2419 26th Avenue
I thought this was 1912 at first, but 11 years later I looked at it again and decided it’s really 1913.
1913 – Alex. LaPlant
3 June 2013Harold W. Smith
2 June 2013
4500 block Bond Street
In a comment elsewhere on this site, Harold W. Smith’s daughter said, “My father did a lot of concrete work in Alameda and Contra Costa County. He came to California from Kansas, riding the rails as a young teenage during the Great Depression. He got his cement contracting license in the mid to late 1930s. He’d used the stamps mostly in his earlier work.” He lived somewhere other than Oakland.
Smith used the exact same escutcheon as W. H. Fitzmaurice‘s first mark, which it used from 1922 to 1925. I think this is the only example I’ve seen; in any case, I found no example with a date on it.
Dan Doyle
1 June 2013
1220 47th Avenue
This unusual mark gives us Dan Doyle’s address, which looks like 2028 E. 28th Street. At some point, probably when I’m finished with the whole city of Oakland, I’ll visit the locations of every sidewalk concrete contractor I can just to see what’s there today.
1979 – Geo. Jardin
31 May 2013
1200 block 48th Avenue
1964 – M. Andrade & Son
30 May 2013
1445 48th Avenue
1946 – Doyle L. Hallum
29 May 2013
44th Avenue at E. 12th Street
1940 – J. Rodrigues
28 May 2013
1722 46th Avenue
I have another Rodrigues mark from this year, but in that one the date is in the middle.
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