Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 96

SUNDAY DafelanB Ctibunc AUGUST 24, 1930 M-3 flPARTMEHT NEW BUILDING FOR DOWNTOWN New Broadway Structure Architect's design of the new store now in course of construction at the northeast corner of Twentieth and R. H. Cross is the owner. The building being constructed by H. according to the design of Alben Froberg, architect.

1BE1CHII1E5 At Ground-Breaking Ceremony Ground was broken during the past week for the erection of a large apartment structure at Perkins and Van Buren streets, by Harry Schuster, owner ajid builder. Among those present were (left to right) Mrs. H. E. Schuster, Mrs.

J. Simon, J. Simon. Louis Saroni. Allen Hibbard.

J. Bruce McCollum. Lloyd Barzee, Willis Lowe and Louis P. lennson. In the foreground, shaking hands, are Charles F.

Crothers, vice-president of the CaliforniaMutual Building and Loan association, which largely financed the project, and Harry Schuster, the buihfer and owner. TD BE BIT IN OAKLAND AREA GRAND DISIICI The Superior French laundr which recently completed a modern daylight sanitary plant at 22lt oplar "Street, have found It nsees 7 Structure to Be Located at $110,000 to -Be Spent on Two-Story Structure on Broadway. Van Buren and Perkins Streets. sary to install additional ee.uijM ment, states Leon J. Iaourett proprietor ajid founder of the bns ness.

Lascurettes states: "We- have been very successful in Introducing our new laundry service that elim Another large apartment house inates home laundering- and Is priced by the pound. Thlsm has proven popular with the bourn in the Grand avenue district, which will cost $376,000 when completed, is in course of construction follow' at bAr ins; ground-breaking exerolses, Perkins and Van Buren streets. Harry Schuster, who has just another large apart' merit house in San Jose, is the Anr nA Knhuster turned 0' tha first spadeful of earth at the 9 ground-breaking ceremony last Construction was started this week on another mercantile building- In Oakland's upper retail section. R. H.

Cross, owner of the northeast corner of Twentieth and Broadway, has awarded the contract for a two-story and mezzanine steel frame. Class C. building to H. J. Chrlstensen.

Alben Probers Is the architect. Work is being rushed on the excavations, which Include the sidewalk areas on Broadway and Twentieth street. A description of the work reads: "Caisson foundations four feet in diameter are now being sunk to hardpan. Foundations and steel frame will bs built to carry- an additional three stories. The Initial cost Is 1110,000.

Contracts provide for compl'tion ready for occupancy on January 1. "The' plans for the building call for a conservative, modernistic type structure finished in warm gray terra cotta with, polychrome ornament and black marble base. Entrances' will be In black marble with cast aluminum' metal trim- Attractions of City Told in Magazine A full-page. Illustrated story on Oakland appears In the August issue of "The Postal Record." It was sent to th journal, which Monday morning in the. presence been compelled to Install additional machinery in order to handle, our business.

Every item is ironed and ready for use under our news system. For this service a speeial pound rate Is charged. Madera machinery Is used to iron the, flat work while all wearing srpparet 1m Ironed by hand. In addition cuiv tains and other items are carefully handled with special dertcear bull are not Included In the above iTV ice. "We have Installed the tainan type washers, ironers, wringers, as well as a 'Refinitef watet softening system." The delivery force of the- BtM perlor French Laundry covers $he entire Eastbay, it Is state.

i Copied somewhat afterr he American assoctottoav -the Motor Club of the Air has baps, formed by the National Air Travel ers' association, in Washington D. C. of city officials and a group of friends and associates interested in tha project The new apartment mlng. Provision is made for three women's specialty shops. "The leases 1b the new building were- made by Fred E.

Reed Inc. The Gray Shop specializing in women's ready-to-wear and millinery, will occupy the corner area, 45x90, at Twentieth and' Broadway, with full mezzanine, and the entire second floor covering S3xv0. A. C. Kennedy and M.

O. Kennedy, owners, are preparing for one of the finest showrooms In Oakland's retail shopping center. "The northerly store room of the three, size 18x90, will be oceotned by Roller's, specializing In ready-to-wear, corsets, lingerie and hosiery." is the official publication of the house will be of. English arch! texture. It will be a brick struc turs with steel frame, seven stories it a II', -ir I 'in height, and containing 60 apart' National Association ol setter (jar-tiers, by Robert A.

Allen, its Oakland correspondent, and was prepared by the Oakland Chamber of Commerce. The article describes the numerous seenio attractions of Oakland, which is to the convention city for th- letter carriers in 1911. V. ranU and 174 rooms. In the base-Tfient there will be garage space for 60 automobiles.

There will be two elevators in the building. The upper stories will have living rooms with beamed ceilings and fireniaees. The structure will re- i BUILDING quire eight months to build, it Is stated. It is the first of several apartment houses which Schuster Wayne Selects Bartlett as Oakland Agent NEW LIFFIUERS ARE NAMED plans en building in the Eastbay district. Schuster said 1 "The project was partly financed by the California Mutual Building RUSHED WORK ana Loan Association, unaries Crothers.

vice-president and man R. E. BartlettJoeal apartment ager Of the association, took part i us uroicim builder, announces his appointment In the ground-breaking exercises. I. E.

Perrln, general sales man as tho new distributor for Wayno The RKO appointment Others who participated in the ex-raises were: J. Bruce McCollum Orpheum of W. C. tVl Irtral announces Welch as Orpheum. ager of the Paclfio Coast Engineer 1 h.

ing company, announces that the who negotiated the real estate deal for the project; William Lowe, arohlteet; Mrs. Schuster, wife of thai owner and builder; Louis steel frame work of the Evangeline oil burning and refrigerating equipment in this territory. Offices and display rooms will bo opened In the Builders Exchange building. Bartlett states: "In my experience- gained during changed to a Home for the Salvation Army, now SafonL Jake Simon and Mrs. form orly managed Orpheum theater In San 1 o.

under construction at Sixteenth Simon, Dr. C. P. Pond, Allen Hlb' bard. Commissioner Frank Cot and Orove, has recently been com bourn and Harry Williams, city the.

construction and operation of pjeted. More than 360 toffs of steel were required to complete tne structure, all of which was fabri treasurer. Sale of Realty At New Record no cated and erected by tho Pacific Coast Engineering company at Its Among his former con-nectlons were tho Enter-prises of 1 1 waukee and the Charles 1 1 of local plant, located at tho foot of An average of one real estate sal was closed every minutes West Fourteenth street. The struoturo will be a six stories steel-frame building of reinforced for every business day during the first half of 1930 in the Eastbay, It was shown In an analysis of official oounty records made by the concrete. It has been reinforced nmf J.

throughout to roako it earthquake over $1,000,000 worth of apartment houses, I found that adequate heating, hot water and refrigeration systems were probably the most important considerations at renting ttms 'for th prospective tenant. With Wayne equipment there was never any doubt as to performance, and consequently, when tho opportunity was afforded, I secured tho locsl distribution for Wayne products. "The Wayne oil burners come in eight sizes, suitable for everything from, tho flvo room house to the twenty-story building. The burners aro of the most advanced type, and they aro fully automatic in operation. "Ths mechanical refrigerators aro also suitable for all types of buildings, whether domestic or proof, according to rerrin.

wnen cornnleted it will contain 240 Oakland Real Estate board completed yesterday. X)eeda to real estate. It was announced, numbered. 9775 recorded Detroit. He joined the Radio Keith eum rooms, and 'is being oonatructd at estimated cost of from January 1 to July 1, reflect circuit in Doualas Daere Stone is' tho archi 1925 as as tect, Jacobs and Pattlani are tho wlLUH.

W. 0. slstant man general contractors. ager of the State Lake theater of The Paolflo Coast Engineering company, in addition to tho above contract aro also erecting two iac- tory buildings for th Shell Chem ical company ai uneu remi near Pittsburg, where a $3,600,000 pro commercial. The cabinets are full ject is now undo way.

porcelain of beautiful finish, ana from the mechanical standpoint the svstems are unexcelled. Our U. S. Man Put organization will bo perfected with On Road Board Chicago. He also manageu un American, Riviera, Tower and Belmont theaters in Chicago.

Bert Levy has been named the new director of publicity for the RKO Orpheum theater in Oakland, succeeding Paul Brooks in the post, it is announced. Levy has come to Oakland from southern California, where he has spent tho past year, managing a theater in San Diego and writing screen plays in Hollywood. Prior to that time he was connected with Universal theaters in the north as resident manager for the circuit. He attended the University pf California at Berkeley In order to extend and increase its activities In real estate education, the National Association of Real Estate Boards has recently or ing theo urrent volume of realty activity. More than was invested la 70 transactions closed during June by five real estate firms reporting to the board, it was also declared in regular analysis of real estate business In the Eastbay.

Porter Olios, secretary-manager of the board, said that Just what the In" vestment volume invovled in the half-year' business would total was not revealed in the recordings Of deeds as the sale price of prop erty conveyed is seldom quoted. He tald that each month's business has reflected a normal market in relation to seasonal variation, the total for each month bearing the same relation to the half-year total as shown by the figures of former years. January comprises 17 per cent, Maroh IS per cent and June It per cent ot the whole volume of business. During January of this year ther wefiMA deeds recorded; February 1662, March, 1764; April, 171J; May, 1687. and June.

1490. "The official records show a sub William A. Van Duaer of Harrls-hurff nresldent of tho Ameri 'fMrii. it; in tno next ten aays ana win include full service and Installation departments." Women Realtors Meet in Oakland Women real estate agents from can Road Builders' association, has heen designated by tne state ae- partment as a representative of the United States on uu permanent Mimmlmlon of tho International all carta of California gathered In Oakland Friday to lay plans for the! nart In the Z03O realty con Association of Road Congresses, according to announcement from tho department of agriculture. The permanent commission, which is the governing body of the International association, ha offi vention to ield at Santa Cruz in ucwonr.

ganized its committee on education into an educational board which in Mrs. Willi May Bridge of Oak land presided; cludes a university advisory committee composed to professors of cial representation from 61 mem Delegates from 40 nations of the stantial current business in the real real estate In tho leading colleges and universities where real estate courses are now being taught. ftfzen a wise little wijei ber nations, van miser win stana for the membership of tho American Road Bulldero' association, which Includes officials and engineers in every section of this I A. estate field despite a generally ac-t cepted impression to the contrary," i mm tA world will attend tho- sessions of tho Sixth International Road Congress and the exposition of road machinery and materials to be held in Washington, D. 'C.

Octo it country and In every phase of the A brake will become warped, or possibly ruined. If water Is poured on it when hot. The best plan is to allow It cool gradually. highway Industry. ber by the American Roaa The object of th Fermanem in Builders' association.

ternational Association of Road Congresses, which has headquar select eu "Bonded" ters in Paris, Is set fourth as "to nromote crosress is) the construc tion, traffls and exploitation of roads." This Is Accomplished by organization of world wide road congresses, ouch as tho Sixth International Road congress which comes to Washington, October -ll, "It is evident that real estate activity is relatively greater in this community than In most other cities and It is evident that investment la real estate is relatively reater than is the case In other orms Of Investment," ho said. "Activity in this phase of investment is a natural sequence to eral conditions of the past two or three years and we may confidently expect to see a gradually increasing volume of transactions during the coming months." Building conditions throughout the country are definitely on the up-grade, according to the national survey Issued on April 1 by 8. W. Straus A Co. Building permits showed a gain of 4 per cent in March over February.

The normal Increase from February to March Is 37 per cent The reports show an increase for the first time since October. bv nubllcatlon of road oonstroo- tlon Information, and by test of roads and materials carried on in various parts of tho world. No More Breakfasts in a Chilled Room COST HALF BILUOl California bas nearly half a bil INSTALLATION fed mi lion dollars Invested hi public school buildings. Los Angeles, with school buildings valued at 284, leads an. of tho counties in tho state, with San Francisco and Alameda second and third.

Pure, healthful heat-a much or at little as desired-INSTANT-LY AVAILABLE-without ef 7b JV fort. Natural Gas Heating; makes the home more attractive and joyful. INTKRTIOATT! von Younsvnip I I ft See a Bonded Heating" Dealer at Once. He will show you the very latest in modern Gas eating equipment and will explain how "BONDED HEATING" protects the buyer. You'll be surprised how reasonable a modern Gas Heating installation is in cost.

Any of the following "Bonded Heating concern will gladly tend a representative to plan and estimate a correct gat heating system for you without obligation or annoying sales methods. ALIVE NEWSPAPER Helping Oakland's Commerce Grow i Helping a Great Gi li i All the News the Day It Happens CdfcsSrSHribunj OAKLAND'S FINEST APARTMENT HOUSE The Beautiful BELLEVUE-STATEN Cordially invites you to visit a Model De Luxe Apartment on the Fifth Floor, which has been decorated and furnished complete by Oakland's Finest Department Store The New H. C. CAPWELL CO. Broadway, 20th and Telegraph The apartment (No.

501 will be open for inspection for 4 limited period starting Sunday, August 24th and all who are interested in beautiful home furnishings will enjoy seeing what has been accomplished. And while you are the building let us show you over the apartments now 'available. "See what the Bellevue-Staten has to offer, and the glorious views from all apartments. 'LmmS BONDED 5. sa la HEATING Superior Metal Products Co.

and Market St a- Piedmont 3033 Airport Sheet Metal .4339 Eaat 14th -VW alnale 4673 Aladdin Heating Corporation ..5107 Broadway OLjmpIo 6424 Dickson Holbrook 180 Owight Way, Berkelry Berkeley V347 Ruud Heater Co. 323 12th 'U GLencrrurt 0S14 Ces. Aftiti Atlas Heating and Ventilating 32nd and Lou' LAkclde 1289 Ke-ro-co Heater Co 132 14lli 711 ghgate 8938 Pacific Gas Appliance Co and Market ghgate 3480 Furnace Dealers cf Inc. HARRY O. Stcretsry I Builders Exclini 9 LEAVER MORE HOURS FOR LEISURE THE BELLEVUE-STATEN On the Shores of Lake Merritt 3.