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A sideshow in San Jose, 2021. A sideshow (so-called in the San Francisco Bay Area, and a street takeover in the Los Angeles area [1] [2]) is an informal and often illegal demonstration of automotive stunts now often held in vacant lots, and public intersections, originally seen in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, United States.
Promotional photograph of one day's output at the Chevrolet factory in Oakland, California, circa 1917. Photograph commissioned by Oakland Chamber of Commerce, Publicity Bureau. Photographer from Cheney Photo Advertising Co. Original photo part of Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room
Oakland Assembly c. 1917 with Oakland Hills in the background. Oakland Assembly was a Chevrolet manufacturing facility located in Elmhurst, Oakland, California. It was the first automobile plant established in Northern California to build Chevrolet vehicles. In 1916, Chevrolet opened the auto industry's first West Coast assembly plant in Oakland.
Cars that were produced in the 1940s — from 1940 to 1949. 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; ... Cars discontinued in 1945 (2 P) Cars discontinued in 1947 (5 P)
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In 1916, General Motors opened a major Chevrolet automobile factory in East Oakland, making cars and then trucks until 1963, when it was moved to Fremont in southern Alameda County. [18] Also in 1916, [19] the Fageol Motor Company chose East Oakland for their first factory, manufacturing farming tractors from 1918 to 1923. [20]
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It is the oldest carnival sideshow organization in America and is currently owned and run by Thomas Breen. [6] In 1970, John Strong Jr (son of John Strong of The John Strong 3 Ring Tented Circus) [7] began a 47-year continuous run of traveling sideshow, The Strong Sideshow. Several acts and artifacts toured over the years such as the 5-legged ...