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Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 20

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Oakland Tribunei
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Oakland, California
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20
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4-LOGAL SUNDAY, Novambar 29, 199frq THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE City Hall tour gives a taste of early days in Oakland IN EMERYVILLE -'Mill'-'' MrpE! Illlll IIMUllMil-' Bttwii iiiAirtiiiHgimitr BAY ABHfl' LflB6T BH6 T0BI fg I fls diamonds are loreueiy slriigs are timeless inil beauty anil craltsra A giftof a fug 111 lioliday is a lasting gift- pp HE Oakland Tours A Pro-am will feature -tours of the newly opened Frank H. --Ogawa Plaza, City HaU and the city administrative con-' plex on the first Tuesday of every month starting this week. The tour starts at 10 a.m. Since the city's earliest days the Junction where Broadway, 14th Street and San Pablo Avenue connect has been a otail Originally a cattle trail used by vaqueros during the rancho era, San Pablo radiates north at an -C A. Records show the route prob-' ably was forged by generations of.

Inhabitants Journeying by foot across the past Bay plain. Later; stagecoaches rumbled north on. thelr way to Martinez and Sacra- menta; .17 Since the 185Qs, a succession of city hall buildings has stood just west of the trialar ped. Today's todink Qty Hall wi 'th Its Bcjaux Arts-style facade crowned by an ornate tower, opened in' 1914; Jt was the.nadpn's flrsl ex- ample of a "skyscraper" city hall where the. dally business, funcv tlons of running a along wlQi i IT I r-.

i H. Ogawa Plaza area will begin -vv I I- bostel Intended all municipal age--ncles; Including th; fireahd-' police departments; to be head- quartered jA. City Hali; There were even tell cells cctriicted up in the City Hall laces east acrci as the Plaza Bulldlngi Its rjenoya tJpn Is Just getting under wayiy Built In 1013 by architects 7:: Matthew O'Brien and Carl Werner; responsible for several noteworthy commercial buildings in San Francisco and the Plaza Building Is clad with at $09.99 at $39.99 at $25.99 at 6.99 Jack Wtiflop oak tree, toward I AlVT)lVf ABKS hierringbone-pattemd brick the newly completed Jjonel TT: panels and features a pntfa; Wufiuildlng4ablnaMv modlRrV ofddand new structured "VP-. lions and lion heads? brass railing were care-'' historic wiiigoftheconv v. i i' 'V'' seismic upgrades are complete, shape, was erected in iw as wuiui.vui-.nu me building wiu be ollered for headmiarterslOT.the First Na r-vieasev'-v JMB 100 COTTON I ll iliil RUGS FROM INDIA IT-TT mi rtiWTII mil Ifl IfllHrlWlllliI stands the second administration IBank, chitectl ilate wltl ArcM with, VEKZrSSrrraCr--: associate the noted New.

V- Tuesdas 90-nunute tour; the Adjacent to the number to call Is (510) York. aty firm p.f: Burnham tame west to oversee the con- newr struc- The tour starts on -'the front steps slructlon of the eight-story OffHall. LCSEWCIGHT! 1 I lUTt COTTON WAVE I callyPeauxArtSrStyle structure. Thenewwlngl constructed by the Fentress-. Bradburri Hehsel Phelps team) Is Intended to i.be similar to scale and fenestration, to Its historic butcohtemplDtrar The addition of the new wing selsnUcally strengthens the pld and the floor plates merge sea- mlessly together lilsadonl care about you.r' We'll give you all the fuppod ypii need, Supppesunu for appettle and food cravings.

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