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Rockridge Market Hall, exterior view at night, February 2015. Rockridge Market Hall is a market hall opened in 1987 in Rockridge, a neighborhood of Oakland, California.It contains nine stores, including a caterer, a specialty foods shop, a flower shop, a wine shop, a produce shop, a coffee roaster, a fish shop, a butcher shop and a bakery.
Temescal was the site of agriculture, cattle grazing and greenhouses when, in the 1890s, an opera house was built in parkland north of the creek crossing at 51st street. The area grew and was developed into Idora Park, the earliest "trolley park" in the East Bay. In 1929 the amusement park was closed and was razed in 1930.
Rockridge is home to the community-built Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt Park, a linear park anchored at each end by two unique community-built play structures. It is commonly known as Frog Park, for the acronym of the organization which helped build the park, called FROG, the Friends of the Rockridge Temescal Greenbelt.
Telegraph Avenue is a street that begins, at its southernmost point, in the midst of the historic downtown district of Oakland, California, and ends, at its northernmost point, at the southern edge of the University of California, Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California.
Pacific Palisades residents told CBS News they saw the fire break out the morning of Jan. 7 close to the Skull Rock Trailhead along the Temescal Ridge Trail in Topanga State Park. Jerry Del ...
Temescal became only a secondary source. [2] Temescal Creek in Temescal Regional Recreation Area, September 18, 2006. Lake Temescal is the main attraction in the park, which also offers trails, picnic areas, forest habitats, and bird watching. The lake was originally constructed as a drinking water reservoir for the city of Oakland.
The park has two official names: the Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt, and Frog Park. [5] [1] The park has also been known as the Greenbelt, the Rockridge/Temescal Park, Temescal Creek Park, or sometimes the Creekside Greenbelt Park. It encompasses two older and smaller parks: the Hardy Park and Redondo Park, later also known as Big Frog and Little ...
Temescal Creek in Oakland near Cavour Street. Temescal Creek is a perennial stream, and as such, was highly valued by early settlers.At its mouth, the indigenous Ohlone people (Chochen/Huichin band), and their predecessors, built up the shellmound of Emeryville, the largest and most studied shellmound on the shoreline of San Francisco Bay.