I wonder what happened, I was a kid in Alameda,1958. (Oakland: apartment, city hall)

[bluescityleon]

Boy Scout, sunday school, paper route with the Oakland TRIB,What happened....I always longed to go back, but its not there RIGHT>I WILL SAVE MY GAS? (

[Tallysmom]

Originally Posted by bluescityleon

Boy Scout, sunday school, paper route with the Oakland TRIB,What happened....I always longed to go back, but its not there RIGHT>I WILL SAVE MY GAS? (

Alameda is still there, and Alameda is still nice. Will it be the same as 1958?

Of course not. It's been fifty years. Alameda has it's own newspaper. There's been tremendous growth. Since 1958 a lot has happened.

Is it worth you coming back? Why not? Come out and take a look. You may not want to move back here, but it would be fun to take a vacation out here and see what's happened since you left.

[shannybannany]

Alameda's paper is the Time-Star, I believe

[Ultrarunner]

A lot changed with the base closings...

[bluescityleon]

Originally Posted by Tallysmom

Alameda is still there, and Alameda is still nice. Will it be the same as 1958?

Of course not. It's been fifty years. Alameda has it's own newspaper. There's been tremendous growth. Since 1958 a lot has happened.

Is it worth you coming back? Why not? Come out and take a look. You may not want to move back here, but it would be fun to take a vacation out here and see what's happened since you left.

THANKS WILL YOU BAKE ME SOME COOKIES AND SEW ON MY TROOP 17 PATCHES,,,,,,,,,,KIDDING.....WE LIVED IN tHE dILLER hOUSE........IT WAS GREAT IN THE SCOUTS........PERFECT ,THANK YOU FOR HELPING ME REMEMBER

[tennis368fan]

Some of the changes Alameda has endured since 1958:

Alameda Theatre stopped operating as a cinema in 1979 and was architecturally neglected for many years. This year, it has reopened as a cinema, fully restored and larger than ever before.

Longs Drugs has been remodeled to resemble the Art Deco style of the theatre.

A new main library replaced the Carnegie library across from Longs and the City Hall.

The addition of several new residential districts, including South Shore, Harbor Bay, Marina Village, and the redevelopment of the former Naval Air Station, resulting in Bayport and the yet-to-be-constructed Alameda Landing. A water taxi or aerial gondola will be in place to connect to Jack London Square and a new commercial center will be built in the vincity.

South Shore Center is now "Alameda Towne Centre". Mervyns, JC Penney's, and Ross have all closed. Mervyns will be replaced with Kohl's, and Ross has been replaced with TJ Max.

The "West End" came to be the "poor" side of town, though it is far from being like Oakland's notorious neighborhoods. A few years ago, redevelopment began to force the emigration of lower income households from the West End to other parts of the Bay Area, notably the Harbor Isles Apartment evictions, to make way for market-rate rentals and homes.

Some people complain of airplane noise from the nearby OAK airport, but for many, it does not bother them.

Alameda is more racially diverse. Local schools have a significant Asian population along with the existing European-American population.

Alameda Power and Telecom still provides electricity to locals, however it solf off its broadband and cable television unit to Comcast.

In general, Alameda is still a great place to live and to raise a family, but now has a older population, as demonstrated by the decreasing student generation rates. However, it has become very expensive compared to other parts of the nation in terms of homes, though not quite as expensive now following the housing value declines.

Alameda also has the Alameda Journal.

[City Boy]

Do you expect any place to be the same after 50 years?

[bluescityleon]

Originally Posted by shannybannany

Alameda's paper is the Time-Star, I believe

The Star was the local paper and the Trib was the Oakland paper........

[bluescityleon]

Originally Posted by City Boy

Do you expect any place to be the same after 50 years?

no.........that's just the way old people talk..........especially when they have country roots.........but knowing about Phillis Diller by buying her house was a gas HHAA HHHHHAAAAAAA.

[Taboo2]

Originally Posted by bluescityleon

The Star was the local paper and the Trib was the Oakland paper........

They are the same papers with mainly the same articles and only a minimal differences (the local section). Now of course the times star is the mercury is the coco times is the san mateo County times etc...