Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • Page 41

LOIN VOL CXXXIII- M-l NO. 35 0 OAELAND, CALIFORNIA. SUNDAY. AUGUST 4. 1940 DEVELOPmE NEW BUS LINE OPERATES FROM BERKELEY TO WALNUT CREEK 40,000 Visit Tribune Home -ji r- if irN' 5 Will 11 Two -County Bus Service Launched.

Advent of Rapid Transportation Between Contra Costa and Alameda Counties Being Celebrated By J. D. SARBER General Manager of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce 'House in the Sun' Attracts Many to Suburban Territory More than 40,000 people have -visited the "House in the Sun" In Moraga Estates during the exhibi tion of its "Suburban Provincial' style of furnishing, it is announced by Fred T. Wood, of Fred T. Wood, The newest thing in "practical" celebrations is evidenced Inc, developer of Moraga Estates by the Berkeley community celebration of the new Walnut Creek-Berkeley busses, in effect with the opening of the bus line Saturday and scheduled to extend throughout the coming week.

Berkeley gave the new busses a rousing inaugural yesterday with a civic welcome at Shattuck Avenue and Allston Wav. comDlete with Costa County. "House in the Sun" is the Oakland Tribune-H. C. Capwell T.

Wood, Inc. display home near the junction of the new Tunnel Road -with the Moraga and Orinda Highways. Its "Suburban Provincial" style oi iurnisning was seieciea speeches, flag bedecked Ocularly profitable though neglected route. streets, sirens and public oiii- especially for it by the Capwell Home Decorating Studio under the management of James H. Swear- cials.

As the first pay load The aid of the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce was at once enlisted. The idea "caught on," and at the ingen. In commenting on thfjbome, of passengers on the new line arrived in Berkeley, representa Swearingen states: height of the campaign virtually every civic organization between CALIFORNIA STYLE MONTE VISTA PROPERTIES u.ppy VALLEY ESTATES Our model home in Moraga WALNUT LAFAYETTE Estates is a practical example of California architecture. The Capwell CREEK -m- TORE-. ORINDA Home Decorating Studio has furnished the interior in like tempo, the Bay shore and Mount Diablo had entered as a participant.

Direction of the campaign, as general was placed in the hands of T.A. Gallagher, a resident of Lafayette and a member of the staff of the University of California News Service. He was ably assisted by the Berkeley Chamber of Commerce With a careful eye on the budget, our decorators have assemoiea colorful and practical furnishings M0MffA ESTATES Vi. Vj HIDDEN VALLKY Vj JfflW.MnAGA WfiftftLANM New Section Opens Today in such as any average family could select for such a home. We have not used any definite type, but by and a committee which included a number of the staff members of the University and ranking executives ST MARYS of the civic organizations in all of the proper use of informal fabrics in bright colors, we have created effects which express California living.

St. James Wood District COLLEGE BERKELEY the region which it was proposed to serve through the new service. "In several instances, this has TERMINAL A survey of the transportation Initiating one of the most ex-1 rage and have their own entrance. MORAGA been done without the aid of what is known as informal furniture, and yet the whole room expressed and trade possibilities was made, and it was determined through this that several thousand round trips a tives of the merchants called their attention to a list of 138 Berkeley stores which had put into effect special merchandising plans, offering their wares at "Contra Costa Welcome Days" prices as encouragement for the cementing of close business relations between the two communities. The first bus over the new route carried a party of civic officials of Contra Costa communities to Berkeley, where it was joined by another bus laden with Berkeley officials.

The two then went over the new route, pausing for civic greetings in Lafayette, Orinda, Moraga and Walnut Creek. Later in the evening two dances, one in Berkeley and one in Lafayette, lent a gay tinge to the welcome; and today at Lafayette a public barbecue will testify to the popularity of the new run. "HARD WORK INVOLVED The establishment of motor-bus transportation between Berkeley and Walnut Creek involved a hard, uphill fight. It began in the Sum-Nmer of 1938 with a statement made 'by a member of the Lafayette Improvement Club to a meeting of that organization, that the time was ripe for some organized and effective high-speed and frequent tion between Walnut Creek and Berkeley, in order to provide proper trade and intercourse along a par- elusive residential developments in rhe roof has a wide overhang, lor the Eastbay in recent years, the first coolness. There is a complete air- SHATTUCK AUSTOifWAY week could be worked up and a home in Croydon Circle was opened conditioning unit for both heating formally today.

lively parcel delivery service could be anticipated. and cooling, thermostatically con provincial tone. Colonial maple, Monterey, or any informal if properly designed, will serve as a natural background for a suburban provincial room. We are always trolled. The home Is well placed on Only nine homes are to be built in Croydon Circle, and rigid re generous lot, where lawn and landscaping have already been strictions as to occupancy and type of dwelling apply to all of them.

Finally the Rhodes Stages, of Albany, offered to put in a satisfactory service in the- event that the committee handled the necessary negotiations with the State Railroad put in." is stated. This new development 'Women especially will be de occupies an oak -covered knoll in St. Rhodes Stages, have Inaugurated a new bus service with terminals in the Berkeley business district and in Walnut Creek, operating by way of the Broadway Tunnel. About 20 round trips a day will serve Moraga Estates. Moraga Woodlands, Orinda, St Mary'i College.

Monte Vista. Hidden Valley. Happy Valley. Lafayette and Walnut Creek. A celebration is scheduled for today in Lafayette, in honor of the event, and leading civic organiiations of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties will participate.

The'public is Invited. The views show the Berkeley business district terminal, and scenes along the A map of the route also indicates the locations of "Suburban Home" developments. lighted with the number and convenience of the unusual accessories, Commission and offered further guarantees of adequate business. refinements and fittings provided in this house," Greene states. "The tiaiyj iuiiui.

iivn vfc these factors may be assembled hi any home to achieve distinct personality." MORE FREEDQM That the "Suburban furnishing in the "House in the Sun" is 'particularly appropriate for Moraga Estates and Moraga Wood-' lands because there is more freedom and more enjoyment of the out-of-doors in the life of tinae A detailed survey was then unde taken, which showed even James Wood, Piedmont. All the home-sites are practically level and command a fine view of San Francisco Bay. All are to be landscaped as rapidly as homes are completed. abundance of closets, the cedar lin ings, the liberal provisions of bath rooms, and the fact that the maid's The entire property is owned and convincing returns than tho one. An application was filed with the commission in due course, and after some weeks of deliberation the commission finally granted the nec developed by Alex C.

Weiben, with Plants Produce Varnish NEW DEVELOPMENT IN ST. JAMES WOOD Clyde O. Sweet as exclusive sales agent and Charles Greene as the representative in direct charge. The homes are designed by Frederick The botanical survey of India has communities, is pointed out by Fred T. Wood.

in the last few years, classified a Confer, architect. A description reads: large variety of plants producing natural varnishes. Many Indian The first home is of three bed "At the same time, residents nave the advantages of the city with, paved roads to every building sit and water, gas, electric and telephone service installed," Wood states, "and all of the building sites 3 New Homes Built by Derry jf Designed by Architect rooms, each with bath, and with separate suite for the maid. One of plants also yield true resins, otherwise known as copalline resins and include all those like copal, damar, and anime, which are readily soluble in turpentine and applied as varnish. r-1 3, i ft are large.

There is still a toed se- lection in which may be obtained on easy terms." Irwin M. Johnson the bedrooms is on the ground floor and can be used as a library, den, study or play room. Its bathroom has been finished in blue and silver, with star-studded silver ceiling, to serve as a powder room. OPEN Ihe entrance hall, of generous size, opens onto the large livinp TODAY you H. CCA WELL'S room, which has a handsome fireplace and is provided concealed built-in book cases and cabinets.

IN are yrv Broad war at 20th Shop to TEmpltbar 1-1-1-1 The cabinet doors are panelled in cordially a rare tropical wood. essary certificate of convenience and necessity and the new project was born. Through the action of the commission a territory comprising some 7000 souls was thrown open to new and effective trading and social impulses, a large portion of the back country population which had been marooned throughout the day because of the lack of any organized transportation facilities to Berkeley was liberated from this undesirable condition, a dangerous traffic bottleneck was broken and a new development era was launched. Real estate and business inquiry was stimulated sharply, new stimulus was given to the planning and building of a $300,000 high school plant between Lafayette and Walnut Creek, and many projects; great and small, were gotten under way. LARGE TERRITORY SERVED The new line covers a particularly fruitful and beautiful country.

One line goes direct between the two terminals named. Another swings away from the main highway at Orinda and thrQUghM6raga to St. Mary's College, returning to Lafayette, where quick service is available to both Walnut Creek and to Berkeley. Orinda, Moraga Woodlands, Lafayette Heights and the old rancho country between Lafayette and Walnut Creek, which a generation ago were little more than a wilderness, are now a mosaic of beautiful homesites where a city-worn population may find both health and repose. Within the pat Nine beautiful homes are to be erected in Croydon Circle by Alex C.

Weiben, Eastbay contractor. One already is completed; two others are under construction. Inspection is in-vited today and every afternoon. The Clyde O. Sweet organization is in charge of the properties.

Croydon Circle is located in St. James Wood, Piedmont. invited to visit these ine homes ing $23,462. having been given One with 6 rooms 1 Priced at $6500 Two of the cases can be left open to display books or bric-a-brac if desired. Opposite the fireplace, French doors open to a brick-walled patio, part of which is in garden and part of which is brick-paved.

A bodge has been planted across the rear of the patio beyond the garden. "There is a gaily papered breakfast room, also overlooking the patio. The kitchen is a home-maker's dream, with all the latest fixtures and modern equipment, including space for an extra-large refrigerator. "Upstairs are the master bedroom, with its own dressing room and bath, and an additional bedroom, Aim Prizes are awarded on the basis of character and personality as reflected in the photograph, rather than on the child's "prettiness." Larue 5-room home Priced at $6500 And an extra large 6-room home suite is in effect outside the house are features which will have wide appeal. "Croydon Circle is to be a really exclusive development for fine homes only.

The nine houses which Weiben ts building will be in the price range of $15,000 to $16,000. All the utilities are underground-no wires or poles, not even a tele- Children's Photo Prizes Offered This week opens the ninth annual Children's National Photograph Contest, in which local entries will be made through H. C. Capwell's Basement Photograph Studio. Nearly 400 prizes will be awarded, including a $500 first prize awarded by Parents' Magazine.

Any child 14 years of age or under is eligible. Linda Lee Hix, 2494 Almona Avenue, Concord, won fourth National award and first local award last will interfere with tne nhone wire, with its own bathroom The master; view from Croydon Circle. Priced at $7750 All with Full FHA Commitment New Broadmoor Is the Finest Home Property in San Leandro. Close to schools transportation. Drive out East 14th Street, turn left at Dniton.

DERRY BROS. Owners Be Buildem 633 Dutton Avenue Han Lemndro Telephone TB Inldad SfMIO tern nature has provided oak and dressing room is provided with tri- "The public is invited to visit this pie full-length mirrors and double property and inspect this new home closets. All upstairs closets, of which I today and every afternoon there-there is a generous supply, aieiaftrr. Plans of the other homes to cedarlined. lDc built will be available and the "The maid's suite and a storage home under construction may also room occupy the space over the ga- be inspected." EVERY ALADDIN READI-CUT HOME is made of pre-shrunk lumber.

That is, all of the lumber is kiln-dried before it is "cut to fit. This assures you that every piece of material will fit properly and helps to prevent plaster from Another ALADDIN Saving for you HARVEY BROWN Dealer. Fl 1 1th Street. Oakland AN dover mil flower-covered parks which already draw thousands from the thickly populated Bayshore littoral. Melrose Highlands year.

Among the many well known judges who will pick the National winners is Irene Wicker, "Singing Lady" of radio fame. During previous congests, some 783,111 children have had their pictures taken in this National contest, with 1416 cash awards, total-1 The E. B. Field Corporation Presents A NEW HOME OF DISTINCTION A section of close-in low cost homes in a fully restricted neighborhood. We have 3- EL last day to visit 'HOUSE IN THE SUN' Only one Sunday remains after today in which to see this beautiful display home and the colorful "Suburban Provincial" style of furnishing that' thrilled the thousands of visitors who have seen it The crisp, unusual effects achieved by H.

C. Gap well's Home Decorating Studio have made the "Suburban Provincial" furnishings a great delight to every visitor interested in home improvement. You'll find ideas you can use in every room i ideas that H. C. Capwell's make even on moderate budgets.

Don't miss seeing this home! Bedroom homes For as Little as $29 Monthly Bedroom homes 2- The Most Beautiful Tract for Small Homes East of the Lake For as Little as $23.50 Monthly The Full Price For Our ECONOMY HOME TO $3450 Is WAIMUT CeUlK Colonial type 5-room rustic house on level 50-foot lot garage with overhead doors. large living room with open fireplace, plenty of base plugs and ample wall space. dining room with French doors to palio. conveniently arranged with plenty of cabinets, tiled drain, space for refrigerator and breakfast wash trays on service porch. Colorfully papered bedrooms.

window and 2 closets in master bed oom. bath and tube lights. and linen closet. floors. tubing for both hot and cold Red Seal wiring.

blinds in lawn and landscaping in and playgrounds. $5800 (including closing Monthly payment $42.20. 251 Covington Street. SUftidd 11,11,15 Foothill Boulevard at Dutton Avenue See This Remarkable Value Today! And there ire many other homes to see, it amazingly low prices and on the easiest of terms. E.

B. Field Corporation Telephone SWeerWood 6123 Drivt out to foothill Boulevard mi Dutton or take But No. 41 at ltth end Broadway FHA. Title 1 and 2. 15-to-25-year loans.

Many new homes to be started at once. We build for you or you buy your lot and build. Plans, photos, drawings at office. i ffi TO SOU! JUNCTION I run nil TO (Mf TO GET THERE: Drive through Broadway funnel and follow the wide new Tunnel rod to the junction 'of Moraga and Orinda i a s. Sigm there point the way over a short drive to the "Houie in the 15 minutes from downtown Oakland.

1 Thirteen homes noV under construction. 4, 5 and 6 rooms. ATTENTION BUILDING MECHANICS: Your labor willingly accepted as part of down payment. Phil HERATY 7943 Mountain Boulevard (Opposite nursery) SWeetwood6920 The Minney Co. 173rd and Foothill Hayward 2185 8144 Foothill Blvd.

TR-4300 TR-4301.