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1922 87th Ave, Oakland, CA 94621 is currently not for sale. The 1,730 Square Feet multi family home is a 4 beds, 2 baths property. This home was built in 1952 and last sold on 1998-12-15 for $145,000. View more property details, sales history, and Zestimate data on Zillow.
1907 87th Ave, Oakland, CA 94621 is currently not for sale. The 864 Square Feet single family home is a 2 beds, 1 bath property. This home was built in 1923 and last sold on -- for $--. View more property details, sales history, and Zestimate data on Zillow.
7.3k Views 11. Oakland is a major West Coast port city in California. It has a mild, Mediterranean-type climate with warm sunny summers and cool winters. The area was inhabited by Costanoan Indians in the 18th century when the Spanish invaded. In the early-1970s, unemployment, poverty, and crime rates were high in Oakland.
- Pergola at Lake Merritt
- Peralta Playland
- Haddon Hill and Lake Merritt
- Grand Avenue and Piedmont
- East 17th Street and Fruitvale
- The Eagles’ Street Fair and Carnival in Fruitvale
- West Oakland Car Crash
- 15th Street and Broadway
- Frank Ogawa Plaza
- Jingletown and The Docks
The Pergola and Colonnade at Lake Merritt circa 1901. Lake Merritt was originally a tidal flat called the San Antonio Slough. The Pergola and Colonnade structures were part of an effort to turn the lakeside area into a public park and were designed by architect Walter Reed, along with the later additions such as the bandstand, bowling greens with a...
Children and parents ride the Lil’ Belle Riverboat and The Little Acorn train at Peralta Playland, circa 1952. At the opposite end of Lake Merritt, Children’s Fairyland once had a competitor in Peralta Playland, an amusement park in the lake’s estuary next to the Kaiser Convention Center. The park featured performances and rides such as the riverbo...
Haddon Hill, largely undeveloped, is viewed from across Lake Merritt circa 1915. Historical photo courtesy of the Oakland History Center. Photo by Saskia Hatvany.
An early automobile carries two passengers up an unpaved Grand Avenue from Lake Merritt towards Piedmont in 1908. The house on the left slope still stands in the same location over 100 years later. In the 1880s, only seven houses stood where Piedmont is now, but following a destructive earthquake in 1906, many residents fled San Francisco to seek s...
A family sits in their automobile on East 17th Street, looking west onto Fruitvale Avenue in the Fruitvale District circa 1910. The Fruitvale District got its name from its once vast expanses of fruit orchards. In the 1960s and 70s, the area experienced an increase in population and became a center for the Chicano Movement. Since then, the neighbor...
A streetcar at the intersection of East 14th Street (now International Boulevard) and Fruitvale Avenue, decorated for the Eagles’ Street Fair and Carnival in the Fruitvale District circa 1910. The Eagles’ Street Fair and Carnival was a weeklong festival held in Fruitvale in May, which culminated in a Mardi Gras parade complete with floats, confetti...
A car crash on the corner of Market Street and West MacArthur Boulevard in West Oakland, circa 1955. The Victorian-era house in the background is still intact today, and represents a time when West Oakland was one of the first western settlements in the East Bay and a bustling port. Later, the shoreline around West Oakland was landfilled — an area ...
Passengers board a streetcar at 15th Street and Broadway circa 1945. Streetcars were an important feature of Oakland’s transportation until the 1960s. Before the original Bay Bridge structure opened in 1936, San Francisco-bound passengers would take streetcars to the end of an 11,000-foot pier that extended into the Bay. There, passengers boarded f...
14th Street runs past City Hall Park (now Frank H. Ogawa Plaza), circa 1907. The Tribune Building base was constructed in 1906, but the tower that’s still an iconic part of Oakland’s skyline wasn’t built until 1923. Historical Photo Courtesy of the Oakland History Center. Photo by Saskia Hatvany.
Circa 1910, two men stood on the bow of the boat Petrel while docked at a boathouse at the end of Derby Avenue in Jingletown, which was once called the Kennedy Tract. The area was home to The California Cotton Mills, the largest cotton mill west of the Mississippi River. The plant was closed in 1954 but the main factory building still stands today ...
Oakland's rise to industrial prominence, and its subsequent need for a seaport, led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902, which created an island of nearby town Alameda. In 1906, its population doubled with refugees made homeless after the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
24 de may. de 2022 · Learn about the history of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, CA. Explore these significant locations including schools, churches and the party's headquarters.
Sheng Thao (born July 18, 1985) is an American politician and the 51st mayor of Oakland, California. She is the first Hmong American mayor of a major city in the United States. [1] [2] Early life and education. Thao was born on July 18, 1985 [3] and raised in Stockton, California.
