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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VICTORY
1943 Oakland Tribune Yearbook illustrated by Paul A. Schmitt.
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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Previously unpublished February 3, 1958 photo taken by Oakland Tribune staff photographer Keith Dennison.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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Oakland, CA April 5, 1990 - Shauna Van Ooster, 2, meets the A’s mascot. (Ron Riesterer / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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REV. MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DIES
Oakland, CA April 8, 1968 - A young boy wipes away tears as a Alameda County Peace and Freedom Party and Black Panther Party sponsored march heads east on 49th Street. Sign at left references the death of Martin Luther King Jr. (Russ Reed / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
Crowd at City Hall Plaza for a service in honor of MLK held by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. (Bill Crouch / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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John Bittner, Oakland Oaks pitcher for the 1938 season, pictured in March 1938.
This Sunday’s “Trip in Time” will be all about the Pacific Coast League team online and in print.
(Photo from the Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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IT’S BASEBALL SEASON
Actress and baseball fan Mamie Van Doren visiting Concord, California October 10, 1963.
(Ron Riesterer / Oakland Tribune Staff Archives)
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WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH
California Quartermaster Repair Sub-Depot Laborers
Oakland, CA October 1944 - The Oakland Army Post Quartermaster repair sub-depot, located at 69th Avenue and Foothill Boulevard, supplied troops during World War II by repairing clothing and equipment. More than 2,000 civilian employees worked at the sub-depot, most of them women.
Mrs. Commye Griffin of Berkeley mended damaged tents. About 50 tents were mended each day. (photo 1)
Mrs. Evelyn Wofford of Oakland was a fork-lift operator while her husband was in the Seabees. (photo 2)
Mrs. Ruby Battenfeld and Mrs. Dorothy Elliott, both of Oakland, operated a hydraulic machine to smooth dented water canteens - up to 600 per day. (photo 3)
(All photos from the Oakland Tribune Staff 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
