546 47th Street
1953 – John Astorino
27 September 20091945 – F. E. Flaherty
26 September 2009
5416 Telegraph Avenue
1942 – L. Scaramelli
25 September 2009
4244 Montgomery Avenue
This elegantly scripted Scaramelli mark is barely visible unless the light is right.
1939 – J. Devoto
24 September 2009
550 46th Street
1938 – F. E. Flaherty
23 September 2009
4312 Telegraph Avenue
A slightly different configuration of the Flaherty mark.
1934 – F. E. Flaherty
22 September 2009
5205 Telegraph Avenue
F. E. Flaherty paved part of the sidewalk in front of the Alden Branch (Temescal Branch) of the Oakland Library. The Alden district was named for Solomon Alden, founder of what is today Children’s Hospital Oakland and a distant relative of mine. There’s more information on a plaque on the new building at 4801 Telegraph Avenue. The building now housing Barlata Tapas was until recently the Hotel Alden. Barlatas is a fine place, but I miss the seedy, ramshackle hotel or at least the idea of it.
1934 – J. H. Fitzmaurice (III)
21 September 2009
5429 Telegraph Avenue
After seeing hundreds of Fitzmaurice marks all over Oakland, perhaps more than a thousand, this is the first one I’ve found with a date.
