Video source: YouTube, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-a1bIc59qw. The compilation includes scenes associated with flooded Grand Avenue and other East Bay locations; individual shots require location verification. A historical essay based on newspaper accounts, photographs, public records, and watershed studies about flooding in the Lake Merritt and Piedmont areas as El Nino ramps up | Research through October 2026 1925 or 1926 Flood, colorized by ChatGPT For more than a ce

The remarkable train station that connected the East Bay to the nation—and why it deserves another life For more than a century, an enormous Beaux-Arts railroad station has stood at 16th and Wood Streets in West Oakland. Its three monumental arched windows, soaring waiting room, elevated platforms, and surviving signal tower hint at a time when thousands of people passed through this part of Oakland by train. ChatGPT logos I made - feel free to use them. Today, Oakland's 16th

If you like looking at historical photos -- this video is for you. Introduction by Chris Peeples (5:30). Slides and talk by Ted Wurm Topics include: Piedmont Ave Piedmont homes (Requa) Trains - Key System, Trolley (quite a few pictures of the trains in Piedmont) Mountain View Cemetery Blair Park Floods in 1963 Title: A History of Piedmont Avenue Created Date: June 2nd, 1992 Creator: Piedmont Avenue Neighborhood Improvement League Director: Wurm, Ted Performer: Piedmont Avenu

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