I am an Oaklander
Where is the center of the Metroplex that is the fourth largest on the North American continent? Not San Francisco–Oakland. Where do all the roads in the Bay Area come together? –Oakland. Where do all...
View ArticleFentons Creamery– Ice Cream Paradise in Oakland
Anybody and everybody who grew up in Oakland knew that “anything ice cream” was a trip to Fentons on Piedmont avenue. Especially the sundaes! Who can forget the celebrated “Black and Tan?” A perfectly...
View ArticlePhil Tagami–Oakland’s ‘Mover and Shaker Supreme
Phil Tagami is busy. What else is new? There’s relentless meetings and schmoozefests with Jerry Brown, ( a close bud of the current AG, and ex-Mayor of Oakland) frequent back and forths with staff and...
View ArticleOakland’s Uptown; amid grim economic conditions, an area that thrives
The stories about Oakland are notorious. So pervasive and compelling, that Herb Caen created a virtual industry around it. Gertrude Stein’s alleged quote dominated its very image, “There’s no there,...
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