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The area was annexed into Oakland in 1897. [3] The Key System ran their C Line streetcar down Piedmont between 41st Street and Grave Avenue, with passenger operations running between 1924 and 1958. [4] [5]
Ice cream and sherbet at Fentons Creamery. In February 2016, to commemorate Super Bowl 50 (played in Santa Clara's Levi's Stadium), Fentons Creamery created the "Cookie Bowl 50", a 10-pound sundae of 12 scoops of vanilla, chocolate and strawberry ice cream, plus boulders of Oreo cookies drenched in hot fudge, pineapple, strawberry, marshmallow, and caramel toppings, whipped cream, Oreo ...
The Elihu M. Harris State Office Building is a high-rise located in downtown Oakland, California. It has 23 floors and stands at 328 feet (100 m) tall. [2] [3] The building is named for Elihu Harris, a former mayor of Oakland who is still living.
Oakland's night skyline viewed from Lake Merritt. The U.S. city of Oakland, California is the site of more than 95 high-rises, the majority of which are located in its downtown district. [1] In the city, there are 30 buildings taller than 200 feet (61 m). The tallest building is the 28-story Ordway Building, which rises 404 feet (123 m). [2]
Harrison and Fifteenth Streets Historic District is a group of seven historical buildings in downtown Oakland, California, United States. The Harrison and Fifteenth Street Historic District buildings were built between 1914 and 1929. The buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places on November 7, 1996. The Harrison and ...
The Clorox Building is a 24-story, 100.6 m (330 ft) high-rise building in the City Center complex of downtown Oakland, California. The building was completed in 1976, and designed by Cesar Pelli when he worked with Gruen Associates now based in Los Angeles. The Oakland-based Clorox Company is headquartered in the building.
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: 88 Vernon Street December 4, 1979 31 Oakland Hotel: 13th St., Harrison St., 14th & Alice Streets December 18, 1979 32 Caldecott Tunnel: Highway 24
Like surrounding Oakland, [9] Piedmont has a history of racial segregation, but it also has a separate history of racial exclusion. [ 10 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In 1924, the city's first African-American homeowners, Sidney and Irene Dearing, got around the city's restrictive housing covenants by purchasing a home using a white family member as a proxy .