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The Oakland charter, at the time headed by Barger, used a larger version of the "Death's Head" patch nicknamed the "Barger Larger", which was first used in 1959. It later became the club standard. [36] The first charter to open outside California was established in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1961. [20]
The state of California was divided into three numbering plan areas (NPAs) with distinct area codes: 213, 415, and 916, for the southern, central, and northern parts of the state, respectively. [ 1] As of July 2023, California has 38 active area codes. Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Turlock; the northern San Joaquin Valley and the central Sierra ...
The Oakland City Council is an elected governing body representing the City of Oakland, California . Since 1998, Oakland has had a mayor-council government. The mayor is elected for a four-year term. The Oakland City Council has eight council members representing seven districts in Oakland with one member elected at-large; council members serve ...
The Hat is a Southern California fast-food restaurant chain specializing in pastrami dip sandwiches. [1] This eatery, once local only to the San Gabriel Valley, [2] has been offering its "World Famous Pastrami" to Southern California residents since 1951. [3] [4] Its customers consume 13 to 15 tons of pastrami per week. [5]
The A's have retired only the numbers of Hall-of-Famers who played large portions of their careers in Oakland. The Athletics have all of the numbers of the Hall-of-Fame players from the Philadelphia Athletics displayed at their stadium, as well as all of the years that the Philadelphia Athletics won World Championships (1910, 1911, 1913, 1929 ...
Raimondi Park at the beginning of the remodeling effort for the Ballers to play, pictured in late March 2024. The Ballers in their inaugural home game, June 4, 2024. Kelsie Whitmore pitching in the Ballers' first season. The Oakland Ballers, nicknamed the Oakland B's, are an independent baseball team that started play in the Pioneer League in 2024.
The Oakland Fire Department is the sponsoring agency of Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 4 (CA-TF4), one of eight FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces in the state of California and 28 nationally. [8] The task forces, which is made up of personnel from 15 different agencies in the Bay Area, provides resources to locate ...
The Cathedral of Christ the Light, also called Oakland Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland in Oakland, California. It is the seat of the Bishop of Oakland. Christ the Light was the first cathedral built entirely in the 21st century and replaced the Cathedral of Saint Francis de Sales, irreparably damaged in the ...