335 63rd Street
This driveway, and presumably the sidewalk too, was originally made by the J. Catucci firm in 1916. When Rosas Brothers redid parts of this block in 2010, they appear to have kindly preserved the older stamp on behalf of the homeowner.
I need to prepare a Profile for Joseph Catucci; until then the comments to this post have a good amount of detail from his descendants.
This corner, one of two thus marked, is also a splendid example of a dated Schnoor Bros. stamp, unlike my previous example from just down the block.
2108 Russell Street, Berkeley
George H. Hall was an early Berkeley contractor and was probably the Hall of Hall and Nelsen. There are no Geo. Hall marks in Oakland, but I’ll keep this one anyway.
2936 Ellsworth Street, Berkeley
2315 Howe Street, Berkeley
This part of Berkeley has quite a show of old rarities. Always happy to flesh out the record of Oakland masons.
2920 Ellis Street, Berkeley
I don’t have a record of J. Sorensen marks in Oakland, but I’m including it here because there are several different Sorensens and Sorensons represented in this part of the East Bay and I haven’t worked out their relationships. I think this was laid by John R. Sorensen, who lived for many years in Berkeley.
Oakland Underfoot 