FREE D ISCOVV E R WALKING TOURS Doowwntoowwn Oakland!

Join 90-MINUTE GUIDED WWAALKS through Oakland's dod wntown districts. SEE Chinatown, Cityt Center, City Hall and other nearby developments. DISCOVER Oakland's changing skyline, landmarks, churches, and high-rises.

E TOURS are schedulled TT WEDNESDAAYYS and SAATTURDAAYYS, at 10 AM, MAAYY through OCTOBER See tour schedulee.. RESERRVVAATTIONS are recommendedbut notn required. SPECIAL TOURS arre available for a fee. DISCOVER ofo OLD various a day OAKLAND and time convenientfor your CITY CENTER group. 1 OLD OAKLAND UPTOWN TO THE Call the OAKLANDD HOTLINE at 238-32344 to make 2 CITY CENTER LAKE reservations. 3 UPTOWN TO Or visit www.oaklandnet.com/ 4 PRESER . OAKLAND 5 CHINA 6 JACK LONDON CHINATOWN All tours are by BART and WAATTERFRONT AC T. 7 CHURCHES AND JACK LONDON TEMPLES SCHOOL FIELD TRIPS — our "Know 8 NEW ERA/NEW WATERFRONT Your — are January POLITICS

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NEW ERA/NEW BECOME A W TOUR GUIDE! POLITICS For more call (510) 238-3234. TOUR 1 TOUR 2 Old

Turn-of-the-century Walk through what was landmarks alongside once the western terminus modern high-rises are thhee of the Transcontinental focus off this tour. Explore Railroad! Formerly the upbeat style of the Oakland’ s bustling modern City Center downtowndistrict in the Square and discoverr a days off railroads and "there" there.. Examine streetcars,, this area' s symbols of Oakland' s grand, brick, commercial Sculpture "There!" by Roslyn Mazzilli arrival as a modern 20th © Victorian now century metropolis — the restored, continuetoo thrive Beaux Arts-style City Hall as offices, galleries, and and Rotunda Building, the eateries. Visit the historic , and thhee Washington Inn, G.B. Art Deco-style Financial Ratto & Co. International Center building. Grocers, Swans MEET in front of Marketplace, and the Oakland Hall, "Friends of the Library" One Frank H. Ogawa Plaza. bookstore. PPAARKING is MEET in front of available at the Clay G. B. Rattoo & Co. , 821 Washington Street . Streett.. Enter Street between14th and PPAARKING is 15th streets. available at the Oakland Convention Center. Enter at 11th and Clay streets. T OUR 5

Oakland TOUR 6 Chinaattoowwn Jack London Learn aboutt the Waterffrront ontributionsof Chinese

nd other Asian The images of author mmigrants to the history Jack London will of both and the surround you as you tour Bay Area. S troll along the historic square and markets filled waterfront.. Visit a turn- withhfresh fish a s l of-the-centurywholesale s exotic fruits and produce district still in egetables.. V iew operation and see thhee hanging displays in the USS Potomacc, the Oakland Asian Cultural restored yachtt of Center. President Franklin D. MEET at Pacific Roosevelt. Renaissance Plaza Fountain, 9th Street MEET on the between and of Webster Streettss Broadway Embarcadero Street PPAARKING is available at Pacific PPAARKING is Renaissance Garage. available at various Enter on Webster or garages Franklin Street surface lots in the between9th and area. 11th streets. TOUR 4 Preservation TOUR 3 Park

Uptowwnn A walking tour of a to the Victorian-era district, Lake adjacent to nearby modern office towers. Sites include the historic A walking tour of the First Unitarian Church, Uptown District with an the emphasis on Art Deco! Museum, and more than Tour includes the a dozen elegantly Paramount Theatre, restored, 19th centurryy Historic Sweet's Ballroom, houses — now serving as theeFox Theateerr nonprofit offices, meeting (restoration underway), rooms, and conferenccee and the roof spaces — in a beautiful garden with viewss of Lake garden setting. Merritt. MEET at park MEET in front of the 13th Paramount Theatre, Street and Martin 2025 Broadway . LutherrK ing, Jr. Way. PPAARKING is at PPAARKING is Telegraph Plaza available at City Garage, Telegraph Center t Avenuee between Garage. E nter on 21st and 22nd Jefferson Street streets. between14th and 12th streets. TOUR 8

TOUR 7

Stroll through downtown and discoverr the places where Oakland African American leaders have

Visit historic places of made their mark. Learn worship and learn about how Lionel Wilson, their architecture and Delilah Beasley, Robert influence on the Maynard, the Dellums developmenttoof Oakland. family, Josephine Baker, Highlighted buildings and others changed the include First Presbyterian, Bay Area and California. First Congregational, and MEET on the steps of the African First Christian churches as useum well as Temple Sinai. and 14th PPAARKING is MEET in front of LutherrK ing, Jr. available at the the First Way. City Center West Presbyterian Garage. Enter at Church, Broadway and 27th Street. between12th and 14th streets PPAARKING is available at curbside meters. OAKLAND TOURS PROGRAM ARKETING DIVISION OFFICE OF THE CITY ADMINISTRATOR www.oaklandnet.com/walkingtours