Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook Oakland Thesaurus Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Oak·land (ōk′lənd) A city of northern California on the east side of San Francisco Bay. Located on the lands of an 1820 Spanish rancho, it was founded during the gold rush of 1848. ...
December 10, 2000 - Pulling off back to back NFL games in one day is no small achievement, and in order to get to Oakland in time for the Sunday night game of the week, we had to leave 3Com (Now Monster Park) early to beat the rush, take a preplanned route down the side ...
000. Projects greater than that amount must be initiated by a community organization and approved by all Oakland organizations. This action will prevent smaller developers from building townhouses on Dawson Street, Parkview Avenue, Frazier Street, Boundary Street, or any other street in Oakland,...
Oakland’s complex diversity might well be compared to the clearer clustering in other urban regions of the Bay Area, where whites are more concentrated in clearly bound neighborhoods, and Asians similarly concentrated in areas around Golden Gate park (Inner and Outer Sunset)–if with considerable ...
housing was outlawed, as groups like the Claremont Improvement Club adopted strict covenants that limited home ownership to those of “pure Caucasian blood,” reflecting the adoption of racial hierarchies in censuses from 1850, founding Claremont Park as a pastoral residential community below the ...