Polk's San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory, 1961, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1953
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
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828

Fuel and ice dealers

993

Building material yards and stores

307

35,826

Lumber and building materials dealers

18,232

Hardware stores

121

10,138

Plumbing and electrical supply stores

1,862

Paint, glass and wallpaper stores

5,594

New motor vehicle dealers.

112

117,685

Used motor vehicle dealers

11,447

Automotive supplies and parts dealers

8,890

Service stations .

612

12,154

Trailer, boat, motorcycle and airplane dealers. .

4,221

Itinerant and mail-order vendors

575

14,567

Personal Service Establishments

3,216

65,956

Hotels, motels and resorts. .

144

20,855

Garages .

534

16,187

Repair shops and other personal service

establishments.

2,538

28,914

Manufacturing, Wholesaling, Contracting

and Miscellaneous Outlets .

8,968

647,785

Contractors and building materials manu-

facturing and wholesaling outlets.

1,088

137,983

All other manufacturing, wholesaling and

miscellaneous outlets

7,880

509,802

Totals

21,793

$1,724,949

*Sales of Food for off-premise consumption and gasoline are not included-being tax- exempt sales. 1959 food store sales are estimated at $255,800,000 and gas station sales at $56,029,000 by Sales Management.

SAN FRANCISCO RETAIL SALES (1) TAXABLE TRANSACTIONS ($000)

1950.

$1,351,651

1955.

$1,631,823

1951.

1,469,069

1956.

1,695,939

1952.

1,450,789

1957.

1,632,308

1953.

1,496,841

1958.

1,584,530

1954.

1,480,307

1959.

1,724,949

1960

.$1,753,272

(1) Source: State of California, Board of Equalization.

SANFRANCISCO-OAKLAND METROPOLITAN AREA, RETAIL TRADE, AS PER 1958 U. S. CENSUS OF BUSINESS

Trade Group

Total Establishments

Sales ($ millions)

Payroll ($ millions)

Lumber, building, hardware

948

$129.0

15.5

General merchandise

743

425.6

68.1

Food stores

4,167

837.2

64.6

Automotive dealers

1,085

518.9

54.4

Gasoline service stations

2,293

223.4

21.3

Apparel and accessories

1,715

247.6

39.3

Furniture and appliances

1,680

205.7

28.5

Eating and drinking places

5,571

361.2

86.9

Drug and proprietary stores

749

118.2

15.8

Other retail

3,886

271.1

27.2

Non-store retailers

1,048

86.0

11.8

Totals

23,885

$3,423.9

$433.5

Service Establishments

San Francisco insured service units reporting to the California Department of Employment in 1959 had 52,614 employees and an estimated annual payroll of $225,325,000.

PRINCIPAL SERVICE GROUPS, (1) SAN FRANCISCO YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1959

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INTRODUCTION

Reporting Units

Annual Payroll ($000)

Employees

INDUSTRY

Hotels, rooming houses, and other

lodging places

457

$23,727

7,314

Personal services

1,060

22,912

6,569

Miscellaneous business services. .

878

57,656

12,536

Automobile repair, automobile

services, and garages .

377

13,054

2,809

Miscellaneous repair services

229

4,438

899

Motion pictures .

102

6,220

1,677

Amusement and recreation ser-

vices, except motion pictures .

208

9,512

2,818

Medical and other health services .

1,406

17,596

4,809

Legal services.

590

11,065

2,260

Educational services

2,088

768

Nonprofit membership organiza- tions

735

27,111

5,648

Miscellaneous services .

549

29,808

4,461

Other services.

138

Totals

6,704

$225,325

52,614

*Source: State of California, Board of Equalization

Results of the 1958 U. S. Census of Business showed that San Francisco had 7,869 service establish- ments, only 3,217 of which had a payroll. Sales and receipts for all establishments for 1958 totaled $429,475, - 000, and payroll, $123,434,000 for 35,078 employees.

Hotels

The 1958 U. S. Census of Business showed that San Francisco had a total of 502 hotels, of which 358 were big enough to have a payroll. Fifty-eight motels were counted within San Francisco, of which only 44 had a payroll. Gross receipts from all hotels and motels in 1958 amounted to $62.2 million.

Since then, two new major hotels have opened, and two other large projects are under way; these four are the first new major hotels in San Francisco in many years. One of these projects now under way will pro- vide San Francisco with a new 1,200-room hotel by 1963.

BAY AREA MARKET DEVELOPMENTS Population

The Bay Area, on April 1, 1960, had 3,638,939 residents, an increase of 35.7 per cent since April 1, 1950. The nine-county Bay Area population is now greater than that of 34 of the 50 states. The growth in this area between 1940 and 1950 exceeded the growth of all but five states-California, New York, Texas, Michigan and Ohio.

Industrial Development

During 1960 in the Bay Region (nine Bay Area counties plus Sacramento, San Joaquin, Yolo and Santa Cruz), 862 industrial projects with outlays of $198,689,280 were reported. Of this number, 665 were expan- sions with outlays of $187,727,780, and 197 were new plants with outlays of $10,961,500.

Trade

Taxable retail sales in the nine-county Bay Area reached a total of $5,699,655,000 in 1960- a gain of 3.5 per cent over 1959, and representing 24.4 per cent of the total for the State.

Construction

In the Bay Area, 1960 was the second best year for construction, with value of permits issued falling about 1.8 per cent short of 1959's record year.

Value of all

Residential Only

Construction

Value

Dwelling Units

1957

$650,053,000

$325,195,000

31,442

1958

747,093,000

432,707,000

41,248

1959

873,384,000

546,513,000

49,304

1960

857,959,000

509,987,000

46,094

16,407 of the 46,094 dwelling units authorized were for construction in Santa Clara County.

Intercity and Interstate Traffic

Vehicle crossings over all six toll bridges of San Francisco Bay set new records in 1960:

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Toll Bridges

1957

1958

1959

I JUU

San Francisco-Oakland Bay

34,297,434

35,961,085

37,967,243

39,026,394

Golden Gate

15,981,260

16,847,827

18,193,672

19,325,954

Carquinez

1,089,057

11,963,442

12,892,791

San Mateo-Hayward

3,106,047

3,247,598

3,463,901

3,688,017

Richmond-San Rafael

2,564,788

2,781,716

3,104,955

3,338,427

Dumbarton

1,609,981

1,643,218

1,936,247

2,265,566

Out-of-state autos entering through northern California gateways in 1960 totaled 1,076,074 cars and 2,- 780,288 passengers, an increase of 12.7 per cent and 12.4 per cent respectively. Prospective visitors and newcomers' written inquiries to the San Francisco Chamber of Commerce during 1960 totaled 22,878, highest year on record.

SAN FRANCISCO BUSINESS ACTIVITY INDEX

Business activity in San Francisco hit a record high in 1960.

The Chamber business activity index -- based on department store sales, bank debits, electric energy sales, and freight-car loadings-topped the prior year's index by 6.5 per cent, with a 178.6 based on a 1947- 49 average equal to 100.

The unadjusted index for department store sales was down slightly from 1959, to an average of 132.9. Bank debits reached a record $59,556,272 for the year, a gain of 9.2 per cent. Electric energy sales, meas- ured by kilowatt hours sold (excluding street lighting), resulted in an index of 168.6 based on the 1947-49 monthly average-an increase of 6.9 per cent over 1959. Freight-car loadings in the San Francisco Switching District were down 9 per cent for the year.

FINANCE Financial Capital

San Francisco, the financial and insurance capital of the West, is headquarters of the world's largest bank and is one of the nation's most important financial centers. Five of the nation's 50 largest commercial banks are located in San Francisco. The 14 San Francisco banks reported total assets of $18,100,000,000 at the end of 1959.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the headquarters of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District. There are over 75 corporations with assets exceeding $10,000,000,000 which have their headquarters in San Francisco. Another 46 such corporations are headquartered in the other eight Bay Area counties.

Stock Exchange

The Pacific Coast Stock Exchange-the "Exchange of Destiny"-is second only to New York as a re- gional security market. It accounts for about 30 per cent of the national regional stock exchange volume.

The San Francisco division, founded in 1882, and the Los Angeles division, founded in 1899, have played important individual roles in pumping the life blood of finance into the dynamic Pacific Coast area to build industrial growth, to develop business and to expand agriculture.

Consolidation of the two exchanges, amalgamating the West's two chief security markets, was effected in January, 1957, after years of planning and study. The creation of a broader market-providing many new opportunities for investors, corporations, security dealers and banks and financial institutions-was the re- sult.

Buying and selling orders are executed immediately, not only in the city of placement, but also on the division floors, even though 400 miles apart, via a special telephone circuit.

The Exchange comprises 122 member organizations, including 29 member corporations serving public investors through more than 800 officers in eleven Western states, the Midwest, the East and abroad. There are also 2,000 registered representatives associated with the member firms in West Coast offices and 360 non-member dealers and banks across the nation who function through these firms.

More than 550 common and preferred stocks of companies of national, regional and local significance, including Hawaii, are listed by the Exchange-80 of them exclusively.

The most important advantage in trading on the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange is the time differential between the Atlantic and Pacific seaboards. Pacific is the only major national securities exchange open from 12:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. (PST). This time differential makes Pacific Coast the nation's security market after 12:30 P.M. (PST) each market day. National and international events of major importance affecting trading often result in a flow of orders to Pacific Coast Stock Exchange from all over the nation.

Another specific advantage of Pacific is the tax-saving benefit. Customers who executed and sold orders through Pacific in 1958 at the same price as the primary market saved over $520,000 in not having to pay a transfer tax to the State of New York. San Francisco is also the home of the San Francisco Mining Exchange, where over 11,000,000 shares were traded in 1960, with a value of over $2,000,000.

Savings and Loan Associations

There were 15 savings and loan associations in San Francisco in March, 1961.

From any standpoint, geographically, by total assets, or loans recorded, the recent growth of savings and loan associations in California, the Bay Area, and San Francisco, has been amazing.

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A study of total assets by Bay Area associations and of loans recorded by savings and loan associations in San Francisco shows the following significant increases:

(1). In one year (1959), total assets of 50 state and federally-chartered associations in the Bay Area grew 27 per cent to over $1,350,000,000.

(2). 15 associations headquartered in San Francisco grew 25 per cent in 1959 to over half a billion dollars in assets.

(3). In the city of San Francisco, loans recorded in 1959 by savings and loan associations grew to $68,000,000, a 44.9 per cent increase over 1958's $47,000,000, and-

(4). These 1959 loans were up 304 per cent from the 1947-49 average of $16,800,000 recorded in San Francisco.

In San Francisco, eleven of the city's 15 associations had assets topping $10,000,000, and four of these exceeded $50,000,000 in assets at the end of 1959.

Of the 50 in the nine-county Bay Area, 30 had assets of $10,000,000 or more (compared with 26 at the end of 1958), and of these, nine had over $50,000,000 in total assets (as against seven in 1958).

Following is a tabulation of loans recorded in the city of San Francisco by savings and loan associations, with an index based on a 1947-49 average-100.

Loans recorded ($ millions)

Index

1947-49 average

$16.841

100.0

1950

20.163

119.7

1951

18.130

107.6

1952

25.309

150.3

1953

28.720

170.5

1954

34.826

206.8

1955

43.819

260.2

1956

32.474

192.8

1957

31.440

186.7

1958

47.006

279.1

1959

68.109

404.4

Total Personal Income Estimate-San Francisco (a)

1940.

$ 754,648,000

1955.

$2,462,921,000

1947.

1,878,030,000

1956.

2,592,917,000

1950.

2,011,276,000

1957.

2,696,933,000

1953.

2,273,929,000

1958.

2,758,980,000

1954.

2,332,799,000

(a) California State Chamber of Commerce

San Francisco Postal Receipts

1955

$32,486,445

1957

31,768,286

1958

33,668,791

1959

37,441,533

196G

38,770,133

Insurance

San Francisco is the insurance center of the West, and California headquarters of about 57 per cent of the insurance organizations authorized to transact business in California. Represented in San Francisco in the fall of 1958 were 673 insurance carriers, agents and brokers, offering all classes of business, including the major lines, such as life, auto, disability, liability, health, fire, marine, workmen's compensation, title, fi- delity, security, burglary and theft, and extended coverage. The industry employs 21,500 persons with annual payrolls of about $104,632,000. In addition, San Francisco is the headquarters of some 19 insurance associa- tions, including such prominent names as Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, Pacific Fire Rating Bu- reau, and Insurance Brokers Exchange of California.

Direct premiums written by all insurance groups in California amounted to $2,767,213,726 in 1958, or 9.1 per cent above the previous year. Direct losses paid, $1,302,511,451, were up 8 per cent. Life insurance in force totaled $39,700,000,000 in California in 1957, up 14.4 per cent over 1956.

DIRECT PREMIUMS WRITTEN AND LOSSES PAID, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1958 (In Millions of dollars)

Major Classes

Direct Premiums Written

Direct Losses Paid

Life .

$946.33

$300.13

Disability and Health.

490.70

393.34

Liability .

383.95

174.25

Automobile

356.86

168.20

Workmen's Compensation

192.37

106.84

Fire and Extended Coverage.

176.15

81.43

Aircraft

64.81

31.38

Marine

59.36

32.93

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PARKS AND RECREATION

Generously provided and well distributed are 127 public recreation and park units covering 4,043 acres. The areas in the city account for about one-eighth of the available land area.

About 80 playgrounds and recreation centers are individually supervised. Included in these facilities are outdoor and indoor swimming pools, tennis courts, regulation baseball and softball diamonds, golf courses, putting greens, bowling greens, yacht harbor, and a family mountain camp (200 acres, approximately 180 miles from San Francisco at elevation 4,500 feet.)

Golden Gate Park, notably one of the finest parks in the world, comprising 1,017 acres with many thous- and different kinds of trees, shrubs and plants, contains an aquarium, a museum, the Morrison Planetarium, the California Academy of Sciences, the Japanese Tea Garden, and many unusual attractions. The Fleishhacker Playfield, fronting on the Pacific Ocean, contains one of the largest outdoor swimming pools in the world, and the San Francisco Zoological Gardens are close by.

SOCIAL FEATURES

San Francisco, because of its various ethnic groups, has become a cosmopolitan city, which it was at a very young age in its history. Today its flavor has remained universal; its neighborhoods, variety of restaur- ants, foreign-language newspapers, street names, arts and craft shops, book stores, and even its schools, are clues to the Old World-both East and West-and the traditions of great cultures of the past.

Chinatown, of course, is famed as the largest Chinese settlement existing outside of Asia itself. The North Beach section is populated by Italians of all varieties, the Mission District by Irish intermixed with Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglo-Saxons. Many other nationality groups, the Russians, Germans, French, Greeks, Armenians, Assyrians, Turks, and Canadians, among them, came to settle in San Francisco. The Japanese, primary link to the destiny of the Pacific Coast in its ties with the Far East, are centered around Post and Buchanan streets.

The city has long been a center for the performing and design arts. Nearly 100 art galleries and over ten "Little Theatre" groups are located here.

Art Galleries-Three major public art galleries and several semi-public galleries offer exhibits and collections of national and international fame.

Museums and Art Galleries:

California Palace of the Legion of Honor De Young Memorial Museum San Francisco Museum of Art Pioneer Hall Josephine Randall Junior Museum San Francisco Maritime Museum History Room of the Wells Fargo Bank California State Division of Mines-Geology Museum Morrison Planetarium

Mid-summer Music Festivals San Francisco Symphony and Pop Concerts Band Concerts-Golden Gate Park

Civic Light Opera Association Series San Francisco Opera-Spring Opera

Library-The main public library is located in the Civic Center. There are 26 branches (one for busi- ness), and one bookmobile. This system has over 840,000 volumes. In addition to the public libraries, there are nearly 100 private and special libraries, including technical and institutional. There are also numerous circulating libraries.

Annual Events -

Pacific Festival

Grand National Livestock Exposition, Horse Show and Rodeo

San Francisco International Film Festival

Chinese New Year's Celebration

Chinese "Double Ten" Parade and Celebration

Columbus Day Celebration

Shrine East-West Football Game

Hearst Regatta-Sailing

Far Western Swimming and Diving Championships

National Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Basketball Tourney Golden Gloves Boxing Tourney

Ice Follies San Francisco Flower Show

San Francisco Home Show

Golden West Antique Show

Golden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show

Golden West Cat Show

Bay Area Science Fair Fisherman's Fiesta North Beach Street Fair and Art Show Maiden Lane Festival Union Square Fashion Show

Spectator Sports-

Baseball: San Francisco Giants

Football: San Francisco 49ers, Oakland Raiders, and colleges

INTRODUCTION

Basketball: University of San Francisco, San Francisco State College, University of Cali- fornia, Stanford University

Horse Racing (San Bruno, San Mateo, and El Cerrito)

Soccer Polo Yacht Races

Roller Derby

Participant Sports

Tennis

49 - Mile Drive

Golf

Sailing

Swimming

Skating-Ice and Roller

Fishing, Deep Sea

Hiking

Flycasting

MEDICAL CENTER

There are 30 hospitals in San Francisco-mostly general, some special-and they provide 8,265 beds, not only for patients from around the Bay Area, but from all over the Western U. S. and even the Orient. In 1960, 12,884 employees in this industry earned over $60,000,000. As many as one-third of the 187,881 patients in 1960 came from outside the city.

PUBLIC HEALTH

San Francisco public health facilities include a bacteriological laboratory, a chemical laboratory, con- solidated inspection services, the San Francisco Hospital, the Laguna Honda Home for aged indigents, the Hassler Health Farm for convalescent tuberculosis cases, six emergency hospitals, child welfare centers, well-baby clinics, and other health-control facilities scattered throughout the city.

CLIMATE

San Francisco's unique location at the northern end of a narrow peninsula which separates San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean and forms the southern shore of the Golden Gate-the only sea level entrance. through the Coastal Mountains into the Great Valley-causes this to be known as the air-conditioned city, with cool, pleasant summers and mild winters. Flowers bloom throughout the year, and warm clothing is needed in every month.

As a result of the steady sweep of air from the Pacific, there are few extremes of heat or cold. During the entire 87 years of temperature records in San Francisco, temperatures have risen to 90º or higher on an average of but once a year and dropped below freezing less than once a year. As a rule, abnormally warm or cool periods last but a few days

Pronounced wet and dry seasons are another characteristic of this climate. On the average, 84 per cent of the total annual precipitation falls during the five-month period November to March, leaving but 16 per cent for the remaining seven months of the year. Long-time records of the Weather Bureau reveal that the sun shines in San Francisco during 65 of every 100 possible hours.

EDUCATION

Public and parochial school enrollments climbed 30 per cent between 1950 and 1960, despite a total population decrease of 4.5 per cent. Based on San Francisco Health Department resident birth records, child- ren under five years of age showed a decline of 20 per cent from 1950. Those in the age bracket of 16 through 19-not accounted for in public or parochial schools but included under other colleges or private schools and those gainfully employed-increased 9.57 per cent.

There are 136 public schools, including 15 junior high and seven senior high schools. There also are many parochial and diocesan schools. Number of pupils in daily attendance at public schools, 100,432; in pa- rochial schools, 29,535, and several thousand others in private and technical schools in the city. Institutions of higher education in San Francisco, with enrollments, include the following: City College of San Francisco (7,050); San Francisco State College (12,230); San Francisco College for Women (500); University of San Fran- cisco (4,463); and Golden Gate College (1,450). The University of California maintains several branches in San Francisco, including the colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Hastings College of the Law, and the Cali- fornia School of Fine Arts, with enrollments totaling 2,248 in the city.

At Berkeley, 21,545 were enrolled in the fall of 1960, and on all campuses of the University, 47,539. Stanford, with 8,810, and the University of California at Berkeley are both within convenient commuting dis- tances of San Francisco. Other colleges within the Bay Area offering standard curricula include the new Ala- meda County State College (1,200), San Jose State (14,273), University of Santa Clara (2,200), Armstrong Col- lege of Business Administration (Berkeley), Dominican (San Rafael), Mills (Oakland), Holy Name (Oakland), Notre Dame (Belmont), and St. Mary's (Moraga).

Educational facilities available in San Francisco and the Bay Area cover all fields and are outstanding in the West and in their rank among national institutions. Few cities in the world offer finer or more diversi- fied educational opportunities.

Enrollment in institutions of higher education in northern California is above the national average in re- lation to the population.

Higher education facilities include the public universities system, state colleges, public junior colleges, private four-year colleges and private junior colleges.

Extensive research activities are carried out by the larger universities of California and Stanford and numerous other northern California organizations with research facilities.

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Attesting to San Francisco's growth as the nation's western capital, over 84 corporat- ions, each with assets exceeding $10 mill- ion, are headquartered here; and over three million square feet of new office space have been added in its Central Business District since 1955. Four major hotel expansions, re- cently completed or now underway, plus de- velopment of Civic Center convention facil- ities, make San Francisco one of the world's most desireable cities to visit, or do busin- ess in. The nation's twelfth largest city is (1) embarking on a large-scale rejuvenation of blighted areas, (2) building large, conven- iently located parking facilities, and (3) planning a billion-dollar rapid transit system for the Bay Area.

San Francisco's location on one of the world's most beautiful bays creates an ideal year-round "air-conditioned" climate unequalled by any other large city in the world - the daily mean maximum temperature is 62.6 degrees, the daily mean minimum 50.4 degrees. A mecca for visitors, who last year exceeded one and a half million, the area is unique in recrea- tional facilities.

Business Activity . . . has shown consistent year-to-year gains in the last decade, from a 1947-49 average index of 100, to a 1960 average of 178.6. Index is based on bank debits, department store sales, electric energy sales, and freight carloadings. Gain over 1959 was 6.5%.

Population . . .

of the co-extensiye City and County of San Francisco was 740,316 in the 1960 Census. The San Francisco Bay Area (including) eight other counties showed a net gain of nearly one million people, or 35.7% since 1950, an average monthly increase of 7980 persons over the ten year period. San Francisco is the core city for this 6,990 square mile Bay Area with its 3,810,100 population. Income . . .

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Polk's San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory, 1961, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1953 Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 2806

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1953
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2806