5920 Genoa Street
This is as pristine a mark as you will find from 1906.
1906 – Peterson & Adler
10 July 2011Wm. Blandow
9 July 2011
M. J. McDonough
8 July 2011
908 Erie Street
M. J. McDonough paved a few blocks on Harwood hill in 1922, but this is a handmade mark in the Grand Lake neighborhood. I’ve also found one on 10th Avenue.
G. G. C. Co.
7 July 2011
Adeline Street at 60th Street
This is right outside Lois the Pie Queen. I don’t like photographing marks in people’s presence, but it was kind of unavoidable. Anyway, I will assume until proven otherwise that this stands for Golden Gate Construction Co.
1941 – Dan Doyle Concrete
6 July 2011
1939 – W. Brill
5 July 2011
1200 block 37th Avenue
Finally I can assign W. Brill a date (and phone number).
1938 – C. Valenzuela
4 July 2011
1232 39th Avenue
This mark is cause for fireworks, pushing C. Valenzuela from 1950 all the way to the thirties. With a latest date of 1988, this mark puts Valenzuela in a tie with Frank Salamid for the longest record, 50 years.
Carlos Valenzuela is listed in the 1937 directory with no occupation, in the 1938 directory as a laborer, in the 1940 directory as a concrete worker and in the 1941 directory as a cement finisher, living at 992 35th Street with his wife Mary.
