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Edward Guthmann has lived in Rockridge since 1977. He was a staff film critic and arts reporter at the San Francisco Chronicle from 1984 to 2009. His email address is edward5430@comcast.net Broadway Pet Hospital Open 7 days a week! 4920 Broadway, Oakland ...

By Edward Guthmann

From “Temescal Legacies,” by Jeff Norman. Rockridge BART station and freeway under construction, January, 1968. “Courtesy of BART.” by Edward Guthmann This is the second half of a two-part oral history of Rockridge and the con- struction of BART and the Grove-Shafter Freeway in the mid- and late 1960s. Last month, a number of current and former residents recalled the years leading up to ...

By Edward Guthmann

by Edward Guthmann When I moved to Rockridge in 1977, it never occurred to me to ask when the Grove- Shafter Freeway (Highway 24) and BART were established, and how different the neighborhood might have looked and felt previously. One day my neighbor Pat Nol...

By Edward Guthmann

Eric Clausen, RR and Temescal resident 1959-2009: We knew every inch of that creek, from Lake Temescal down to Claremont and Telegraph where the DMV is now. Edward Guthmann: Rockridge was developed after the 1906 earthquake, when thousands of displaced San Franciscans moved across the Bay. It was a modest, unpretentious neighborhood – not the shopping destination and restaurant center it has become. To subscr...

By Edward Guthmann

CLOSED Sun and Mon by Edward Guthmann If you pause in front of 5451 College Avenue, you’ll see this signature inscribed in cement: “Mary Martin 1985.” Look closer and you’ll see the handprints, n o w f a i n t from age, that the Broadway legend left in the sidewalk. You’re at ...

From Civic Good to Drag Shows, The RIC Has Served North Oakland for 112 Years By Edward Guthmann

...e. One of Sam’s greatest joys, Mateo says, was biking around the neighbor- hood and catching up with a friend, acquaintance, or store clerk. “I think my dad serves as a reminder of what it can look like to be a member of a community.” n by Edward Guthmann At Angkor Wat, the ancient temple complex in Cambodia, Sam Martinez was vacationing this past February with his wife Brenda Bloomfield. One day they met a young South Korean man who looked alarm- ingly like their late son Marco. Eerily,

Pat Nolan — A Life Across the Decades By Edward Guthmann F Bud, who died in 2005, could top that: He was born in 1930 and grew up around the corner at 5455 Boyd Ave. Except for two years in the Army, he lived his entire life in a one-block radius. “When Bud was growing up, College Avenue was the...

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