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Alameda

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Alameda

City in Alameda County, north-central California, USA; population (1990) 76,500. It is located mainly on two islands on the east side of San Francisco Bay, across Oakland Harbour to the southwest of the city of Oakland. San Leandro Bay lies to the southeast. Settled in the 1850s on part of Rancho San Antonio, it became an island city after the harbour was successfully channelled in 1902. Waterfront industries include shipbuilding, lumber milling, steel fabrication, and the handling of fishing and cargo vessels.

Its larger island is 10 km/6.5 mi long. It was the site of Alameda Naval Air station, a major carrier base, which was closed in 1993. The College of Alameda (1970) is situated here. The city has extensive Victorian and modern residential neighbourhoods. The smaller Coast Guard (or Government) Island is a training centre and service community. Alameda has popular parks, municipal beaches, and facilities for boating and fishing.



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Therefore she could answer, he was off again, his mind's eye filled with this new city of his dream which he builded on the Alameda hills by the gateway to the Orient.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
Yet, in the early morning Peter Winn learned by telephone that his sister's home in Alameda had been burned to the ground.
The Night-Born by London, Jack View in context
Nor could he have guessed that the particular five dollars that belonged to him had been appropriated by the business manager for the painting of his house in Alameda, which painting he performed himself, on week-day afternoons, because he could not afford to pay union wages and because the first scab he had employed had had a ladder jerked out from under him and been sent to the hospital with a broken collar-bone.
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