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By Ed Aust

See “Expansion” on page 3 clickety-clack of Rockridge’s railroad a track, Jennifer Katz’ article on page 8 REMEMBERING will bring it all back. THE 1991 Fire ; wy RCPC Neighborhood The North Hills and Montclair Phoenix Meeting Agenda Associations invite people who live or did Wednesday, October 16, 1996 live in the fire zone t...

By Gay Ducey

Maya Byrne Nissanka Susan Carrier .... Mary MacDonald ... Jacqueline Frost Jennifer Katz Don Kinkead Distribution Annette Floystrup Editing Are there community issues you’d like to see covered in The Rockridge News? Call 814-6060, or write to 5856 College Avenue, #130, Oakland 94618. Publication date of the next issue is Octob...

By Theresa Nelson

¢ Exploring Victorian Rockridge A slide presentation by Jennifer Katz on the develop- ment of Rockridge during the Victorian era (see photo and caption on page 7).

Exploring Victorian Rockridge—The Simonds house (pictured above) at the southeast corner of Hudson and Shafter—plus many more—will be featured in a slide lecture titled “Exploring Victorian Rockridge” to be given by Jennifer Katz at the July 20 RCPC General Meeting. The presentation will be a survey of homes and businesses built in Rockridge before 1901, with an emphasis on the history of the district and its pioneering settlers. The Simonds house was designed in 1...

...llege Avenue Com- mercial District. The tour begins at 10 a.m.and will lastapproximately two hours. The cost is $4 for OHA members and $6 general. No reservations are necessary. Meet at the comer of College and Kales opposite Diesel Books. Jennifer Katz and Sharon Moore, who have previously led tours of Temescal and Rockridge neigh- borhoods, will conduct the walk. The tour will focus on the history of College Avenue, highlighting residential and com- mercial buildings of the 1910s and 19...

cally, College Avenue’s commercial dis- trict is the subject of anew walking tour on Sunday, July 30, from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m., led by local historian Jennifer Katz and long-time walking tour guide Sharon Moore.

And more yet: On Thursday, May 18, at 7:30 p.m., Oakland historian Jennifer Katz will give a lecture and slide show entitled “Lost Mansions to Modern Bungalows, Life in Victorian Rockridge.” Admission is free (the locale is the Music Room on CPS’s campus) but res- ervations are necessary.

May 18 Jennifer Katz Slide Show

...- ously opened their homes and kitchens to our tour guests, patiently answered ques- tions, and made themselves available for many preliminary house visits. Without you, here would have been no tour: Ryan Pearl and Rory Glenn, Carol Emert, Jennifer Daskal and Jesse Attix, Judith Katz and Steven Grady, Jen and Brian McKillips, Jeanee and Tony Hoffman, Bryan Heckenlively and Shilpi Agarwal, and Jody London and Mike Aronson, Maikao Grare and David Pingatore, and Jenn Ritchey and Sachin Agarw...