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File photo. In January, some residents expressed concern over a lack of parking at this proposed hotel, still on schedule for Park Street at Clement Avenue.

2019: Year in Review

Dec 27,2019

A look at 2019 through the pages of the Alameda Sun.

Part One: January to June

January

Dennis Evanosky &nbsp&nbsp Joseph Knowland commissioned the building of the Honeymoon Cottage as a wedding gift to his daughter and son-in-law.

Tour Homes this Sunday

Sep 17,2019

The Alameda Museum and the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society (AAPS) present their annual Legacy Home tour this on Sunday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Celebrate Black History Month with Island Poets on Feb. 7

Jan 30,2018

Alameda Island Poets’ monthly free reading Wednesday, Feb. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m., will celebrate Black History Month with local poets Amos White and Wanda Sabir.

File photo A B-25 bomber takes off from the USS Hornet’s flight deck at the beginning of the 1942 Doolittle Raid.

Doolittle Raid Anniversary to Feature Flyover

Mar 28,2017

Alameda Naval Air Museum’s (ANAM) motto — “Come see history in your own backyard” — will have special meaning this Saturday, April 1. The museum invites everyone young and old to visit Alameda Point, where they can look to the skies around 11:45 a.m.

Courtesy Chuck Millar During 1920s and ‘30s, the “Aerial Thompsons,” — known as “The Kings of the Air” and billed in the newspapers as “a pair of vaudeville artists and headliners” — thrilled crowds at Neptune Beach by performing stunts on a wire 175 feet in the air.

Neptune Beach Opened 100 Years Ago this Month

Mar 14,2017

Doolittle Raider Passes

Jun 30,2016

Eric Baker Samuel Austin Chapin, for whom Chapin Street is named, traced his ancestry to, and shared his name with Deacon Samuel Chapin, who played a prominent role in the unfolding history of the Pilgrims in America. The deacon is the subject of this Saint-Gaudens statue in Springfield, Mass.

What’s in a Name: Chapin Street

Feb 23,2016

Chapin Street recalls Samuel Austin Chapin who owned a tract of land in Alameda that bore his family’s name.

Robin Seeley photos. Farrah Morin, Safia Pigott and Abby Hayton sit on the steps of Post Street’s Gold Rush cottage. Others who participated in the Culinary Academy event but not pictured are Daniel, Evan and Vivian Pell.

Panning for Gold in My Kitchen

Jan 27,2016

At 1223 Post St. in Alameda’s East End, a humble Gold Rush-era cottage still stands. It once housed a Norwegian immigrant named Christopher Christensen and his family.

BayAreaRailFan.org The red lines on this 1911 map depict the Alameda streetcar system under the aegis of the Oakland Traction Company, which was part of Francis Marion “Borax” Smith’s Key System. The black dotted lines show the Southern Pacific Railroad’s broad-guage tracks that would become part of the East Bay Electic Lines the year this map was created. East Bay Electric Lines carried the Big Reds. Note the absence of today’s Coast Guard Island at the word “Harbor.” The federal government did not create

Borax’ Smith Takes Over

Apr 21,2021

Dennis Evanosky

Part two in a series

Streetcar service began here in 1875, when the Alameda, Oakland & Piedmont’s (AO&P) horsecar line first carried passengers through town from the Central Pacific Railroad Station at today’s Tilden Way and Lincoln Avenue.

William Gardiner Transportation Collection This building stood at Atlantic Avenue and Webster Street. It served first as a carbarn and stables for Theodor Meetz’ horse-car lines and later as a power station when the lines were converted to electic-powered streetcars, like the one pictured.

Horse-Drawn Streetcars Once Plied Our Streets

Apr 14,2021

Part one in a series

Mid-19th-century Alamedans did not have a convenient way to travel to Oakland. This was especially true for West Enders who had to travel — oftentimes walk— across the peninsula to catch J. P. Potter’s omnibus that ran from Park Street to Oakland.

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