Oakland, California

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Template:Infobox City Oakland, founded in 1852, is a major city on the east side (also called East Bay) of San Francisco Bay in Northern California in the United States. To its north lies Berkeley, home to the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. To its west stands San Francisco, across the Bay Bridge. To its south lies the island city of Alameda, and San Leandro lies to the southeast. Along the hills which run from north to east, Oakland borders five of the East Bay Regional Parks. In the center of Oakland, and completely surrounded by it (prompting the common analogy to a doughnut hole), is the wealthy independent city of Piedmont. Oakland is home of the Port of Oakland, one of three major shipping ports on the American West coast.

Economic recovery along with Oakland's weather, location, hillside neighborhoods with views of San Francisco and the Bay, aggressive policies to reduce crime, astronomically high rents and home prices in nearby San Francisco, and a substantial offering of shopping districts and restaurants representing cuisines both homegrown and worldwide have led to an increase of population and of real-estate prices in the past decade.

Oakland is the county seat of Alameda County. As of the 2000 U.S. Census, the city's population was 399,484, making it the third largest city in the San Francisco Bay Area after San Jose and San Francisco.

The Oakland Tribune published its first newspaper on February 21, 1874. The Tribune Tower, which sports a clock, is one of Oakland's landmarks.

Oakland hosts Oakland International Airport, which serves most of the low-cost air traveler's market to and from the San Francisco Bay Area. Major employers in Oakland include the local, state and federal governments, United States Postal Service, regional transportation and utility authorities, Kaiser Permanente, Clorox, Zhone Technologies, Dreyers Grand Ice Cream, carriers associated with the Port, and commercial bakeries.

Oaklanders are understandably frustrated by the misuse of the most famous quote said about their city. "There's no there there," was uttered by Gertrude Stein upon learning as an adult that her childhood Oakland home had been torn down. Her quote did not have anything to do with the city itself. Modern-day Oakland has turned the quote on its head, with a statue downtown simply titled, "There." Additionally, in 2005 a sculpture called HERETHERE has been installed by the City of Berkeley on the Berkeley-Oakland border at Martin Luther King Jr. Way. The sculpture consists of eight foot high letters spelling out the words "HERE" and "THERE" in front of a ramp that carries the BART rapid transit tracks from its elevated section in Oakland to the underground section in Berkeley.

Contents 1 History 1.1 World War II 1.2 Post-war years 1.2.1 1960s and 1970s 1.2.2 1980s and 1990s 1.2.3 2000s 2 Geography and climate 2.1 Climate 3 People and culture 3.1 Demographics 3.1.1 Crime 3.2 Attractions 3.3 Nightlife 3.4 Sports 4 Neighborhoods 4.1 Downtown Oakland 4.2 East Oakland 4.3 North Oakland 4.4 West Oakland 4.5 Other neighborhoods 4.5.1 Near Lake Merritt 4.5.2 In the hills 5 Education 5.1 Primary and secondary education 5.1.1 Ebonics controversy 5.1.2 Famous graduates 5.2 Colleges and universities 6 Transportation 7 Sister cities 8 See also 9 External links

History

Image:Oakland california 1900.jpg The earliest recorded inhabitants were the Huchiun tribe [1], belonging to a linguistic grouping later called the Ohlone (a Miwok Indian word meaning "western people"). In Oakland, they were heavily concentrated around Lake Merritt and Temescal Creek, a stream which enters the San Francisco Bay at Emeryville. Temescal is an Aztec word for bath-house, brought north by Spanish colonizers.

Oakland, along with the rest of Northern California was claimed for Spain by visiting Spanish explorers in 1772. During its days under the Spanish Empire in the late 18th to early 19th century, and later under an independent Mexico in the early 19th century, Oakland (along with most of the East Bay), was owned by a wealthy landowner Luís María Peralta who named his area Rancho San Antonio. Upon his death in 1842, Peralta divided his land among his four sons as most of Oakland fell within the shares given to Antonio Maria and Vicente. They would open the land to settlement by American settlers, loggers, European whalers and fur-traders.

Full scale settlement and development occurred following California being conquered by the United States during the Mexican American war, and the California Gold Rush in 1848. Oakland was founded and incorporated in 1852 and grew with the railroads, becoming a major rail terminus in the late 1860s and 1870s. Originally comprising the area west of Lake Merritt (now downtown and Chinatown), it gradually annexed farmlands and settlements to the east and north. Oakland's rise to industrial prominence and its subsequent need for a seaport led to the digging of a shipping and tidal channel in 1902 creating the "island" of nearby town Alameda. In 1906 its population doubled with refugees made homeless after the San Francisco earthquake and fire who had fled to Oakland. By 1920, Oakland was the home of numerous manufacturing industries, including metals, automobiles, and shipbuilding.

World War II

During WWII, the East Bay Area was home to a massive Naval shipbuilding industry. The industry attracted a huge amount of laborers from around the country. Many of the new workers were African Americans from the western South (Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas), who enjoyed great prosperity during the war years.

Post-war years

Image:Merrittview.jpg Soon after the war, the shipbuilding and automobile industries virtually evaporated, as did the jobs that came with it. Many who came to the city did not leave and decided to settle in their new home of Oakland. Meanwhile, many of the city's more affluent residents fled the city after the war in order to move into newly developing suburbs to the north and south of Oakland's city borders.

By the late 1960s, Oakland, which had been quite prosperous and affluent before the war, found itself with a population that was dominated by a lower income class than had been typical for the city. Much of Oakland's current reputation as a high-crime city can be traced to the transformation that occurred after World War II, especially to the post-1965 era.

1960s and 1970s

Oakland was home to many activist groups during the 1960s and 70s. The Black Panther Party, created in 1966, is one of the better known groups that formed in Oakland. The city was also home to an innovative funk music scene which produced well-known bands like Sly & The Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Tower of Power, Cold Blood, and The Headhunters. Larry Graham, the bass player for both Sly & The Family Stone and GCS, is credited with the creation of the extremely influential "slap & pop" sound still widely used by bassists in many musical idioms today. It was also during the 1960's when the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club's Oakland Chapter, began to grow into a formidible organization. By the 1980's it was the most feared and respected of all Hells Angels Chapters. Its Oakland Clubhouse still sits at 4019 Foothill Boulevard in East Oakland.

1980s and 1990s

In the late 1980s and 1990s, Oakland featured prominently in rap music, both as the hometown for such artists as MC Hammer, Digital Underground, Spice 1, Hieroglyphics, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, The Luniz, Keak Da Sneak and Too $hort, and for its featuring in the lyrics of several songs, such as Baby Got Back, California Love and I Got 5 On It. 2pac, who grew up in Baltimore, New York, and later Marin City, lived in Oakland longer than in any other city and began his career as a roadie and dancer for Digital Underground. Outside of the rap scene, Grammy award winning artists Green Day, En Vogue and Tony! Toni! Tone! (headed by Raphael Saadiq) also emerged from the dynamic city. Currently, a rap movement from the Bay, hyphy, is taking the hip hop world by storm.

The Loma Prieta earthquake occurred on October 17, 1989 in the greater San Francisco Bay Area, measuring 7.1 on the Richter magnitude scale. Several structures in Oakland were badly damaged. The double-decker portion of the Cypress freeway structure, located in Oakland, collapsed, killing 42. The Eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge also sustained significant damage and was closed to traffic for one month. Throughout the 1990s, buildings throughout Oakland were retrofited to better withstand earthquakes.

On October 20, 1991, the Oakland Hills firestorm engulfed much of the Oakland hills. 25 were killed and 150 injured and over 2,000 homes were destroyed. The economic loss has been estimated at $1.5 billion. Many homes were rebuilt much larger than they originally were.

In late 1996, Oakland was the center of a controversy surrounding Ebonics, an ethnolect the outgoing Oakland Unified School District board voted to recognize on December 18.

2000s

Image:Oaklandatnight02192006.JPG Jerry Brown, who was elected mayor of Oakland in 1998, initiated a plan to bring an additional 10,000 residents to downtown Oakland. The plan has resulted in several redevelopment projects near Lake Merritt, Jack London Square, and other neighborhoods just outside of downtown. These redevelopment projects have been controversial as many residents see these projects as gentrification, resulting in the loss of lower-income and minority residents in downtown Oakland. Additionally, the weakening of the Bay Area economy in 2000 and 2001 resulted in low occupancy of the new housing and slower growth and economic recovery than expected. As of 2004, the population of Oakland has increased to 409,300.

Additionally, the Oakland Athletics began searching for a site on which to build a new baseball stadium. The Athletics were interested in a site near Telegraph Avenue and 20th Street in downtown Oakland, but the site was instead slated for a housing development. The site was favored by the Athletics for a new stadium as it was accessible by public transit and nearby freeways. As of 2006, the Athletics are pursuing alternative sites for a new stadium outside of downtown Oakland.

In February 2006, the Oakland Ballet closed due to financial problems and the loss of their performance facility, the Calvin Simmons Theater at the Kaiser Convention Center. The Oakland Ballet had been performing in Oakland since 1965. [2]

Geography and climate

Image:CAMap-doton-Oakland.png Oakland is located at 37°47'43" North, 122°13'41" West (37.795227, -122.228111)Template:GR.

According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 78.2 mi² (202.4 km²). 56.1 mi² (145.2 km²) of it is land and 22.1 mi² (57.2 km²) of it is water. The total area is 28.28% water.

Oaklanders most broadly refer to their city's terrain as "the flatlands" and "the hills," which up until recent waves of gentrication have also been a reference to Oakland's deep economic divide, with "the hills" being more affluent communities. About 2/3 of Oakland lies within the flat plain of the San Francisco Bay, with 1/3 rising into the foothills and hills of the East Bay range.

Climate

Oakland's climate has features found in both nearby coastal cities such as San Francisco and inland cities such as San Jose, yet it is warmer than San Francisco and slightly cooler than San Jose. While it is not located on the Pacific Ocean, its position directly inland from the Golden Gate Bridge means that the city gets a significant amount of cold nighttime fog during the summer. It is far enough inland, though, that the fog usually disappears by the morning allowing the city to have stereotypical warm sunny California days.

Oakland's average year-round temperature of 55°F (13°C) is slightly lower than many other California cities. The average high temperature is 62°F (17°C) and the average low temperature is 48°F (9°C), with the warmest month of the year being September, and the coldest month being January. The average annual rainfall is 23 inches, and most rain falls between the months of October and May.

People and culture

Demographics

City of Oakland Population by year [3]
1880: 34,555	1950: 384,575
1890: 48,682	1960: 367,548
1900: 66,960	1970: 361,561
1910: 150,174	1980: 339,337
1920: 216,261	1990: 372,242
1930: 284,063	2000: 399,484
1940: 302,163	2005: 412,318

As of the censusTemplate:GR of 2000, there were 399,484 people, 150,790 households, and 86,402 families residing in the city. The population density was 7,126.6/mi² (2,751.4/km²). There were 157,508 housing units at an average density of 2,809.8/mi² (1,084.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 35.66% African American, 31.29% White, 0.66% Native American, 15.23% Asian-American, 0.50% Pacific Islander, 11.66% from other races, and 4.98% from two or more races. 21.89% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 150,790 households out of which 28.6% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 34.0% were married couples living together, 17.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 42.7% were non-families. 32.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.60 and the average family size was 3.38.

In the city the population was spread out with 25.0% under the age of 18, 9.7% from 18 to 24, 34.0% from 25 to 44, 20.9% from 45 to 64, and 10.5% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 93.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 90.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $40,055, and the median income for a family was $44,384. Males had a median income of $37,433 versus $35,088 for females. The per capita income for the city was $21,936. 19.4% of the population and 16.2% of families were below the poverty line. 27.9% of those under the age of 18 and 13.1% of those 65 and older were living below the poverty line.

See also: Maps of Oakland, California

Crime

Image:Oakland Court House California USA.jpg Though substantial gains have been made as evidenced from the Uniform Crime Reports published by the FBI, it still ranks higher in California for most categories of crime. In the 2005 Morgan Quitno crime rankings, Oakland ranked 21st worst in crime nationwide, though it fared better than the California cities of Richmond, Compton and San Bernardino.

Attractions

Tourist attractions in Oakland include the Oakland Museum of California, the Chabot Space and Science Center, the Art Deco Paramount Theater, Chinatown, Jack London Square, Lake Merritt, Children's Fairyland and McAfee Coliseum, home to the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League, the Oakland Athletics of Major League Baseball, and the Golden State Warriors of the National Basketball Association. The city's commercial and residental structures exhibit a great variety of styles, including Art Deco and Craftsman.

Places to see in Oakland include Lake Merritt, Jack London Square, the Dunsmuir House, and Knowland State Park Arboretum, home of the Oakland Zoo. The USS Potomac, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s presidential yacht, is berthed in Oakland. The William Joseph McInnes Botanic Garden and Campus Arboretum is located on the Mills College campus. Many famous Californians are buried at Mountain View Cemetery, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted.

The Oakland California Temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was dedicated in 1964, and sits on a hillside overlooking the city. Surrounded by palm trees, gardens and fountains, the temple has an Oriental motif and has a visitor's center for tourists.

Nightlife

In the past few years, new bars and nightclubs have opened in Downtown Oakland, some in the various downtown neighborhoods. The bars range range from punk-rock makeovers of dive bars, such as the Golden Bull (14th & Broadway) and the Ruby Room (14th&Madison) to modern Bistros and Dance Clubs such as Luka's (W. Grand and Broadway), @17(17th&Telegraph) and The Oasis (12th and Madison), to diverse hipster spots such as Radio (13th and Broadway), to eclectic Jazz spots such as Kaffe Van Kleef (16th and Telegraph). The Bay Area hip-hop movement known as "Hyphy" was invented at such local Oakland Clubs, like Mingles (Jack London Square) and Sweet Jimmys (16th and San Pablo). Recent months have seen the growth of the "Oakland Art Murmur" event, occurring on the first Friday of every month, which features concurrent art openings from many galleries of Uptown Oakland including 21 Grand (416 25th), Boontling Gallery (4224 Telegraph), Ego Park (492 23rd), Mama Buzz (2318 Telegraph) and Rock Paper Scissors (2278 Telegraph).

Sports

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Image:Ballpark.jpg Oakland is currently home to four professional sports teams:

• Oakland Athletics, American League of Baseball.
• Oakland Raiders, charter team of the American Football League (1960-1969), now in the NFL.
• Golden State Warriors, National Basketball Association.
• Oakland Slammers, International Basketball League (2005-)

Former teams:

• Oakland Oaks, Pacific Coast League of Baseball, 1903-1955. (The Oaks played at Oaks Park in Emeryville after 1912.)
• Oakland Oaks, American Basketball League, 1962.
• Oakland Oaks, American Basketball Association, 1967-1969.
• Oakland Seals, National Hockey League, 1967-1976.
• Oakland Clippers, North American Soccer League, 1968.
• Oakland Stompers, North American Soccer League, 1978.
• Oakland Invaders, United States Football League, 1983-1985.

Neighborhoods

Image:Oakland California 20041129.jpg The city of Oakland stretches from the San Francisco Bay up into the East Bay Hills. The character of these neighborhoods continues to change as waves of emigrants from within the United States and other countries relocate here. Also, the changing economy lures more technically skilled workers to Oakland.

Oakland is commonly divided into broad regions in two different ways:

• "The Hills" and "The Flats" (or "The Flatlands"); with the Flatlands being the historically working-class neighborhoods located in the relatively flat areas closer to San Francisco Bay, and the Hills being the mainly middle/upper-class hillside neighborhoods along the east side of the city. This hills/flats division is found throughout much of the western part of the East Bay, especially in Berkeley and El Cerrito.

• The other common method is to divide the city into "Downtown Oakland," "East Oakland," "North Oakland," and "West Oakland". East Oakland is the largest of these areas, stretching from Lake Merritt southeast to San Leandro. North Oakland encompasses the neighborhoods spread between Downtown and Berkeley. West Oakland is the area between Downtown and the bay, partially surrounded by the Port of Oakland. Both North and East Oakland include neighborhoods in both the Flatlands and hills, while West Oakland and Downtown are entirely within the Flatlands.

There are many neighborhoods which don't fit neatly into one or both of these schemes. The Hills/Flats division ignores the middle-class neighborhoods which run along the base of the hills, as well as the reality that parts of "The Flatlands" can be as hilly as much of "The Hills." The East/North/West division ignores the neighborhoods which are northeast of Lake Merritt, and the areas along Highway 13 in the hills behind Piedmont.

Downtown Oakland

• Chinatown
• City Center
• Jack London Square/Waterfront
• Lakeside Apartments District
• Old Oakland
• Uptown

East Oakland

• Brookfield Village
• Dimond District
• Crestmont
• Eastmont
• Elmhurst
• Fruitvale
• Glenview
• Grass Valley
• Havenscourt
• Laurel
• Lincoln Heights
• Maxwell Park
• Melrose
• Millsmont
• Oak Knoll
• Oakmore
• Redwood Heights
• Ridgemont
• San Antonio District
  • Eastlake
• Seminary
• Sequoyah Heights
• Sheffield Village
• Sobrante Park

North Oakland

• Claremont
• Golden Gate
• Piedmont Avenue
• Pill Hill
• Rockridge
• Temescal

West Oakland

• West Oakland

Other neighborhoods

Image:Oakland Adams Point.jpg

Near Lake Merritt

• Adams Point
• Grand Lake
• Trestle Glen

In the hills

• Montclair District
• Piedmont Pines
• Hiller Highlands

Education

Primary and secondary education

Most public schools in Oakland are operated by the Oakland Unified School District but due to financial troubles, it has been in receivership by the state of California since 2002. The Oakland Military Academy, Oakland School for the Arts, and Oakland Charter Academy are public schools that operate outside the domain of the OUSD. There are several private high schools. Notables include the secular The College Preparatory School and Head Royce School, both with tuitions above $20,000 per year and the parochial Bishop O'Dowd High School.

Oakland public schools have overall performed poorly for years. In the 2005 results of the STAR testing, over 50% of students taking the test performed "below basic", while only 20% performed at least "proficient" on the English section of the test.[4] Some individual schools have much better performance than the city-wide average, for instance, in 2005 over half the students at Hillcrest Elementary School performed at the "advanced" level in the English portion of the test. The three biggest high schools are Oakland High School, Oakland Technical High School, and Skyline High School.

Several factors have been blamed for performance, including an inefficient top-heavy administrative structure and a collective student body that is often poor or from a background of limited English proficiency.

Oakland teachers went on month-long strikes in 1986 and 1996.

Ebonics controversy

In December 1996, the Oakland school board made nationwide news when it passed a resolution declaring "Ebonics", also known as African American Vernacular English, a language of its own, "genetically based" and not a dialect of English.[5]. The move was lambasted by critics, based largely on the misconception that schools would be "teaching" ebonics rather than standard English[6].

Famous graduates

Famous Oakland Public School graduates include Hollywood actors Tom Hanks and Clint Eastwood, and NBA basketball all-stars Gary Payton, Bill Russell, and Paul Pierce. Hanks, having started acting at Skyline High School, thanked his acting teacher Rawley T. Farnsworth in his speech at the Oscars for winning the Best Actor award. Hanks later donated $125,000 to the Skyline performing arts department.

Colleges and universities

Colleges and universities include:

• Laney College (part of the Peralta Community College District)
• Merritt College (part of the Peralta Community College District)
• Pacific Oaks College (Self-paced and Cohort Degree Programs are housed in the historic Downtown Oakland Y.W.C.A. building)
• California College of the Arts (formerly the California College of Arts and Crafts)
• Holy Names University
• Mills College
• The University of California, Berkeley campus is located partially within the Oakland city limits.
• Cal State East Bay's Oakland Professional Development and Conference Center is located in downtown.

Oakland is also the home of the headquarters of the University of California system.

Transportation

Oakland is served by these major highways: Interstate 80, Interstate 580, Interstate 880, Interstate 980, California State Route 13 and California State Route 24. The Loma Prieta earthquake caused the Cypress Freeway double-decker segment of I-880 to collapse, killing 42 people. The old freeway segment had passed right through the middle of West Oakland, forming a psychological barrier; following the earthquake, the freeway was rerouted away from West Oakland and rebuilt in 1997. The east span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge also suffered damage from the quake when a 50-foot section of the upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck; that span is scheduled for replacement, with a new span to be completed in 2014.

Public transportation is provided by the AC Transit bus system which was created from the old Key System. Bay Area Rapid Transit, is the Bay Area metrorail system which is headquartered in Oakland near the Lake Merritt Station with a major transfer hub at MacArthur Station. Oakland is served by Oakland International Airport which offers affordable airflight rates out of the three Bay Area airports. The city has train service provided by Amtrak, with a station located blocks from Jack London Square served by the Amtrak Capitol Corridor, Coast Starlight and San Joaquin train routes.

Sister cities

Oakland, California has seven sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:

Template:Flagicon - Dalian (China) Template:Flagicon - Fukuoka (Japan) Template:Flagicon - Nakhodka (Russia) Template:Flagicon - Ocho Rios (Jamaica)

Template:Flagicon - Sekondi Takoradi, Ghana Template:Flagicon - Santiago de Cuba (Cuba) Template:Flagicon - Agadir (Morocco)

See also

• East Bay
• Ebonics Issue in Oakland
• Hyphy
• Leimert Bridge
• Lincoln Highway
• List of famous people from Oakland, California
• List of mayors of Oakland, California
• San Francisco Bay Area
• San Francisco, California
• San Jose, California

External links

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• City of Oakland official web page

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• Oakland/Berkeley Hills Fire
• The Black Panther Party Research Project
• American Babylon: Race & the Struggle for Postwar Oakland
• Photographic virtual tour of Oakland
• Oaklandhistory.com images and book list
• Oakland Heritage Alliance is a non-profit membership organization which advocates the protection, preservation, and revitalization of Oakland's architectural, historic, cultural and natural resources through publications, education, and direct action. Site includes images of Oakland postcards from 1900-1990,
• Oaklandish is an ongoing public arts & media campaign designed to illuminate the unique cultural legacy of Oakland,
• Oakland History on the Web from Oakland Public Library
• Oakland Collection Online of the Oakland Museum of California. Over 7000 Oakland objects including historical photographs, paintings, documents, objects, all about Oakland. Explore Oakland’s neighborhoods, walk the shoreline, stand atop city hall and look all around.
• Oakland Photos The Claremont Hotel, Downtown Oakland, Jack London Square, Preservation Park, Port of Oakland
• Oakland homicide victims, 2003
• Oakland Municipal Code
• Oakland Fire Department Engine Company 13

Current news, fires and other information about the Oakland Fire Department and the Fruitvale District

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