476 Rich Street
Blandow gave his location as Fruitvale, which I believe puts this mark no later than about 1920.
Wm. Blandow
4 October 2009S. Aiassa Co.
3 October 2009
519 41st Street
Apgar Street is a small, discontinuous street between 39th Street and MacArthur Boulevard. When I survey it, I will have my eyes peeled for more of this maker’s marks. I would like to think that the street was named for Virginia Apgar, inventor of the Apgar scoring system for newborns in 1953, but in fact the eponymous Apgar was the landowner Richard “R.M.” Apgar.
1998 – Hiat Aboo
2 October 2009
5308 Shattuck Avenue
This is probably an amateur’s mark, but in case it isn’t (and because it’s the only 1998 mark I’ve found so far), here it is.
1965 – L. J. Lorenzetti
1 October 2009
523 41st Street
1958 – T. J. Garvey
30 September 2009
261 Tunnel Road
This is probably the only notable mark on Tunnel Road in Oakland; what a pleasure that it’s not only a dated T. J. Garvey mark but also my first mark at all from 1958.
1956 – C. Troja-Sisto
29 September 2009
541 53d Street
1954 – C. Valenzuela
28 September 2009
534 Boden Way
I found this quite by accident after I had already surveyed Boden Way, the tiny street behind Our Lady of Lourdes church. This is why I always keep my eyes, or at least one eye, on the ground.
