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Shattuck Avenue is a major city street running north–south through Berkeley and Oakland, California. At its southern end, the street branches from Telegraph Avenue in Oakland's Temescal district, then ends at Indian Rock Park in the Berkeley Hills to the north. [ 1 ]
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. (1972)
In 1973, some trips were extended slightly further down San Pablo to Buchanan, similarly applied to all service in 1975. [14] Boarding the F Bus at the Transbay Terminal, Aug. 6, 2010. Buses ceased serving the Transbay Terminal on August 7, 2010, and the San Francisco terminus was moved to the Temporary Transbay Terminal.
Shattuck was instrumental in getting the Central Pacific Railroad to construct a branch line into Berkeley in 1876, which connected the community and University of California with the main line and the railroad's ferry to San Francisco. Shattuck died after he was knocked down by a man exiting from a train that Shattuck was trying to board on ...
In 1973, BART opened its own Berkeley station at Center Street and Shattuck, once again providing electric train service to San Francisco and elsewhere in the Bay Area. For several years after the Key System's F train stopped running on Shattuck, its tracks (originally, the old SP tracks) remained in the pavement of Shattuck Avenue.
When the opening of the rail line on the new San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was imminent in the late 1930s, the Southern Pacific successfully petitioned the Railroad Commission to close and demolish the depot at Berkeley Station, arguing that since the downtown trains would no longer connect with the mainline at the 16th Street Station (the ...
It could fill the niche The Fillmore fills in San Francisco." [6] In 2014, a $5 million conversion proposal was announced. [16] The conversion was led by the Berkeley Music Group, a non-profit organization headed by Mayeri, and would result in accommodations for 800 to 1,400 patrons in front of an expanded stage, and a new restaurant and bar. [16]
Education portal; San Francisco Bay Area portal; Amadeo Giannini (1870–1949), banker, founder of Transamerica and the Bank of Italy and co-founder/co-creator of Bank of America. Charles W. Childs (1844-1922), principal of the California State Normal School (now San Jose State University) George Christopher (1907–2000), former Mayor of San ...