Oakland Underfoot

1932 Stuart Street, Berkeley

Blake & Bilger marks are rare, and marks with dates are even rarer.

Arch Street, at The Berk (2311 Le Conte Avenue), Berkeley

There’s just one example of this mark in Oakland, from 1904.

2108 Russell Street, Berkeley

George H. Hall was an early Berkeley contractor and was probably the Hall of Hall and Nelsen. There are no Geo. Hall marks in Oakland, but I’ll keep this one anyway.

3138 California Street, Berkeley

Lovely to collect more C. B. Burnham stamps.

1042 63rd Street

Here’s another example of the mysterious mark I found on Alcatraz earlier this year. Now it’s revealed as a unique crescent design, but I couldn’t decipher the name until I found “Robt H” Hahn in the directory. He was listed that year as living at 3043 Grove Street (now MLK Way).

It appears that the R and the N are reversed. Perhaps a better example will turn up in Berkeley.

820 54th Street

This is part of a pair, a block away from one I found last summer.