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The High Street Bridge is a double-leaf bascule drawbridge spanning 296 feet of the Oakland Estuary in the San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States. It links the cities of Oakland and Alameda. The bridge is opened approximately 1,400 times annually and carries an average of 26,000 vehicles per year.
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Don Perata, former President Pro Tempore of California State Senate, lives in Alameda; once taught at Saint Joseph Notre Dame High, Encinal High, and Alameda High, among other Alameda schools. [87] Carl Ravazza, bandleader, born in Alameda, 1910. [88] Bill Rigney, Major League Baseball player and manager, was born in Alameda. [89]
Alameda Terminal (also known as Alameda Wharf) was a railroad station and ferry wharf at the foot and west of present-day Pacific Avenue and Main Street in Alameda, California, on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay with ferry service to San Francisco. [3] [1]: 10–11 It was built in 1864 and operated by the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad
Alameda Shore (Joseph Lee, c. 1868) depicts a ferry meeting the first run of the railroad on August 25, 1864. [5]System construction began in 1864 on a wharf and railroad station (Alameda Terminal) at the foot of Pacific Avenue in Alameda and a railroad from there along Pacific Avenue to 4th Street, private right-of-way to 5th Street, Linnet Street (later Railroad Avenue, then Lincoln Avenue ...
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.
Fernside is a neighborhood of Alameda in Alameda County, California.It lies at an elevation of 13 feet (4 m). [1] Located near the Fruitvale and High Street bridges, it previously contained one train line which passed over the Fruitvale Bridge and another which followed the perimeter of Alameda's South Shore.
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.