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Yoshi's (also known as Yoshi's Jazz Club and Yoshi's Oakland) is a nightclub located in Jack London Square in Oakland, California, United States. The venue originally opened in 1972 as a restaurant in Berkeley, later moving to Claremont Avenue in Oakland. In 1979, the restaurant expanded into a lounge/nightclub hosting local and national jazz ...
Downtown and West Oakland are located entirely in the flatlands, while North and East Oakland incorporate lower hills and flatlands neighborhoods. This hills/flatlands division extends beyond Oakland's borders into neighboring cities in the East Bay's urban core such as Berkeley, Hayward, San Leandro, and Richmond.
Pages in category "Neighborhoods in Oakland, California" The following 70 pages are in this category, out of 70 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
West Oakland is a neighborhood situated in the northwestern corner of Oakland, California, United States, situated west of Downtown Oakland, south of Emeryville, and north of Alameda. The neighborhood is located along the waterfront at the Port of Oakland and at the eastern end of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge. It lies at an elevation ...
Uptown Oakland is a neighborhood in Oakland, California, located in the northern end of Downtown. It is located roughly between West Grand Avenue to the north, Interstate 980 to the west, City Center and 14th Street to the south, and Broadway to the east. The neighborhood has become an important entertainment district in recent years. [1]
Piedmont Avenue also has "the Bay Area's Book Row," with multiple independent bookstores concentrated within a six-block radius; [9] the Piedmont Theatre, which is the oldest still-operating theater in Oakland (built in 1917); [10] and the 1893 ice cream parlor Fentons Creamery, which was featured in Pixar's 2009 movie Up.
Pitmaster. Chef. Owner of a popular Oakland restaurant. Edison High grad. Fresnan. Whatever you want to call him, James Woodard is doing big things in the barbecue world in California – and he ...
In 1998, the Oakland City Council renamed City Hall Plaza as "Frank H. Ogawa Plaza" [10] in honor of Frank H. Ogawa, a civil rights leader [11] and the first Japanese American to serve on the Oakland City Council. [10] Ogawa served on the Council from 1966 until his death in 1994. [12] The plaza displays a bronze bust of Ogawa.