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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LOCAL HERO
San Francisco, CA April 13, 1959 - Bill Rigney, wearing an orange lei, waves to happy fans. The SF Giants opened their 1959 season with a parade of 100,000 fans in the Financial District.
Bill Rigney was a native of Alameda, California. He played with the PCL Oakland Oaks and New York Giants; managed the Giants, Angels and Twins; and was broadcaster for the Athletics.
(Buck Joseph / Oakland Tribune)
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PAUL ROBESEON
April 9, 1898 - January 23, 1976
Today is singer and activist Paul Robeson’s birthday. Despite a popular career as a stage and film actor, Robeson was blacklisted for his political views during the McCarthy era.
To learn more about his life and his fight for civil fights, a viewing of PBS’ American Masters: Paul Robeson is recommended.
Previously unpublished February 3, 1958 photo taken by Oakland Tribune staff photographer Keith Dennison. Flyer for appearance at the Oakland Auditorium from the Tribune Archives.
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HAPPY EASTER
Oakland, CA September 2, 1950 - “Peter Rabbit” answers the door for cousins Diane and Stephen Russo at Children’s Fairyland.
(Jim Edelen / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
Women’s Army Corps
San Francisco, CA November 9, 1953 - Members of the Sixth Army Women’s Army Corps drill team. Front row from left: WAC Corporal June Meacher, WAC Private first class Nancy Huellmantel, Marine Pfc. Beverley Hoiby and Marine Cpl. Pat Thorley. Row row from left: WAC Cpl. Iva Sherrard, WAC Pfc. Pat Cox, Marine staff sergeant Barbara Lee and Marine Sergeant Margaret Maul.
(Photo by Albert “Kayo” Harris / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
For the general history of the WAAC and WAC please visit, http://www.armywomen.org/wacHistory.shtml
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ALCATRAZ CLOSES
50 years ago on March 21, 1963, famed Alcatraz Prison was ordered closed by Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
In the first photo, guard Gordon Gronzo leaves his station at the dock tower for the last time. (Photo by Keith Dennison / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
Photo 2: April 1957 aerial (Photo by Russ Reed Plane flown by Warren Boggess / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
Photo 3: January 17, 1968 - Inmate graffiti inside Alcatraz (Russ Reed / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
Photo 4: March 16, 1956 - A guard on the main cell block during the first press open house. (Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
Slideshow of the prison then and now: http://photos.mercurynews.com/2013/03/20/tourists-flock-to-alcatraz-island-50-years-after-prison-closes/
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Oakland, CA March 13, 1951 - Nancy Baldwin, Jean Burt, Una Kennedy, Betty Tapley and Sheila Sewall, dressed in Irish costumes, took part in five-day dance institute at Mills College. The girls performed Irish song and dance for St. Patrick’s Day.
(Photo by Robert Stinnett / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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GIRL SCOUTS
Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts on this day in May 12, 1912.
Photo 1: Oakland, CA April 29, 1983 - Terri Henderson of Troop 32. (Bill Knowland)
Photo 2: Oakland, CA March 6, 1950 - Members of Brownie Troop No. 12 of Glenview Elementary School, all age 7, in this exhibit “How a Brownie Scout Can Help in the Home” at the Oakland Exposition Building. Karen Kern plays the piano, Donna Jean Archibald sets the table, Meredith Muller sews and Marvis Braun babysits. (Lonnie Wilson)
Photo 3: Oakland, CA April 3, 1940 - Fay Weiser, Nancy Norwood and Margaret Sherwood of the Oakland Girl Scouts raising funds through the annual cookie sale. (Tribune Staff Archives)
Photo 4: Oakland, CA March 6, 1950 - Carole Saurn, Carol Parry, Darol de Menia, Ruth de Menia, Ruth Anne Rose and Sylvia Howes, all 7, make egg shell gardens at the Girl Scout exhibition. They were all members of Brownie Troop No. 212 of Hawthorne Elementary School. (Lonnie Wilson)
Photo 5: Oakland, CA March 6, 1950 - Demonstrating the musical instruments they made are Andrea Cohen, Oleta Mayfield and Lynn Pirire, all 8 years old, of Brownie Troop No. 22. More than 430 Girl Scouts participated in the expo. (Lonnie Wilson)
(All photos from the Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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BLACK HISTORY MONTH
Oakland, CA May 22, 1955 - Thurgood Marshall, as an attorney for the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, speaks at the Oakland Auditorium on the one year anniversary of desegregation in public schools.
In 1967 Marshall became the first African-American justice on the United States Supreme Court.
(Photo by Mose L. Cohen / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
