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The concrete Bushrod Park sign in front of a lawn and bare winter trees — The entrance to Bushrod Park at 59th and Shattuck. Photo: Sapphic , 2008 · Public domain

A chain-link gate with a green arched sign reading City of Oakland Bushrod Ballfields — The gate to the Bushrod ball fields. Photo: Sapphic , 2008 · Public domain

Panorama of Bushrod Park’s ball fields and soccer fields with houses and the East Bay hills behind — Bushrod Park’s fields, with the Oakland hills beyond. Photo: Sapphic , 2008 · Public domain

The corner storefront of Lois the Pie Queen with its red and white signs reading Lunches Dinners — Lois the Pie Queen at 60th and Adeline. Photo: Eugene Kim , 2011 · CC BY 2.0

Close-up of the Lois the Pie Queen sign — The famous sign. Photo: Evan P. Cordes , 2005 · CC BY 2.0

The illuminated Starry Plough Pub sign at night reading food and ales, live music, tradition — The Starry Plough on Shattuck, lit up for a night of music. Photo: rick (Flickr) , 2007 · CC BY 2.0

A brick storefront with green café tables in Temescal Alley — Temescal Alley, off 49th Street. Photo: Sharon Hahn Darlin , 2016 · CC BY 2.0

The Temescal Branch of the Oakland Public Library — The Temescal Branch Library, home of the Oakland Tool Lending Library. Photo: Mx. Granger , 2023 · CC0

The Golden Gate Branch Library on San Pablo Avenue — The Golden Gate Branch Library on San Pablo Avenue. Photo: Mike Linksvayer , 2009 · CC0

The pink Spanish-revival former University High School building with its bell tower — The former University High School, later Merritt College, at 5714 MLK Jr Way. Photo: Sanfranman59 , 2009 · CC BY-SA 3.0

Shops along Telegraph Avenue under a Welcome to Temescal banner — Telegraph Avenue in Temescal, just south of Bushrod. Photo: Mx. Granger , 2023 · CC0

A row of early-1900s houses on a North Oakland street — Early-1900s homes in North Oakland. Photo: Mx. Granger , 2017 · CC0

A sunny residential street lined with Victorian and Craftsman houses — Victorian and Craftsman houses on a North Oakland street. Photo: Fabio Achilli , 2016 · CC BY 2.0

The main entrance to Ashby BART station — Ashby BART, the closest station for most of Bushrod. Photo: Pi.1415926535 , 2018 · CC BY-SA 3.0

UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland — UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital Oakland on 52nd Street. Photo: Mx. Granger , 2023 · CC0

Black-and-white photo of women and children in long coats and hats under the arched Telegraph Avenue entrance to Idora Park — The Telegraph Avenue entrance to Idora Park, 1912. Photo: Cheney Photo Advertising Company , 1912 · Public domain

Black-and-white panorama over Idora Park’s roller coaster, carousel building, and crowds — Idora Park around 1910, from the Joseph R. Knowland Collection, Oakland Public Library. Photo: Unknown photographer , c. 1910 · Public domain

A 1911 map of the Key System train and streetcar lines across the East Bay — The Key System’s East Bay lines in 1911. Photo: Key System , 1911 · Public domain

Black-and-white photo of Don Budge in tennis whites mid-stroke in front of a packed grandstand — Don Budge in 1938, the year of his Grand Slam. Photo: Unknown photographer , 1938 · Public domain

Rickey Henderson riding in the back of a parade truck with a sign reading Rickey Henderson, Class of 2009 — Hall of Famer Rickey Henderson (Class of 2009) in a Hall of Fame parade, 2011. Photo: Krusty from Saint Paul, MN , 2011 · CC BY-SA 2.0

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