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East Oakland is a geographical region of Oakland, California, United States, that stretches between Lake Merritt in the northwest and San Leandro in the southeast. As the southeastern portion of the city, East Oakland takes up the largest portion of the city's land area. The area is a major hub of Northern California's black community, with ...
Oakland Speedway. Coordinates: 37.7005°N 122.1268°W. The Oakland Speedway was a motor racing track in San Leandro, California, a suburb of Oakland, California. It was a one-mile, banked dirt oval track built in 1931, which operated throughout the Great Depression and postwar years. The track featured AAA National Championship races with Indy ...
A month earlier, on August 16, participants in the disastrous Dole Air Race had taken off from Oakland's new 7,020-foot (2,140 m) runway headed for Honolulu, Hawaii, 2,400 miles (3,900 km) away—three fliers died before getting to the starting line in Oakland; five were lost at sea, attempting to reach Honolulu; and two more died searching for ...
OAKLAND, Calif. - LeRonne Armstrong, the ousted Oakland police chief, is running for city council. His public relations spokesman Sam Singer said Armstrong, 51, plans to file paperwork Wednesday ...
One of her neighbors, 21-year-old Marielos Carmona, was embroiled in a dispute at the time with another neighbor, who blocked her driveway and let their dogs loose in Carmona's yard. The dispute ...
The property houses the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and Oakland Arena, once home to the Oakland Raiders and Golden State Warriors, respectively. The NFL's Raiders moved to Las Vegas and the NBA's Warriors left for San Francisco in recent years, leaving professional sports fans in the East Bay Area desolate.
Golden Gate Fields. Golden Gate Fields is an American horse racing track straddling both Albany, California and Berkeley, California along the shoreline of the San Francisco Bay adjacent to the Eastshore Freeway in the San Francisco Bay Area. With the closing of the Bay Meadows racetrack on May 11, 2008, it became the only major Thoroughbred ...
Oakland draws 45,086 for 7-game homestand. ALEX ESPINOZA. April 3, 2024 at 5:29 PM. OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Nick Pivetta combined with four relievers on Boston's second shutout of the series ...