Re: (rshsdepot) West Oakland, CA

["Mark A. Thomas" <markt_@_duke.edu>]

- --On Monday, March 27, 2006 1:58 PM -0500 luckyshow_@_mindspring.com wrote:

> why is this being called West Oakland? wasn't it just Oakland?
>
> I was thinking they were going to talk about some Keyes System structure

20 years ago there were remnants of an old Key System interurban station & 
transfer facility that was being used by the bus system , AC Transit.  It was a 
stop that many of the lettered bus routes (A from Oakland, F from Berkeley) 
made on their way across the Bay Bridge, following the same routes that the 
interurbans until ca. 1960.  This was sort of on the border between Oakland and 
Emeryville.

Of course, the station in the story that was forwarded to the list had for many 
years been known as SP's 16th Street Station, the main Oakland station at least 
after the discontinuance of the ferrys, and was closed after the earthquake in 
the late 80s.

- --Mark

> -----Original Message-----
>> From: I95BERNIEW_@_aol.com
>> Sent: Mar 27, 2006 12:41 PM
>> To: rshsdepot_@_lists.railfan.net
>> Subject: (rshsdepot) West Oakland, CA
>>
>> From The Oakland Tribune.
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>> Bernie Wagenblast
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>> Transportation Communications Newsletter
>> _http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications/_
>> (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications/)
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>> Link to photo:
>> _http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site181/2006/0327/20060327_0746
>> 29 _0327trib_trainstation1.jpg_
>> (http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site181/2006/0327/20060327_0746
>> 29_0327trib_trainstation1.jpg)
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>> Locals weigh prospects for train station
>> Event space, charter school  among uses being considered for historic West
>> Oakland site
>> By Cecily Burt,  STAFF WRITER
>> Inside Bay Area
>>
>> OAKLAND â?” A group of West Oakland  residents has been working feverishly
>> to  figure out how to reuse a Beaux Arts  building at 16th and Wood streets
>> in a  way that both respects its history and  residents.
>> Oh, and their plan has to make money, too.

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