Brilliant! An excellent cross-section of some of Oakland's better areas. I really like the neighborhood shots around Piedmont Ave. Oakland is a great and very underrated city. Thanks for pulling these toghether!
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Oakland is a real city. There are some great neighborhoods with great pedestrian areas. The hills, of course area great. I took some shots last year from the Oakland Temple (mormon) last year, the view from there is outstanding. Had killer ice cream at Farrells too....greatness.
Could chriscalsadillas be forum member ChrisLA? The route looks extremely familiar from when he and I were walking around Oakland when he visited the Bay Area. Seeing the photo with the kid in the yellow shirt and the Obama O's in the windows of that white residential building makes me believe it is him. Especially since I took almost the exact same photo while I was out with him with the same little kid in the photo.
Could chriscalsadillas be forum member ChrisLA? The route looks extremely familiar from when he and I were walking around Oakland when he visited the Bay Area. Seeing the photo with the kid in the yellow shirt and the Obama O's in the windows of that white residential building makes me believe it is him. Especially since I took almost the exact same photo while I was out with him with the same little kid in the photo.
Yes, it is I. I kind of thought you may have been the only one who figured this out since we covered these areas. There are plenty more I have, and I just never got around to sharing them yet. But I'm glad you have got to see them since its been a couple months since I took them.
I hope not. If the A's don't want to build in the park lots surrounding the Oakland Colliseum BART station, have they ever considered building a stadium in West Oakland near that BART station? Or is the industry there along the waterfront still active rather than being vacated/dying away? Seems like a stadium development would be a great way to redevelop that part of Oakland into a more attractive commercial & residential area.
The only real possibility over that way is the old Army base. But that will probably require a considerable amount of toxic clean-up and isn't the most desirable location for new housing (housing development is funding the new stadium construction, at least in theory). It sits in the shadow of the Bay Bridge approach and the nearby MacArthur Maze, and has the port of Oakland just to the south.
I think the last, best chance for keeping the team in Oakland city limits was the Uptown site. But that is now becoming massive condo developments. The A's have ruled out the Coliseum parking lot. Given their proposed funding mechanism, I don't know if there is anywhere left in Oakland with the amount of available land for development to generate the capital needed to build the stadium and surrounding village. It seems all the good locations are spoken for.
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I hope not also, Athletics are a historical team winning 3 world series for Oakland, the other 5 was during the classical MLB days in Philadelphia. The franchise actually comes in 3rd place as title holders after the Yankees and Cardinals. The name 'Fremont Athletics' or 'Silicon Valley Athletics' has a very fantasy-commercial or minor league quality to it.
The Old Army Base I believe is located on the coordinates 37°48'52.68"N, 122°18'17.11"W. I could be wrong, please correct me if so. If possible, given the proper angle, the ball park would have a nice view of Oakland's skyline in the not too distant background.
The Army base sits roughly in the area bordered by Maritime, Grand, 880 and 7th. I think it includes some of the surrounding parking lots as well. It's been decommissioned but the buildings are still there. The NAS is on Alameda and would make a very scenic location. Unfortunately, there's just the tube and a couple of narrow bridges out to Alameda so the bottlenecks would be horrible.
Not sure about the Berkeley location. I don't know if it was ever considered or not. But Berkeley isn't the easiest place to get things built, so it would have been difficult at best.
PS: Yes, it's 4 titles in Oakland!!! I remember them all, which helps during seasons like this one.
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Thanks for the info on the location too guys. And I kinda realized that about Alameda, but it would be a damn cool location.
And that Berkeley location was a just an idea I came up with looking at Google Earth. Wouldn't be a bad location though with 80 right there at University Ave.
Well, seeing this, maybe that isn't the best location for a stadium.
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