.

Successors to Bates Borland GENERAL CONTRACTORS

Oakland Bank Building OAKLAND Phone Oakland 654

Merchants National Bank Bldg. LOS ANGELES

Balboa Building SAN FRANCISCO Phone Kearny 2883

HUTCHINSON CO.

CONTRACTORS FOR STREET AND ROAD PAVEMENTS, GRADING SEWER SYSTEMS PRODUCERS CRUSHED BLUE ROCK RAIL AND WATER DELIVERIES HUTCHINSON BUILDING 17TH AND BROADWAY Oakland 389 OAKLAND, CAL.

CORDAGE AND ROPE

MANILA ROPE

PROMPT DELIVERIES FROM SAN FRANCISCO STOCK

GUY T. SLAUGHTER & CO.

210 CALIFORNIA ST. TEL. SUTTER 5394

Selling Agents for YNCHAUSTI & CO., of Manila, Philippine Isainds

CREMATORIES

California Crematorium and Columbarium LAWRENCE F. MOORE, Treas. and Mgr. 4489-4499 Piedmont Ave., Oakland CREMATION, NICHES, URNS, CEMETERY TABLETS TELEPHONE PIEDMONT 124-DAY OR NIGHT PIEDMONT AVENUE CARS TO DOOR The Main Chapel Seats 200-The Little Chapel Seats 75 Permanent Columbarium for Urns. The Service Anticipates Every Requirement Free Auto Service to Arrange Services or Select Niches

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CURTAINS

THE CURTAIN STORE JOHN MAUERHAN & CO.

Curtains, Draperies, Upholstered and Living Room Furniture, Oriental Rugs, Lamps and Shades

520 13th STREET Between Washington and Clay Streets

OAKLAND

:: Tel. Oakland 398

JUDICIOUS ADVERTISING

CREATES a New Business REVIVES a Dull Business ENLARGES an Old Business RESCUES a Lost Business

PRESERVES a Large Business SECURES Success in Any Business SAVES a Failing Business ENABLES You to Pay Your Taxes

DIRECTORY ADVERTISING BRINGS SATISFACTORY RESULTS

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DAIRIES

· CENTRAL - SHUBY CREAMERY·

The most complete market milk plant on the Pacific Slope

Central-Shuey Creamery

5307 TELEGRAPH AVENUE

Milk

Butter

Cream Eggs

Daily Deliveries to All Parts of

Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda

Telephone Humboldt 160

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DENTISTS

MENTION THIS AD!

This advertisement, if mentioned at our office, will entitle you to the painless extraction of one tooth, or one FREE X-Ray This is a Bona Fide Offer

with no strings attached, and is made for the sole purpose of convincing public that we can give you better dentistry for less money

Set of Teeth

$12.50

22-Karat Gold Crowns $5.00

Bridge Work, per tooth

$5.00

(Gold or Porcelain)

Porcelain Crowns

$5.00

Gold fillings, or inlays

$5.00

Alloy fllings - $1.50

Synthetic Poreclain fillings

$2.50

Pyorrhea treated (per tooth)

$1.00

Consultation and examination always FREE. Skilled

nurses in atendance at all times.

ALL WARK PAINLESS AND GUARANTEED.

Doctors

BARBER & HARRIS

DENTISTS The Office of High-Class Dentistry 1119 Broadway, Oakland Next Door to Broadway Theater. Hourse 9 a. m. to 8 p. m. Telephone Lakeside 383

DEPARTMENT STORES

H. C. CAPWELL COMPANY

ONE OF CALIFORNIA'S GREAT STORES

A Store in Which You May Shop With Confidence in the Quality and Right Style of the Merchandise

FOR 37 YEARS OAKLAND'S PROGRESSIVE STORE

60 Upstairs Departments and a Bargain Basement to Supply Your Merchandise Wants

BEAUTY PARLORS AND REDUCYCLE TREATMENTS

Clay, 14th and 15th Sts.

Phone Lakeside 6240

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DEPARTMENT STORES

B. F. SCHLESINGER & SONS

A Progressive Store in a Progressive City

Telephone Lakeside 1

Entrances on Three Streets

Broadway, San Pablo and 16th

OAKLAND

Taft and Pennoyer Company

Established 1875

Oakland's Oldest Dry Goods House

"It's the Best and Costs No More"

CLAY AT FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH STREETS TELEPHONE LAKESIDE 500

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DEPARTMENT STORES

We Give "S.&H." Stamps !

Upright's DEPARTMENT STORE

Dependable Values -in all-

Departments

13TH AND WASHINGTON STS. OAKLAND

"The House That Service Built"

J. F. HINK SON, Inc.

DRY GOODS LADIES' READY TO WEAR

Shattuck at Kittridge Street BERKELEY

From 30 to 50 per cent

Of the Information in the DIRECTORY of a city or town changes each year. Did you know this? For this reason is it not money saved to have the latest information handy? The only way to do is to have the

LATEST CITY DIRECTORY

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DETECTIVES

Tel. Sutter 1360 Always Open

Cable Address "WEST" Res. Tel. Sulter 3720

West Coast Detective Agency

THOS. C. GRAY, General Manager

ESTABLISHED 1879

LICENSED and BONDED

Member of International Assn. for Identification

Member of Assn. of American Detective Agencies

Conducts all civil and criminal business secretly all over the world. Complete dictograph, detec- tifone and finger print service. Highly recom- mended by the Judiciary, Banks, Corporations, Firms, Leading Attorneys and Individuals. Legal Papers Served. Foreign Language Department. Consultation free and strictly confidential. Charges moderate. Correspondence solicited.

SUITE 439 PACIFIC BLDG.

821 Market Street

San Francisco, Calif.

DOORS

The California Door Company FIFTEENTH and WOOD STS., OAKLAND DOORS, WINDOWS AND BLINDS, FRAMES, MOULDINGS AND FINISH, WINDOW GLASS, ART AND LEADED GLASS

BRANCH OFFICES

2065 Webster Street OAKLAND

1926 Shattuck Ave. BERKELEY

Don't Use an Old Directory!

One Address taken from an old Directory may send you miles out of the way and waste a whole day's time. You take pride in keeping a fresh stock of merchandise on your shelves-

Why not avail yourself of fresh information for your daily use ?

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DRESSMAKING SCHOOL

MME. L. KURTZ

Modiste

Dinner and Evening Gowns a Specialty Also Maker of Coats, Street and Sport Models

NU BONE CORSET

Have You Ever Worn the Nu Bone? If not, come in and be fitted in a Guaranteed, Made-to-Measure Corset

2233 Broadway at 23d St., Oakland Lakeside 8117

DRUGGISTS

G. W. Appleton Prescription Druggist

Medicines of Quality-Sick Room Supplies

1900 Franklin Street Tel. Lakeside 25

OAKLAND

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DRUGGISTS

BAKER DRUG CO.

R. S. BAKER, Proprietor PRESCRIPTION SPECIALISTS

Quality Drugs, Sickroom Supplies, Kodaks, Developing and Printing Stationery-Toilet Articles Elks Bldg., 20th and Broadway OAKLAND Phone Lakeside 3838

ELECTRIC MOTORS

Electric Motors

OIL ENGINES STATIONARY AND MARINE FAIRBANK'S SCALES STEAM PUMPS - SUPPLIES

Fairbanks-Morse Co.

Phone Davenport 3560

SPEAR and HARRISON STS. SAN FRANCISCO

ELECTROLYSIS

SUPERFLUOUS HAIR MOLES and WARTS

permanently removed by multiple electrolysis, the only scientific method known which destroys root of hair without injury to surrounding skin tissue; eyebrows and neck perfectly shaped - no pain - no scars; work guaranteed; inventors of multiple needle method; thirty years in business. Write for booklet "A."

MADAME STIVER Suite 723, 133 Geary St. Phone Douglas 5232 Suite 424, First Nat. Bank Bldg., Oakland Phone Oakland 2521

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FENCE MFRS

Standard Fence Company WIRE AND IRON WORKS

Phone Piedmont 646 Main Office and Plant, 60th and Lowell Sts. OAKLAND

432 Bryant St., SAN FRANCISCO 1922 Santa Fe Ave., LOS ANGELES

Factory Protection Fence.

Ornamental Wire and Iron Fence

Field and Poultry Fence. Aviary and Tennis Court Fence.

Woven Wire Fence.

Wire Screen.

Flexible Conveyor Belts.

Wire Specialties.

Ornamental Iron Grills, Etc.

FERRY SERVICE

STA

Richmond-San Rafael

AUTOMOBILE and PASSENGER FERRY

Short Route to all points in Marin, Sonoma and Coast Counties

Richmond & San Rafael Ferry & Transportation Co.

Phone Richmond 231

Phone San Rafael 827-W

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FOUNDRIES

D. GUILD, Pres. D. GUILD, JR., Sec'y PHONE: OAKLAND 5146

T. A. RUSSELL, Vice-Pres.

PHOENIX IRON WORKS CO.

Incorporated 1901 Machine, Structural, Street and Sewer Castings; Road Rollers, Chilled Iron Castings for Mines and Rock Quarries, Car Wheels, Etc. BRASS CASTINGS and PATTERN WORK Castro St., from 1st to 2nd Sts. OAKLAND, CAL.

FURNACES

QUAKER NOISELESS OIL BURNING FURNACES QUAKER STEEL COAL FURNACES AHL GAS FURNACES RELIANCE ALL CAST COAL FURNACES

Dickson Holbrook

HEATING ENGINEERS

2180 Dwight Way BERKELEY Telephone Berk. 347

FURNITURE

Everything For Your Home, on Very Easy Terms at

Breuner's.

Homefurnishers for 68 Years Clay at Fifteenth OAKLAND

FURNITURE for every room in your home-Rugs-Carpets-Draperies-Bedding- Pianos - Radios - Phonographs - Stoves - Household Wares - China- Silverware - Lamps - Mirrors - Art Goods

Samples and estimates on Interior Decorating given without charge

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FURNITURE

HOUSE OF BETTER VALUE

NELSON FURNITURE CO. Incorporated =

ATHE

VS CLI

ING

Thirteenth & Clay Streets Lakeside 516

COMPARE BEFORE YOU BUY

You'll find our stock complete and high class Our prices surprisingly low Our policy and service pleasing

Inspect our goods and get our prices before buying

Furniture - Rugs - Linoleums - Draperies - China - Stoves

Jackson Furniture Co. Complete Home Furnishing Department Store ONE PRICE-CASH OR CREDIT No Interest-No Carrying Charges Two Entrances: CLAY STREET-14TH STREET Telephone Lakeside 5800 OAKLAND

GLASS

ILLINOIS PACIFIC GLASS CORPORATION

SAN FRANCISCO. U. S.A.

Pack in Glass Show Your Product Buy It in Glass See What You Buy

Glass Containers of All Descriptions Specializing in

Catsup Bottles

Storage Containers

Pickle and Preserve Ware

Illinois Pacific Glass Corporation

Factory 15th and Folsom Sts.

San Francisco

Branch Office Oakland, Cal., 1744 Broadway

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GLASS

Pacific Coast Glass Company

7th and Irwin Streets, San Francisco, California

Manufacturers of Glass Food Containers of Every Description BRANCHES LOS ANGELES, CALIF. PORTLAND, OREGON SEATTLE, WASH.

GLOVE DEPT

The Glove and Hosiery Shop (Retail)

MARK BLOCH, Proprietor

We Specialize in Gloves and High-grade Hosiery Exclusively. We Ship Anywhere and Solicit Your MAIL ORDERS. Prompt and Careful Attention Assured. Quality is the Best and Styles the Latest.

2363 Telegraph Ave., Berkeley. Phone: Berkeley 1806

GROCERS

Dodge, Sweeney Co.

ESTABLISHED 1852

WHOLESALE GROCERS

Distributors of Dodge Food Products

262-384 FOURTH STREET PHONE LAKESIDE 8600

HARDWARE

Western Heavy Hardware Iron Co.

INCORPORATED

JOBBERS OF

SHOP SUPPLIES - AUTOMOBILE HARDWARE IRON, STEEL, HEAVY HARDWARE, PACKING, ETC.

261-269 Fourth Street

OAKLAND Tel. Oakland 920

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HARDWARE

Maxwell HARDWARE CO.

General Hardware

Household Goods, Crockery, Glassware, Kitchen Utensils, Stoves and Ranges, Sporting Goods, Paints and Varnishes, Silverware, Cut Glass, Electrical Appliances, Washing Machines, Vacuum Cleaners, Electric Lighting Fixtures

13th, 14th and Washigton St. Phone Lakeside 8200

HARDWOOD LUMBER

HARDWOOD HEADQUARTERS

ASH-BASSWOOD.BIRCH AROMATIC RED CEDAR COTTONWOOD-ELM-HOLLY SOUTHERN RED GUM HICKORY-LAUREL-MAPLE OREGON MAPLE-PLAIN OAK . QUARTERED OAK- WYBROCK BENDING OAK POPLAR -- WALNUT

BOXWOOD-EBONY-IRONBARN JENKERO KOA-SPANISH CEDAR LIGHUMVITAE-MAHOGANY ROSEWOOD -TEAM- RED BEAN SPOTTED GU-DROLSSAR WALNUT

LUMBER . TIMBER HARDWOOD FLOORING WYBRO VENEERED PANELS DOWELS-TREENAILS-VENEERS

WHITE BROTHERS FIFTH and BRANNAN STREETS SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

HEALTH FOOD

California Health Food Service

NORTHERN CALIFORNIA

Distributors of

Whole Grain Wheat and Other 100% Natural Foods

Your success and happiness depends entirely upon your health Normal foods correctly eaten are the basis of health Consultation in the interest of correct foods without any obligation

268 FOURTEENTH ST. TELEPHONE OAKLAND 2463

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HEATING

Dickson Holbrook

HEATING SPECIALISTS

2180 DWIGHT WAY, BERKELEY

QUAKER OIL BURNING FURNACE (IT'S NOISELESS)

QUAKER STEEL COAL FURNACE (SUCCESSFUL FOR THIRTY YEARS)

AHL GAS FURNACE (CAN NEVER LEAK-IT'S GUARANTEED)

RELIANCE ALL CAST COAL FURNACE (IT'S MANUFACTURED IN BERKELEY)

We Give You What You Want-Satisfaction

PHONE BERKELEY 347

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HOSPITALS

Berkeley General Hospital

L. F. HERRICK, M. D., Medical Director BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA

A General Hospital Thoroughly Equipped to Handle Medical and Surgical Cases

A FIREPROOF MATERNITY DEPARTMENT A MENTAL and ISOLATION DEPARTMENT A PUBLIC DIAGNOSTIC CLINIC

Thoroughly Equipped X-Ray and Clinical Laboratories

Address All Communications to

The

Berkeley General Hospital

2001 Dwight Way, bet. Shattuck Ave. and Milvia Tels. Berkeley 133 and 134

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HOTEL CLAREMONT

Beauty Spot of California Berkeley, Calif.

A home-like hotel where kiddies are welcome. Horseback Riding, Tennis and Golf privileges add to the enjoy- ment of your stay at this most attrac- tive hotel.

A Residential Hotel on Both the American and European Plan

TWENTY-SIX ACRES OF GARDENS

FORTY MINUTES FROM SAN FRANCISCO VIA KEY ROUTE-SERVICE EVERY TWENTY MINUTES +

BERKELEY 9300

16$

HOTELS

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HOTELS

HOTEL OAKLAND

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

Where reasonable rates are combined with every modern hotel service and

Comfort

Centrally located in the heart of all East Bay activities social and business. Close to all San Francisco and East Bay transportation.

Ideal for Either Transient or Permanent Guests

Management W. C. Jurgens

TELEPHONE LAKESIDE 100

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HOTELS

SPECIAL PERMANENT RATES

HOTEL FEDERAL

FEDERAL HOTEL OAKLAND CALIFORNIA

15 50.WIRDAUWAY

OAKLAND CALIFORNIA 1556 BROADWAY-Next to Postoffice LOUIS ABER, Lessee-Manager C. D. WAKELEE, Asst. Mgr. 96 Newly Furnished Rooms Thoroughly Renovated WEEKLY RATE-$7.00 to $10.00 WITH BATH-$10.00 to $14.00

Lobby-Mezzanine Parlor-Writing and Smoking Rooms Free Garage

$1.50 Daily Rate; $2.00 Bath

OAKLAND'S NEWEST HOTEL Hotel Touraine

OFFERS ' Room Without Bath $1.50 per Day Up Room With Bath $2.00 per Day Up For Extra Person Add 50c ATTRACTIVE PERMANENT RATES Every Room an Outside Room Management of Wm. JACOBS Telephone Lakeside 2100 16th and Clay St.

L. J. SMITH, Mgr.

TEL. LAKESIDE 1416

Hotel Woodrow

14TH AND GROVE STREETS OAKLAND, CALIF. NEW MODERN STEEL FRAME FIREPROOF BUILDING All Sunny Outside Rooms Convenient to Key Route and All Railroad Depots

INSURANCE

Established 1910 Alameda County Realty Co.

(Incorporated) E. C. JACKSON, President GENERAL REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE BROKERS Complete Charge Taken of Income Properties Telephone Lakeside 201 316 17th

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

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INSURANCE

NEAL HARRIS President

H. T. BIRR Vice-President

DOUGLAS EVEY Secretary and Treasurer

THE BEST INSURANCE IS NONE TOO GOOD FOR YOU

Insurance

INSURANCE KINES BONDS

Bonds

Harris, Birr & Evey, Inc.

Suite 810 Central Bank Building

Oakland, California

Telephone Lakeside 593 and 773

L. S. HOTCHKISS C. E. WHITE HARRY R. SCHROETER Clay, Hotchkiss & Schroeter Insurance Established May 7, 1870 Telephone Oakland 1214 201-2-3 Plaza Bldg., 15th and Washington Sts. OAKLAND

ALWAYS DEVOTED EXCLUSIVELY TO INSURANCE

WALTER T. HAINES

WALTER T. HAINES and FRANK F. LIND Agents Equitable Life Assurance Society of United States ALL FORMS OF LIFE INSURANCE AND ANNUITIES 6th Floor Oakland Bank Building Phone Lakeside 4066

FRANK F. LIND

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INSURANCE

OAK. 4488

PHONE THE

OAK. 3790

Italian-American Realty Co.

301-304 Bank of Italy Bldg., Oakland, Calif. Joseph L. Bobba, Manager Writing All Classes of INSURANCE in the Best Stock Companies Specializing in Automobile, Compensation, Fire, Accident and Health, Liability Prompt and Courteous Personal Attention to All Claims.

S. JACKSON SONS

(Established 1898)

FIRE

ACCIDENT

AUTOMOBILE

General Insurance

Agents for

Providence Washington Insurance Co.

Liverpool & London & Globe Insurance Co.

New Zealand Insurance Co. Colonial Fire Underwriters

Caledonian Insurance Co.

REAL ESTATE

424 17th

OAKLAND

LOANS INVESTMENTS Lakeside 798 Lakeside 1679

INSURE WITH

KERR McCANDLISH

ALL LINES OF INSURANCE

Representing the following Fire Companies

Fidelity-Phenix Fire Ins. Co.

Northern Assurance Co. of London

Security Insurance Co.

Philadelphia F. & M. Ins Co.

Telephone Lakeside 2800

706 Oakland Bank Bldg.

OAKLAND

12th and Broadway

FIRE

EARTHQUAKE INSURANCE Service to Brokers

AUTOMOBILE

Liberal Commissions Reasonable Rates

R. H. JENKINS-General Agent

427 Alameda Title Ins. BIdg., 14th and Franklin Streets, OAKLAND, CALIF.

523 Chancery Bldg., 41 Sutter Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.

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LIFE

173

INSURANCE

Home Insurance Company OF NEW YORK A. M. MAGILL, Agent

405 SYNDICATE BUILDING

1440 BROADWAY OAKLAND

Maiden, Rittigstein & Co. REAL ESTATE AND INSURANCE BROKERS

" BUSINESS PROPERTY SPECIALISTS "

420 15th between Broadway and Franklin. Tel Lakeside 4300, Oakland

Chas. B. Mills Company

GENERAL INSURANCE FIRE - AUTO - BURGLARY COMPENSATION - PLATE GLASS PHONE BERKELEY 5050 Room 204, Mercantile Trust Building BERKELEY

Founded 1868 Capital Fully Paid $3,000,000 THE PACIFIC MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY OF CALIFORNIA

Our new Multiple Protection Policy protects you and your loved ones against the five great hazards of life-

1. Sickness 2. Accident 3. Permanent Total Disability 4. Old Age 5. Death "it pays 5 ways "

OAKLAND BRANCH OFFICE

1220-27 Central Bank Bldg. Phones: Oakland 637-638

Oakland, California

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INSURANCE

Swett, Rolph Crawford

General Insurance Agents

Automobile, Public Liability, Workmen's Compensation, Surety and Fidelity Bonds and all other classes of Casualty Insurance

412 Syndicate Building 1440 Broadway Telephone Oakland 2828

LANDSCAPE ENGINEERS AND NURSERYMEN

SUNSET NURSERY CO. ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS, TREES AND VINES

Fruit Trees and Berry Vines Fertilizers and Insecticides Garden Hardware 92 Forty-first Street

Tel. Piedmont 1044

"Everything That Grows"

ROSES

TENNYSON NURSERY CO.

PERENNIALS

ORNAMENTAL SHRUBS

FRUIT TREES

GRASS SEED

FERTILIZ- ERS

LANDSCAPE COUNCILORS "Make Your Home a Home Beautiful" OAKLAND Phone Fruitvale 208

2509 Humboldt Ave.

WHOLESALE

RETAIL

Our Prices Will Please NAGATA & SONS

NURSERY 19th Year Ornamental Trees, Shrubbery and Ferns. All Kinds of Annual, Perennial and Garden Plants. Gold Fish.

1507 55th Avenue

Tel. Fruitvale 1688

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LAUNCHES AND TUG BOATS

N. R. HARRIS President

A. E. WILLIAMS Sec. and Gen. Manager

The Harbor Tug and Barge Company

Successors to Oakland Launch & Tugboat Co. and Henry C. Peterson, Inc.

Towage and Lighterage Service

OAKLAND Franklin St. Wharf Phone: Oakland 274-275

SAN FRANCISCO Pier 16 Phone: Davenport 1855-1856

Tugs-Launches-Lighters

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LAUNDRIES

WHITE STAR LAUNDRY CO. Phone Piedmont 308

ANTISEPTIC LAUNDRY CO. Phone Piedmont 514

MME. COINS FRENCH LAUNDRY Phone Piedmont 188

BROADWAY LAUNDRY CO. Phone Piedmont 4071

Broadway at 40th

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LAUNDRIES

Old Established

OAKLAND Particular

New Process Laundry Co. POLITE and PROMPT ATTENTION

Given To: PERSONAL

FAMILY

APARTMENT HOUSE

HOTEL

AND ALL OTHER

WORK

Finished Work Rough Dry Dry Wash Wet Wash

PHONE FRUITVALE 518

2639 E. 9TH St. OAKLAND

Market Laundry Co., Inc. Finish, Rough Dry, Dry Wash

718-724 MYRTLE

OAKLAND, CAL.

Phone Lakeside 2900

Phone Berk. 725

Nippon Laundry-

T. WASA, Proprietor

2034 Addison Street, BERKELEY, CAL.

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LAW SCHOOLS

San Francisco Law School

Evening Sessions for Men and Women The School is equipped with a well selected library of over 2,500 Volumes, exclusively for the use of the students. WRITE TODAY FOR CATALOGUE Phone Kearny 4251 Office: 700 Call Bldg. San Francisco, Calif.

LITHOGRAPHERS

Telephone Oakland 1800

Hall-White Company, Inc. Printers, Lithographers, Binders The only complete plant of its kind in Oakland

775 22d Street

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA

LOANS

Realty Mortgage In urance Corporation Authorized Capital $5,000,000 REAL ESTATE LOANS

Flat and installment loans on improved real estate in any incorporated city in California. Our loans are written at the prevailing rates of interests.

J. M. Henderson. Jr. C. A. A. McGee William Makin W. A. Hosking William C. Keating A. Bondi

Board of Directors

Max Kuhn

A. F. Gimbal

E. B. Gimbal Bernard S. Goldsmith

John E. Fox

Welborn G. McMurray Mrs. Clara Packer

John Rush

W. R. Oates

Louis F. Breuner Herman Schutz General Counsel CHARLES A. A. McGEE

Harvey Rasmussen

John C. Feys Fontaine Johnson George E. West

Offices : Oakland, San Francisco, Sacramento, Stockton

President, J. M. Henderson, Jr .; Oakland Manager, Fred Cook OAKLAND OFFICE

720 Syndicate Bldg. Tel. Oakland 6623

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LOANS

Resources over $3,000,000.00

Oakland Mortgage & Finance Company

(Oakland's Largest and Most Successful Mortgage Company)

: =

Building Loans - Flat Loans - Construction Loans 6 % and 7% Interest

SPECIAL SERVICE TO BUILDERS

We own and offer for sale 1st Mortgages on Improved Oakland Property to Net Investor 7%

1432 Franklin St.

Lakeside 2866

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LUMBER

STRABLE HARDWOOD COMPANY

HARDWOOD LUMBER HARDWOOD FLOORING VENEERED PANELS UPSON WALL BOARD SHEET ROCK FINISHES BEAVER WALL BOARD ETC., ETC., ETC.

STRABLE HARDWOOD COMPANY

G. H. BROWN, President

511-545 FIRST STREET, OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA Telephone Oakland 245

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LUMBER

E. K. Wood Lumber Co.

WHOLESALE AND RETAIL DEALERS IN

LUMBER MILL WORK and MOULDING

MILLS Anacortes, Wash. Bellingham, Wash. Hoquiam, Wash. GENERAL OFFICES No. 1 Drumm St. San Francisco, Cal.

Office and Mill

Frederick and King Sts. Phone Fruitvale 112

YARDS Oakland, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. San Pedro, Calif. Santa Ana, Calif. Huntington Beach, Calif. Berkeley, Calif.

ROOFING

WALL BOARD

Zenith Mill & Lumber Co.

C. I. SPEER, Manager

LUMBER DEALERS MILL WORK, SASH AND DOORS

Telephones: Merritt 71 and Merritt 4289

2101 East Twelfth Street OAKLAND, CALIF.

Berkeley and Alameda Directory (1926)

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LUMBER

Correct Quantity Courteous and Prompt Service Right Quality

C. E. Huddart Lumber Co.

1035 Murray Street, Berkeley, Calif. Dealers in all kinds of Lumber, Mill Work, Mouldings, Shingles, Lath, Building Paper, Plain and Mineral Surface Roofing, Location at Murray Station on Southern Pacific 9th Street Line Between Ashby Ave. and Murray Street near San Pablo Ave.

Telephone Berkeley 271 Residence Phone Glencourt 3384 C. E. Huddart, President

Redwood Manufacturers Co.

SASH -DOORS-MILLWORK REDWOOD AND PINE FINISH TANKS -PIPES -SILOS 950 Aileen St. Phone Piedmont 326 OAKLAND

HARDWOOD HEADQUARTERS

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WHITE BROTHERS FIFTH and BRANNAN STREETS

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.

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R. L. POLK & CO., Detroit, Michigan Polk Directory Bldg., 431-435 Howard Street

(1926) R. L. Polk & Co.'s, Oakland,

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MACHINE SHOPS

Let Us Be Your Factory

K. A. DAVIS MANUFACTURING COMPANY

Designers and Manufacturers of

Special Machinery, Automobile Parts and Accessories DIES-TOOLS-STAMPINGS Flat and Coil Springs, Screw Machine Products and Contract Manufacturers. We Specialize in Developing and Marketing Patents

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Polk's Oakland, Berkeley, Alameda city directory, 1926, Part 18

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1925 Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 1924

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1925
Publisher: Oakland, Cal. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 1924