Watts Street at 40th

Inlaid Floor Co. is an SF-Founded Company that specialized in hardwood floors with patterns and ornamental designs made out of different colored woods.

They expanded their operation to Emeryville in 1917 operating out of this warehouse on the corner of Watts and 40th Street and employed about 20 workers with Alfred Gustafson residing as their President.

By 1963, it was occupied by the Colorado Fuel and Iron Corp. who remained there at least through 1969.

In 1986, it was owned by former Oakland Athletic and Major League Baseball Hall-of-Famer Reggie Jackson who used it to store part of his large collection of classic automobiles.

In 2004, the building was listed as 4057 Watts and occupied by Gallery Istanbul. It’s been occupied by Decorium, a showroom for furniture and rugs, since 2012.

Lind Air Products, located across Watts at 4052, provided compressed gas for welding and cutting metal. Lind is currently the world's largest industrial gas company.