14th Avenue at E. 20th Street
A rare mark by the modest F. Roberts.
1923 – F. Roberts
24 June 2012Leonard DeGuarda
23 June 2012
1314 E. 26th Street
This example is good enough to tell me that I was wrong in thinking that the numerals were a date. Instead, the mark reads “Leonard De Guarda / 4040 Quigley St”, an address at the very end of Quigley Street north of High Street.
Sidewalk maker: M. Bua
22 June 2012
1444 13th Avenue
Michele “Michael” Bua (1878-19??) was “a prominent member of the Italian colony” who immigrated in 1896 and was naturalized in 1902. He started as a cement contractor in 1908. He lived at 1607 Grove Street (now Martin Luther King Jr Way). The newspapers last mention him in 1922, but I have a hand-drawn mark I interpret as 1935. He teamed up as Bua & Roberts in the early 1920s, in the Bacon Building.
Azorean Construction Co.
21 June 2012
1969 – Geo. Jardin
20 June 2012
E. 34th Street at 13th Avenue
Ah, the summer of ’69 . . . that is a rare date for sidewalk stamps. All the 1960s years are poorly attested, but the 1970s and 1980s are even worse. I’m still missing the years 1973, 1980 and 1982; also 1903.
1955 – Andrade
19 June 2012
13th Avenue at E. 19th Street
1949 – C. Adams
18 June 2012
1391 E. 32nd Street
C. Adams is a new name for me.
