…what it might have been!!…doubtful we ever see something as spectacular as that 980 idea…oakland can barely fix its potholes lol…but what it could be!!…
Since I used to live there (on Mesa Ave near Moraga Ave, in a house built in 1909 during the era you describe), and ran almost all the streets shaded green in the map, I find this fascinating. However, you don’t mention the great quake of 1906. My understanding is the residential areas around Piedmont, Trestle Glen & Lakeshore sprung up soon following the quake because SF was in ruins so residents migrated to Oakland. I imagine that catastrophe played a role in changing or overshadowing the park proposal.
Yes! I cut a sentence on that to keep the content within inbox limits. But you are right the quake was a driver of home development in the immediate Oakland suburbs. And probably in widening the horizon of the housing market to other parts of the bay more generally.
Indeed, the Lakeshore Highlands were advertised as “the best place for a San Francisco man to live”!
Oakland blew it- that park could have been a positive anchor for the city to build around, and it might have at least temporarily halted the civic blight the city currently is facing.
…what it might have been!!…doubtful we ever see something as spectacular as that 980 idea…oakland can barely fix its potholes lol…but what it could be!!…
Since I used to live there (on Mesa Ave near Moraga Ave, in a house built in 1909 during the era you describe), and ran almost all the streets shaded green in the map, I find this fascinating. However, you don’t mention the great quake of 1906. My understanding is the residential areas around Piedmont, Trestle Glen & Lakeshore sprung up soon following the quake because SF was in ruins so residents migrated to Oakland. I imagine that catastrophe played a role in changing or overshadowing the park proposal.
Yes! I cut a sentence on that to keep the content within inbox limits. But you are right the quake was a driver of home development in the immediate Oakland suburbs. And probably in widening the horizon of the housing market to other parts of the bay more generally.
Indeed, the Lakeshore Highlands were advertised as “the best place for a San Francisco man to live”!
Oakland blew it- that park could have been a positive anchor for the city to build around, and it might have at least temporarily halted the civic blight the city currently is facing.