Name/Title
Folders with City documents, numbered 201-215, 1927-1932Entry/Object ID
2011.47.12Scope and Content
Acc. No. 11.47.12 A, B, C
Subject Category: City of Alameda
Date or Period: 1927-1932
Object: Folder, file
Description: Acid-free, legal size, manila file folders with papers marked on the back with sequence numbers.
L 9" x W 14 1/2"
History of Object: Refoldered documents found in the attic of City Hall in the 1990s. Documents relate to:
A. #201, 1927-1932: attempts to create a uniform building code at a Pacific Coast Building Officials; and #202, 1927: a petition for street closure of parts of Hibbard and Clement.
B. #206, 1927-1932: correspondence with Company ‘D’, 149th infantry, National Guard, in particular drill times, leave of absence for members to attend a camp, and dedication of the Alameda Armory in Washington Park (1932).
C. requests for temporary rezoning/use, property at corner Park and Buena Vista, to use as salesroom for cars by Chaplin Motor Sales Co. until construction across Buena Vista is finished (#208-1; 1927) and (#208-2, 1932) 1528 to manufacture jam. #209, 1927: the Linderman family petition to restore their ownership of strip of land set apart for extension of Central past Fernside, since it has not been used as a street. The Linderman family were owners of an opera house that burned down. #211, 1928: paving of Versailles between Calhoun and Bay Island Ave [now Otis]. #212, 1928: request for removal of eucalypt trees by residents of Hawthorne Street; #215, 1928: request for improvement of Walnut Street, from San Jose to Clinton.
Acquired from: City of Alameda
Date: Sept 3, 2011