California and East Bay Cities - California History California and the Last Bay Cities are known throughout the entire United States for...

Oakland Tribune - Sunday Jan. 22, 1928 Unearthing the history of Piedmont poses a challenge, given the limited availability of written...

New: Armando Valdés Peza bio

Next year there will be an influx of new photos, documents, maps and other historical information added to this site. I was incredibly...

While taking a break from researching Piedmont, I started looking into the history of another beautiful park in our area, the Rose Garden...

Latest things I've acquired and will eventually add to my site : "Old Piedmont home of the Requa's 1878" "Mrs. Nickols in horse carriage with child on horseback and dog, Piedmont circa 1905." [Still trying to verify the address and no listing of Nickols surnames in Piedmont at that time] "Monument marker at Highland and Pala Avenues" (4 Pala Avenue is in the back before the second story was added) for sightseeing buses on tour of Piedmont places of interest "Piedmont Park

Updates: I scanned more photos and added them to the Blair Park page (and the blog post before this one), Piedmont Park's page (new maze,...

“Oakland’s Deserted Park” By ARTHUR LEWIS Oakland Tribune – Sun - Oct. 15, 1916 Before Oakland had any electric cars, its street railway...

Introduction to the History of Homes in the Piedmont Hills.