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I SUNDAY. March 17. 2002 THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCAL-3 SS; City may lose historic commercial buildings i y. CHECK OFTHE Oakland Heritage Alliance's newly released Most Endan-gered Building List. reveals that portions of Oak-' land's work-a-day heritage could soon vanish, victims of development pressures.

These Indude the West Coast headquarters of the International Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters Union, a modest 1925 commercial structure on Seventh Street; a 127-year-old brick rail car palntshop building, considered die last of a duster of pimllar structures located in the Southern Pacific yard west of Interstate 880; a 75-year-old, 1, OOO-fooMong break-bulk catgD wharf at the foot of Ninth Avenue, which features a stately beaux-arts-style two-story portal; and the historic wholesale produce market, near Jack London Square. Built along both sldes of train trarlm running along Third Street Just east oflower Broadway, the wooden warehouses have changed little since 1916, the year Cultural Heritage Survey researchers have determined the area was designated for wholesale pro- duce vendors to set up shop. The unaltered cluster may be -among the most intact collection of early 20th century utilitarian warehouses In the West Most other districts of this type have long since disap- However plain and ram: shackle they may appear, the warehouses are nevertheless considered to be eligible for the National Rttfeter of Historic Places and could be elt- A 1130 VIEW of a historic produce diBtrfoution building near OAKLAND LIBRARY PHOTO Third and Franklin streets. 5 i '5 fc. I ft play, area so cartons of produce can be visible from the street Survey files stress that desfgi features suchas these, once so prevalent in tum-of-the-century California, have all but disappeared.

During the height of the mirfntght lvHng and nn. loading, the doors wltii wooden sashes and transom screens of wire mesh are thrown open and there Is little distinction between what la outside and what is Inside. Once business la concluded (mldmomlng), the screen doors swing shut and the district takes on a deceptively sleepy, frontier town quality. Clerestory windows bring The survey credits McCall as one of a handliil of architects responsible for shaping the look of early 20th century Oakland. Durtngacareer spanning nearly four decades, McCall desfgied dozens of commercial buildings, apart- ments and residences.

McCall's produce market HnllHingt may lark Hia rwna- mental detail of his other uptown commercial work, but their architectural significance lies rather with their uniformity, simplicity and functional qualities. A noteworthy aspect is the slanted comigated metal canopies extending out across the sidewalks ana providing a protected open dls- It seems to me, that with the nature of (Davegglo's) conviction versus tiw charges, and the motivation and everything else that goes along with the Samson case, proof that in feet, a sexual assault took place by your client light to the mezzanine levels above the ground floor space, where most producers have their offices. A peak Inside reveals posters, placards and other memorabilia from long ago, again a testament to this district's unique character. The district Is included fat the Jack London Waterfront walking tour sponsored by the Oakland Tours Program. For information on upcoming tours, or to find out about volunteer opportunities, call the tours bot line, 2384234.

For more information on die Most Endangered List, go to OHA's Web site, www.oak-landheritage.org, or call 763-9218 to receive a copy of the OHANews. with rope Backers stop referring to tin. data gh) Iqr her first name. Backers win continue presenting her case against 43-year-old Michaud and 41-year-old Davegglo tarGoodmans courtroom Monday. v' ii' Jurors in pail's murder, rape trial see video in tiie Aleda Doe case is certainly relevant to the Issues that are going to be raised in tiie Samson case.

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According to Library History Room flies, the Inauguration of the Western Pacific transcontinental rail service alongThlrd Street In -and the development of the port after passage of a $2.5 million bond Issue by voters, marked a turning point In tiie development of the produce market as we see It today. Farmers from throughout Northern California looked to centrally located Oakland, where they could readily transport tbdr produce for distribution. Survey files show many of the structures where architect diaries W. McCaO, born In 1878, whose father ran his own gpcery business on San Pablo Avenue. As a young man, McCall spent time In England, re- celvlng training at the Perkins Institute and the Bourne- -mouth Institute of Science and Art, experiences which would Influence his work and make his projects a "cut above other home-gown builders.

then focused close on marks left on her neck fay a cord used to choke her. The lens lingered on the murdered woman, then crossed the snow to her green Jansport daypack and a of black rope flecked with Samson had been walking from her home to her Job at an Insurance company when Davegglo and Mtrimirf snatched' her. off the street early on Dec. 2. 1997, according to the case presented by Assistant.

District. Attorney Angela Backers. Michaud and Davegglo are charged with kidnapping, raping and- murdering Samson, a depraved spree that inch mni assaults on a members. Flaying a dot mac bins Investigating the kidnap and sexual abuse of a Reno, college student, identified -in court by a code name Aleda Doe, tracked Michaud and Da-vego to the Lakeside fam. The hotel la about 20 miles from where Samson's body waa found.

Davegglo was playing a slot marfilw whn hnMniHi In fry custody. Michaud was arrested after she opened tiw door of Room 133 for an FBI agent disguised as a hotel worker. Among tiw items police re-portedfy found in tiw room was a loaded semi-automatic pistol and packets of methamphetamlne. A ball, ag bearing Samson's saliva and a pair of Cuillng boas with slain woman's blood on tiw tqw were found in Michaud's 1994'. Dodge Caravan, which was parked in the hotel lot, according to tnvestlgdors.

Pleasanton police homicide detectives, Douglas County deputies an) federal agents were called to the stand last week to describe howevidence was care-fiilfy gathered, and bnxgit to crime labs for analysts. Judge Larry-. Goodman panted a request by defense attorney Michael Berger to postpone testimony by Lias Calandro, a DNA qpecbdlst wltii Forensic Analytical fo Hayward. Calandro reportedly matched MtA wiped from the fine of the Reno rape victim to Davego. Goodman panted defense air tomeys time to do tfaelr own DNA teats of the material, but refined Beigerfs aigimeat that Calandros foidlngi were irrelevant.

Daveggto waa convicted of kidnapping to tiw Aleda Doe case and fa serving a federal prison sentence. Michaud received a lesser sentence in tint case after agreeing to a plea bargain and testifying against STAFF WRITER OAKLAND The female half of a coue diarged with sexually tormenting and strangling a Pleasanton woman had a fresh length of rope in her pocket whoa she was arrested nearly five years ago. Investigators who linked Michelle Michaud and James Davegglo to the depraved of Vanessa Lei Samson were' to wonder why Michaud apparently had cord at the ready. There was a lump in a front pocket of Michaud's pay Jeans when she was being booked Into a Nevada Jafl, Dmidaa County sheriff's Deputy. Rick Sousa recounted while testifying, last week st the murder triad of Michaud and Daveggto.

I asked her what was to there; she didn't reply, told Jurors. So with two fingers, removed the object The bulge was caused fay a piece of new yellow nylon rope about 3 feet kg, Sousa said. A length of black nylon rope, knotted in two apota, waa found in tiie anow hear Samson's ravaged body on Dec. 4, 1997, a day alter Michaud and Davegglo were arretted at die Lakeside Inn and Casino. In.

StateWne, NCv. Jurors were shown 'sbund-less video tape recorded after a local man, John Schoetigen, no-. ticed the 22-year-old woman face down on a steep i Highway 88 to a Crater Jfash called Hope 'Vdky. ydled out, couldn't get a rehouse," Schoettgen said. -gins I kind of panicked, got in my car, went to a pay phone and called 911 A deputy recorded the scene as It was found.

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