Oakland Underfoot

1452 104th Avenue

A much better strike than the previous one I documented.

3644 Calafia Avenue

Unlike other C. A. Heldt marks from 1946, this one has only a hand-drawn date.

9923 Birch Street

3644 Calafia Avenue

This is much larger than the usual Albany Concrete mark, leaves out the word “Co.,” and appears to be carefully hand-drawn.

1932 103rd Avenue

This splendid specimen includes the day and month. In fact, this is the first and only Valenzuela mark I’ve found that he stamped with the day and month (he hand-wrote one in 1959).

1832 102nd Avenue

The inconsistent C. Fischer spelled his name “Fisher” in 1938, too.

1744 101st Avenue

This mark shows how carefully F. E. Flaherty did his handiwork, drawing a guideline and using a straight tool of some sort. Only the curves threw him. Oddly, just a few weeks earlier he used a different technique and had no trouble. His work was fine, but his brand wasn’t very good. I think he should have kept his old racetrack-format stamp instead of giving it up in 1935, but maybe it was stolen or something.