2816 Martin Luther King Jr. Way
1917 – The Oakland Paving Co.
22 November 20101910 – The Oakland Paving Co.
21 November 2010
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.
1958 – A. G. Moniz
20 November 2010
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.
1947 – A. Sposeto
19 November 2010
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?
1937 – M. Cvetich
17 November 2010
515 Sycamore Street
This matches the 1935 Cvetich mark, but not the 1936 mark.
1937 – Jas. E. Wentworth
16 November 2010
471 25th Street
1934 – Ed Doty
15 November 2010
326 23rd Street
