Rhodes and Jamieson was a California-based gravel mining, sand and ready-mixed cement company with roots in the East Bay. The firm operated under several related names, including Rhodes-Jamieson Company and Rhodes & Jamieson, Ltd., and was based in Pleasanton, California.[1] The company was incorporated as RHODES-JAMIESON on July 7, 1955.[2]
Design and History
Rhodes and Jamieson’s origins trace to 1904, when A. G. Rhodes and G. G. Jamieson founded the business to handle fuel and building materials.[3] By the 1920s, the firm operated yards in Oakland, Berkeley and Alameda, selling coal, wood and building materials.[4] In 1929, Rhodes Jamieson Company was among several sand, rock and gravel concerns merged into Pacific Coast Aggregates, Inc.[5]
By the 1950s, the company was selling ready-mixed cement, as documented in a 1956 California Supreme Court case involving a cement purchase from Rhodes & Jamieson, Ltd.[6] In the 1970s, the firm was also associated with Pleasanton Gravel Company, with records referring to “Pleasanton Gravel Company (Rhodes-Jamieson)” in a 1977 land transaction.[7]
Documentation of a specific logo design for Rhodes and Jamieson by Primo Angeli is not available in the research sources. While Primo Angeli established his San Francisco design studio in 1967 and built a reputation for corporate identity work in the 1970s,[8] his documented client list from that period includes San Francisco staples such as Boudin Bakery, P.G. Molinari & Sons, Tommy’s Joynt and the San Francisco Symphony, along with international corporations like Coca-Cola, Nestle, Xerox and DHL.[8] Rhodes and Jamieson does not appear in the available lists of Angeli’s clients from the 1970s or elsewhere.
Similarly, no verified visual description of a Rhodes and Jamieson logo, crest or emblem could be confirmed through the research. The company’s letterhead from its Oakland years is documented in the Calisphere archive, but its visual details are not described in the available sources.[9]
Meaning and Symbolism
No documented symbolism, color scheme or design intent for a Rhodes and Jamieson logo could be verified from the available research. Any claims about geometric shapes, color meanings or the design philosophy behind a 1970 logo for this company remain unsubstantiated.
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