Articles tagged with: Alameda culture
A few weeks ago a friend told me about PlayBall! Alameda’s Sandlot Blog, which chronicles the glorious tenures of kids who played Rec & Park league ball at local parks in the 1950s, 1960s and …
Just got the head’s up from a friend that Alameda’s irreverent real estate pundit L. Opine has called it a day on the popular Knife Catchers blog, which I wrote up last September.
I checked in …
The last couple of years have been banner ones for Alameda’s coffeeholics, with a whole mess of cafes opening up all over the Island. They’re a diverse group, ranging from the community center and mommy …
A little bird told me last week that the late adventurer Steve Fossett’s catamaran is out at Alameda Point. So I took a ride out there a few days ago. As I was tooling down …
When Erik Miller moved to Alameda’s Wedge neighborhood from San Francisco a decade ago, it was largely populated by “blue collarish” renters who had little interest in local politics. But over the years, things have …
As promised, I’ve toured the Island and brought back snapshots of some of the many homes decked out in lights for the holidays (you’ll recognize a whole lot o’ Christmas Tree Lane in there, I’m …
One of the many great things about Alameda is that people here are into the holidays. Really into the holidays. As in decorating your house with strings and strings of lights and wood cutouts of …
A few weeks ago I was driving down Park Street when I saw a couple of guys riding by on some of those old-timey bicycles with the giant front wheels. I figured it was just …
The other day our Google Alert for Alameda brought us this neat little item on the Jalopnik site about a 1986 Toyota Cressida owned by a delivery guy over at Bowzer’s Pizza on Park Street. …
The ever-shifting mass of cryptic, painted signs that have long graced the walls and fence of the home on the corner of Lincoln and Lafayette avenues are a familiar sight to Alamedans (and were famous …
The first time I heard someone refer to the residents of our fair isle as Alamedians, I thought I had simply misheard. The second time, I figured they just talked funny. Then I heard City …
