Camisa Circle
1956 – Gallagher & Burk
22 November 20151954 – A. G. Moniz
21 November 2015
10100 Dante Avenue
Good old Arthur Moniz.
1950 – S. Giuntoli
20 November 2015
9944 Longfellow Avenue
Not too certain about this one. But Silvio Giuntoli’s career began in the mid-1920s, and I have dates through 1949, all of which use the same tiny numerals for the year as he used for the month and day. If this were from 1930, he would have used the numerals for the “30.” I prefer to think that he got tired of the whole thing in January 1950 and just scratched in “50.”
1948 – H. E. V.
19 November 2015
10215 Dante Avenue
1946 – E. H. Buel
18 November 2015
9905 MacArthur Boulevard
Ensor H. Buel left his horseshoe mark and his signature in all parts of Oakland in the 1930s and 1940s. It’s only fitting that this was the last sidewalk stamp I found on the last day of my systematic survey.
1945 – J. S. Mattos Concrete Co.
17 November 2015
10420 Shaw Street
There are only two dated stamps by this maker in the entire city of Oakland. The other is from 1944.
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