5378 Bryant Avenue
This stamp is on the concrete pad of a garage, a rare double strike. I hate to say it, but that was sloppy work.
G&M Concrete Company
16 October 2008Cunningham & Gunter
15 October 2008
4279 Montgomery Street
Hal H. Bennett
14 October 2008
4452 Montgomery Streeet
This is a different, fancier Hal Bennett mark. The space in the middle looks like it could hold a date, so if I find any more of these I’ll be looking.
B. A. Douglass
13 October 2008
5885 Ocean View Drive
Lower Ocean View Drive has a lot of historic marks to match its period homes.
A. Soda
12 October 2008
5379 Bryant Avenue
Since I posted this I’ve found a dated A. Soda mark, but this one is pretty definitive.
A1 Con / J. J. Silva
11 October 2008
4161 Emerald Street
I think the marketing ploy by which people name their businesses to be listed first in the phone book must date from the 1950s or so. Other than that I have no clue how old this mark is.
1974 – A. J. Ferrero
10 October 2008
41st Street at 4070 Opal Street
The house at the corner of 41st and Opal is a century-old Craftsman in immaculate shape, with this A. J. Ferrero stamp and a 1940 McGettigan. This is only the second stamp I’ve found from the seventies. In 1974 I moved back to the Bay area, and a movie star was governor then too.
