Oakland Underfoot

Telegraph Avenue near Woolsey Street

Little exists on the web about this firm, which incorporated in Los Angeles in 1906. Its San Francisco office was advertised at 105 Sacramento Street in 1906, but naturally had to relocate after the earthquake, to 12th and Howard, then Beale and Mission. Its ads in the paper said “Metal hose, before and after the fire, and forever.” From 1909 until 1925 it was on the first block of Main Street, at the foot of Market Street, after which it vanished.

The newspapers in Seattle and Portland make no mention of the firm.

The flexible tubing here was probably a gas line.

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