Alameda (Postcard History) - Softcover

Dutcher, Greta; Rowland, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738530395 ISBN 13: 9780738530390

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2005

Inhaltsangabe

Alameda was once a peninsula of grassy fields and sandy beaches, separated from Oakland by a snaking estuary. A tidal canal made Alameda an island in 1902 and its waterfront became a major shipping port. Park Street's bay-windowed commercial buildings looked out on a prosperous city of streetcars and comfortable homes. Between the two world wars, Alameda's Neptune Beach resort and amusement park became the "Coney Island of the West," eventually boasting a Moorish entrance tower on Webster Street, a stadium, two swimming pools, a high dive, and a roller coaster called the "Whoopie." Alameda's strategic location made its "airdrome" the busiest in the world in the 1930s and eventually attracted a U.S. Coast Guard base, known as Government Island, and the Alameda Naval Air Station.

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Bay Area native Greta Dutcher is a collector who specializes in vintage East Bay postcards. Working with fellow enthusiast Stephen Rowland, she draws from both her own archives and that of collector Edmund Clausen, selecting the best images to recall Alameda's charming public face in the 20th century.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0738530395
• ISBN 13: 9780738530390
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 128
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