Oakland, CA March 2, 1928 - Dale Winter and husband Henry Duffy break ground for the Dufwin Theater at Seventeenth Street, between Telegraph and San Pablo.
(Mose Cohen / Oakland Tribune)
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Oakland, CA May 1, 1937 - Children weave streamers around the May pole at the Oakland Zoological Gardens in part of the country celebration of May Day.
(Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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Pittsburg, CA February 15, 1950 - Vince DiMaggio helps his wife Lee in the kitchen. DiMaggio was managing the Pittsburg Diamonds, a minor league baseball team.
(Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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Broadway and Telegraph at 15h Street circa 1956. (Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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PARAMOUNT THEATRE
Workers install the neon marquee in 1931. (File Photo)
A slideshow on the restoration of the theatre is now online: http://photos.mercurynews.com/2013/04/24/the-restoration-of-the-paramount-theatre-is-celebrated-at-the-art-deco-preservation-ball/
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Exterior of Delger Building at 13th and Broadway Streets in Oakland home to Owl Drug and New York Hat Stores circa January 1934. The building just peeking behind is City Hall. (Mose Cohen / Oakland Tribune)
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Owl Drug Co.
Men and women have lunch at the soda fountain inside the Owl Drug at 13th and Broadway circa January 1934. (Mose Cohen / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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1906 EARTHQUAKE & FIRE
Aftermath
Make shift “tent cities” were soon erected in city parks. A child and a grandmother are among the displaced sitting in the grass in the first photo.
In the second photo, residents cook on the sidewalk of Fillmore Street. Indoor cooking was forbidden for those left with a house and all cooking was done on the city sidewalks to prevent further fire.
Long breadlines which could extend for many city blocks were guarded by troops fed several times daily. A close up of the faces waiting for soup in the third photo.
(All photos Edward “Doc” Rogers)
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1906 EARTHQUAKE & FIRE
At 5:12 a.m., San Francisco was awoken by violent shaking leading to one of the deadliest natural disasters to ever hit California.
The earthquake ruptured gas lines and water mains causing the city to burn for three days.
In the first photo, the fires sweep into the city from the waterfront as residents make a mass exodus in the foreground.
In the second photo, firemen attempt to control the blazes.
The third photo shows a fire in progress.
The fourth photo, one of Doc’s most famous images of the earthquake, policemen patrol Market Street near The Call building.
(Photos attributed to Edward “Doc” Rogers)
Tomorrow will include photos from the aftermath.
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Four pages of the April 18, 1906 evening edition available for reading on our DocumentCloud.
Pages 1 and 3 from microfilm, 2 and 4 from photographed copy.
