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Crowd of prospective buyers arrive at the Real Estate sales office and observatory in Montclair Hills - 1923 (per license plate), possibly driving Chevrolet's made nearby in the automakers factory in East Oakland. Oakland made some many vehicles in the day that it was dubbed the "Detroit of the West", which was actually consider to be a good moniker.<br />
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Sign on the building at the bluff proclaims, "Oakland, the Greatest City
on the Pacific Coast - INVEST!" - indeed this is an overlook with sweeping panoramic views of Oakland, San
Francisco and the Golden Gate.<br />
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Where is this? <br />
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We verified the typography around Asilomar/Aztec and Balboa and think that the mystery is solved on where this was located. We believe the current Mediterranean house, (built 1935), is just North of the where the original observatory tower was located, and Aztec, just graded on the right in the photo, is the street that heads down the hill. The owner of this house has coincidentally restored a 1929 Ford Model A that sits in his driveway. The hillside in the distant left, and the drop off on both sides of the intersection match the bluff in the view. However, no one we met had any knowledge of this and there is no way to photograph this to create a "then now" view,<br />
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<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">In 1928 a house
was built for Paul Pause of Montclair Reality 229 Monterrey Drive, which
was changed to Asilomar Drive. I think the address is 2054 or 2059</span><br />
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This is definitely not related to Chabot in any way.<br />
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<u><b>Background: Montclair, Oakland California History</b></u><br />
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<i>from Wikipedia: </i><br />
Prior to the Spanish Mission era, native Huchiun and Jalquin tribes of <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ohlone" title="Ohlone">Ohlone</a>
Indians populated the general area. The Ohlone by tradition gathered
nuts, seeds, roots and fruit, hunted small animals and fished local
waterways and the bay. Later, the Mission system centered around
Mission San Jose introduced Christianity, a lifestyle in farming, cattle
raising, and unfortunately disease and other problems that led to the
native inhabitants being largely eliminated.</div>
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In
the early 1800's - the hills here had great Redwood forests - among the
tallest on Earth - up to 31' in diameter. The Redwoods were in fact so
high they were depicted on the navigation maps of the time to aide
ships entering the San Francisco Bay find their bearings. By around 1860
the first growth was gone, many brought down what is not Park Ave to
the wharves in the vicinity of 14th, and use to build San Francisco -
many via the first steam saw mill owned by a pioneer named Thorn -
hence the name "Thornhill"<br />
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In 1820, Montclair and Dimond Canyon were part of the land from El Cerrito to San Leandro, which was granted to <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Maria_Peralta" title="Luis Maria
Peralta">Luis Maria Peralta</a>. In 1842, Peralta divided his land
among his sons and the San Antonio section including Montclair and
Dimond Canyon went to his son Antonio Maria Peralta.<br />
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Prior
to modern development, Montclair was geographically demarcated by two
creek valleys, one on the northwest, and one on the southeast end of
the Hayward Fault rift. The upper reaches of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temescal_Creek" title="Temescal
Creek">Temescal Creek</a> ran through the northwest valley, and remains
visible above ground today in the upper sections along Thornhill and
Pinehaven Roads. The creek has two branches that join at the
intersection of Thornhill and Pinehaven. From there, the creek flows
down then south side Thornhill Dr. until Thornhill Elementary School
were it then undergrounds. Then it flows underground down the remainder
of Thornhilll and then down Mountain Blvd. to Broadway Terrace, before
draining into <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Temescal" title="Lake Temescal">Lake Temescal</a>.<br />
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In
the northern creek valley, Thornhill Road dates back to some of the
earliest development history of Montclair. This was an old 19th century
logging road built by and named after Hiram Thorn. Thorn's road
brought redwood logs to Oakland out of the vast forest known as the
Moraga Redwoods, where he ran a lumber mill at Pinehurst Road near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huckleberry_Botanic_Regional_Preserve" title="Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve">Huckleberry Botanic Regional Preserve</a>, west of the community of Canyon. Thornhill later became a toll road to Contra Costa County.<br />
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On the southeast end of Montclair, the north fork of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausal_Creek" title="Sausal Creek">Sausal Creek</a>
(also called Shepherd Creek) runs down Shepherd Canyon. At the
freeway, near the parking lot of the Montclair Golf Course, the north
fork of Sausal Creek has its confluence with the south fork (also
called Palo Seco Creek) running from the eastern hills (encompassing
Joaquin Miller Park). The creek then runs down through Dimond Canyon and
across the flatlands (mostly in culverts) to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_Bay" title="San
Francisco Bay">San Francisco Bay</a>.<br />
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From Shepherd
Canyon extending toward the southeast, the Bayside hills were covered
in a vast redwood forest known as the San Antonio Redwoods. Around
1847, Europeans started logging the San Antonio redwood forest. In
1850, the area's first steam sawmill was built on the edge of
Montclair, at Palo Seco Creek in the head of Dimond Canyon <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair,_Oakland,_California#cite_note-0">[1]</a></sup>.
A logging road to the mill was built high up along the side of Dimond
Canyon, and later became Park Boulevard. This logging road connected to
a wharf at the foot of 13th Avenue and was used to transport the logs
down Dimond Canyon to the Bay. By 1860, the San Antonio forest was
logged completely.<br />
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After the logging period, Caspar
Hopkins, an early settler of the Fruitvale District, formed the Sausal
Creek Water Company and built a dam and reservoir at the upper end of
Dimond Canyon near the current Highway 13 at Montclair. The reservoir
later became part of the East Bay Water Company and remained until the
early 1920s. Early maps show a road passing the reservoir along the
current Waterhouse Road, and extending up toward the dam in the
direction of Bridgeview Drive along what is currently the Upper Dimond
Canyon Trail. In 1867, Hugh Dimond purchased the canyon. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair,_Oakland,_California#cite_note-1">[2]</a></sup><br />
In the first half of the 20th century, the main line of the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sacramento_Northern" title="Sacramento Northern">Sacramento Northern</a> Railroad ran through Montclair. The tracks ran southward from <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Temescal" title="Lake Temescal">Lake Temescal</a>
and crossed into Montclair over a trestle at Moraga Ave. and Thornhill
Dr. Thre is now a "pocket park" located at this location in
remembrance of this crossing. Then the route ran along a high berm
between Montclair Recreation Center and Montclair Elementary School,
before crossing Mountain Blvd. and Snake Road via trestle, and
continuing up Shepherd Canyon to a tunnel, the west portal of which was
located immediately below Saroni Drive. Today, much of the old
right-of-way above the village and in Shepherd Canyon is a pedestrian
and bicycle path. Although the old railroad trestles throughout
Montclair were all removed decades ago, in recent years a pedestrian
bridge was built in the same location of one of them, across Snake Road,
to connect the two major sections of the pedestrian pathway. The trail
was paved as well at the same time.<br />
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Viewing towards Skyline and the new road leading to the Observation Tower -<br />
On the left is perhaps the "First Real Estate Sign" in Montclair</div>
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One of the first
schools located in Montclair was at the current site of the now-closed
Moraga Avenue firehouse, and was named in honor of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Coffee_Hays" title="John Coffee
Hays">John Coffee Hays</a>, one of the founders of the city of Oakland.
The Hays school was closed in 1913. Though already sparsely populated
since the logging days, major residential subdivision of the village
and hills began in the 1920s.<br />
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The 1927 <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair,_Oakland,_California#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup> Montclair firehouse was designed in the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storybook_houses" title="Storybook
houses">Hansel and Gretel style</a> <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair,_Oakland,_California#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup> by famed regional architect <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Morgan" title="Julia Morgan">Julia Morgan</a>, and attributed to her but who actually designed this structure is uncertain at this timed.<br />
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Following the 1989 <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loma_Prieta_earthquake" title="Loma
Prieta earthquake">Loma Prieta earthquake</a>, the Oakland Fire
Department built a new station house on Shepherd Canyon Road, and upon
completion, vacated the 1927 structure. According to comments here:<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #444444;"> "<span style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', Trebuchet, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Neither the firehouse nor the library was designed by Julia Morgan. The firehouse was by Eldred E. Edwards of the Oakland Public Works Department. <a href="http://oaklandwiki.org/Montclair_Firehouse">See Wiki on Montclair Firehouse</a>" </span></span></span><br />
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In March 1930, the Montclair branch of the Oakland Public Library was opened on Mou<span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"></span>ntain
Blvd. near Thornhill Dr. to serve the growing village. The small
building was built in the English cottage-style, and remains in use
today. After 1965, additions were completed for the children's room and
patio at the rear of the original building. <sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair,_Oakland,_California#cite_note-4">[5]</a></sup><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #141823; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, lucida grande, tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px;">The sign on the Real Estate Office ('shack') is inscribed 6501 Moraga - This may be where the Highway 13 was latter built - we are trying to determine the GPS coordinates for confirm</span></span></span></div>
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<i><b>LINKS RELATED TO MONTCLAIR and East Bay Hills</b></i><br />
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<a href="http://eastbayhillsproject.org/">East Bay Hills Project</a> : Great resource of photography and information on East Bay Hills<br />
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<a href="http://montclairvillage.com/">Montclair Village Association</a><br />
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Wikipedia: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair,_Oakland,_California">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montclair,_Oakland,_California</a><br />
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The Early days of the City of Oakland</span></h4>
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Booming Waterfront and Rail development, but oh the Controversies! </div>
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<b><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';">The California State legislature incorporated the town of Oakland on May 4, 1852. </span><span style="font-family: 'Adobe Garamond Pro';"> </span></b></div>
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Who is the Mayor? Actually, from incorporation until 1900, Oakland managed to go through<br />
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Incorporated in 1854, Horace W. Carpentier became Oakland's first elected mayor in an election where his 364 votes cast out-numbered the official voting population of the town. Thirteen days later, Mayor Carpentier, obtained the exclusive use of the Waterfront, a matter that lingered for a period of thirty years, and resulting in a never ended contentious wrangling for control over the evolving and increasingly valuable real estate, rail and shipping interests.</div>
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In 1855, in reaction and outrage to Carpentier's land grab, he was expelled from the office of mayor. A lengthy court battle then ensued over ownership of the Waterfront. Suffice to say that all the power players were engaged, fighting with everything they had, railroads in particular leading the charge over access to what now obviously prime real estate as the Transcontinental railroads were envisioned to forge across America.<br />
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The Long Wharf and a Mole Evolve for passenger and freight transport</h3>
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This massive railroad wharf and ferry pier, located at the foot of Seventh Street, was acquired and extended by the Central Pacific Railroad in 1868 to transport freight to San Francisco. It served as the western terminus of the first Transcontinental railroad when it was completed in 1869. The Long Wharf connected to ferries that carried commuters and cargo to and from San Francisco. Part of the wharf was filled in between 1879 and 1882, creating a mole. It remained in service until 1958.<br />
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In 1868, the possibility that Oakland might be selected as the western terminus for the transcontinental railroad brings the dispute with Carpentier to a head. Carpentier agreed to deed his rights to the Oakland Waterfront Company, however, later it was discovered that Carpentier was in fact the President of the Oakland Waterfront Company. The Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, the site of today's Port of Oakland. The Long Wharf served as both the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad as well as the local commuter trains of the Central (later, Southern) Pacific. The Central Pacific also established one of its largest rail yards and servicing facilities in West Oakland which continued to be a major local employer under the Southern Pacific well into the 20th century.<br />
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<span style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mayors_of_Oakland,_California">Wiki of the Mayor's of Oakland</a> - dozens and dozens of them</span><br />
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The vitality of our community's development owes a great debt of gratitude to the men and women who have dedicated their lives and careers here. This series of images has been organized out of respect to their longstanding service. Our future in a multitude of ways depends on success of our Port and how it continues to evolve both in its traditional role for the movement of freight but the evolving public access and development that are presently on the drawing boards.<br />
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The Oakland hills were covered with a vast redwood forest known as the San Antonio Redwood, which had some of the largest trees on earth. Between 1842 and 1853 this forest was logged extensively to supply San Francisco with lumber. The area’s first steam sawmill was built on the edge of Montclair in 1850. A logging road from the mill, later Park Blvd., connecting to the wharf at the foot of 13th Avenue, where ships transported lumber to San Francisco from this <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_estuary">estuary</a>. This forest was gone by 1860.<br />
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In 1868, the possibility that Oakland might be selected as the western terminus for the transcontinental railroad brings the dispute with Carpentier to a head. Carpentier agreed to deed his rights to the Oakland Waterfront Company, however, later it was discovered that Carpentier was in fact the President of the Oakland Waterfront Company. The Central Pacific constructed the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point, the site of today's Port of Oakland. The Long Wharf served as both the terminus of the Transcontinental Railroad as well as the local commuter trains of the Central (later, Southern) Pacific. The Central Pacific also established one of its largest rail yards and servicing facilities in West Oakland which continued to be a major local employer under the Southern Pacific well into the 20th century.<br />
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Booming commerce in the late 19th century led to the need for the expansion of shipping facilities in both Oakland and Alameda. A shipping and tidal channel was dredged between them in 1902, extending and deepening the natural estuary joining Oakland’s harbor with the San Leandro Bay. Consequently, Alameda became an “island” as well as an important shipping port. Most of the excavated soil was used to fill sections of the nearby marsh land. <br />
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Founded by George Staniford and Benet Dewes in 1874, the ‘Oakland Tribune’ became a major newspaper under William Edward Dargie, who acquired it two years later. He added a wire service dispatch, special editions, an early Bell telephone, and a double cylinder press, all leading innovations at the time. Joseph Knowland, a former U.S. congressman, bought the paper in 1915 and built this 21-story tower, completed in 1923, for the Tribune’s headquarters. </div>
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Valley">Yosemite Valley</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_National_Park" title="Sequoia
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Club">Sierra Club</a>, which he founded, is now one of the most important conservation organizations in the United States. One of the most well-known hiking trails in the U.S., the 211-mile <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Muir_Trail" title="John Muir
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Hetch Hetchy Valley The floor of Hetch Hetchy Valley as it appeared in 1919, before the construction of O’Shaughnessy Dam was breathtaking. Note the tracks of the Hetch Hetchy Railroad. Before the dam could be built, access and transportation to the valley floor had to be established. Begun in 1914, the 68-mile railway was completed in 1917. Fed by a perpetual underground glacier, Hetch Hetchy offered a single source of water for the City of San Francisco.</div>
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The initial 30 foot depth of the foundation for O’Shagunessy Dam increased to over 100 feet due to the dislodging of large boulders from the ancient glacier beneath the Valley floor. Two Cyclopean concrete blocks of stone measuring from one cubic foot to six cubic yards imbedded in plain concrete create the arch-style dam that counter-balances the pressure of the water. Physical construction of O’Shaugnessy Dam began in 1919 and was completed in 1923. Preparations, however, began as early as 1914 with construction of the Hetch Hetchy Railroad, a 68 mile standard gauge railway completed in 1917 for $3 million. The railroad operated around the clock during four years of construction, hauling cement, supplies and men. Clearing of timber from the Valley floor began in 1915, removing 21 million board feet by 1924. When completed, O’Shaugnessy Dam stood 226.5 feet high from the Valley floor with a storage capacity of 206,000 acre feet of water.</div>
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The first Hetch Hetchy drinking water arrived in San Francisco on October 28, 1934, two decades after initial construction began. In 1938, the dam was raised 85.5 feet enabling it to impound 360,000 acre feet of water. The total cost for the Dam, including the subsequent enlargement was $12.6 million. Fed by a perpetual glacier deep in the Sierra range, Hetch Hetchy water is the purest source of drinking water in the state of California. Today, the Alameda County Water District purchases nearly 40% of the county’s water from Hetch Hetchy.</div>
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This fanciful “Brahmanian Temple” movie palace opened in 1928. One of the <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br />The Story of Sports and the San Francisco 49ers</span><br />________________________________________________________________________<br /> The mega-platinum album Huey Lewis and the News "Sports", released 1983, was in many ways homage to the spirit of the San Francisco 49ers. . In one of best NFC playoff games EVER, the 49ers beat the Dallas Cowboys 28 to 27, moving on to win Super Bowl XVI against the Bengals. The cover shot includes a frame-grab of Dwight Clark on the television in the background making one of his 8 completions during that game. In that game, with 51 seconds remaining, 49ers down 27 to 21, Clark made the play that was thereafter immortalized as "The Catch", pushing the 49ers ahead with 51 seconds left on the play clock. <br /><br /> I shot this album cover at the the Deuce", otherwise known as the Two AM Club in Mill Napa Valley. Huey insisted on the "Sports" bar for the cover location and that the 49ers be on the TV in the background. With a knack for the double entendre, to visualize SPORTS Huey chose a Sports Bar rather than more obvious images of an actual engagement on the playing field. Their next and fourth album was named FORE!, again using the double entendre to lead the branding, using the classic golf expression with Mario Cipollina holding a golf club on the cover. <br /><br /> The Sports cover was made up of six images, collaged together "old school", using a scalpel, long before Photoshop existed. Later, I did another shoot with Huey at the Record Plant in Sausalito where the band recorded the album, enabling a better, larger feature portrait of Huey for the cover. I found the ultimate pool table at the Palace Billiards on Market Street in San Francisco. The toilet seat guitar, in the background, priceless. After assembling the six images in black and white, I then hand-tinted the final artwork for the cover.<br /><br />The rest is history. Go Niners - hopefully more history made by the time you have read this.<br /><br />Hand-tinted Photographic Collage by <a href="http://www.bennetthallphotography.com/">Bennett Hall</a><br /><div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562012365805434318.post-70600625995290644862012-12-03T19:04:00.000-08:002012-12-03T19:48:15.932-08:00Fox Oakland Theater, 1807 Telegraph Ave, Oakland, c.1935This fanciful “Brahmanian Temple” movie palace opened in 1928. One of the largest theaters on the Pacific Coast with more than 3,400 seats, it was designed by San Francisco firm Weeks & Day, and constructed by Oakland builder Maury I. Diggs. The architecture was described as Indian, Moorish, Medieval and Baghdadian. On opening day, West Coast Theaters bought the entire Key System line<br />
for an hour, allowing patrons to ride inbound trains for free, resulting in the turnout of 20,000.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562012365805434318.post-54578621382121126382011-12-25T15:48:00.001-08:002011-12-25T15:48:21.038-08:00Chaplin rehearsing in the archway: Essanay Studios Interior, Niles
California<div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennetthall/4151586623/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2578/4151586623_2bb1611210.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennetthall/4151586623/">Essanay Studios Interior, Niles California</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/bennetthall/">bennetthall</a>.</span></div><p>Charlie Chaplin passed away Christmas Day 34 years ago<br /><br />This studio in Niles, built from the ground up, was the 2nd west of Chicago, featuring a glass roof for extended shooting schedules. Chaplin is in the archway rehearsing a scene<br /><br />hand-tinted by Bennett Hall<br />Collection of David Keihn</p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562012365805434318.post-50410501493693368352011-12-09T23:08:00.000-08:002011-12-09T23:08:20.965-08:00Slideshow of the Port and Waterfront in Oakland<div id="PictoBrowser111209230747">Get the flash player here: http://www.adobe.com/flashplayer</div><script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser/swfobject.js"></script><script type="text/javascript"> var so = new SWFObject("http://www.db798.com/pictobrowser.swf", "PictoBrowser", "592", "610", "8", "#000000"); so.addVariable("source", "sets"); so.addVariable("names", "Port of Oakland"); so.addVariable("userName", "bennetthall"); so.addVariable("userId", "14937725@N03"); so.addVariable("ids", "72157628340562515"); so.addVariable("titles", "on"); so.addVariable("displayNotes", "on"); so.addVariable("thumbAutoHide", "off"); so.addVariable("imageSize", "medium"); so.addVariable("vAlign", "mid"); so.addVariable("vertOffset", "0"); so.addVariable("colorHexVar", "000000"); so.addVariable("initialScale", "off"); so.addVariable("bgAlpha", "78"); so.write("PictoBrowser111209230747"); </script><div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562012365805434318.post-17058994663738758152011-12-04T14:51:00.000-08:002011-12-04T16:06:40.108-08:00Like to buy a 6-room home in the Oakland Hills for $4,750 ?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xczluWyifAo/Ttv0pojYuCI/AAAAAAAAAsE/J_qalQ7Wxf4/s1600/oak_real-estate-office_M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="442" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xczluWyifAo/Ttv0pojYuCI/AAAAAAAAAsE/J_qalQ7Wxf4/s640/oak_real-estate-office_M.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
OK. Time travel is required. But, what of the ratio of affordability? income to price of real estate? The Oakland Hills in 1940 were largely undeveloped. Gradually building up by district, many factors encouraged growth, the new Bay Bridge, the East Bay's exceptional commerce position from rail and water transportation, excitement following the <a href="http://worldwidearchive.imagekind.com/SF-Fairs-Expositions">1939 Golden Gate Exhibition</a>, a celebration of Peace in the Pacific ironically given the events of 1941, and rapidly developing industry throughout the area. It did not hurt that you could buy a view lot for $400 view lots or a finished home for $4,750. Interestingly, this Realtor is pitching his properties with a tag line that you will <i>"Not have to mortgage your car"</i> to buy a home. <br />
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Real Estate Office, Oakland, California<br />
Photograph by Russell Lee, 1903-1986<br />
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<div class="photo-desc insitu-trigger" id="description_div6264656211"><div id="yui_3_4_0_3_1319156478815_968">This is really close the color as I recall the moment, unseasonably hot day, and suddenly a 'mushroom cloud' headed across the bay from Oakland. The sunset was a color that I had never seen before. No questions that something was really really wrong. Again, no cell phone, no iPad, rushing now to get to a television and find out what was going on... no one knew.</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562012365805434318.post-30043814056971660912011-10-20T17:15:00.000-07:002011-10-20T17:15:32.965-07:00First View of the Fire, Day one • October 20, 1991<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6102/6264585193_bd036b18e5_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="528" src="http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6102/6264585193_bd036b18e5_b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="photo-desc insitu-trigger" id="description_div6264585193"><div id="yui_3_4_0_3_1319156110133_1142"><br />
This was the first time I saw the fire, just after I walked out of a meeting. I had never seen anything like this before, fires yes, but this had the look of Armageddon. I had no idea what it was. No one looking at it at that moment had any idea what this was. I did not have a cell phone, there was no such thing. There was no internet to look this up on. There was only astonished passersby rambling theories about exploding tankers. It turned out to be far worse as we would learn later in the evening</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562012365805434318.post-62347712451344137452011-10-20T13:58:00.000-07:002011-10-20T13:58:54.629-07:00The Day After, Oakland Fire 1991<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2699/4127456908_6090f67e3a_b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="522" src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2699/4127456908_6090f67e3a_b.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
<h1 class="photo-title insitu-trigger" id="title_div4127456908">October 23, 1991</h1><div class="photo-desc insitu-trigger" id="description_div4127456908"><div id="yui_3_4_0_3_1319134552083_3112">PGE crew at sunset on the top crest of Hiller Highlands<br />
Sunset on the day the Oakland Firestorm was declared under control</div><div id="yui_3_4_0_3_1319134552083_1409">one of my favorite images - we were in the middle of what was once a neighborhood of thousands of homes - eerie beyond words. This photo was made at the moment the sun crested below the City skyline- an extraordinary moment; the air was thick, warm and acrid, you could cut it with a knife.<br />
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<div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">-Courtesy of Ed Clausen Collection</span></div><br />
Initially settling in shrimp camps on the Oakland estuary in the 1850s, Chinese arrived en masse to help build the Transcontinental Railroad during the 1860s, and later to build Temescal and Lake Chabot Dams. Local exclusion laws forced the Chinese to resettle to the area of 8th and Webster Streets in the 1870s. After the 1906 Earthquake and Fire destroyed most of San Francisco’s Chinatown, over 4,000 Chinese survivors found refuge in Oakland.<br />
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Reference: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinatown,_Oakland">Wikipedia</a> <br />
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"Chinaman" Carrying Supplies, San Francisco, c.1860<br />
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Gold_Rush">Gold Rush</a> lured many Chinese to California who later migrated to urban areas in the 1860’s and ‘70’s. They became a dominant work force in industries of canning, cigars, woolen mills, shoes, and sewing, and in restaurants and laundries. They were such hard workers they were perceived as a labor threat which led to many conflicts and regretul incidents prejudice, violence and injustice. <br />
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For the <a href="http://userwww.sfsu.edu/%7Eepf/2001/chang.html">Chinese women</a> it was worse - often brought here in slavery or under a variety of false pretenses, foot-binding and prostitution were common, suffering by Chinese woman was the norm, as immigration problems, drugs, corruption intertwined with the times and the 'powers that be' made life difficult to say the best. <br />
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Digital remastered from vintage 'snap shot', on permanent exhibit at the <a href="http://www.businessimagegroup.com/USCourts.html">U.S. District Courts, San Francisco 450 Golden Gate Ave</a><br />
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Go to Court, Learn about local history?<br />
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That' right. Thanks to an innovative program started by Hon. Judge Breyer of the U.S. District Courts' 9th District in San Francisco, their jury room rooms, public corridors and selected chambers areas are adorned with restored historical photographs with educational narratives telling colorful stories of Bay Area History. The project began in 2002, and culminated this summer with the an installation covering three floors of the Oakland Federal building featuring Oakland, Alameda and Contra Costa County history. Lawyers, their clients, jurors, and visitors will learn about the transcontinental railroad, the Key system, University of Berkeley, development of agriculture, coal, logging and other industries, dynamite in Hercules, the "Detroit of the West", Liberty Ships, the Cyclotron, Lake Merritt, waterfront development, water systems, bridges, tunnels, warships, the Mission system and even Charlie Chaplin in Niles.<br />
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The program is located in the Bay Area's primary Federal Buildings, Clay Street Oakland, 2nd Street San Jose and 450 Golden Gate, San Francisco - showcasing a total of nearly 1,000 framed photographs. Each photograph was digitally restored from vintage materials from dozens of sources. Each view includes a caption and story illuminating aspects of our local heritage, providing an education experience with the Court experience. THe program was designed and produced by San Francisco photographer and artist, Bennett Hall and Helen Rischbieth of Business image Group, who worked in concert with the US District Court Judges in their respective areas, Hon. Judge Breyer, San Francisco, Hon. Judge Lloyd and Hon. Judge Seeborg, San Jose, and Hon. Judge Jensen in Oakland. Production was all done locally, including custom framing made in their San Francisco shop <a href="http://www.eco-framing.com/">Eco Framing</a>, the latest project employing U.S. grown and manufactured solid Cherry wood frame moulding made using FSC certified methods. An emphasis of producing this project in most 'carbon neutral manner possible was combined with using materials that were all made in America - two fundamentals advocated by Hall and Rischbieth's company.<br />
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Blog: <a href="http://businessimagegroup.blogspot.com/2010/08/bay-area-wide-local-history-program-for.html">US District Courts - Oakland Federal Building</a><br />
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Website -<a href="http://bit.ly/dzDpJs"> overview of Bay Area US Courts Program </a><br />
US District Courts, San Francisco Bay Area • Community History exhibits, 2002-2010<br />
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Warm Springs Resort and Spa, featuring hot springs of mineral water was established in the early 1850s by French pioneer, Clemente Columbet. At its peak it accommodated up to 200 people and offered recreational activities including boating on its artificial lake, gambling and hunting. A “Hospital” provided private bathing in its warm medicinal waters. The Resort flourished until the 1868 earthquake, after which it was acquired by Leland Stanford for his winery, which operated there until 1923.<br />
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From Exhibit at <a href="http://bit.ly/9wiAIL%20">Oakland Federal Building for US District Courts</a><br />
this image hand-tinted © Bennett Hall<br />
Source file: Oakland Public Libary<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Warm Springs is located on <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rancho_Agua_Caliente_%28Higuera%29" title="Rancho Agua Caliente (Higuera)">Rancho Agua Caliente</a> and is so named for the springs that are located there.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CGN720_20-0"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs,_California#cite_note-CGN720-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup> In early times, there was a settlement called Harrisburgh (also, Harrisburg and Peacock's) a short distance east from the small settlement of Warm Springs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CGN720_20-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs,_California#cite_note-CGN720-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup> A post office opened in Harrisburgh in 1865 and changed its name to Warm Springs in 1885.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CGN720_20-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs,_California#cite_note-CGN720-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup> The name Harrisburgh commemorated Abram Harris, who settled there in 1858.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CGN720_20-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs,_California#cite_note-CGN720-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup> The name Peacock's commemorated George W. Peacock, its first postmaster.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CGN720_20-4"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs,_California#cite_note-CGN720-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup> The post office name changed to Warmsprings in 1895 and reverted to Warm Springs in 1950.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-CGN720_20-5"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warm_Springs,_California#cite_note-CGN720-20"><span>[</span>21<span>]</span></a></sup></span><div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2562012365805434318.post-57790303442522656642010-08-14T17:05:00.000-07:002011-04-20T13:22:41.322-07:00"God Speed" on the new Bore! Caldecott Expands connection to Coco County<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GVslfVluyEA/TGcsJcl7rTI/AAAAAAAAAdI/iLArSpDirG8/s1600/ala_caldicott-tunnel_constr_p.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="457" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_GVslfVluyEA/TGcsJcl7rTI/AAAAAAAAAdI/iLArSpDirG8/s640/ala_caldicott-tunnel_constr_p.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />
The Caldecott Tunnel is currently a three bore east-west highway tunnel that connects Oakland to communities in Contra Costa County, through the Berkeley Hills. The idea of a tunnel through the hills was first conceived in 1860, and an early tunnel was built in 1903. Later, the first two modern bores were completed in 1937, named after Thomas Caldecott, mayor of Berkeley 1930-1932) and president of Joint Highway District 13. The third bore was completed in 1964.<br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkjLECojuKY&feature=related">Youtube on the old Train tunnel c1911, closed in 1959</a><br />
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Image above available through <a href="http://worldwidearchive.imagekind.com/store/custom.aspx/98/California">California Images Web Galleries</a><br />
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span></h2>In the 19th century, traffic over the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Hills" title="Berkeley Hills">Berkeley Hills</a> in this area went up Harwood Canyon, now known as Claremont Canyon (behind the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claremont_Hotel" title="Claremont Hotel">Claremont Hotel</a>). The road leading up the canyon from the west was initially called Harwood's Road, later changed to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph_Avenue" title="Telegraph Avenue">Telegraph Road</a>, and finally, Claremont. The road on the other side of the hills was, and remains Fish Ranch Road. An inn once existed at the summit.<br />
The idea of a tunnel through the hills began as early as 1860. In that year, the idea was proposed and rejected by the citizens of Alameda and Contra Costa Counties. It was revived in 1871 with a proposal which described a route running from the end of Broadway, similar to the actual routing of today's Caldecott Tunnel although it isn't clear from the description exactly which canyon was being referred to. The proposed tunnel would be only some 500 feet long and would have its outlet in the San Pablo Creek watershed with a road leading into Lafayette. A franchise was granted to a group of developers who passed the franchise onto another group. The proposal languished until the turn of the century.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Tunnel#cite_note-2">[3]</a></sup><br />
In 1903, a tunnel was finally built above the present location of the Caldecott Tunnel, in the next canyon south of Claremont Canyon. This tunnel was approached by a new road dubbed "Tunnel Road" which started at the top of Ashby Avenue in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley,_California" title="Berkeley, California">Berkeley</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caldecott_Tunnel#cite_note-3">[4]</a></sup><br />
In 1929, construction of the first two bores of the Caldecott Tunnel began. They were completed in 1937, and were originally known as the <b>Broadway Low Level Tunnel</b> as the approach was from the top of Broadway in Oakland, and was below the portal of the old tunnel. However, access from Ashby Avenue was retained as it was designated the connecting thoroughfare from the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastshore_Highway" title="Eastshore Highway">Eastshore Highway</a> (now Freeway) and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Francisco_%E2%80%93_Oakland_Bay_Bridge" title="San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge">San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge</a>, and dubbed State Highway 24. The approach to the east portal on the other side of the Berkeley Hills was via Mount Diablo Blvd., also at that time part of State Highway 24.<br />
The third bore was opened in 1964. In the late 1960s, the <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grove-Shafter_Freeway" title="Grove-Shafter Freeway">Grove-Shafter Freeway</a> was completed and replaced Broadway as the main access route to the Caldecott Tunnel from Oakland as well as replacing Ashby as the principal connector for traffic coming from San Francisco. Ashby Avenue and Tunnel Road were redesignated <a class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Route_13_%28California%29" title="State Route 13 (California)">State Highway 13</a> and aligned with the new Warren Freeway through the Montclair District of Oakland. The Grove-Shafter Freeway was then designated State Highway 24.<div class="blogger-post-footer">Californiamiages.com • created by World Wide Archive and Business Image Group © All rights reserved 2014</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00877230131394843848noreply@blogger.com0