2816 California Street, Berkeley
Unlike the previous 1907 C. B. Burnham mark, this one has only the last two digits of the date.
1907 – C. B. Burnham
28 December 20241956 – G. W. Griset
26 December 2024
737 Park Street, Berkeley
1925 – Citragno-Indelicato Co.
24 December 2024
1008 Channing Street, Berkeley
Citragno-Indelicato stamps are rare. I’ve found only a handful, dated 1924 to 1927.
1907 – C. B. Burnham
22 December 2024
2741 California Street, Berkeley
As I expected, Berkeley has more C. B. Burnham stamps.
1904 – P. Schnoor
20 December 2024
1002 Channing Street, Berkeley
There are more of these nearby at 936 and 840 Channing.
Sidewalk maker: John Astorino
12 December 2024
John Astorino (1891-1982) has a sparse record but a familiar story among Oakland’s concrete contractors. He was born Giovanni Astorino in San Giovanni in Fiore, a town at the foot of Italy. He emigrated to Utah in 1923, after his father died, and in 1925 married Caterina Fratto (1903-1978), another native of San Giovanni in Fiore. He worked in the coal business at the time. Eventually they had eight children. It appears that they moved west after the war. The 1950 census states that two of their sons were concrete workers, who presumably worked with him. He later moved to Dublin and died there.
Astorino stamps are usually light and rarely show all the characters, including the phone number GL1-5236 and the address 709 26th Street, where the family lived as of 1949. But his marks are unmistakable — he’s the only sidewalk maker in Oakland who used a hexagonal stamp. I have documented seven different dates from 1951 to 1962.
1911 – E. C. C. (Esterly Con. Co.)
10 December 2024
2426 Tenth Street, Berkeley
This pretty much has to be Esterly.
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