Oakland Underfoot

3730 Brookdale Avenue

It’s a relief to have a high-quality example of this date from J. Ogden; my first example was pretty dodgy.

3982 Whittle Avenue

This is a clean, unbroken example of a mark I’ve found elsewhere.

3303 Coolidge Avenue

Another of the genuine Fruitvale sidewalk makers.

2314 E. 20th Street

I’ve documented this year before, which appears to be W. E. Ensor’s earliest, but this is a superlative, pristine mark. The lot and its neighbors have a set of palm trees that must be more than a hundred feet high.

2548 Wakefield Avenue

Pink concrete appears to have been a brief fad in the early 1920s. I usually don’t see it with dates, though. This gives me a range of dates for G. Musso from 1922 to 1940.

Hampel Street at Randolph Avenue

This is a different version of the Ferrando mark. Note the misplaced letter.

436 Foothill Boulevard

Scuffed and dim as this mark is, it’s still much better than the previous mark I ascribed to this maker and year.