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THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE LOCAL 3 SUNDAY, February 15, 2004 Exhibit follows life of Hemy J. Kaiser in Oakland end of the lake the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, following an extensive budding retrofit and renovation. Now this public structure too serves as an enduring legacy to a true American visionary. Author Bath Bifliwf Story of a available at the Main Ubrsry HHny Room, contains more on to Ha and influence of J.

Kaiser. The Oakland Tours Program offers tours of he Kaiser Canter roof top gardens. Cal 238-. 3234 for addKonal information. An exhibition on the life of Henry J.

Kaiser and his impact on the modem eco-nomlc and cultural landscape of America and the world Is on view at die Oakland Museum of California's history level special gallery through Aug. 29. Henry J. Kaiser: Think Big" consists of three sections with titles from Kaiser's own often-quoted homespun slogans. from the Capwell's Depart- The first section, Together ment Store.

Throughout the We Build, traces the bidding 1940s and 1950s Kaiser man-entrepreneur's early construe-tlon projects, beginning with road-building ventures In British Columbia In the 1920s, and dam and bridge projects In the 1930s. The 1940s saw Hurry Up Henry, die can-do Industrialist, plunging Into ship building on a $and scale, and transforming such communities as Richmond and Qak: land, practically overnight. Dare to Dream outlines Kaiser's quest to develop and market innovative products (ranging from household ap- from his penthouse quarters on Broadway when not traveling something he did Incessantly. Ka soot outgrew' the st( Beaux Arts-style office building, and directed his agents to make an oilier to the Sisters of Holy NamesCollege whose lushly landscaped 7-ame campus facing Lake. MdTitt was UP lOT SuC At 390 feetand 28 stories, the company headquarters 1 building, designed by Los An- site on Lake Merritt for his new seen here, completed in 1960.

niianiy to affordable automo- biles as the country make the transition to a peace-time economy. His role as the developer of master-planned residential communities Is also highlighted. Perhaps i Kaisers most 11- pZootowww.b mMM.ociety.net. ex cal (707) w-MK tor mors intonation, Anurtsr of museum public pro- mating totoKatar etdvbi- rtbotingpUoainto nnmkifi irumlha rrmsi ft tfrim Wah comna mofnit, coniuninR vrao 238-2200 to tom mora geles-basedi IVelton Beckett and Associate, was said to be the largest commercial structure when It opened In September 1960. A dramatic example of the international style then popular for corporate The Henry J.

Kaiser Convention Center, lOTenlh St, is to locator tortoWestCoastfituesHriof Fame Awards Show next Saturday en-durlng legacy, the Kaiser Per-manente Medical Care Program an early version erf an HMO is explored In the section An Idea for the Entire Country. It includes a state-of-the-art maternity ward room, complete with nursery drawer, Installed along side a new mother's hospital bed. Born to German Immigrants In upstate New York In 1882, Kaiser quit school at age 13 and never looked back, say library history room flies. He got his start as a photograph supplies salesman and came West at age 23, where he became Involved In road building, taking on contracts up and down the West Coast. In the early years, say the files, his wife, Bess, and two sons sometimes accompanied him on the road-bulldlng projects.

On a swing through Oakland early In 1921, the family took stock of beautiful Lake Merritt, and the citys strategic dowed a hospital for the poor, location for rail, road and ship says history author Beth Bag- building the facade's glass curtain wall composed of gold aluminum alloy panels 'set In natural finish aluminum mullions, caused quite a stir In architectural circles when It was first unveiled. The frequently photo- buildings Image rein Lake Merritt's shimmering waters seems (as one architectural critic phrased It) to cordially turn toward you at every vantage point The hospltalhealth care arm of Kaiser's conglomerate set up shop In the former Fa-blola Hospital complex on Broadway and Moss Street (now MacArthur Boulevard) In 1942. Fablola is listed as Oakland's first hospital, formed In 1876 by a jjoup of women' concerned the city was totally lacking In facilities lor the Injured pom (Fablola comes from Roman times a noblewoman named Fablola en- KERRY J. WISER chose a 4 --V- Sjr- I ifaUVWMI FLE PHOTO corporate headquarters, vimwmM ipimlW 1405 tu 4171 CueNag Partway 510-77WW0 RfM 206VMueWw 41589688 3MNMi8t 510-2500720 Ut 1701 Bum SI K0-286-3888 m. transport.

Kaiser decided to make Oakland home base for -his growing operations. Described as a stout balding, moon-faced individual with a brain sizzling with Innovative ideas, Kaiser stood 6 feet tall and weighed 240 pounds. As the last of the so-called self-made American Industrialists, he had a knack, say the files, for getting his own way. Directories reveal his first office (one room) was located hi the Westlake Building on San Pablo across the plaza from City Hall. He later moved to the Latham Square Building on Telegraph, and then again to 1924 Broadway, across For overni9ht delivery to your doorstep: verizonwireless.com E1.

800.2 JOIN 1.800.256.4646 well). Kaiser Hospital construction teams remodeled and expanded the former Fablola site, making use of Kaiser Industry building materials, transforming It Into the midtl-bullding campus as it exists today. Henry J. Kaiser's energetic tenure on earth came to an end In 1967, when he died at age 85. In the early 1980s, city leaders opted to honor the man who had chosen Oakland for his home and his business headquarters and who had contributed to the community In so many ways by renaming the Municipal Auditorium (built in 1915) on the south m.

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