Oakland Underfoot

1444 13th Avenue

Michele “Michael” Bua (1878-19??) was “a prominent member of the Italian colony” who immigrated in 1896 and was naturalized in 1902. He started as a cement contractor in 1908. He lived at 1607 Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr Way). The newspapers last mention him in 1922, but I have a hand-drawn mark I interpret as 1935. He teamed up as Bua & Roberts in the early 1920s, in the Bacon Building.

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