417 Harrison Street
This is a tiny block wrapped around the Webster Street tunnel entrance that looks like it hasn’t changed since the day it was built.
J. S. Mattos Concrete Co.
15 March 20111988 – Geo. Jardin
14 March 2011
524 7th Street
I haven’t been able to figure out what to call this shape; for a long time I thought of it as a “block oval,” but someone suggested “barrel.” That works if you picture a wine barrel, which is stored on its side, rather than the historical ideas of a pickle barrel, a cash-on-the-barrelhead barrel or a barrel-worn-by-a-broke-guy, which is upright. Works for me.
1956 – Ed Kovell
13 March 2011
220 Washington Street (across from 215)
A new name for me. Maybe I’ll see it again somewhere else, maybe not.
1948 – Nat Lena
12 March 2011
1139 55th Street
1944 – Gallagher & Burk
11 March 2011
500 block 3rd Street (back of the old Union Machine Works building).
1942 – Gallagher & Burk
10 March 2011
500 block 3rd Street
Again, this is the back end of the old Union Machine Works building.
1937 – Nat Lena
9 March 2011
2nd Street at Broadway
Oakland Underfoot 