Auburn and Harwood Avenues
This is a gutter mark, like most WPA stamps.
1939 – W. P. A.
23 September 20081939 – A. A. Johnson & Son
23 September 2008
Montell Street near Piedmont Avenue
1938 – E. H. Buel
22 September 2008
5972 Chabolyn Terrace
E. H. Buel looks like he was too poor to have a stamp, but I assume he is actually Ensor H. Buel of the horseshoe-shaped stamps.
1938 – J. A. Milner
22 September 2008
4276 Howe Street
I’m not sure that J. A. Milner actually used a stamp.
1938 – G. Musso
22 September 2008
5645 Broadway
G. Musso seems to have been one of a bunch of modest Italian concrete workers around Oakland at the time. The Italians dominated the stone and concrete trades for many years in the Bay area, before they graduated to winemaking and politics.
1937 – Ed Doty (master 16)
21 September 2008
32 Eucalyptus Road
My 1942 Ed Doty mark has the number 17, not 16, in it. Maybe he hired another Concrete Master.
1936 – Ed Doty
20 September 2008
4364 Montgomery Street
Ed Doty changed in 1937 to a curving stamp that incorporated his Concrete Master 16 serial number.
