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Oakland

Industrial port in Alameda County in central California, USA, on the eastern, inland coast of San Francisco Bay; population (2000 est) 399,500. It is linked by the Bay Bridge (opened 1936) with San Francisco. Industries include food-processing, shipbuilding, and the manufacture of vehicles, textiles, and chemicals. The community was laid out in 1852 and became a terminus of the first Transcontinental Railroad in 1869. Extensive port facilities handle much of the freight traffic of the bay area, and include a naval yard and naval air station. A lightship is among its 49 entries on the national register of historic places.

The city was damaged by earthquake in 1989. Shockwaves buckled the bay bridge and an Oakland freeway section collapsed, causing more than 60 deaths.

Oakland was the residence of authors Jack London and Gertrude Stein.



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Fearing that a telephone message to arrest them had been flashed ahead, they had turned into the back-road through the hills, and now, rushing in upon Oakland by a new route, were boisterously discussing what disposition they should make of the constable.
Burning Daylight by London, Jack View in context
We ran up the Oakland Estuary and came to anchor, and in the days that followed, while Neil was ashore, we tightened up the Reindeer's rigging, overhauled the ballast, scraped down, and put the sloop into thorough shape.
Tales of the Fish Patrol by London, Jack View in context
She has never seen Auburn, and during the weeks whose history as it shaped itself in my brain I have endeavored to relate, was living at her home in Oakland, wondering where her lover was and why he did not write.
Can Such Things Be? by Bierce, Ambrose View in context
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