She is on the Board of the OneCalifornia Bank, Oakland, California-based community development bank.

Public transportation includes the AC Transit buses ( which include express buses to San Francisco ) and two ferry services — the Alameda / Oakland Ferry and the Alameda Harbor Bay Ferry.

Even though the island is just minutes off Interstate 880 in Oakland, the speed limit for the city is 25 mph ( 40 km / h ) on almost every road.

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The chase scene featured Lola T70 Mk. IIIs with dummy turbine engines racing against Yamaha TA125 / 250cc 2-stroke race replica motorcycles through two San Francisco Bay Area automotive tunnels: the Caldecott Tunnel between Oakland and Orinda, and the underwater Posey Tube between Oakland and Alameda.

The Redskins ' five appearances are tied with the San Francisco 49ers, Green Bay Packers, Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders, New York Giants, and Miami Dolphins.

The Redskins ' three wins are tied with the Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders, and New England Patriots.

The First Transcontinental Railroad ( known originally as the " Pacific Railroad " and later as the " Overland Route ") was a railroad line built in the United States of America between 1863 and 1869 by the Central Pacific Railroad of California and the Union Pacific Railroad that connected its statutory Eastern terminus at Council Bluffs, Iowa / Omaha, Nebraska ( via Ogden, Utah, and Sacramento, California ) with the Pacific Ocean at Oakland, California on the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay opposite San Francisco.

Jackson played for the Kansas City / Oakland Athletics ( 1967 – 1975, 1987 ), Baltimore Orioles ( 1976 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 – 1981 ), and California Angels ( 1982 – 1986 ).

** The Alameda / Oakland Ferry

Roads that are not maintained by a local community ( city / village ) are maintained by the independent Road Commission for Oakland County, which is governed by three board members appointed by the Oakland County Board of Commissioners.

With the coming of Interstate 80 in 1958, the town evolved in a suburban bedroom community within the San Francisco / Oakland commuter belt.

Wood Memorial Jr / Sr High School located in Oakland City.

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* On the name Novi in History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

* Mickey Marvin ( born 1955 ), American football player Oakland / Los Angeles Raiders

* Mike Hershberger, MLB player for the Chicago White Sox, Kansas City / Oakland Athletics, and the Milwaukee Brewers

* Marc Wilson, retired NFL Quarterback ( Oakland / LA Raiders, 1980 – 1988 ; New England Patriots, 1989 – 1990 )

* Al Davis, former owner of the Los Angeles / Oakland Raiders

However, he has been a participant / player in the annual Taco Bell All-Star Legends and Celebrity Softball Game wearing an A's cap to represent Oakland ( American League ).

* July 7, 2006, John Lackey / Los Angeles Angels ( double by Oakland Athletics ' Mark Kotsay )

He came in on May 21, 1971 in the first inning, after Blue Moon Odom gave up three runs and three walks facing eight batters, against the Minnesota Twins in Oakland, and pitch 5-1 / 3 allowing three hits and two runs ( Twins 10 – Oakland 1 ).

They held dance attendance records at Jantzen Beach in Portland, Oregon ; Santa Monica, California, and at the Oakland ( California ) Auditorium, where they drew 19, 000 people in two nights.

He convinced the family to move to Oakland for Powell to take dance lessons, in hopes of her being discovered.

The Oakland dance style turfing is a fusion of popping and mimeing that incorporates storytelling and illusion.

* Prayer Party -- Techno Mass Rocks Religious in Oakland: Music, dance celebrate spirituality by Don Lattin, San Francisco Chronicle, Feb. 25, 1997

After returning to Oakland from touring with Prince, Saadiq began his professional career as the lead vocalist and bassist in the rhythm and blues and dance trio Tony!

Hyphy is a style of music and dance associated with Oakland Bay Area hip hop culture.

Today, boogaloo is often used as a synonym for the electric boogaloo, except in the Bay Area where boogaloo refers to an Oakland creation of street dance that remains to this day.

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* A mechanical rabbit that would pop up behind home plate and deliver new balls to the umpire and was named " Harvey ," at the A's home ballparks in Kansas City and Oakland.

The Matches are a United States-based pop punk band formed in 1997 in Oakland, California.

Slim is an American pop / rock band from Oakland, California, led by singer / songwriter Michael Baker.

The Coup is a political hip hop group based in Oakland, California.

On 15 November 2005, Tarus Jackson ( AKA Terrance ), who had joined the group as a promoter, was fatally shot during a robbery at his home in Oakland.

Prior to signing with Columbia, the group had recorded several tracks in Oakland, California produced by Dwayne Wiggins of Tony!

In 2003 the Oakland, CA Police Dept infiltrated a group of peaceful anti-war protestors at the port.

Digital Underground was an alternative hip hop group from Oakland, California.

The band " 40 Ways From Sunday " from Oakland, Oregon wrote a song in early 2007 paying respects to Larry Norman, even know they are a largely agnostic punk rock group.

The group perpetrated a number of crimes, the most infamous being the murder of Oakland Schools Superintendent Marcus Foster and the abduction, torture, rape, and brainwashing of newspaper heiress Patty Hearst.

Souls of Mischief is a hip hop group from Oakland, California, that is also part of the hip hop collective Hieroglyphics.

The U. S. group Symbionese Liberation Army ( SLA ) assassinates Oakland, California superintendent of schools Dr. Marcus Foster and badly wounded his deputy Robert Blackburn.

When he was a teenager, he and his family moved to Oakland, California, where he joined a local R & B group called the Lemon Drops.

* 415 ( group ), a rap group from Oakland, California

The group is owned by William Dean Singleton, who also owns the Denver Post, the Alameda Newspaper Group, which includes the Oakland Tribune, as well as the Mercury News of San Jose and numerous other papers.

The song was also heavily sampled on Oakland rap group The Luniz " Playa Hata " single.

Thereafter, the group would begin work on its seventh LP Dear God, I Hate Myself, recording in both Oakland, California as well as Durham, North Carolina.

The group " Lansing for Cesar E. Chavez " was raising funds to rename the section of Grand River Avenue between Oakland and Pine Streets in Old Town.

is an American soul / R & B group from Oakland, California, popular during the late 1980s and early to mid 1990s.

In 2004, he produced the album Death After Life for Oakland, CA death metal group Impaled, also contributing guitar solos for their songs " Resurrectionists ", and " Medical Waste ".

In 1987, on behalf of the Oakland port Commission, Allen Broussard led a group of 72 lawyers and city officials on a 3-week long trip to China meeting the Mayor of Shanghai, Jiang Zemin ( Shanghai is twinned with San Francisco )

The next title, The Nowhere City, evokes both Thomas More ’ s Utopia ( Greek for “ nowhere ”) and Gertrude Stein ’ s comment about Oakland, California, “ There is no there there .” Utopias are the subject of Imaginary Friends and Real People: the small group of spiritualists examined by a sociologist and the small group of artists examined by a writer.

* Women's Press Collective ( of New York ; a distinct group from the Women's Press Collective of Oakland, California )

Experts credit the timing of the Series as a lucky break that prevented massive loss of life in the city ; key in reducing the loss of life was the fact that many people had left work early or were staying late to participate in after-work group viewings and parties, reducing the traffic that would otherwise have been on the collapsed freeways ( initial expectations were that hundreds of people had died in the collapse of Interstate 880 in Oakland ; the final death toll from that event was 42 ).

Born in Oakland, California, Plunkett studied law at the University of California, where he was a member of the California-Alpha chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity, but showed greater interest in the school's theatrical group.