524 Forest Street
I love the w i d e spacing of this O. C. Jones mark.
1929 – O. C. Jones
13 September 20081929 – M. E. Valente
13 September 2008
5803 Clover Drive
1929 – P. Barale & Co.
13 September 2008
6432 Chabot Road
P. Barale marks seem to be a few years older than J. Barale marks.
1928 – P. M. Henning
12 September 2008
5349 Locksley Avenue
There are a lot of P. M. Henning marks, usually in driveways, around North Oakland. They range from the late 1920s to about 1940.
1928 – Geo. D. Prentice
12 September 2008
1928 – Ed Doty
12 September 2008
42d Street and Shafter Avenue
This is the earliest Ed Doty mark I’ve found so far.
1928 – Wiggins & Kaiser
12 September 2008
Broadway and Napa Street
Hundreds of sidewalk stamps have been wiped out by corner cutouts. That’s a necessary cost of accommodating wheelchairs and blind pedestrians. A few marks have escaped obliteration, and even fewer of those are still recognizable. This is the first Wiggins & Kaiser mark I’ve found, but given the huge role of the Kaiser industrial empire around here, I expect to find more.
