Sommer & Kaufman unmarked San Francisco hook variant #2

This is a variant with the words "Kozy Klog" sharing the same K in the trademark design on the back of this hook.

just won this Texas hook

This was a "lot of 2" hooks offered by a dealer in Texas. The upper hook is from New York which will be put into my extras box. I've managed to acquire three Texas hooks so far. Cropped the photo to better show the hook in question.

another Los Angeles hook recently acquired

Sommer & Kaufman unmarked San Francisco hook

Sommer & Kaufman were located on Market Street in San Francisco. They sold Kozy Klog shoes amongst other brands.

Chas. P. Nathan two different styles

Harvard Shoes $2.50 L.A., Sacramento & S.F.

Another hook from the "bottle" show...

Albert Elkus Sacramento

Mayfield & Ohrt K Street Sacramento folding style

Lavenson's Sacramento two different styles

Salinas & Paso Robles: Reliable Shoe Store folding hook

From the same Placerville antique store:

Auburn Bottle Show hooks part 1 advertising screwdriver

An advertising screwdriver found in a Placerville antique store after the Auburn Bottle Show.

Eureka, Nevada hook

Won this one a few minutes ago. Charles Ferraris is listed in The Leather Trades book copyright 1885.

Nordstrom

Recently acquired this hook from the original Seattle Nordstrom department store.



courtesy of nordstrom.com:

In 1887, a 16-year-old boy left his home country of Sweden for the promise of New York City. He arrived with only five dollars in his pocket, unable to speak a word of English. His name? John W. Nordstrom.

The first years in the land of opportunity were hard. To make ends meet, young John labored in mines and logging camps as he crossed the United States to California and Washington. Then one morning in 1897, he picked up a newspaper and read the front-page headline "Gold Found in the Klondike in Alaska." The very next day, he made plans to head north.

Things were no easier in the Klondike. The labor was hard, the terrain difficult, and there was an over-supply of eager workers. But within two years, John had earned $13,000 in a gold mine stake and returned to Seattle.

Back in the Northwest, John was eager to invest his money. He had befriended a man while in Alaska, Carl Wallin, who owned a shoe repair shop in downtown Seattle. It wasn't long before the two decided to go into partnership and open a shoe store together.

Company History

In 1901, the two opened their first shoe store, Wallin & Nordstrom, in downtown Seattle. This was the start of what would become the retail legend of Nordstrom, Inc.

From the beginning, John's business philosophy was based on exceptional service, selection, quality and value. The company built a devoted customer base; and in 1923, the partners added their second store.

In 1928, John Nordstrom retired and sold his share of the company to his sons, Everett and Elmer. Carl Wallin retired a year later and also sold his share of the company to the Nordstrom sons. A third son, Lloyd, joined the team in 1933.

Taft & Fellows

Recently picked up this hook that hails from Southwest of Metro-Bakofeel.


Taft and Fellows basically sprang up around the oil industry in the early 1900s.

from:
HISTORY OF KERN COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
The Leading Men and Women of the County Who Have Been Identified
With Its Growth and Development From the Early Days to the Present

HISTORY BY WALLACE M. MORGAN
ILLUSTRATED
COMPLETE IN ONE VOLUME
publisher:
HISTORIC RECORD COMPANY
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA
1914
Fellows first appeared on the map as a railroad terminal in 1908, when the Sunset Western railroad was extended from Pentland Junction, near Maricopa, to the northern portion of the Midway field. Nothing but a growing or diminishing pile of lumber and oil well supplies marked the spot, however, until the revival of interest in oil development in 1909 began to make it an important point for the unloading of supplies for the oil companies that began about that time to venture out into the upper part of the Midway valley. Then the Santa Fe Railroad, operating large oil properties in North Midway as the Chanslor-Canfield Oil Company, established headquarters at Fellows and made the place noteworthy by sparing enough of its expensively obtained domestic water to grow a row of Cottonwood trees on the barren mesa. As the field developed Fellows became a modest trading point. James & Dooley established the first store in the place in 1910. Lawton & Blanck followed soon after with a similar establishment, in which was located the post office, and by the beginning of 1911 Fellows boasted two stores, a drug store, a billiard room, a livery stable and a liberal supply of saloons.

A set of 5 hooks I picked up in October at an Antique Show

From Tucson to San Francisco to Sacramento ...

Wolf & Davidson's Chicago Shoe Store, San Diego

Both sides of this elongated oval hook. No end to the various designs and configurations with these utilitarian objects.

A couple hooks from Texas

A hook from John Mertel Shoe Store McLean, Texas (sorry for the blurry picture); this was from an unbid lot of 10 hooks on ebay. I emailed the seller and asked if he'd be interested in selling just the one.



Here is one from W.T. Read Mercantile Co. Pecos, Texas:

New Mexico Ghost Town hook

I recently won this on ebay. From San Marcial, New Mexico a ghost town.
From Google Books:
New Mexican History

EDITED, COMPILED AND ANNOTATED BY

RALPH EMERSON TWITCHELL, Esq.

VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NEW MEXICO.
AUTHOR OF "THE MILITARY OCCUPATION OF NEW MEXICO.
1846-1851." "THE SPANISH ARCHIVES OF NEW MEXICO."

VOL. IV
ILLUSTRATED

THE TORCH PRESS
CEDAR RAPIDS, IOWA
1917
E. GRANDJEAN

E. Grandjean, manager of the San Marcial Mercantile Company, was born in Switzerland, September 13, 1866, a son of L. J. and Mary Grandjean, both of whom are now deceased. In the schools of his native country he pursued his education and when sixteen years of age left home to start upon an independent career, since which time he has made his way in the world unaided. Through the passing years he has been identified with New Mexico and hei interests. He first located at Paraje, where he secured a clerkship, there remaining for ten years. In 1892 he removed to Cuchillo, where he spent ten years, and during the succeeding four years he was engaged in business on his own account in Paraje. On the expiration of that period he sold out and removed to San Marciat, where he opened a general mercantile store, which he has since conducted. The business has grown along substantial lines and he now has a store which would be a credit and an attractive mercantile feature in the business circles of a much larger city. He carries a large line of goods and employs six sales people.

In 1906 Mr. Grandjean was married to Miss May Leseemann and to them have been born three children, Mercella, Emil J., and George V. The religious faith of the family is that of the Methodist church and Mr. Grandjean also belongs to the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He supports the republican party and there is no call upon him for public-spirited citizenship that does not find a ready response, his aid and cooperation being salient features in all those movements which work for the benefit of city and state.

10 piece lot of California button hooks

Here is a group of California button hooks I recently won. Excellent seller, great service.