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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.
Seventh Street was lined with jazz and blues clubs. Marcus Garvey's Universal Negro Improvement Association had its West Coast headquarters at 8th and Chester Streets. West Oakland experienced a decline in the Depression in the late 1930s, and some residential areas became dilapidated. In the 1940s and 1950s, dozens of blocks were bulldozed and ...
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The Oakland Hills (in gold) lie between Oakland's flatlands and East Bay Regional Park District. Oakland Hills is an informal term used to indicate the city neighborhoods lying within the eastern portion of Oakland, California. [1] The northernmost neighborhoods were devastated by the Oakland firestorm of 1991.
The Laurel District is a diverse residential and commercial neighborhood in Oakland, California. encompassing the blocks northeast of Interstate 580 between High Street and 35th Avenue. It lies at an elevation of 226 feet (69 m ), and is bordered by the Allendale neighborhood to the west, the Redwood Heights neighborhood to the east, the Dimond ...
The neighborhood lies at an elevation of 25 feet (6 m) and is located less than a mile from the Oakland Coliseum. The housing project, operated by the Oakland Housing Authority, contains 372 apartment and townhome units. [1] Lockwood is also known as the "6-5 Vill" (Village), and is one half of the "Vill."
The Temescal Pool on 45th St. in Oakland. The earliest telegraph wire from Oakland to Sacramento went through the area, up Claremont Avenue and over the hills at Claremont Canyon. Temescal was the site of agriculture, cattle grazing and greenhouses when, in the 1890s, an opera house was built in parkland north of the creek crossing at 51st street.
Sequoyah Heights is an affluent, secluded neighborhood in the Oakland Hills, in Oakland, California. [1] [2] The neighborhood has several architecturally prominent 1920s and 1930s houses, surrounding the Sequoyah Country Club and golf course. [1] It overlooks the Interstate 580 above the former Oak Knoll Naval Hospital, [1] and offers views of ...