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Oakland Avenue Bridge

Oakland Avenue Bridge

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Oakland Ave Bridge (the original)

The Piedmont Springs Hotel

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Home of the Requa's in 1878

Piedmont - Homes - Hugh Craig home 55 craig ave - at Highland Avenue (then Vernal) and Cr

Hugh Craig home at 55 Craig Ave

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Mrs. Nickols on horseback in Piedmont in 1905

Henry Casebolt's overhead line

Original Beach School

Entrance to Piedmont Park in 1915

Piedmont Park

Piedmont Park

Picture of Piedmont Clubhouse at Piedmont Park

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Interior of Piedmont's Clubhouse

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First tea house

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Another picture of the tea house

Piedmont's second tea house

Piedmont Park

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The Maze at Piedmont Park

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Blair Park, 1892

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View of Oakland from Piedmont

Piedmont - Restaurants - A Mon Chateau - Pleasant Valley Rd in 1890 Grand and Linda Avenue

A Mon Chateau on Pleasant Valley (Grand Ave) and Linda in 1890

Monument marker at Highland and Pala Avenue for sightseeing buses on tour of Piedmont plac

Monument marker at Highland and Pala Avenue for sightseeing buses.

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Piedmont in the early 1900s

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At the gates of Piedmont Manor 1912, Lower Grand Ave.

Piedmont Manor, 1915

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The Dearings

Almost 100 years ago Piedmont (along with the majority of the Bay Area) had racially restricted homes, a KKK Police Chief, bombs threats and a 500 person mob forcing Sidney and Irene Dearing, our city's first black home owners, to leave their home because of the color of their skin.

Today our City is recognizing the family and formally apologizing for our past citizens' atrocious behaviors.

[Learn more here]

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