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Port View Park, Oakland
The main feature of Port View Park in Oakland is what locals call the Seventh Street Pier. It’s a popular fishing pier that offers good views of the nearby Bay Bridge and the San Francisco skyline. The Port of Oakland Container Terminal is also nearby — not a bucolic feature, but not without interest since [...]
Posted: March 5th, 2007 under fishing, history, oakland, parks, piers.
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Embarcadero Piers Restored
For years now strollers along the Embarcadero have passed a stretch just north of the Ferry Building where nothing much ever seemed to be happening. This is piers 1½, 3, and 5, where nearly derelict building have long lain dormant. (Odd-numbered piers are north of the Ferry Building, formerly the main entrance to the city, [...]
Posted: November 28th, 2006 under embarcadero, piers.
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