3819 Monterey Boulevard
A rare new year for me from this prolific firm. As with most Riechel & Bredhoff stamps, this one has the high arch.
Archive for the ‘1939’ Category
1939 – Riechel & Bredhoff
20 May 20251939 – W. M. Sharp
24 November 2024
1452 Lakeshore Avenue
This is a clearer example of the year than the one I had before, which I decided was really from 1938.
1939 – WPA (Dimond Canyon)
16 June 2017The Works Progress Administration employed hundreds of thousands of people during the Great Depression. A lot of those works involved concrete, and many well-made sidewalks and gutters around Oakland bear the “WPA” stamp from 1939, 1940 and 1941.
In Dimond Canyon, WPA projects were funded to remove landslides, build fire trails and run a sewer line down the bed of Sausal Creek. Finally, the WPA paid crews to put in a bunch of concrete channels and culverts for flood and erosion control. That was in 1939.
A lot of that work has been undermined by erosion. Eventually the stream will have its way again, unless the authorities find a need there and fill it again.
1939 – R. W. Johnson
10 November 2015
9871 Olive Street
Marks by R. W. Johnson are rare and vague. This is as good as they get.
1939 – C. Valenzuela
21 October 2015
1932 103rd Avenue
This splendid specimen includes the day and month. In fact, this is the first and only Valenzuela mark I’ve found that he stamped with the day and month (he hand-wrote one in 1959).
1939 – C. Fisher (Fischer)
20 October 2015
1832 102nd Avenue
The inconsistent C. Fischer spelled his name “Fisher” in 1938, too.
1939 – L. Banchero
26 September 2015
9608 B Street
Oakland Underfoot 