One boxy building in North Oakland has served as a candy company, an artist warehouse, a porn studio, a skate park, and a home to many.
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Oakland Home Histories: Living in a long lost lesbian bar
A queer couple who own a bright blue live-work space in East Oakland were delighted to learn about its past as The Jubilee.
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Oakland Home Histories: A legacy of Black homeownership in Maxwell Park
A family buys a charming Tudor house in a moment of immense transition.
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Oakland Home Histories: The little building on Webster that’s lasted
The Mentone Arms Apartments have survived a century of transformation, ambition, upheaval, and neglect in downtown Oakland.
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Oakland Home Histories: How an 1800s Victorian became a land trust cooperative
The 12th Avenue building was made for one family. After years of turmoil, its current residents are giving communal living a go.
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Oakland Home Histories: Tracing 100 years at a quirky Temescal apartment building
We’re launching a series exploring the history of residential buildings in Oakland—and the people who’ve lived in them. Want us to write about your home? Let us know!
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Oakland Home Histories: Wartime housing, mink scarves, and making room for change
An Adams Point triplex owner asks: Which parts of the past are worth preserving?
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After years of delays, Oakland’s newest queer bar opens tonight
In the works since 2019, Oakland LGBTQIA+ watering hole Town Bar & Lounge is finally ready to serve its first customers.
Posted inArts & Community
‘It’s on all of us to preserve history’: Oakland historians are documenting The Town
Gene Anderson and Dorothy Londagin aren’t relying solely on social media to keep information available to the public.
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Family hopes to save landmark Victorian home in Fruitvale
Descendants left in charge of the Cohen Bray House are asking for help restoring the historic 141-year-old Oakland home.
Posted inHow We Work
Oakland’s housing and homelessness programs faced scrutiny in 2022
Reporter Natalie Orenstein spoke about the past year of news on her beat, from rent caps to encampment sweeps.
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Excellent Oakland journalism you may have missed in 2020
We’re spotlighting some of the year’s best reporting in and about Oakland, from The Oaklandside and well beyond.
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Know someone keeping Oakland history alive? Nominate them for this local award
The Oakland Heritage Alliance has been preserving Oakland’s past since 1981. Their annual Partners in Preservation Award honors community members doing the same.
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Photos, old and new, show Oakland then and now
A lot has changed since 1852. Compare images of Oakland landmarks from the 19th and 20th centuries to today.
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These 4 historic Oakland houses are free. You just have to pay to move them
The Town has a long history of relocating old homes, and those who’ve done it say the process can be worth the time and effort it takes.
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In a new memoir, Dorothy Lazard recalls growing up in Oakland in the 1970s
‘What You Don’t Know Will Make a Whole New World’ explores family, empowerment and Oakland history as told by The Town’s favorite librarian.
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‘We will rise again’: A devastating fire won’t stop the East Bay’s oldest Black church
This isn’t the first time its 165-year history that Oakland’s First African Methodist Episcopal Church has had to rebuild.
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This week in Oakland: Roots home opener, Amor Digital at Brix 581, and Dimond Shine Day
Other events include a virtual conversation with Councilmember Carroll Fife, and the Black Panther Party Alumni Legacy Network at Oaklandish.
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High 5ive just launched one of Oakland’s highest brunches
One of the hottest nightclubs in the city is hoping to lure the sun-seeking crowd with a new rooftop brunch.
