Oakland Underfoot

9990 Holly Street

1427 103rd Avenue

This mark pushes back Otto Hennig’s dates back a few years.

1612 100th Avenue

Assuming I’m correct with the date, this mark establishes F. E. Flaherty at a very early time indeed.

1220 102nd Avenue

When he hand-drew his mark, J. Kemble sometimes used his initial, sometimes not. With this example, I now have both types from 1941.

1320 103rd Avenue

This is a better strike than the previous one I documented several years ago.

103rd and 104th Avenues are interesting. The curbs were laid out without driveways, and each lot had a stamp with its number in the sidewalk. the sidewalk makers also put arrows in the pavement, but I’m not sure what the mark signifies, perhaps the location of the water lines. Each homeowner had to pay a concrete worker to cut out a driveway, and almost all of them are crude and unsigned.

1380 102nd Avenue

It looks like N. Lena may have modified a stamp with a “191X” date to make this. But I have no evidence that he was active before 1920, so who knows.

9501 B Street

The concrete here looks like the work of A. Salamid, but Pat photobombed his job.