14 Croxton Street
Archive for the ‘ Undated marks’ Category
Steadman & Powell
14 February 2009Tracy & Windhurst
12 January 2009
5700 Mendocino Avenue
Tracy & Windhurst marks are unobtrusive and scattered all over north Oakland.
A. Salamid
10 January 2009
6100 Taft Avenue
On the last block of Taft is this piece of concrete work by A. Salamid that is very unusual in being textured instead of smooth; it might even be unique.
Ransome Construction Co.
20 November 2008
215 Ridgeway Avenue
John Cosetto
19 November 2008
5490 Kales Avenue
Notice the reversed “C” in the address. This mark has a space for dates inside, so maybe I’ll find a dated one somewhere.
Frank W. Kosich
18 November 2008
Ridgeway Avenue and Howe Street
Why are so many concrete contractors named Frank?
Born and raised in Richmond, Frank William Kosich (1917-1979) was the son of an Austrian immigrant from Semic, Yugoslavia. He married Kathryn Bettencourt (1921-2007) of El Cerrito in 1940, and they had two children. Their lives were covered in detail by the Richmond Independent, which noted that they lived at 835 31st Street before moving to El Cerrito in 1970, and that he joined the Richmond street department in 1949, became president of the All-Slav Club in 1953, and bid on city paving jobs between 1954 and 1973.
His stamp is rare in Oakland and never dated, but presumably abundant in the upper East Bay.
J. C. Zweigle
21 October 2008
5288 College Avenue
An unobtrusive mark in the College Corner block.
Oakland Underfoot 