Oakland Underfoot

5538 Foothill Boulevard

This address is a nondescript auto-repair place today, but I guess at one time it was Auction Alley. Does anyone remember?

5745 E. 16th Street

Kendall was a long way from home.

Magee Avenue at Kansas Street

3232 Galindo Street

I think that C. Valenzuela must have been located in Fruitvale, because while his marks are spread all over Oakland, they seem to be thickest on the ground here, including some hard-to-find dates.

400 Franklin Street

The concrete here in the produce district is quite old and battle-scarred, much of it laid down in the 1910s apparently by G. Skidmore.

3298 Lakeshore Boulevard

This mark was hiding underneath a sandwich board. It’s the first example I’ve found of an Angelo Sposeto mark with a date.

This is the 1,000th post on Oakland Sidewalks.

999 42nd Street

Gallagher & Burk did the whole block of Linden Street between 41st and 42nd Streets.

This is the last year I needed to get in the 1960s.