Oakland Underfoot

6342 Doran Drive

The high hills are so barren of marks that a find like this is a big deal. To me, anyway.

732 S. Elmhurst Avenue

Burua marks are hard to find, but I’ve recorded them from 1990 to 2003, which puts this right in the middle. It’s a lovely thing in a part of town that needs them.

S. Elmhurst Avenue and Edes Avenue

D. M. Lee may have been an amateur, but then there are those two straight bars on either side of the mark . . .

6625 Aitkens Drive

Yeah, JCP probably wasn’t the maker of this mark. So sue me. When I’m up in the hills, I take anything I can get.

2518 64th Avenue

This mark appears to be the work of professionals, but the names aren’t familiar.

689 Nevada Street

South Elmhurst’s sidewalks are in sad shape, but a few marks survive there.

2320 65th Avenue

Ed Doty used a curved mark almost exclusively after 1936, but a few dated examples of his previous straight-text mark exist, like this one.