Alameda, California
Alameda, California City of Alameda Flag of Alameda, California Flag Official seal of Alameda, California Location in the state of California and Alameda County Location in the state of California and Alameda County Alameda, California is positioned in the US Alameda, California - Alameda, California Alameda (/ l mi d / al- -mee-d ; Spanish: [ala'meea]) is a town/city in Alameda County, California, United States.
It is positioned on Alameda Island and Bay Farm Island, and is adjoining to and south of Oakland and east of San Francisco athwart the San Francisco Bay.
The city's estimated 2016 populace was 79,277. Alameda is a charter city, clean water a general law city, allowing the town/city to furnish for any form of government.
Alameda became a charter town/city and adopted a council manager government in 1916, which it retains to the present.
The island Alameda is situated in what was originally a peninsula connected to Oakland.
The region was therefore called Encinal, Spanish for "forest of evergreen oak". Alameda is Spanish for "grove of poplar trees" or "tree-lined avenue", and was chosen in 1853 by prominent vote. "Alameda" referred to the village at Encinal and High Streets, Hibbardsville was at the North Shore ferry and shipping terminal, and Woodstock was on the west near the ferry piers of the South Pacific Coast Railroad and the Central Pacific.
Eventually, the Central Pacific's ferry pier became the Alameda Mole, featuring transit connections between San Francisco ferries, small-town trollies and Southern Pacific (formerly Central Pacific) commuter lines.
The San Francisco and Alameda Railroad opened the Encinal station in 1864. The Encinal region was also known as Fasskings Station with respect to Frederick Louis Fassking. Encinal's own postal service opened in 1876, was retitled West End in 1877, and closed in 1891. The West End region was originally called Bowman's Point with respect to Charles G.
The Alameda Terminal was the site of the arrival of the first train via the First Transcontinental Railroad into the San Francisco Bay Area on September 6, 1869.
The borders of Alameda were made coextensive with the island in 1872, incorporating Woodstock into Alameda. Mark Twain described Alameda as being "The Garden of California." Once the Bay Bridge was complete, the rail lines, which ran right past the entrance to Neptune Beach on the way to the Alameda Mole and the Ferry, lost riders in droves.
People began using their cars to escape the town/city and the immediate suburbs like Alameda and traveling further away in California.
Alameda lost its resort status as more distant locations became more attractive to cash-rich San Francisco tourists.
Some of the resort homes and buildings from the Neptune beach era still exist in present-day Alameda.
When the barns came to town in the 1860s Park Street advanced into the primary thoroughfare of the town/city and the locale of the chief Alameda train station, inhabitants of Old Alameda pulled up stakes and moved athwart town to the new downtown.
In 1902, the need for period shipping facilities led to the dredging of a canal through the marshland between Oakland and Alameda, turning Alameda into an island.
The region of Alameda called Bay Farm Island is no longer an island, but is attached by fill to Oakland.
In the 1950s, Alameda's industrialized and ship building industries thrived along the Alameda Estuary, where the world's first-ever, land-based, containerized shipping crane was used.
Today,[when?] the Port of Oakland athwart the estuary serves as one of the biggest ports on the West Coast, using the shipping technologies originally experimented with in Alameda.
In addition to the regular trains running to the Alameda Mole, Alameda was also served by small-town steam commuter lines of the Southern Pacific (initially, the Central Pacific) which were later transformed into the East Bay Electric Lines.
The trains ran to both the Oakland Mole and the Alameda Mole.
Soon after the culmination of the Bay Bridge, Alameda trains ran directly to San Francisco on the lower deck of the bridge, the ferries having been rendered unnecessary.
Alameda was the site of the Southern Pacific's West Alameda Shops where all the electric trains were maintained and repaired.
The Airdrome was closed in 1941 when its air traffic interfered with the newly assembled Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda). With the advent of World War II, a vast stretch of the marshy region southwest of the Alameda Mole was filled and the NAS Alameda established.
On February 7, 1973, a USN Vought A-7 - E Corsair II fighter jet on a routine training mission from Lemoore Naval Air Station, suddenly caught fire, 28,000 feet over the San Francisco Bay and crashed into the Tahoe Apartments in Alameda.
Aerial view of Alameda Island (center), with Oakland in the foreground and San Francisco behind Although Alameda's nickname is "The Island City" (or simply "the island"), the current town/city is situated in two islands as well as a small section of the mainland.
Today, the town/city consists of the chief original section, with the former Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS Alameda) at the west end of Alameda Island, Southshore along the southern side of Alameda Island, and Bay Farm Island, which is part of the mainland proper.
The region of the former NAS is now known as "Alameda Point." The Southshore region is separated from the chief part of Alameda Island by a lagoon; the north shore of the lagoon is positioned approximately where the initial south shore of the island was.
Alameda Point and Southshore are assembled on bay fill.
Not all of Alameda Island is part of the City of Alameda.
Although nearly all of the island is in Alameda town/city limits, a small portion of a dump site west of the former runways at Alameda Point extends far enough into San Francisco Bay that it is over the county line and part of the City and County of San Francisco. Coast Guard Island, a small island between Alameda Island and Oakland, is also part of Alameda and is the home of Integrated Support Command Alameda According to the Koppen climate classification system, Alameda has a warm-summer Mediterranean climate, abbreviated "Csb" on climate maps. Annual rain is about 20 inches, all precipitation (snow is extremely rare at sea level in the San Francisco Bay area).
The 2010 United States Enumeration reported that Alameda had a populace of 73,812.
The ethnic makeup of Alameda was 37,460 (50.8%) White, 23,058 (31.2%) Asian, 4,759 (6.4%) African American, 426 (0.6%) Native American, 381 (0.5%) Pacific Islander, 2,463 (3.3%) from other competitions, and 5,265 (7.1%) from two or more competitions.
Alameda also has a historic Japanese American improve and had a small Japanese company precinct on a portion of Park Street before to World War II, when the city's Japanese populace was interned.
Like much of the heavily Democratic Alameda County, the City of Alameda is considered a liberal city.
Vehicle access to Alameda Island is via three bridges from Oakland (Park Street, Fruitvale Avenue, and High Street Bridges), as well as the two one-way Posey and Webster Street Tubes dominant into Oakland's Chinatown.
Connections from Alameda to Bay Farm Island is provided via the Bay Farm Island Bridge for vehicular traffic as well as the Bay Farm Island Bicycle Bridge (the only pedestrian/bicycle-only drawbridge in the United States). California State Route 61 runs down town/city streets from the Posey and Webster Street Tubes, athwart the Bay Farm Island Bridge, and south to the Oakland Airport.
Public transit includes the AC Transit buses (which include express buses to San Francisco) and two ferry services the Alameda/Oakland Ferry and the Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry.
AC Transit buses also cover 3 bus times in the morning and afternoon to Lincoln Middle School, positioned in Alameda.
Alameda has also featured prominently on automotive blog Jalopnik, with their "Down on The Street" segment consisting of cars found on the streets of Alameda.
Alameda is known for its Victorian homes; 9% of all single-family homes (1500) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings. It is said that Alameda has more pre-1906 earthquake era homes in the Gold Coast section than any other town/city in the Bay Area.[by whom?] Alameda is home to the official offices and training facility of the Oakland Raiders American football team, which is positioned on Bay Farm Island.
At the turn of the 19th century, the town/city of Alameda took a large chunk of Charles Froling's territory away to build a street.
Alameda is also known for its Fourth of July parade, which is advertised as the second earliest and second longest Fourth of July parade in the United States. It features homemade floats, classic cars, motorized living room furniture, fire-breathing dragons, marching bands, and large crowds.
This chief thoroughfare of downtown Alameda Is filled with small-town shops, restaurants, drinking establishments, and services.
Naval Air Station Alameda (NAS), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.
The region of the former NAS is now known as Alameda Point.
In late July 2006, the City of Alameda announced a deal with the Navy that would turn the territory over to the town/city for $108 - M.
In September 2011 Alameda and the Navy reached an agreement on the terms of a no-cost conveyance for the entire 918 acres at Alameda Point. Within 2 weeks of the Golden Gate Yacht Club winning the America's Cup, Alameda town/city council with small-town support sent a unanimous letter of support to hold AC 34 in San Francisco Bay Area.
In early 2011, the City Council created an ad hoc America's Cup Citizens Advisory Committee to look for ways that Alameda could draw interest from squads and potential spectators.
Through those accomplishments, in mid-2012, the Swedish Artemis Racing team announced that they would problematic their team base in one of the former air station hangars on Alameda Point.
George Spirits are positioned at Alameda Point.
The town/city restored the historic Art Deco town/city landmark Alameda Theatre, expanding it to include a theater multiplex.
Alameda also hosts the Altarena Playhouse, which since 1957 has been home to the Bay Area's earliest continuously operating improve theater organization.
3 Alameda Unified School District 863 5 City of Alameda 500 Alameda's first newspaper, the Encinal, appeared in the early 1850s and the paper's editor was instrumental in the boss to incorporate the city.
Following the buyout, former Hills Newspapers employees recognized the lack of a small-town improve voice in Alameda, and again formed a new locally based newspaper, the Alameda Sun, in 2001.
The current owners of the Alameda Times-Star, Media - News, Inc., based in Colorado, have announced a strong interest in buying both the Contra Costa Times chain and the San Jose Mercury News, consolidating the daily journal market of the East Bay, effectively under one owner.
The Alameda improve is presently served by two weekly newspapers, the Alameda Journal, owned by the Media - News Group, and the Alameda Sun, along with a news website, The Alamedan.
Alameda Hospital is positioned there.
Unlike encircling communities, Alameda has a municipal power service, Alameda Municipal Power (AMP), that brings services directly to consumers.
During the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, Alameda Municipal Power did not raise electricity rates, while inhabitants in most of the state railroadmomentous price increases. The Alameda Arts Council (AAC) serves as the small-town Alameda City arts council.
The Alameda Civic Ballet is the ballet troupe of the city. The Alameda Museum features displays on the history of Alameda. The Alameda Art Association has about 80 members as of January 2011, and has a loggia space at South Shore Center mall.
Photo-realist Robert Bechtle has painted various Alameda subjects, including "Alameda Gran Torino", which was acquired by SFMOMA in 1974 and remains one of Bechtle's most famous works. Parts of Alameda High School were animated for the Animatrix episode "Kid's Story".
A massive hangar at the former Naval Air Station Alameda was used to film special scenes requiring computer-generated imagery for movies such as Bicentennial Man, Flubber, What Dreams May Come, Mission: Impossible II and many scenes from the Matrix trilogy, including the signature bullet time scene.
The USS Hornet Museum, permanently moored at Alameda Point, has been the site for scenes used in primary theatrical releases: XXX: State of the Union, Rescue Dawn, and The Master.
RCW's programs are homed in a restored industrialized waterfront building that speaks to Alameda's history while creating an inclusive venue that reflects the Bay Area's rich range.
The organization offers an array of arts programming to the improve including Island Arts, Island City Waterways, Round the World Festival and its Performance Art and Learning program (PAL) that serves more than 2000 youth with no-charge cultural arts assemblies each year.
Webster Street in Alameda has long been the host of many arts, crafts and holiday festivals.
There are three primary affairs when the street in Alameda's historic downtown precinct is closed to vehicular traffic.
Garrett Eckbo, landscape architect who lived in Alameda as a child, later forming the Bay Area firm of Eckbo, Royston, Williams with Robert Royston and Edward Williams.
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Katharine Graham, the late publisher of the Washington Post, lived in Alameda as a child, as stated to Personal History, her autobiography.
Bruce Henderson, author, lived in Alameda, as stated to his book Hero Found: The Greatest POW Escape of the Vietnam War.
Benjamin Jealous, former President of the NAACP, lived in Alameda.
Senator William Fife Knowland was student body president at Alameda High School.
Paul Mantz (1903-1965), air racer and Hollywood stunt pilot, was born in Alameda.
Don Perata, former President Pro Tempore of California State Senate, lives in Alameda; once taught at Saint Joseph Notre Dame High, Encinal High and Alameda High, among other Alameda schools.
Operatic mezzo-soprano Frederica Von Stade still gives performances and supports the arts in small-town schools, but no longer lives in Alameda.
Charles Lee Tilden, for whom Tilden Regional Park is named, was a longtime resident of Alameda; Tilden Way at the southeast end of the town/city is titled for him.
Joseph Notre Dame High School in Alameda.
MLB players Ray French, Johnny Vergez, Andy Carey, Bill Serena, Dick Bartell, Duffy Lewis and Chris Speier all attended Alameda High School.
Many citizens from naval families, including celebrities such as Ann Curry, Phyllis Diller, Tom Hanks, and Jim Morrison of The Doors, have lived in Alameda.
Main article: Alameda Unified School District Public major and secondary education in Alameda is the responsibility of the Alameda Unified School District, which is legally separate from the City government (as is common throughout California).
The College of Alameda, a two-year improve college in the West End is part of the Peralta Community College District.
Alameda's relationships with Wuxi and Jiangyin were initiated in 2005, in part, by Stewart Chen, who then served on the City of Alameda Social Service and Human Relations board, and who went on to be propel to Alameda City Council in November, 2012. Both Alameda and Lidingo are islands with a bridge connecting them to a big city.
In September, 2013, a Tibetan rights group initiated a civil media and e-mail campaign targeting the Mayor of Alameda, complaining that City of Alameda's participation in, and association with, a flag-raising ceremony to recognize National Day of the People's Republic of China on October 1 was tantamount to endorsing the communist regime in China, its human rights abuses, and the occupation of Tibet.
The City of Alameda responded that the ceremony was a function of the Alameda Sister City Association and the Alameda Wuxi Friendship Committee, not a function of the City of Alameda.
The Tibetan rights group responded that on September 26, the City of Alameda Social Service and Human Relations board appointed a member, Michael Robles-Wong, as a representative to the Sister City Association. On October 1, 2013, the Tibetan rights groups - Tibet - Truth and Bay Area Friends of Tibet sent roughly 75 protesters to Alameda City Hall to protest the ceremony, which organizers ultimately canceled before it began.
Former City of Alameda Councilmember Frank Matarrese announced the cancellation. Then-city councilmember Stewart Chen later defended the ceremony, as a diplomatic, not political, exercise. List of ships assembled in Alameda, California City of Alameda.
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