Oakland Underfoot

5268 Golden Gate Avenue

This mark clearly displays the bottom row, making it obvious that AND-1661 was a phone number. It’s odd that Poblitz didn’t consider the last four digits permanent.

601 23rd Street

Unlike the Geo. Thomas marks from the 1930s, this one does not include the phone number.

2816 Martin Luther King Jr. Way

5950 Romany Road

Even before I started this blog, the pair of marks at the corner of Cross and Romany Roads stood out to me. I imagine that the workers of The Oakland Paving Co. were eager to show off their work in the then-new subdivisions of Broadway Terrace. Consequently this mark is deep and precise, ready for another century of service.

516 25th Street

I’m guessing that this is the Moniz found on the Andrade & Moniz mark. Very few concrete workers are confident enough to draw a mark of this quality without using a stamp.

2300 block Valley Street

Angelo C. Sposeto also used an undated barrel-shaped mark, otherwise I wouldn’t know who this is.

Just the other day, I saw sidewalk barriers put up by Sposeto contractors on the Cal campus. Could they be the successor to Angelo’s company?

515 Sycamore Street

This matches the 1935 Cvetich mark, but not the 1936 mark.