Oakland Underfoot

Broadway near 51st Street

The tantalizing Poblitz stamp may not survive much longer as the building it sits in front of is abandoned and slowly crumbling. The 1921 Oakland phone book lists Earnest Poblitz, “cement wkr” living at 2212 41st Avenue. The 1920 census lists him with the middle initial E.

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