Oakland Underfoot

2920 Ellis Street, Berkeley

I don’t have a record of J. Sorensen marks in Oakland, but I’m including it here because there are several different Sorensens and Sorensons represented in this part of the East Bay and I haven’t worked out their relationships. I think this was laid by John R. Sorensen, who lived for many years in Berkeley.

2147 Russell Street, Berkeley

Semicircular stamps have been doubled up this way from the beginning. The last practitioner I can think of was Carlos Valenzuela, who did it from 1939 to 1960 and then used just one.

6434 Raymond Street

Thanks to Lincoln Cushing’s reference site, I can identify this as my first C. J. Lindgren mark.

Thanks to the comment below, I can confidently give this a 1903 date, one of only two in the whole city.

4246 Gilbert Street

I think I’ve deciphered the maker of this stamp as G. D. Prentice, after repeated visits at different times of day and lighting. That’s probably the Geo. D. Prentice I documented from 1928.