The spirited Oakland neighborhood of Rockridge has been spotlighted in the national media twice in recent years. Hard-hit by a disastrous fire and named a top livable neighborhood by a national magazine, the north Oakland neighborhood has had a diverse and eventful history. Early booms in commerce and population pushed Oakland city boundaries east and north through farmland, toward the university town of Berkeley, and the neighborhood of Rockridge was formed. Shaped by its farms, homes, streetcars, interurban trains, shops, markets, movie houses, a quarry, and Oakland's first reservoir, Rockridge's story is one of hard labor in the quarry and the practice of the fine arts, of ethnic markets and the short-lived grand estates of mining tycoons, of the taming of wild creeks and the subdivision of open spaces. The town witnessed experiments in planned development, the effect of freeways and rapid transit, changes brought by the Depression and World War II, the transformation of College Avenue, and trends in home building that today allow the landscape to reveal Rockridge's history.
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Author Robin Wolf is a sociologist and former professor at Diablo Valley College in Pleasant Hill. Tom Wolf is a U.S. and Oakland historian and has retired from teaching at Laney College in Oakland. They are both 38-year residents of Rockridge.
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The area that became known as Rockridge had been open land lying just east of an Ohlone Indian settlement on Temescal Creek. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
College Avenue, San Francisco, Courtesy Oakland History Room, Lake Temescal, Chabot Road, Courtesy Ray Raineri, World War, Key System, Courtesy Louis Siegriest, Rock Ridge, Temescal Creek, Lawton Avenue, Miles Avenue, Sacramento Northern Railroad, California College of the Arts, Courtesy John Harder, Claremont Country Club, Society of Six, Bilger Quarry, Courtesy William Larkins, Courtesy Jennifer Dowling, Courtesy Patricia Browne Arthur, Thomas Russell, Broadway Terrace, Courtesy John Bosko Browse Sample Pages:
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The area that became known as Rockridge had been open land lying just east of an Ohlone Indian settlement on Temescal Creek. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
College Avenue, San Francisco, Courtesy Oakland History Room, Lake Temescal, Chabot Road, Courtesy Ray Raineri, World War, Key System, Courtesy Louis Siegriest, Rock Ridge, Temescal Creek, Lawton Avenue, Miles Avenue, Sacramento Northern Railroad, California College of the Arts, Courtesy John Harder, Claremont Country Club, Society of Six, Bilger Quarry, Courtesy William Larkins, Courtesy Jennifer Dowling, Courtesy Patricia Browne Arthur, Thomas Russell, Broadway Terrace, Courtesy John Bosko Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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