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H HopeChest Member East Bay, CA Joined: Oct 19, 2015 Posts: 508	H HopeChest Posted posted on Fri, Mar 11, 2016 12:57 PM On 2016-03-11 07:20, lucas vigor wrote: always fun to google street view the addresses of businesses from the 50/60s. That travel agent on that book of matches? Now it's the uptown bart station. But judging from the other original buildings around it, it used to be the center of downtown commerce. Actually, the 19th Street BART station just has an entrance right in front of it. It was Capwells for ages, who were then bought by The Emporium, and then for years it was a Sears that got so run down that at one point someone broke one of the windows and they merely boarded it up, never replaced it. It looked abandoned...until you saw someone leave with a shopping bag! It IS closed now - it's the building in white wrap on the google street view. That area of Oakland was originally THE place to shop, and stayed that way for decades. Eventually it got quite run down and by the 80s it was pretty horrid - it stayed that way for a couple of decades more, in spite of the law firms and high rises a couple of blocks away. Then the whole Oaksterdam movement gave the area a huge shot in the arm, and a bunch of new businesses moved in and really turned the area around. Now it's brilliant - tons of restaurants, clubs / music venues, great bars, and fantastic shops.

On 2016-03-11 07:20, lucas vigor wrote:
always fun to google street view the addresses of businesses from the 50/60s. That travel agent on that book of matches? Now it's the uptown bart station. But judging from the other original buildings around it, it used to be the center of downtown commerce.

Actually, the 19th Street BART station just has an entrance right in front of it. It was Capwells for ages, who were then bought by The Emporium, and then for years it was a Sears that got so run down that at one point someone broke one of the windows and they merely boarded it up, never replaced it. It looked abandoned...until you saw someone leave with a shopping bag! It IS closed now - it's the building in white wrap on the google street view.

That area of Oakland was originally THE place to shop, and stayed that way for decades. Eventually it got quite run down and by the 80s it was pretty horrid - it stayed that way for a couple of decades more, in spite of the law firms and high rises a couple of blocks away. Then the whole Oaksterdam movement gave the area a huge shot in the arm, and a bunch of new businesses moved in and really turned the area around. Now it's brilliant - tons of restaurants, clubs / music venues, great bars, and fantastic shops.

Post #760653 by HopeChest on Fri, Mar 11, 2016 12:57 PM