Oakland Underfoot

3862 Huntington Avenue

4805 Tompkins Avenue

Haven’t seen a Frank Cizek mark in over two years. Luckily this one was a previously undocumented year. Perhaps there are some earlier ones in East Oakland.

1258 62nd Avenue

Here’s a great mark by G. Tribuzio & Sons that includes their address (3706 Porter Street) and phone number as well as a nice date. It’s my first example from the 1940s, and it establishes that the time G. Tribuzio did business alone overlapped the time he worked with his sons, from at least 1948 to 1954.

3800 California Street

I found two marks by G. L. Patterson in this neighborhood.

2029 Crosby Avenue

This mark shows that Nick Ferri began using his first name before 1950. I still have an eight-year gap in the record to fill between 1948 and 1940.

1139 58th Avenue

This is the back entrance to a truck lot in the Pepsi complex, or maybe the Quaker Oats complex, on 57th. This is probably not Fred Austin, but some other Austin.

2221 E. 31st Street

I have two other Scaramelli marks from 1948, but this one is the standard configuration.