WPA sidewalks in San Leandro, CA
Project type: Infrastructure and Utilities, Sidewalks and Stairs
Started: 1939
Completed: 1940
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Description
The federal Work Projects Administration (WPA) constructed sidewalks along Elsie Ave. and Bancroft Ave. in San Leandro, California: “WPA 1939” is stamped into the sidewalk in several places along Elsie Avenue. “WPA 1940” is stamped along Bancroft Avenue.
Elsie Avenue may have also been paved as a WPA project; the street appears unpaved on a 1938 city map.
Source notes
1938 map from the San Leandro Classified Business Directory and Buyer's Guide, https://www.sanleandrobytes.com/archives/Map_of_San_Leandro_and_Vicinity_1938.pdf
Project originally submitted by Jay Martin on January 30, 2015.
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