A. Salamid

1920 chestnut, berkeley

According to the very interesting comments discussion on this Oakland Sidewalks post, A. Salamid was Angelo, the younger brother of Frank Salamid, whose stamps I've featured before.

J. Mottino

751 47th street, oakland

Love & ?

corner of geary and powell, on the pedestrian island, san francisco

I really wish this said Love & Hate...

J. Mottino

4535 martin luther king, oakland

S.A. Chase

corner of julian and 14th, san francisco

Fredrickson & Watson Construction Co.

broadway terrace at hwy 13, oakland

Found this while waiting for a tow truck just above Lake Temescal. Yes, it's true: on the same day my phone and internet stopped working, my car's engine died. Not such a good day, but I love this stamp!

Roy Kendall

10538 san pablo, el cerrito

Catching Up

As I mentioned on my other blogs, I've been dealing with some internet issues for the past few weeks (namely, efax accidentally took over my phone number from AT&T and it took two weeks to recover the number, plus another week to get things running properly), so I have quite a stockpile of sidewalk stamps to post. I was in New York last week and am incredulous that I didn't find a single stamp, in spite of having walked miles and miles of sidewalk. I guess New York has different rules about concrete installation, which is too bad because it's such an old city. Anyways, to kick us off, here are a few I found yesterday while walking to the Cheeseboard for some Ossau-Iraty cheese in preparation for my next trip. Do they have sidewalk stamps in Spain? Stay tuned to find out!


vine street near shattuck, berkeley


1930 rose, berkeley


near 1839 Rose, berkeley


1739 rose, berkeley


1457 hopkins, berkeley

S. Golden

santa fe, under the bart tracks

I haven't posted this before because I wasn't sure if it was a contractor's mark or not, but I'm pretty sure it is.

San Francisco Stamps

corner of 24th and portrero
(not sure exactly what this one says... "deccotti & son"? "geo. cotti & son"?)


corner of 23rd and shotwell


581 valencia


corner of gurrero and cumberland

J. Triberti & F. Massaro, A. Soda Co.

Until now I've been maintaining one post per contractor on this site, so that you can visit, say, the A. Soda Co. post and see a chronology of the stamps I've found from that company. But that means that unless I find stamps from "new" (to me) contractors, I never get to create new posts. So I've decided to take advantage of the labels in the right-hand column and start posting stamps as I find them, regardless of who made them. From now on, if you see a post such as this one and you are curious to see more stamps from the featured contractors, you can simply click on the corresponding labels below each post, or in the column to the right. You can also search this way by date, or by city if you like.




all from 1145 65th st., oakland

National Builders of California

mcgee at vine, berkeley

Couldn't make this one out, but Andrew identified it as National Builders of California!

Stevenson

howe street, in front of st. leo's, oakland

P. Schnoor & Son

1223 kains


1207 virginia


corner of santa fe and ramona


1033 cornell


1026 washington


1602 sonoma

L. Villata

1852 virginia, berkeley

H. Sutherland

744 virginia, berkeley

Jas. E. Wentworth

1721 cedar, berkeley

D.C. McCabe & Son- From San Francsico!

corner of gough and market, sf

Amazingly, this is the first stamp I've ever seen in San Francisco. I'd been wondering why there aren't any, and this one appeared before me like magic! Photo was taken at night, so please forgive the quality.

Williams & Phillips

1809 tenth street, berkeley
I would never have been able to identify these marks without Lincoln Cushing's collection for reference.

Orth & Braun

1226 neilson