The East Bay (Oakland & Berkeley)

"The trouble with Oakland is that when you get there, there isn't any there there."
   --Gertrude Stein

 


Grand Lake theater, Oakland.

 

 


Lake Merritt, Oakland.

 

  


Mural, Oakland.

 

 


Mural, Oakland.

 

  


Former Oakland Floral Depot (1931).

 

  


Fox Oakland Theater (1928).

 

  


Telegraph Street, Berkeley.

  


Mutual building, Oakland.

  
 

"This was San Francisco, you know, and everyone had some dumb idea -- I mean, wicca? -- and no one there would tell you yours was doomed. Thus the public nudity, and this ridiculous magazine, and the Real World tryout, all this need, most of it disguised by sneering, but all driven by a hyper-awareness of this window, I guess a few years when your muscles are taut, coiled up and vibrating."
   --Dave Eggers. A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000).

 


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