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Aerial view of Neptune Beach, c. 1925 Bathing pavilion, 1917. Neptune Beach was an amusement park on the shore of San Francisco Bay in the city of Alameda, California, in operations from 1917 until 1939. [1] The park was served by the Southern Pacific Transportation Company and ferries from San Francisco. It was nicknamed, the "Coney Island of ...
Bathing Pavilion, Neptune Beach, Alameda, California in 1917. From the 1880s until the U.S. entry into World War II in December, 1941, the area around the visitor center was part of Neptune Beach, an amusement park and resort community that featured bathing spas and waterfront houses. It was formally called Alameda Beach and nicknamed "Coney ...
Location of Alameda County in California. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Alameda County, California. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Alameda County, California, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
The Park Street Historic Commercial District, also known as Park Street District, is the downtown neighborhood in Alameda, California.It is on the east side of the island of Alameda, near the Fruitvale Bridge and across the water and from Jingletown in Oakland, California; and is roughly bounded by Oak Street, Park Avenue, Lincoln Avenue, and Encinal Avenue.
The Alameda Museum is a history museum about the history and culture of Alameda, California. It is located in Alameda, California, in the United States. The museum includes exhibitions about old dioramas, model ships and toys, Native American culture, the Alameda fire department, Neptune Beach and Phyllis Diller. The museum also features ...
Both the American snow cone [20] and the popsicle [21] were first sold at Neptune Beach. The Kewpie doll became the original prize for winning games of chance at the beach – another Neptune Beach innovation. [22] [23] The park closed down in 1939. The Alameda Works Shipyard was one of the largest and best-equipped shipyards in the country ...
The Croll Building, in Alameda, California, was the site of Croll's Gardens and Hotel, famous as training quarters for some of the greatest fighters in boxing history from 1883 to 1914. James J. Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Jim Jefferies, Jack Johnson, and many other champions all stayed and trained here. Today this building is home to 1400 Bar ...
Alameda City Hall is a historic city hall civic building in Alameda, California. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The building has been continually used since it was first built in 1895. [ 2 ] It has a historical marker erected in 1998 by the Native Sons of the Golden West ; [ 4 ] and is listed as one of the National Register of Historic Places since 1980.