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  2. Temescal, Oakland, California - Wikipedia

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    Temescal is home to one of the few tool-lending libraries in the Bay Area—indeed, in the U.S. (The Berkeley Public Library also has a tool-lending library at their nearby South Branch.) The Temescal branch of the Oakland Public Library operates this facility, which lends tools, free of charge, to library patrons for repairs and home ...

  3. Emeryville Shellmound - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Temescal Creek (Northern California) - Wikipedia

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    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.

  5. Temescal Valley, California - Wikipedia

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    Temescal Valley (Temescal, Spanish for "sweat lodge") is a census-designated place in Riverside County, California. [2] Temescal Valley sits at an elevation of 1,138 feet (347 m). [ 2 ] The 2010 United States census reported Temescal Valley's population was 22,535.

  6. Temescal Street Cinema - Wikipedia

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    The Temescal Street Cinema is a film festival that takes place weekly in the summer in the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, California in the United States. It showcases films by San Francisco Bay Area filmmakers. [1] The festival started in 2008. It was founded by Suzanne L’Heureux and Catarina Negrin. [2]

  7. List of ethnic enclaves in North American cities - Wikipedia

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    The San Francisco Bay Area is home to over a dozen thousand Eritreans in estimation, as with other Habesha peoples like Ethiopian Americans; Apple Valley Lane/Piner Road areas in Santa Rosa and Temescal Avenue in Oakland have plentiful populations.

  8. Frog Park (Rockridge-Temescal Greenbelt) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  9. Longfellow, Oakland, California - Wikipedia

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    Temescal Community Garden, the first community garden in Oakland, was established on 47th Street in 1984 [3] and falls within Longfellow’s borders. Temescal Creek, now culverted, runs beneath the rear property line of the garden and ostensibly acts as the physical geography that defines the northern edge of the Longfellow neighborhood.