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Oakland's night skyline viewed from Lake Merritt. The U.S. city of Oakland, California is the site of more than 95 high-rises, the majority of which are located in its downtown district. [1] In the city, there are 30 buildings taller than 200 feet (61 m). The tallest building is the 28-story Ordway Building, which rises 404 feet (123 m). [2]
The complex is the product of a redevelopment project begun in the late 1950s. It covers twelve city blocks between Broadway on the east, Martin Luther King Jr. Way on the west, Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on 14th Street on the north side of the complex and the Oakland Convention Center and Marriott Hotel extend south to 10th Street. An hourly parking ...
Oakland High School is founded, the first high school in the East Bay. Prescott Elementary School (Oakland, California), was established in 1869 to serve students and families in historic West Oakland. Ida Louise Jackson, Oakland’s first African-American teacher, taught here starting in 1925–13 years before any other school hired a black ...
1968 – Athletics baseball team relocates to Oakland. 1969 – Oakland Museum opens. 1970 – Regional Metropolitan Transportation Commission established. 1971 – Your Black Muslim Bakery in business. 1972 – 12th Street Oakland City Center station, 19th Street Oakland station, and MacArthur station open. 1973 – Rockridge station opens.
Oakland, which had experienced some relative racial harmony prior to the war, found itself by the late 1950s with a population that was becoming progressively more poor and racially divided. [52] [53] Beginning in the mid-1950s, much of West Oakland was destroyed, after then-Highway 17, now I-880 (or Nimitz Freeway) was built.
The area from the Oakland Estuary inland to 14th Street between West Street and the Lake Merritt Channel was the original site of Oakland, and there are several 19th century houses scattered around the edges of downtown and in Chinatown. [2] The Oakland Museum is located on Oak Street near the southeastern edge of Downtown.
Oakland was the center of a general strike during the first week of December 1946, one of six cities across the country that had such a strike after World War II. [57] The Mary's First and Last Chance in Oakland was a lesbian bar, once the focus of the 1950s California Supreme Court lawsuit Vallerga v. Dept. Alcoholic Bev. Control, when the bar ...
10 Tenth Street April 3, 1979 28 Oakland City Hall: 1 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza June 19, 1979 29 St. Augustine's / Old Trinity Church: 29th Street & Telegraph Avenue December 4, 1979 30 Earl Warren House: 88 Vernon Street December 4, 1979 31 Oakland Hotel: 13th St., Harrison St., 14th & Alice Streets December 18, 1979 32 Caldecott Tunnel: Highway 24