Oakland Underfoot

2807 Oliver Street

No clue why J. Widell made that little gesture on the final zero.

13th Street at Harrison Street

Last year I found my first current-year mark in January. Usually it takes at least half the year, like it did this year.

8654 International Boulevard

Out in Deep East, parts of E. 14th Street didn’t get made over. This is a new maker for me, in a part of town where I didn’t expect any maker’s marks at all.

8628 Olive Street

Several years after his record of stamps gives out, Frank Lopes made this careful hand-drawn signature.

1712 86th Avenue

T. A. Ryan went through a lot of changes in 1937, using three different stamps over the course of the year. But on this day he just signed his work by hand.

1960 87th Avenue

2011 86th Avenue

Less than two weeks after placing a somewhat slipshod mark in front of his own address, Banchero did the walkway just down the block and marked it rather aggressively. Because it’s a much better example than my previous one, here it is.