Polk's San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory, 1963, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1953
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2946

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9,806

Musical instrument stores

5,682

Stationery and book stores

166

16,968

Jewelry stores.

134

14,867

Office, store and school supply dealers

112

33,969

Other specialty stores

577

21,036

Grocery stores

556

40,655

Other food stores

894

31,980

Package liquor stores

334

33,599

Eating and drinking

2,627

176,196

Without alcoholic beverages

988

48,922

Drug stores.

270

36,986

Household and home furnishings

stores

382

51,751

Household appliance dealers.

143

15,311

Second-hand merchandise stores.

132

1,362

Farm implement dealers .

2,652

Farm and garden supply stores.

962

Fuel and ice dealers .

922

Building materials yards and stores

303

36,256

Lumber and building material

dealers.

18,250

Hardware stores

122

10,506

stores

2,286

Paint, glass and wallpaper stores

5,214

New motor vehicle dealers.

107

121,807

Used motor vehicle dealers

11,908

Automotive supplies and parts dealers.

7,874

Service stations

603

13,783

Trailer, boat, motorcycle and

airplane dealers.

2,656

Business and Personal Services 3,250

71,819

Hotels, motels and resorts. 148

23,074

15.44 Garages · 525

17,931

Repair shops and other personal

service establishments 2,577

30,814

Manufacturing, Wholesaling, Con-

664,635

tracting and Miscellaneous Outlets . 9,508 Contractors and building materials manufacturing and wholesaling outlets 1,103

132,772

All other manufacturing, whole- saling and miscellaneous outlets

8,405

531,863

Totals

21,687

$1,753,372

*Sales of food for off-premise consumption and gasoline are not included-being tax-exempt sales. 1962 food store sales are estimated at $270,203,000 and gas station sales at $61,572,000 by Sales Management. This would indicate total retail trade in ex- cess of $2,056,000,000 for San Francisco

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

1950

$1,351,651

195 1

1,469,069

1952

1,450,789

1953

1,496,841

1954

1,480,307

1955

1,631,823

1956

1,695,939

1957

1,632,308

1958

1,584,530

1959

1,724,949

1960

1,753,272

196 1

1,750,207

1962

1,787,803

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

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

Trade Group

Total Establish- ments

Sales ($ mil- lions)

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

194,602 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 Cali- fornia Department of Employment in 1961 had 61,984 employees and an estimated annual payroll of $299,070,834.

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

Reporting Units

Annual Payroll ($000)

Em - ployees

INDUSTRY

Hotels, rooming houses, and

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 serv-

ices, except motion pictures

208

9,512

2,818

Medical and other health services 1,406

590

11,065

2,260

Educational services

2,088

768

Nonprofit membership organi- zations

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

17,596

4,809

Legal services

Plumbing and electrical supply

Taxable

TYPES OF BUSINESS

Miscellaneous

Other .

4.47

other lodging places

INTRODUCTION

Results of the 1958 U. S. Census of Business shows that San Francisco had 7,869 service establishments, 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 em- ployees.

Hotels

The 1958 U. S. Census of Business showed that San Francis- co 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 three new major hotels have opened, and two other large projects are under way; these five are the first new major hotels in San Francisco in many years. One of these pro- jects now under way will provide San Francisco with a new 1,200- room hotel by 1964.

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 pa- tients in 1960 came from outside the city.

PUBLIC HEALTH

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

EDUCATION AND RESEARCH

Superior educational and research facilities are available in the Bay Area, including such world-renowned universities as Stanford (which now has several campuses in Europe and Japan) and the University of California, largest in the world, with (in 1963) a 26,759 student campus at Berkeley and 2,600 students in five colleges in San Francisco.

Four of the 15 colleges of the State College system are in the Bay Area-at San Francisco, San Jose, Hayward, and Cotati. Several other schools-Catholic, private, women's, men's, and junior colleges-are in San Francisco and its surrounding area.

A recent directory entitled "Scientific Resources of the San Francisco Bay Area" lists over 500 different research organiza- tions in industry, government agencies, schools, and private in- stitutions, in 1961.

In the fall 1961 semester, public and parochial full-time en- rollments in the nine Bay Area counties totaled 906,624, from kindergarten through grade 14 (public junior colleges are main- tained in California by individual school districts). Of this total, 90,628 were enrolled in the parochial schools, about 10% of the total.

San Francisco public and parochial school enrollments climbed 30% between 1950 and 1960, despite a total population de- crease of 4.5%. Based on San Francisco Health Department resi- dent birth records, children under five years of age showed a de- cline of 20% 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 em- ployed-increased 9.57%.

There are 131 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, 104,519; in parochial schools, 29, 102, and several thous- and others in private and technical schools in the city. Institutions of higher education in San Francisco, with full-time enrollments (fall 1963), include the following: City College of San Francisco (7,600); San Francisco State College (15,840); San Francisco Col- lege for Women (601); University of San Francisco (1,600); and Golden Gate College. The University of California maintains sev- eral branches in San Francisco, including the colleges of Medi- cine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Hastings College of the Law, and the California School of Fine Arts, with enrollments totaling over 2,500 in the city.

At Berkeley, 26,759 were enrolled full-time (fall 1963), and on all campuses of the University, 64,468. Stanford and the Uni- versity of California at Berkley are both within convenient com - muting distances of San Francisco. Other colleges within the Bay Area offering standard curricula include the new Alameda County State College, San Jose State, University of Santa Clara, Arm- strong College 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 diversified educational opportunities.

Enrollment in institutions of higher education in northern California is above the national average in relation to the popula- tion.

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 north- ern California organizations with research facilities.

BAY AREA MARKET DEVELOPMENTS Population

The Bay Area, on April 1, 1960, had 3,638,939 residents, an increase of 35.7% 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 num- ber 665 were expansions 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 $6,319,287,000 in 1962-a gain of 4.1% over 1961, and representing 24.3% of the total for the state.

Construction

In the Bay Area, 1962 was a record year for construction, with value of all permits issued up 15% from 1961, the previous 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

1961

972,661,000

552,847,000

49,160

1962

$1,117,074,000

688,927,000

59,264

Intercity and Interstate Traffic

Vehicle crossings over all six toll bridges of San Francisco Bay set new records in 1962:

Toll Bridges

1959

1960

1961

1962

San Fran-

cisco-

Oakland Bay 37,967,243

39,026,394

40,286,427

40,968,233

Golden Gate

18,193,672

19,325,954

20,702,013

21,968,064

Carquinez

11,963,442

12,892,791

13,833,083

14,063,274

San Mateo-

Hayward

3,463,901

3,688,017

3,825,114

4,123,563

Richmond-

San Rafael

3,104,955

3,338,427

3,606,482

3,869,162

Dumbarton

1,936,247

2,265,566

2,683,442

3,208,206

Out -of-state autos entering through northern California

gateways in 1961 totaled 1,243,907 cars and 3,182,342 passengers, an increase of 15.6% and 14.5% respectively.

GENERAL BUSINESS ACTIVITY

The Chamber's index of general business activity for 1962 was 124.0 based on a 1957-59 average of 100.

Business activity in the first half of 1963 showed an in- crease of 7.4% over the same period in 1962.

The index is based on four components, car loadings, de- partment store sales, electric energy sales, and bank debits.

Bank debits, continuing to be the most significant factor, in- creased 11.2% over the same period the previous year. The total debits for the first six months of 1963 were $39,780, 152,000 - up more than $4,000,000,000 from the first half of 1962.

Electric energy sales rose 5.1%. Department store sales slipped 0.3%. Freight car loadings increased 0.6%. (The figures represent comparisons between the first half of 1963 and the first six months of 1962).

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INTRODUCTION

FINANCE Financial Capital

Satt Frak loco, the financial and magraner capital of the

00 Lar est .comercial banks are located in San Francisco, The Ih san Francisor banks reported total resources of $18,868, 000, - vi at the end of 1961.

The Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco is the head- quarters of the Twelfth Federal Reserve District.

There are 82 corporations with assets exceeding $10,000,- 000,000 which have their headquarters in San Francisco. Another 55 such corporations are headquartered in the other eight Bay Area counties.

Stock Exchange

The Pacific Coast Stock Exchange -the "Exchange of Des- tiny'' -is second only to New York as a regional security market. It accounts for about 30% 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 indivi- dual 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 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 result.

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, inclu- ding 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 securi- ties exchange open from 12:30 P.M. to 2:30 P.M. (PST). This time differential makes Pacific Coast the nation's security mar- ket after 12:30 P.M. (PST) each market day. National and inter- national events of major importance affecting trading often result in a flow of orders to the Pacific Coast Stock Exchange from all over the nation.

Another specific advantage of Pacific is the tax-saving ben- efit. 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 also is the home of the San Francisco Mining Exchange, where over 20,000,000 shares were traded in 1961, with a value of $2,893,541.

Savings and Loan Associations

There were 16 savings and loan associations in San Fran- "ist in March, 1962.

From any standpoint, geographically, by total assets, or Walls recorded, the recent growth of savings and loan associa- tions in California, the Bay Area, and San Francisco, has been having.

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, 1961, total assets of 55 state and federally- chartered associations in the Bay Area grew 29% to over $2,200,000,000.

(2). I associations headquartered in San Francisco grew 29% in luol to over $934, 000, 000 in assets.

(3). In the city of San Francisco, loans recorded in 1961 by sav- Hp and loan associations grew to $152,480,000, a 53.15 mn- crease over 1960's $96,053, 000.

Insurance

San Francisco is the Ingrance center of the West, andcall- authorized to transact business in California. Represented are agents and brokers, offering all classes of business, hu luding the

marine, workmen's compensation, title, fidelity, security, burg- lary and theft and extended coverage. In 1961 the industry em- ployed in San Francisco approximately 24,000 persons with an- nual payrolls of about $ 120,233,000. In mumition, San Francisco is the headquarters of some 19 insurance associations, including such prominent names as Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pa- ofic, Pacific Fire Rating Bureau, and Insurance Brokers Ex- change of California.

Direct premiums written by all insurance groups in Cali- forma amounted to $3,539,690, 768 in 1961, or 6.7% above the pre- vious year. Direct claims and benefits paid, $1,919,371, 103, were up 10.3%. Life insurance in force totaled $66, 184,000,000 in Cali- forma in 1962.

DIRECT PREMIUMS WRITTEN AND LOSSES PAID, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, 1961

Direct

Major Classes

Premiums Written

Direct Claims and Benefits Paid $593,917,060

Life .

$1, 160,920,018

Disability and Health 573,389,394

441,210,170

Liability .

650,686,326

305,783,450

Automobile, Physical Damage 253,875,892

278,637,801

159,569,071

Workmen's Compensation Fire and Extended Coverage

203,886,793 83,178,802

Hospital Service.

108,946,888 97,367,193

Marine .

67,575,610

35,941,708

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 individual- ly 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 thousands of different kinds of trees, shrubs and plants, contains an aquarium, a mu- seum, the Morrison Planetarium, the California Academy of Sciences, the Japanese Tea Garden, and many unusual attractions. The Fleishhacker Playfield, fronting on the Pacific Ocean, con- tains 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, is a cosmopolitan city, which it was at a very young age in its history. Today its flavor has remained universal; its neighborhoods, va- riety of restaurants, 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 set- tlement existing outside of Asia itself. The North Beach section is populated by Italian-Americans of all classifications; the Mis- sion District by Irish intermixed with Spanish, Mexicans, and Anglo-Saxons. Many other nationality groups, including Russians, Germans, French, Greeks, Armenians, Syrians, Turks, and Ca- nadians, among them, came to settle in San Francisco. The Japa- nese, 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 long has been a center for the performing and de - signing arts. Nearly 100 art galleries and over ten "Little Thea - tre'' groups are located here.

Art Galleries-Three major public art galleries and sever- al 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

Califorma State Division of Mines-Geology Museum Morrison Planetarium

Mid -summer Music Festival

San Francisco Symphony and Pop Concerts Band Concerts -- Golden Gate Park

Civic Laght Opera Association Series

San Francisco Opera, and Spring Opera

130,233,952

INTRODUCTION

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

Annual Events -

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 Baskeball 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 London Week

Spectator Sports-

Baseball: San Francisco Giants

Football: San Francisco '49ers, Oakland Raiders, and col- leges

Hockey: San Francisco Seals

Basketball: San Francisco Warriors, University of San Fran- cisco, San Francisco State College, University of Califor- nia, Stanford University. Horse Racing (San Bruno, San Mateo, and El Cerrito) Soccer Polo Yacht Races Roller Derby

Participant Sports -

Tennis Golf Swimming Fishing, Deep Sea Sailing Skating-Ice and Roller Hiking

HISTORY

Discovery

San Francisco owes its discovery and much of its history to the daring and adventure-loving early Portugese, English and Spanish explorers. The romance of those early days clings to the city and lends charm to its atmosphere even today.

Through San Francisco's heritage is rightly credited to the Spanish, more than two centuries before Portola's arrival, Juan Rodrigues Cabrillo in 1542 discovered the Farallon Islands (now a part of San Francisco); next Sir Francis Drake, famed English explorer, passed by the Golden Gate and in 1579 discovered Drake's Bay, a few miles north of San Francisco, where the first church service in the English language on the Pacific Coast was held.

In 1769, Don Gaspar de Portola and his little band of ad- venturers were the first to glimpse the bay from the nearby hills on the south. Six years later the ship "San Carlos," in command of Don Juan Manuel Ayala, sailed through the Golden Gate to cast the first anchor in the bay. More than a century before, in 1603, Vizcaino visited what is now the Gulf of the Farallons and mapped it as Bahia de Puerto de San Francisco. This is the first time the name San Francisco appeared on record in connection with the vicinity of San Francisco.

Early Beginnings

The settlement of what is now San Francisco was just being founded by the Spaniards when the Liberty Bell pealed the birth of our nation. First Spaniards, then Russians, then Americans came and lived to enjoy life and to rule.

The site for the Presidio of San Francisco was selected on March 28, 1776, by Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza, and on March 29, the site for the mission, Mission San Francisco de Asia (Do- lores) -a combination of Mission, Moorish and Corinthian archi- tecture-was dedicated on Oct. 3, 1776, the Presidio having been

dedicated the previous Sept. 17. While from the beginning the mis- sion was called San Francisco, the settlement at the cove under Telegraph Hill was known as Yerba Buena.

For many centuries, history records, traders sought to reach the Orient through a western route. San Francisco was the westerly outpost in the days of sailing vessels. Growing in stat- ure, the city has become one of the world's great distribution centers.

First Elections

Democratic self-government of the bureaucratic sort de- creed by the Mexican Republic came to Yerba Buena (later named San Francisco) before the town itself arrived. Citizens of the Partido (civil district) of San Francisco, on Governor Jose Fig- ueroa's orders, assembled at the Presidio on Dec. 7, 1834, to choose electors for the Ayuntamiento (district council). On the following Sunday, Don Francisco de Haro was elected to the dis- trict council as Alcalde for the projected pueblo of Yerba Buena.

Naming of the City

The village of Yerba Buena, which in 1847 was to be re- christened with the name of San Francisco, in 1835 was still an insignificant outpost frequented by roving seafarers and was little more than a waste of sand and chaparral, sloping down to a beach and small lagoon which has long since been filled in and is now covered by massive commercial structures. El Paraje de Yerba Buena (the Little Valley of the Good Herb) derived its name in the beginning because of the aromatic vine found in the under- brush there.

The Bay

In 1835, the Bay was declared a port of entry by Governor Pablo Vicente de Sola. He appointed as captain of the Port of San Francisco, William Antonio Richardson, a young master mariner who had deserted the British whaler "Orion" in 1822 and set up the first "house" in Yerba Buena Cove, made up of some red- wood poles over which was stretched a ship's sail.

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Polk's San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory, 1963, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1953 Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 2946

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1953
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2946