Name/Title
Documents relating to easements and streets, 1922-1931Entry/Object ID
2011.64.1Description
Accession No. 11.64.1 A, B, C, D
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1922-1931
Object: File Folders
Description: Description: acid-free, legal-size manila file folders with documents marked on the reverse with numbers; A: 25, B: 27; C: 29; D: 64
Size Folder: L 14 3/4” X W 9”
History of Object: File folders with documents found in the attic of City Hall prior to renovation in the 1990s, pertaining to streets and easements:
A; 1922-1931, closing of Harrison Ave causing lack of access for one property owner; petition for fences for owners on Park, Everett, Broadway and Fruitvale; and ownership of land dug through for the Estuary.
B; 1922, request to validate title of a block owned by Fay Coughlin, between Santa Clara Ave., Mound Street, Johnson Ave., and the Cohen Tract; where a street ‘Shell Street’ was planned, but never opened.
C; 1924; letter from Hally & Co, 2315 Santa Clara Ave., asking to improve streets further. Affidavit of publication has clipping, which on reverse includes an article about all-night dances.
D; 1923; abandoning of a never-opened alley between Fountain and Court, on property of Mathilde and Hugo Lorber, represented by L.R. Weimann, offices in the Citizens Bank, and of Geo. Hoffmann.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date Cataloged: 10/8/11