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ISBN. 0-932986-16-1. Oakland, Hub of the West is a 1981 history book about the city of Oakland, California written by David Ollier Weber and published by Continental Heritage Press. It is now out of print. The historical photographs were edited by Thomas Edward Curran III, a museum researcher at the Oakland Museum of California.
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.
Chinatown is located in downtown Oakland, with its center at 8th Street and Webster Street. Its northern edge is 12th Street, and its southern edge is Interstate 880 (located approximately at 6th Street). It stretches from Broadway on the west to the southern tip of Lake Merritt in the east. Due to a combination of factors, some more broad ...
5 Merge Elmhurst, Oakland, California into East Oakland, Oakland, California#Elmhurst. 1 comment. 6 Southeast Hills. 1 comment. 7 the artesian well(s)? 1 comment.
Oakland Center for the Arts. Coordinates: 41°06′03″N 80°39′11″W. The Oakland Center for the Arts (or the Oakland, as it is usually called) is an interdisciplinary arts center based in Youngstown, Ohio founded in 1986. The center was first supported by Youngstown businessman Richard Rosenthal and founded by Youngstown native Alexandra ...
It is headquartered at One Kaiser Plaza in Downtown Oakland and maintains a large medical center in the Piedmont Avenue neighborhood. Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, an East Bay hospital system, maintains its Summit Campus in the neighborhood known as "Pill Hill" north of downtown. Until 2000, it was the Summit Medical Center before merging ...
The Black Panther Party (originally the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense) was a Marxist–Leninist and black power political organization founded by college students Bobby Seale and Huey P. Newton in October 1966 in Oakland, California. [8] [9] [10] The party was active in the United States between 1966 and 1982, with chapters in many major ...
The East Bay is the eastern region of the San Francisco Bay Area and includes cities along the eastern shores of the San Francisco Bay and San Pablo Bay. The region has grown to include inland communities in Alameda and Contra Costa counties. [1] With a population of roughly 2.5 million in 2010, it is the most populous subregion in the Bay Area.