There is a giant arrow, hidden in the #Oakland hills.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcontinental_Airway_System

#AviationHistory #OaklandHistory

Lake Merritt, 1945c
Mugshots of a boy looking east across Lake Merritt from Lakeside Park #oakland #oaklandhistory

Lake Temescal Oakland, circa 1938
Sacramento Northern car 1010 just past Lake Temescal. Broadway in the background and elevated Landvale Avenue at right. I think the right-of-way is now a hiking trail #oaklandhistory #transit

Added today to SFMemory.org! 158 new old images from the Emiliano Echeverria / Randolph Brandt collection. I real mix of stuff from the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expo, Early 70's Market Street Muni construction, Key System Accidents, Ferries https://sfmemory.org/search/index.php?q=sfm011&_ds=1&bn=0&bs=50&so0=contains&so1=contains #sfhistory #oaklandhistory #ppie

My #oakmtg #OaklandHistory buffs: On June 6, @alden will start an online discussion of his new book, "Deep Oakland," about how the geology of the city helped shape its history and its present appearance. We'll be talking in the Inkwell, the public conference of one of the oldest online communities in the U.S. For more information and a live link:
https://www.well.com/

Any #OaklandHistory experts here? The other day we went to #Homeroom (the Mac&Cheese place, which happens to be exactly on the site of the #SacramentoNorthern electric railway's long-ago terminal), and I was browsing around the neighborhood later via GMaps satellite view, and I noticed this curve that seems to show that homes were built over some former road, or railway, or maybe filled-in creek? But I can't find any record of such a thing. Here's a link to a USGS historical topo map viewer: https://arcg.is/WXran ; As reminiscent as this is of covered-over RR right-of-ways elsewhere (like the old line through the Mission & Noe Valley in SF) there's no sign that this was every a railway as far back as a map from 1899. Maybe it's just the route of a really, really old country road? #OaklandCA #Oakland

@diygene this is fascinating. Some of these are forgotten place names, some are rails-to trails successes, probably a few ghost towns. I’ve never heard of the Mallard-Chipps railroad ferry. Fun.. #oaklandhistory …. I’d love to go on an urban archaeology field trip to explore all of this!

#PhotoMonday #photography #Oakland #OaklandHistory. Oakland, California in transition.