Kramm's Brewery c1908 2

Description:
Kramm's Anchor Brewery (looking north), west side of Shattuck Avenue between 49th Street and 50th Street, Temescal district, Oakland, Calif. Note streetcar tracks in street. Directly across Shattuck Avenue was the car barn (now Temescal Plaza shopping center) and Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E) Substation D.

Date of Document:
circa 1908

Document Author:
Unknown

Geographic Location:
Shattuck Avenue and 49th Street, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
Charles H. Kramm, the son of brewer, Charles Kramm, Sr., established a brewery on this site in June 1894. (This business is not related to Anchor Brewing in San Francisco.) Charles Kramm, Sr., who was also associated with the Golden West Brewery, had been making beer in Oakland since 1869. They were one of several local brewers who had come from Germany. Water from Temescal Creek, which wound around the rear of the property, was used in the brewing process. At its peak, twelve employees produced nearly 70,000 barrels per year of steam beer and porter. The younger Kramm died of tuberculosis in 1900 at the age of 27. By 1919, when Prohibition (the Volstead Act) was ratified, the tax assessor noted that only a barn stood on the property. [Jennifer Dowling note]