Commercial Studios Oakland

c.1960

A view of a 4-1/2 storey commercial building with an ornate facade. It has a metal fire escape, accessed from the top three floors. On the front of the building a vertical sign stretches from...

c.1960

A view of a five-storey buidling remarkably similar in design to the the building in 2000.2.25. Both have arched windows on the top floor and similar rectangular windows on the 3rd and 4th floors...

c.1960

A view of a 5-storey commercial building at center, flanked by a 2-storey and 3 3-storey commercial building. The building at center has a slightly recessed area on the 1st and 2nd floors. The...

c.1970

This is a photo of a building most likely used as an autombile service building, occupying the better part of a block. It may be on the intersecting corener of Broadway and Webster St. near Grand...

c.1970

This is a three-storey building (with penthouse on top) fronting on a corner of Jack London Square. A wooden sign at right advertises "Castaway," presumably a restaurant on the first floor. A...

c.1960

A view of a busy street corner in downtown Oaklnad, dominated by a four-storey commercial corner building with an ornate facade. Its ground floor has, from left to right the following tenants:...

May 1st, 1957

Ca. 5/1/1947. Photograph. Description: Telegraph Ave. between 14th and 16th. Title: Street Scene. Black and white print, with border.

c. 1935

Glazed and framed photographs. Description: Black and white photograph of the first floor, of the Gray shop on opening day, facing west and showing the main doorway from Broadway, frame is...

c.1960

A view of a busy street corner in downtown Oaklnad, dominated by a four-storey commercial corner building with an ornate facade. Its ground floor has, from left to right the following tenants:...

1-May-52

Photograph. Description: Framed photograph. Mayor Rishell with five unidentified peope (three men and two women). The Mayor is shaking hands with one of the women, (Mrs. Knowland) as the rest...

5-Jul-50

Emil Barraro is a boxer from Hayward

ca. 1955

Joey Lopes a lightweight contender. Photo of young Joey sparring.

11-Feb-51

Joe Louis at San Francisco train station arriving for a fight

ca. 1950

Photograph. Description. Three (nn,oo) identical prints of photograph of drawing of airport. Stamp on back credits "Commercial Studios Photographers/M.L. Cohen Co./moved to our new studios/1115...

Photograph. Description: Upper Dimond Canyon. Physical Description: black and white print, 10.75 x 13.5", with border.

Photograph. Description: view from Woodminster. Physical Description: black and white print, 9.625 x 15.375", with border.

Photograph. Description: (On back of photo) "View looking up Pala Seco Canyon, up this canyon the proposed 5 1/2 mile parkway will be constructed. Typical scene along proposed parkway - redwood...

(On back of photo) "Artist's conception of Parkway leading in from Oakland's Civic Center to the Memorial Woodminster Amphitheatre in foreground. Proposed enclosed theatre in center, left, the...

c. late 1930's

Central Movie Theater, showing Rosalind Russell and Deanna Durbin in "A Design for Scandal", with "It Started With Eve"; (building across the street with clock still standing as of 7/1990)....

c. 1925 -30

"360 14th St.". Object: Photograph. Description: Building at 360 14th Street, Oakland. Art Deco decorations on facade Black and white glossy print.

1956

A banquet is underway in this scene in an auditorium beneath a raised stage. Four men and two women are standing behind the front table. The guest tables are arranged in three parallel rows...

1956

A night time view of virtually the same scene as in 2000.2.48, with fewer cars parke on the streets. The photo is taken slightly farther back than in the daytime scene, so that a billboard,...

1956

A day time view of a street lined on both sides by commercial buidlings of varying heights, but none taller than 5 storeys. It may well be 14th St. in downtwon Oakland. Some automobiles are...

c.1970

An 18-storey office building dominates this photo, shown from street level. To To the left of this building is another, 10-storey, office buidling, on the ground floor of which are Thom McAn...

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