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Opening day for the short lived operation of Alan Pegler's #4472, The Flying Scotsman along San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf. Seen running on Jefferson St., Pegler is in the engineers seat and riding the tender is Joseph Silva, manager of the State Belt RR.
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.
In 1897, the residents of Temescal voted to join the City of Oakland in an effort to gain access to higher quality public schools and police services. [ 1 ] [ 7 ] At the time that the City of Oakland annexed Temescal, Temescal was considered to consist of all land north of 36th Street (the northern bound of the City of Oakland at the time ...
1633 San Pablo Avenue February 20, 1979 26 Locke House: 3911 Harrison Street April 3, 1979 27 Oakland Municipal Auditorium / Henry J. Kaiser Center: 10 Tenth Street April 3, 1979 28 Oakland City Hall: 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza June 19, 1979 29 St. Augustine's / Old Trinity Church: 29th Street & Telegraph Avenue December 4, 1979 30 Earl Warren House
Its construction was led by the community volunteer group Friends of the Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt (FROG), which continues to maintain and improve the park. [1] [2] [3] While Temescal Creek remains mostly underground, the construction of the park brought back a reconstituted creek filled by water pumped up from the culvert below. [6] [2] [9]
The lake received its name from the stream which is its source, Temescal Creek, which was dammed in 1868 to create a reservoir to provide drinking water for the greater East Bay area, pumped by the Contra Costa Water Company, owned by Anthony Chabot. Prior to being dammed, Lake Temescal was a sag pond, a depression caused by the Hayward Fault.
It was one of a complex of five or six mounds along the mouth of the perennial Temescal Creek, on the east shore of San Francisco Bay between Oakland and Berkeley. It was the largest of the over 425 shellmounds that surrounded San Francisco Bay. The site of the Shellmound is now a California Historical Landmark (#335). [1]
O: Salesforce Transit Center to Fruitvale BART, mainly via Santa Clara Avenue (Alameda). In the San Francisco direction, buses make one stop at 7th and Alice Streets in Chinatown; towards Fruitvale BART, one stop is made near downtown at 5th and Washington Streets, and another in West Oakland at 5th and Market Streets.