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Alameda and is
Alameda is known for its Victorian houses ; 9 % of all single-family houses ( 1500 ) in Alameda are Victorian, and many more have been divided into two to four-unit dwellings.
It is said that Alameda has more pre-1906 earthquake era homes than any other city in the Bay Area.
Alameda is also known for its Fourth of July parade, which is advertised as the second oldest and second longest Fourth of July parade in the United States.
Naval Air Station Alameda ( NAS ), at Alameda Point, was decommissioned in 1997, and is in process of being turned over to the City of Alameda for civilian development.
The area of the former NAS is now known as Alameda Point.
Berkeley is located in northern Alameda County.
North of that is the Alameda Creek Regional Trail, running from the Bay to Niles Canyon.
Freeway opponents fear that upgrading Highway 84 will encourage more people to live in southern Alameda County ( where housing is more affordable ) and commute to jobs in the mid-Peninsula area ( where businesses wish to be located in order to be close to Silicon Valley ), thus increasing traffic in their neighborhoods to the south and west of U. S. 101.
Radiating from the centre of the city, the historic cathedral is surrounded by paved granite streets, tucked away in the old town, and separated from the newer part of the city by the largest of many parks throughout the city, Parque da Alameda.
The park ( Alameda de la Alhambra ), which is overgrown with wildflowers and grass in the spring, was planted by the Moors with roses, oranges and myrtles ; its most characteristic feature, however, is the dense wood of English elms brought by the Duke of Wellington in 1812.
* was originally named Kearsarge, but renamed in honor of CV-8 and active through the rest of World War II and is preserved as a museum ship in Alameda, California
The ranch included a stand of oak trees that stretched from the land that is today Oakland's downtown area to the adjacent part of Alameda, then a peninsula.
The original settlement in what is now the downtown was initially called " Contra Costa " (" opposite shore ", the Spanish name for the lands on the east side of the Bay ) and was included in Contra Costa County before Alameda County was established on March 25, 1853.
BART is operated by the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District, a special-purpose transit district that was formed in 1957 to cover San Francisco, Alameda County, and Contra Costa County.
Two Thursday before the Virgin up from his sanctuary in the Alameda of the Fuencisla to the Cathedral to start the novena ( his arrival at the Plaza Mayor is one of the most specific one can be found in Segovia, is typical to make it when the clock of the Town Hall rings ).
Since highway 84 is a split route, the southern segment of state route 84 runs from Livermore in Alameda County and eventually ends at California Highway 1 in San Gregorio, a coastal community located in San Mateo County.
The Pleasanton Fairgrounds Racetrack at the Alameda County Fairgrounds is the oldest horse racing track in America, dating back to 1858, when it was founded by the sons of the Spaniard Don Agustin Bernal.

Alameda and home
Near the Alameda were the homes of the Marquis of Guardiola, of the Borda family and the house of the Marquis of Prado Alegre as well as the home of the Counts of the Valley of Orizaba who covered the entire façade with talavera tiles from Puebla.
After he was governor he made his home in Alameda, California.
Exit Strategies, a political direct mail firm, was launched in 1999 by Perata's son, Nick, and based at his father's Alameda County home.
Nuclear powered aircraft carriers were home ported at Alameda into the 1990s, and thousands of local civilians were employed overhauling aircraft at the naval aviation depot.
* In July 2011, for the television program Curb Appeal: The Block, designer and host John Gidding installed a comical Toontown-style railing on the front porch of an Alameda, California home.
The Navy reassigned McCallum in 1987 to, home ported in Alameda, California and at that time sailing in the Indian Ocean, preventing him from returning to the NFL.

Alameda and official
His father was an Oakland city government official, president of the Zion Lutheran Church, and served 24 years in the non-partisan office of Treasurer of Alameda County.
It was at NAS Alameda, aboard USS Essex ( pier-side ), that Wead was given an official send-off from active duty just prior to his retirement.
* Alameda Civic Ballet, the official dance company for Alameda, California

Alameda and offices
The studios affected included the former MicroProse offices located in Alameda, California and Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
Wind River's head offices are located at 500 Wind River Way, Alameda, California.
The firm also has regional offices in Alameda, Los Angeles, and San Diego, and is among the largest builders in California with clients including Starwood Lodging, Lucasfilm, Oracle Corporation, The California Academy of Sciences, eBay and Electronic Arts.

Alameda and training
The Coast Guard base on Government Island ( now known as Coast Guard Island ) Alameda, California was also used as a second major recruit training center until it was closed in 1982 and converted into the base for the USCG Pacific Area Command, the Eleventh Coast Guard District, the Marine Safety Office San Francisco Bay, the USCG Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific and the Integrated Support Command Center-Alameda.
Air support training unit No. 2 at Alameda included the fleet radar operator's school, Link celestial navigation Trainer school, and aviation storekeeper school.
A curriculum was devised and the first Seabadge conference was held later that year at the U. S. Coast Guard training facility on Governor's Island, Alameda, California.
The Croll Building, in Alameda, California, was the site of Croll's Gardens and Hotel, famous as training quarters for the some of the greatest fighters in boxing history from 1883 to 1914.

Alameda and facility
In September 2010 the US Veterans Administration proposed construction of a $ 209 million state-of-the-art facility at Alameda Point that would provide primary care, specialty care, and mental health, substance abuse and other services.
* Robert A. Taylor, founder of the Alameda East Veterinary Hospital, a facility featured in the Animal Planet series Emergency Vets and E-Vet Interns
The show stopped first-run production in 2002 because Alameda East was occupied with building and eventually moving into a new facility in Denver.
Sunday umbrella anthology show on Animal Planet, as well as inspiring a follow-up episode first aired in 2005 that took viewers on a tour of the new Alameda East facility while showing cases of animals receiving cutting-edge treatment at the new hospital.
The Alameda yard was closed by Bethlehem Steel in the early 1970s, while the San Francisco facility was sold to British Aerospace in the mid 1990s and survives as BAE Systems San Francisco Ship Repair.
The Vallecitos Nuclear Center is a nuclear research facility, and the site of a former electricity-generating nuclear power plant in unincorporated Alameda County, California, about 30 miles east of San Francisco, in NRC Region Four.
Determined to bring this level of care and technique to the average pet owner, Taylor decided to make Alameda East a full-service hospital facility, with round-the-clock staffing, an intensive care unit, surgical and radiological equipment, and internal medicine specialist physicians.
In 2003, Alameda East Veterinary Hospital moved into a new facility next to the original hospital, expanding an additional.
There is also a valet bike parking facility outside the station at street level and is operated by Alameda Bicycle.

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