Polk's San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory, 1964-65, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1953
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2908

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7,624

Service stations

590

15,719

airplane dealers.

2,411

Business and Personal Services

3,159

73,460

Hotels, motels and resorts.

146

28,110

Garages

519

14,351

Repair shops and other personal

2,494

30,999

Manufacturing, Wholesaling, Con-

tracting and Miscellaneous Outlets 9,138

646,241

Contractors and building

materials manufacturing and wholesaling outlets . 1,072

128,887

All other manufacturing, whole-

saling and miscellaneous

outlets

8,066

517,354

Totals

21,170

$1,787,803

*Sales of food for off-premise consumption and gasoline are not included-being tax-exempt sales. 1963 food store sales were estimated at $282, 152, 000 and gas station sales at $63, 720, 000 by Sales Management. This would indicate total retail trade in ex- cess of $2,133,675, 000 for San Francisco.

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

1950

$1,351,651

1951

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

1961

1,750,207

1962

1,787,803

1963

1,817,056

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

PRINCIPAL SERVICE GROUPS, (1) SAN FRANCISCO YEAR ENDING JUNE 30, 1963

Reporting Units

Annual Payroll ($000)

Em- ployees

Hotels, rooming houses, and other lodging places

418

$30,248

7,921

Personal services

1,043

26,851

6,245

Miscellaneous business services

979

83,502

14,899

Automobile repair, automobile services, and garages

368

19,188

3,153

Miscellaneous repair services

234

6,140

988

Motion pictures

107

8,257

1,862

Amusement and recreation serv-

ices, except motion pictures

197

12,783

2,895

Medical and other health services

1,486

56,125

12,213

Legal services

615

17,284

2,783

Educational services

2,726

790

politan

Industry

City and County of San Francisco

Area*

277

36,694

Hardware stores

112

controlling equipment.

Trailer, boat, motorcycle and

service establishments

TYPES OF BUSINESS

INTRODUCTION

721

611

43,814

5,490

232

6,895

. 11,093

65,277

HOTELS

The limit.s. Census of Business showed that San Francis~ had a total of 502 hotels, of which 358 were big enough to have I. Fatti -rate otele were counted within San Francisco, only 44 had a payroll. Gross receipts from all hotels and :- in 1958 amounted to $62.2 million.

Since then three new major hotels have opened, and two pects are under way; these five are the first new " .. . r . tels in San Francisco in many years. One of these pro- ". isatie San Francisco Hilton, completed in 1964, providing 1. 200 rooms.

MEDICAL CENTER

There are 30 hospitals in San Francisco-mostly general, Su Specth. - and they provide 9, 091 beds, not only for patients from around the Bay Area, but from all over the Western U. S. And even the Orient. In 1962, 13, 834 employees in this industry tarred over $71, 000, 000. As many as one-third of the 183, 027 pa- tents in 1962 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 1963 semester, public and parochial full-time en- rollments in the nine Bay Area counties totaled 1, 011, 151 from kindergarten through grade 14 (public junior colleges are main- tained in California by individual school districts). Of this total, 95,012 were enrolled in the parochial schools, about 10.6% of the total.

San Francisco public and parochial school enrollments climbed 30% between 1950 and 1960, despite a total population decrease of 4.5%. Based on San Francisco Health Department resident birth records, children under five years of age showed a decline 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 eight senior high schools. There also are many parochial and diocesan schools. Number of pupils in daily attendance at public schools, 108,203; in parochial schools, 29,418; 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- lepe 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 Berkeley are both within convenient com- muting distance 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).

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ma er ... . en in northern Call. mars blivete citional average in relation to the popula- tion.

il: In rioration 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- "IT: California organizations with research facilities.

BAY AREA MARKET DEVELOPMENTS Population

The Bo Aret, n. 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. The present population estimate is 749,900 for San Fran- cisco and 4, 078, 800 for the Bay Area.

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 $6,708, 364 in 1963 - a gain of 6.2% over 1962, and representing 24.1% of the total for the state.

Construction

In the Bay Area, 1963 was a record year for construction, with value of all permits issued up 14.8% from 1962, the previous record year.

Value of all

Residential Only

Dwelling

Construction

Value

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

1963

1,300,000,000

814,000,000

67,307

Inter-city and Interstate Traffic

Vehicle crossings over all six toll bridges of San Francisco Bay set new records in 1963:

Toll Bridges

1960

1961 1962

1963

San Fran-

cisco-

Oakland Bay

39,026,394

40,286,427

40,968,233

43,619,629

Golden Gate

19,325,954

20,702,013

21,968,064

23,238,063

Carquinez

12,892,791

13,833,083

14,063,274

13,607,107

San Mateo-

Hayward

3,688,017

3,825,114

4,123,563

4,468,898

Richmond-

San Rafael

3,338,427

3,606,482

3,869,162

4,143,049

Dumbarton

2,265,566

2,683,442

3,208,206

3,459,742

Benicia-

Martinez

524,692

2,334,061

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 1963 was 137.4, based on a 1957-59 average of 100, a gain of 10.8% over 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 17.3% 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

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 19 San Francisco banks reported total resources of over $25,000,000,000 at the end of 1964.

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

There are 87 corporations with assets exceeding $10,000, - 000,000 that 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 individ- ual 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, includ- ing 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 that 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- cisco in December, 1964.

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

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) At the beginning of 1964, total assets of 55 state and federally-chartered associations in the Bay Area grew to over $2,770,899, 000, ten times greater than the total a decade earlier.

(2) 16 associations headquartered in San Francisco have grown in 1964 to $1,620, 117, 213 in assets, and will celebrate a savings and loan centennial in 1965.

(3) In the city of San Francisco, loans recorded in 1963 by savings and loan associations grew to $273, 124,867. The number of loans totaled 10,018.

Insurance

San Francisco is the insurance center of the West, and the home office location for 27 stock and mutual companies author- ized to transact business in California. Represented are 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, fidelity, security, burglary and theft and extended coverage. In 1962 the industry employed in San Francisco approximately 22,500 persons, with annual payrolls of $120,233, 435. In addition, San Francisco is the headquarters of some 19 insurance associations, including such prominent names as Board of Fire Underwriters of the Pacific, Pacific Fire Rating Bureau, and Insurance Brokers Exchange of California.

Direct premiums written by all insurance groups in Cali- fornia amounted to $3,856, 876, 117 in 1962, or 9% above the pre- vious year. Direct losses paid, $2,125, 666, 695, were up 11%. Life insurance in force totaled $66,184, 000, 000 in California in 1962.

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 California State Division of Mines-Geology Museum Morrison Planetarium

Mid-summer Music Festival

San Francisco Symphony and Pop Concerts

Band Concerts-Golden Gate Park Civic Light Opera Association Series San Francisco Opera, and Spring Opera

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.

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INTRODUCTION

Annual Events-

i.for Show and Rodeo

.. . ..: \ stival

Yrr's( tion ( "Double Ten" Parade and Celebration

S ra last-Wat Football Game worst Re. atta-Sailing

! : Western Swimming and Diving Championships

\ .... nal Collegiate Athletic Association Regional Basketball

1 .... in: Gloves Boxing Tourney

San Francisco Flower Show

( .wien West Antique Show Uniden Gate Kennel Club Dog Show

Golden West Cat Show

Bay Area Science Fair

1 ... erman's Fiesta \ win Beach Street Fair and Art Show Manden Lane Festival [ .. .. 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 Francisco, San Francisco State College, University of California, Stanford University.

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

Polo Yacht Races Roller Derby

Paticipant 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.

Though 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 this 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. While from the beginning the mission was called San Francisco, the settlement at the cove under Telegraph Hill was known as Yerba Buena.

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First Elections

Democratic self-government of the bureaucratic sort de- croit by the Mexican Republic came to Yerba Buena (later named San Francisco) before the town itself arrived. Citizens of the Part ( ivil district) of San Francisco, on Governor Jose Fig- ucroa'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- triet 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.

During 1836, the Port of San Francisco became an impor- tant trading post. On July 1, 1836, Jacob Primer Leese, Ohio- born, partner in a Monterey mercantile firm, arrived by the barque "Don Quixote" from Monterey and by July 4 had thrown up a frame house 25 by 60 feet, the first "real" house to be built-part dwelling and part warehouse. He then summoned all the leading Mexican families and other prominent persons to an Independence Day celebration which lasted two days and a night. During the celebration the Stars and Stripes were raised beside the Mexican flag for the first time in San Francisco.

First Survey

In the autumn of 1839, Jacques Vioget, a versatile Swiss of the Peruvian brig "Delmira, " was commissioned by Alcalde de Haro to make the first land survey of Yerba Buena. By 1841 thir- ty families comprised the village population. During the next five years some of the prominent early settlers shifted to other lo- calities in the Bay Area. At the same time, Yerba Buena, out- rivaled by the port of Honolulu, drifted back into obscurity.

"The Portsmouth"

Then, on July 9, 1846, the "U. S. S. Portsmouth" quietly dropped anchor in Yerba Buena Cove, and Capt. John B. Mont- gomery and 70 sailors and marines came ashore and ran up the Stars and Stripes on Mexico's flagpole atop the adobe Custom House near the Plaza, as the "Portsmouth" gave a 21-gun salute. Thus passed the rule of the village of Yerba Buena from Spanish to American. On Aug. 6, 1846, Captain Montgomery appointed Lieut. Washington Allen Bartlett as the first Alcalde of Yerba Buena under the American flag. Bartlett was confirmed by public vote on Sept. 15. His first important decree ordered the revision of Vioget's survey, which had served to locate building lots since 1839. His civil engineer, Jasper O'Farrell, in making the survey, discovered in 1847 that streets as laid out in the early survey intersected at 22 degrees from a right angle. Correction of this error, known as "O'Farrell's Swing, " was made promptly.

A Reception Center Since Gold Days

When gold was discovered on Jan. 24, 1848, in Sutter's mill- race on the American River, and the evidence reached San Fran- cisco's nearly 900 inhabitants, the first gold rush, led by Sam Brannan, publishers of the town's newspaper, "The Star, " left only seven inhabitants behind. As the news spread around the world and ships came streaming into the harbor, a year later found over 6,000 miners at the "diggins, " and San Francisco again was a cantonment of tents with a population reported at 2,000 excited transients.

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Polk's San Francisco (San Francisco County, Calif.) city directory, 1964-65, Part 3

Author: R.L. Polk & Co Publication date: 1953 Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co. Number of Pages: 2908

Author: R.L. Polk & Co
Publication date: 1953
Publisher: San Francisco, Calif. : R.L. Polk & Co.
Number of Pages: 2908