Francis A. Fehrenbach
Long Beach’s sidewalks contain impressed “signatures” of many construction companies and contractors who plied their trade in the city. If your ancestor owned or worked for one of those companies, our “Sidewalk Signatures” series will be of interest to you.
photo: QHGS
Francis A. Fehrenbach was a cement finisher and contractor who lived in Long Beach at 1157 Lewis Avenue in 1923 with his wife Adelaide Albers Fehrenbach.
Address Source: Long Beach City Directory 1923; Western Directory Company: Seaside Printing Co., Long Beach, California, ©1923.
RESEARCH TIP: Don’t put off photographing city monuments in your town, thinking, “Oh, they’ll always be there.” As your QHGS Blogger types this, the curbs and sidewalks of her street are being torn apart by a massive city re-paving project. Many contractors’ impressions from the 1920s will be lost when this project is completed, but fortunately, photographs of their “sidewalk signatures” will survive.
Address Source: Long Beach City Directory 1923; Western Directory Company: Seaside Printing Co., Long Beach, California, ©1923.
RESEARCH TIP: Don’t put off photographing city monuments in your town, thinking, “Oh, they’ll always be there.” As your QHGS Blogger types this, the curbs and sidewalks of her street are being torn apart by a massive city re-paving project. Many contractors’ impressions from the 1920s will be lost when this project is completed, but fortunately, photographs of their “sidewalk signatures” will survive.
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