Oakland Underfoot

479 McAuley Street

This collaboration between Joseph Stone and Nick Ferri is one of two on this block.

2556 Frances Street

This is a much more definitive version than my previous example. Dan Doyle Company stamps with dates are uncommon, and only three years (1940-1942) appear in Oakland.

1220 102nd Avenue

When he hand-drew his mark, J. Kemble sometimes used his initial, sometimes not. With this example, I now have both types from 1941.

1320 103rd Avenue

This is a better strike than the previous one I documented several years ago.

103rd and 104th Avenues are interesting. The curbs were laid out without driveways, and each lot had a stamp with its number in the sidewalk. the sidewalk makers also put arrows in the pavement, but I’m not sure what the mark signifies, perhaps the location of the water lines. Each homeowner had to pay a concrete worker to cut out a driveway, and almost all of them are crude and unsigned.

1323 91st Avenue

Valenzuela marks from the 1940s are quite rare.

438 Harrison Street

This gives me a date for the otherwise-undated J. S. Mattos Concrete Co. mark.

2630 94th Avenue

This is a much better strike than my previous example.