Oakland Underfoot

I spent two nights in this central coast county seat and spotted a few sidewalk stamps. These are arranged roughly old to new.

Morganti is attested in a newspaper piece in 1909, a pair of brothers. Presumably one of them used this stamp later than that.

It’s odd, and probably a coincidence, that Oakland’s Frank “Borax” Smith was named Francis Marion Smith.

The next three are WPA work, from the Depression years.

A worthy destination for sidewalk freaks.

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