Bibliograph

Alameda, Greta Dutcher and Stephen Rowland

Type

Label

Alameda, Greta Dutcher and Stephen Rowland

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Alameda

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Greta Dutcher and Stephen Rowland

Summary

Alameda was once a peninsula of grassy fields and sandy beaches, separated from Oakland by a snaking estuary. A tidal canal made Alameda an island in 1902 and its waterfront became a major shipping portrait Park Street's bay-windowed commercial buildings looked out on a prosperous city of streetcars and comfortable homes. Between the two world wars, Alameda's Neptune Beach resort and amusement park became the "Coney Island of the West," eventually boasting a Moorish entrance tower on Webster Street, a stadium, two swimming pools, a high dive, and a roller coaster called the "Whoopie." Alameda's strategic location made its "airdrome" the busiest in the world in the 1930s and eventually attracted a U.S. Coast Guard base, known as Government Island, and the Alameda Naval Air Station

Target audience

adult

Classification