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The Park Street Bridge is a double-leaf bascule drawbridge spanning 372 feet of the Oakland Estuary in the San Francisco Bay Area.It links the cities of Oakland and Alameda.In a year, the bridge is opened approximately 1700 times and carries approximately 40,000 vehicles per work day. [1]
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.
Pages in category "Bridges in Alameda County, California" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. ... Park Street Bridge; S. San Francisco ...
Alameda: Swartz Creek Bridge on Aetna Springs Road: 1912 2005-08-05 Aetna Springs ... Vertical-lift bridge: Wawona Covered Bridge: 1868, 1878, 1956 2007-01-11 Wawona
Alameda Island is the most populated island in the continental United States that is not located in the New York City metropolitan area. Once located on the island was the Naval Air Station Alameda, a defunct naval air station. The island was originally a peninsula and a part of Oakland and is now separated from the mainland by the Oakland ...
The Alameda Art Association has about 80 members as of January 2011, and has a gallery space at South Shore Center mall. The Association began in 1944. Photo-realist Robert Bechtle has painted numerous Alameda subjects, including Alameda Gran Torino, which was acquired by SFMOMA in 1974 and remains one of Bechtle's most famous works. [45]
Pages in category "Buildings and structures in Alameda, California" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total. ... Park Street Bridge;
Although the estuary was used by Native American tribes inhabiting the local area since about 4000 BC, the earliest recorded history of the Oakland Estuary dates primarily from events extending back to the 19th century, as detailed in a research study conducted by Earth Metrics for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Earth Metrics, 1990)(Shreffler, 1994).