Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 23

iifeiii BUILDING VOL. CXXV OAKLAND, SUNDAY, DECEMBER 20, 1936 NO. 173 DEVELOPMENT NEW EASTBAY PLANT K01 nJlvMnDt A NEW OAKMORE HOME ivliv uha 1 llll TRACT ACTIVITY GAINS unitiir am uinu I I Ull IILII 's 'B- An artistically designed residence Resumption of work on the new Broadway Low-Level Tunnel has stimulated much additional interest In Mraga Estates, new close-in sub of Early California architecture has been completed in' Oakmore, and today is open for inspection by appointment, it is announced by division of Fred T. Inc ac cording to Fred T. Wood, head of this firm.

Wood also announced Everett G. Bennett of Mitchell and Austin, real estate firm in charge that plans are being drawn for five new homes to be built at once in Of Oakmort- tales. The horn is fully landscaped and i the tract by buyers of homesites Construction is already under way on three homes. has a magnificent view of Metropolitan Oakjand and the entire Bay Area. A runic bridge spans a small stream in tre front yard and, gives "The new highway from the east portal of the tunnel to the junction frV -m item S.

11 v. -y .1 i Jt.i mi in in mm ir fV'm i 11 of Orinda and Moraga highways. access to front porch. The them of "Early California' Headquarters of the Copper Roofs Company of Northern California at 2295 San Pablo Avcrraerare where Moraga Estates begins, ii well under way," said Wood. "Grad has been carefully carried out in pictured above.

The tirm reports an active demand for copper roofing on residences. The fii the home and, according to those Ing is practically finished and part )DE who have pre-viewed the residence, or tne first coat of surfacing is on. it is one of the most accurate of This road, with the tunneLwill cut MODERN FIRESIDE Early California type homes to be many minutes from thealready found in Metropolitan Oakland. short time required to reach Moraga It has three maid's Estates from -either Berkeley or downtown Oakland or the Bay suite With bath and social hall. There are many beautiful trees on the property, adding a picturesque Bridge.

MERITS T0L1 Meanwnue. wor on our own atmosphere. roadways in Moraga Estates is pro The "Winter Style Show of 'iring steadily. These roads, when finished, will be of very high type, Homes" also will be offered today in Oakmore, with many new residences added to the group. They the sort of road that should last for years.

They give direct access The artistically landscaped grounds of a new residence in Oakmore form a perfect setting for this Early California designed residence. home is shown by appointment, which may be made at the Oakmore tract office. Oakmore is a Mitchell "Auslin to every lot in the property. "Many people are revisiting the time after Jtime and in terest is growfng7' ARTISTIC MORAGA HOMES "One factor that impresses visitors is the availability, in this country property, of the same water supply that is enjoyed by Metropolitan1 are in all types and designs, and range from the three bedroom and jtwo-bath home to the two bedroom and single bathroom. With nearly a score of new homes now under construction, Oakmore continues to be one of the leading subdivisions in residence construction in Metropolitan Oakland, says Bennett In addition to those now underway, there are more than a score of residences now in various phases of planning.

Oakmore is reached by driving out Park Boulevard and across Lelmert Bridge. Oakland and the availability of elec tricity and telephone service all While the use. of copper for roofing is comparatively new in Northern California, and many home owners, builders are- being introduced to it for the first time, it is meeting with instant approval, a representative of the-Copper Roof3 Company of Northern California reports. W. S.

Yard, president of the firm, states: "There was a time when the cost of roofing with copper was prohibitive, and only the most expensive homes and public buildings were roofed with this enduring material. Recent experiments conducted by the Anaconda Copper Company demonstrate that a copper roof is not onljfWxpensive but that it is easy to apply and has an the qualities demanded ot a substantial roof covering. This type of roof can now be installed' with the usual time-payment plan now In use throughout the major conveniences of city life, in fact "Another item is the small amount ii of taxes required." Realty Boards Form Flact-Finding Agency Establishment of a "National Real Estate Foundation" is soon to be realized as an agency of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, as a result of official action Subdivision Control Is Uvheld by Court LOS ANGELES, 4 Control of subdivisions by the State real estate commissioner was upheld last week in the Superior Court of Los Angeles County, when- Judge Ruben Schmidt sustained a demurrer to an application for an injunction to restrain the commissioner from controlling the sale of certain New Mexico oil and gas recently taken by that body at its New Orleans convention. This is 4 The unique fireplace in the of "Silver Windows," the recently opened display home in Piedmont Pines, is only one of the many interesting features of this residence, located at 2768 Darnby Piedmont Pines is a Mitchell Austin property. an achievement toward which or ganized real estate has been striv If ing for many years and its early launching was assured by immediate substantial contributions to it leases.

und.crvriting fund. the Nation as developed under the Federal Housing Act." The company maintains a modern plant and office at 2295 San Avenue, Berkeley. B. A. Breeden is sales manager for.

the company. i- KITCHE! COLOR An attractive scheme of decoration seen in a kitchen of a new home has semi-gloss white ceilinT and Avails, 'Woodwork medium gray trimmed with vermilion. The flor is coated with deep gray and curtains at the windows combine the vermilion with while in a Checkedfabric. Commissioner J. Mortimer Clark it is the intention of the National IIITEREmll HOME HOLDS Association to develop this new agency as a fact-finding bureau i which shall analyze and publish all types of information French doors open from the living room into a small patio, The dining room- looks out on both the small patio and a tiled sunporch.

The. kitchen is all-metal drain-boards, sink, workboard and the cupboards. A built-in writing desk with small cuQby-holes for bills, menus band miscellaneous papers is one of the many distinctive features of the residence. Upstairs are three bedrooms and a bath. Each bedroom has its own distinctive decorative scheme.

Building operations in Piedmont Pines continues to mount each relative to real estate and building throughout the country. Intelligent had called hearings to determine whether or not the projects were Suitable for sale in California, and the subdividers resorted to the court action in which they protested his jurisdiction and the contitutirm-ality of the subdivision laws. The subdividers also claimed that 'the tale of New Mexico State lease assignments did not constitute a subdivision. Commissioner Clark has recently made a determined effort to rid California ot questionable oil lease sales. Thirty-two projects have Since Its opening two weeks ago Silver Windows," the distinctive achievement of such a program, it is held, will go far toward eliminating business hazards on the part of investors and operators and put all display home in Piedmont Pines, has proven to be one of the most intm-Mtlng show residences in Met- pnases oi.jana aeveiopment on a- gram will continue throughout tlo Winter, Price said.

Piedmont Pines is located at tho junction of Park Boulevard mi more sound basis than ever before. week and the sale of building sites i- ropolltan Oakland, according to C. M. "Nibs" Price of Mitchell and Austin, realty operators in charge of Piedmbnt Pines sales. Announcement was made this week from the offices of D.

D. Watson that negotiations have been com indicates that the construction pro-Mountain Boulevard. it been stopped by him during the past four months. The commissioner points out that he has no desire to The many unusual features of the 1 1 MATCHING FURNITURE By purchasing an unpainted piece or furniture and finishing it Just the color you want it is possible to match your furniture. A feat which is frequency impossible if you have to buy an already painted piece.

have found favor with visi pleted for the construction Of a hew theater for the town of Walnut Creek, to be started this week by A tors. Among them are the all-metal stop sale of New Mexico leases which have apparent" merit, but he iL.ii 0. insists that the promoters of these lease projects present geological evidence that their leases may have value. Some subdividers have com John Q. Renfrow Company of Gale-land, the architect being A.

A. Can-tin of San Francisco. The negotiations, which were conducted by D. Watson and Fred L. Johnson, are in preparation for the anticipated increase of population of Walnut Creek and surrounding area, due to the opening of the Bay Bridge and the approaching completion of the Contra Costa County Low Level plied with this regulation.

The sales value of the projects stopped kitchen, thef two sun porches ana the huge 'curved window in the living room that overlooks Metropolitan Oakland and the bay. The residence Is located at 2768 Darnby Drive and Is tempered "modernistic" architecture. The liv-ing room is sufficiently large to permit almost any convenient ar-rangement of furnishings, yet small enough to be comfortable. In one corner Is a new d-shn of fireplace, while nearby is a built-in bookcase. COLOR COMBINATION Walla painted a gray-blue, stippled with soft fellow-orange, with the ceiling a pale cream, serve as an attractive background for a dining room.

The woodworks can be enamelled in ivory. To set this off to date is approximately ten mil lion dollars. These two attractive residences are characteristic of the homes to be found near and immediately adjoining Moraga Estates, the close-in Contra Costa development of the Fred T. Wood Company, where rug of old blue, black and rose California Cities three homes a're at present under construction, with plans being drawn pale cream curtains with drap for five others. The lower picture is of "Las Enemas," the new enes of tnP or Bid National Meet 4rTT 4, residence of Mr.

and Mrs. Herbert Hauser, on Moraga Highway, designed by Guy T. Brown, and built by S. Dether. Both Los Angeles and San Francisco are bidding for the National Heal Estate Convention to come to Tunnel.

The site for the new theater was selected by Elwood P. Laws, head of the chain concern which operates a chain of theaters in the valley district. It is located on the southeast corner of Main Street and Ygnacio Avenue. "The new theater will be of 750-seat capacity, with 90 loge seats, and will' be of stadium type construction the the southern city next year and to San Francisco in 1939, during the Golden Gate Exposition. Invitations Realty Gains 36 Percent 1- will.be formally extended by Fres ident Harold K.

Huntsb'ger on be In Metropolitan Oakland half of the Los Angeles Realty Board, and by President Walter P. Te can't say If in a better way betanw we meaa it. sincerely, MERftY CHRISTMAS! building being 55x125 feet with two small stores in the front. The archi tecture is to be of modernistic and the theatrical equipment will be of the latest type. Special greater than that of the last half An Increase of 36 per cent in Met of November of this year.

ropolitan Oakland real estate market activity during the first half of attention in the design of the building is given to acoustics, modern heating and ventilating. The build The following table reflects the total number of realty title trans fers recorded from each of the ma ing will be of class A concrete type. December as compared wJh the record for the like period ofnast year is shown by official data, released by County Recorder W. Bacon and tabulated by the Oakland Real Estate Board. The last Laufenberg on behalf of the San Francisco Board.

The National Convention last met in Los Angeles in 1915 and at San Francisco seven years later. The California delegation to New Orleans this month included Charles B. Shattuck, president of the California Real Estate Associa-. tion; Harry H. Culver, G.

D. Robertson, Harold K. Huntsberger, Ed. C. Smith, W.

T. Richardson, B. O. MiIT ler, C. W.

Eastin, State Realty Com; missioner J. Mortimer Clark, Le-roy Ackley, Ivan Thorjon, Glenn D. Willaman, G. Gaede, and Franklin W. Robinson.

1 joe district of the East-bay urban area during the first half of December and of the second half FAMOUS FOR POTATOES The Stockton Delta district is fa- of November of this year and the iul nuvciiurr is into jem phu uic -M a two weeks' record is 26 per centafint half of Decembeof yean for potatoes, in both quality arid yield per acre. Growers en May tliia Cbritmatide bring to yea a weallh of Joy add Happineas may the New Yea( bring yoa an abundance of may next Christmas see yoa with even greater Joy and Happinett in the bom of your bean's denir. This is oar Holiday wib for all of you! Sincerely, tnrf countered some difficulty in obtain rx-. ing seed this spring, but managed to 1st ty Dee. 22 Nov.

18.16 24 olant about 10,000 acres. Harvesting Robert I. Mitchell Prnldent MltchcU at Austin -193S Downtown commercial area of Oakland Estuary -to 29th Street, Fallon to 23 North of the Lake District Broadway to Park Boulevard, Xake Merrltt to the Piedmont line 51 of the crop started early in Jury, 45 121 101 NOW! COPPER ROOFS Get away from thd fog, the cold and the dampness! Get away from city noise! Build your home in Moraga Estates, where every vista invites your eye and you can live outdoors practically the year around. Only few minutes from downtown Oakland, yet you have all the advantages of the country Three homes now building! Drive out and see beautiful Morapa Estates Today! Homesites from Y2 to 5 acres paced from $750 to $1300, taxes only a dollar or two per acre yearly. Easy terms or' we'll build for you on deferred See Moraga' Estate Today! Drive out Broadway, lege Avenue and Claremont Road to junction 70 119.

"East Oakland Estuary to Hopkins Street, Park Boulevard to Seminary Avenue 156 Elmhurst area Estuary to Foothill Boulevard, Seminary Avenue to the San Leandro line, Ill Hillside District Grizzly Peak to Lake CMbot, north of Piedmont, Hopkins Street and Foot-. 'hill Boulevard ...107 West Oakland and Emeryville Estuary to Alca- Claremont Pines Juliu E. Lbbon, Msr. Herbert A. Cram Harry Drlnkel Charles t.

Lelihton Arthur Sherry 100 74 COMPETITIVELY PRICED AND WITH TIME' PAYMENTS trai Avenue, Bayshore to Market and west Streets North Oakland 29th Street to the Berkeley line, Market and West Streets to the Piedmont line, San' Leandro Piedmont Alameda 33 59 37 30 54 1 47 50 33 9 45 49. 72 40 37 18 524 At. Oakmore Everett G. Bennett. Mir.

M. J. Con Ion Jorli O. Gatchell David M. Graham B.

Jacobin Herbert L. Roaa. Orinda and Moraga highways, Southern Berkeley Bancroft Way to the Oak 4i 69 land line Central Berkeley Bancroft Way to Eunice Street A recent "Doublt-Lock" Copper Xooi IntUlMioa 44 Requa Highland! Amy Long Sutton St. James 'Wood Upper Piedmont Eatales Philip H. Ebirhart Mr.

Brokerage John W. Flttins. Mar, L. 8. ColvUio Roaali O.

Cooler -Rajr P. Genelly Otto T. Johnson Joiephine D. Lund Mollis T. 8earava J.

Carl Seulberser A. L. Studebaker J. I. Thompaon Alfred Vaiina Bnaineas Property Lawla S.

Gear, Mgr. Sam Wachiman Rental Department Louiat Z. Lot, Msr. Inaarance Department William S. Driver, Mgr.

and the Albany line frorth Berkeley and Albany 74 39 612 48 66 675 Orfnda Kenneth R. Allen, Mfr. Lyle E. Brown H. T.

rarrell Jamea D. Hahn W. Sayer Snook I. J. Roaenthal 848 TOTALS Although influence of the marl-' SALINAS RUBBER PLANT time strike nas oenniieiy slowed American Producers Guayule Plant, the only rubber factory in the continental United tates, will begin to put out 1,000,000 pounds of production this month.

It expects rubber annually from the "Consider these specific advantages oT copper roofing: LOW IN COST DURABLE LIGHT IN WEICHT EASILY INSTALLED (over new or old roofs) FIRE-PROOF GOOD APPEARANCEINSULATES Compare the Cost Compare the Quality DETAILS AND ESTIMATES WITHOUT CSLICATION COPPER ROOFS COMPANY of Northern California 2255 Sm Pablo Av at Bancroft, Berkeley AShberry C1H ROOF Tim COWER It COSTS A MORE Piedmont Pines C. "Nlba" Price, Mir. Oliver A. Flak. Jr.

Frank Flaahrnair William T. Johnatoa Montaana Guatava X. Neiaoa H'. Frank Parker Arthur Boe William W. Wohltord guayule plant, now growing in Cali fornia.

down realty activity during recent weeks, reports to the realty board from member offices indicate a constantly increasing accumulation of potential business awaiting announcement of the settlement of current labor controversies and establishment of dependable normal business conditions. PAINT AND LIGHT By having the ceiling painted a light yellow, one can give a sunshiny effect to a dark room. Woodwork' can be a slightly darker yellow while walls, doors, and r'onr frame? ran be cr-. i a ivfi "i Cf-ir. 1 I -v FRED Complete Building Service riannin Fintncin fBuildin Page Company 327 17th Sfrect-Hlpfe 7622 if UU fsA.