Comments on: Secret streets

By: Aaron

Aaron — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 23:57:07 +0000

Looks like a great place for a run!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 09 Jul 2011 03:49:45 +0000

That’s a nice site. All it needs is the USGS quads.

By: gem

gem — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 23:41:18 +0000

Late to this, but you might find this set of Oakland maps my boyfriend and I put together useful:http://teczno.com/old-oakland/

It’s a couple older maps from 1877 and 1912 I found online, along with automobile maps from 1936, 1950′s, and 1967; plus Open Street Map and aerial view- all georeferenced and zoomable. You can find a spot on the modern map and then click to an older map layer. Some of the scans aren’t perfect, and some of the gas station maps have errors. But you can see in 1912 that Florence ave used to include Estates dr. and curved south where it met the Oakland-Antioch Railway.

By: Paul Greenwood

Paul Greenwood — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:33:50 +0000

if you go to this website you can look at oakland as how it use to be
http://www.historicaerials.com/, it is amazing to see just how much Houses and Business that were distroyed for the freeways

By: Naomi Schiff

Naomi Schiff — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:05:03 +0000

http://www.oberail.org/page/sacramento_northern/

Daniel Levy, who has traced the Sacramento Northern through Oakland, and who put together the interpretive panels up near Lake Temescal, will be around this summer. I’ll send him a link to this post, and perhaps he can give you more details!

By: Andrew

Andrew — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 18:54:56 +0000

Eric, looks like you’re right. By the way you have a fantastic set of old maps and plans and stuff on your Flickr site.

ODP, it makes my leg hurt to think of walking right now! But I’ve led a few walks. Next year I may get serious about it.

By: Oakland Daily Photo

Oakland Daily Photo — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 03:59:40 +0000

Thank you for this blog. Even though I don’t leave comments, I check in every so often. Maybe you’ve covered this before, but do you ever lead geology walks around Oakland?It would be fun to tromp the hills and see the vista through a geologist’s eyes.

By: Jafafa Hots

Jafafa Hots — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:55:55 +0000

Awesome, will have to visit this.

By: Eric Fischer

Eric Fischer — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:45:09 +0000

It looks like Florence Avenue and Florence Terrace were once routed together as a single street, but southeast of the end of Landvale Road (at least as it was in 1939), which ended at Broadway Terrace. I would have put my bet on this being the Sacramento Northern right of way.