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.
9838 B Street
This is a better strike than my previous example.
9608 B Street
65th Street and Herzog Street
54th Street at Gaskill Street
Some time between 1912 and 1936, Park Street had its name changed to Gaskill Street, but they left the concrete alone.
Once again I’ve run short of sidewalk stamps. For a few days I’ll be running some special marks that have caught my eye during my long survey of Oakland sidewalks.
Oakland Underfoot 