In 1984 the segment of SR 17 from Interstate 280 in San Jose to the MacArthur Maze in Oakland was renumbered as I-880, and the portion of SR 17 from the MacArthur Maze to San Rafael was renumbered as part of I-580.

The I-880 Corridor Improvement Project, one of the last seismic retrofit projects of a major transportation corridor in California, consists of eight separate projects located in a 15-mile segment of the freeway between Oakland and Hayward.

The individual projects included in the I-880 Corridor Improvement project are the retrofitting or replacement of the 5th Avenue, 23rd Avenue, 23rd Avenue, Fruitvale Avenue, and High Street bridges in Oakland ; improvements to both the I-238 and Highway 92 interchanges ( the latter, a four year project, completed in October 2011 ); and an overall rehabilitation / repaving project along the entire segment.

On a clear day, the Oakland segment of the freeway offers some spectacular views of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The segment of the Telegraph Road which ran from downtown Oakland out to the Peralta estate in Temescal was first known as the " Peralta Road ".

When the segment of the Telegraph Road leading up to Harwood's Canyon was renamed " Claremont " to suit the interests of a developer of the district, the cities of Berkeley and Oakland opted to change Humboldt and Choate to Telegraph since Oakland's portion of the thoroughfare was already aligned with what remained of the old Telegraph Road between the new Claremont and downtown Oakland.

Part of the Oakland segment of these tracks up to Grayson Street in Berkeley were used during World War II for the Shipyard Railway of the Key System which transported workers from the Key System's hub in Emeryville to the Kaiser Shipyards in Richmond.

The Rachel Maddow Show featured the theater on November 2, 2011, as part of the video segment covering that day's Occupy Oakland protest and general strike.

The Rachel Maddow Show segment ( from 1min 40s to 2min 37s ) about the Grand Lake Theater as part of the coverage on the Occupy Oakland protests

He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church and a native of Atlanta.

Haren was 15 – 9 with a 3. 07 ERA for Oakland in 2007.

Barney died on August 12, 1997, and in his honor that night's game at Camden Yards against the Oakland Athletics was held without a public – address announcer.

It was not yet " Berkeley ," but merely the northern part of the " Oakland Township " subdivision of Alameda County.

That same year, the mainline of the transcontinental railroad into Oakland was re-routed, putting the right-of-way along the bay shore through Ocean View.

Reed Johnson and Jim Edmonds were added early on and Rich Harden was acquired from the Oakland Athletics in early July.

Ironically, Holliday, traded from Oakland to St. Louis in July, was in the opposing dugout watching the play.

The structure was re-striped to accommodate six lanes on October 18, 1989 in response to the temporary closing of the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge due to the Loma Prieta earthquake, and the permanent widening of the approaches was completed by July 2003.

The team went back to wearing this uniform at home on Thanksgiving Day in 2009 while their opponent was the Oakland Raiders who wore their AFL Legacy Weekend throwbacks.

The Marlins ' first manager was Rene Lachemann, a former catcher who had previously managed the Seattle Mariners and Milwaukee Brewers, and who at the time of his hiring was a third base coach for the Oakland Athletics.

The Colts 1977 playoff loss in double overtime against the Oakland Raiders was famous for the fact that it was the last playoff game for the Colts in Baltimore and is also known for the Ghost to the Post play.

( Porter was released the following year and Groves was traded to Oakland in 2010.

The franchise was established following the actions of Stuart Symington, then-United States Senator from Missouri, who demanded a new franchise for the city after the Athletics ( Kansas City's previous major league team from 1955 to 1967 ) moved to Oakland, California.

The following day's second Oakland concert was the band's final live appearance in the United States.

On March 2, 2005, Vikings wide receiver Randy Moss was traded to the Oakland Raiders for linebacker Napoleon Harris and the Raiders ' first round draft pick.

Since, they have played in three additional World Series, including a dramatic run in that ended in a Game Seven loss to the Oakland Athletics, a second championship in against the Boston Red Sox that was cited in the Curse of the Bambino, and a Subway Series against their cross-town rivals the New York Yankees in the 2000 World Series which they lost in five games.

One of the reasons cited for the poor attendance figures was the decision to issue costly Personal Seat Licenses ( PSLs ) upon the Raiders ' return to Oakland in 1995.

In November 2005, the team announced that it was taking over ticket sales from the privately run Oakland Football Marketing Association ( OFMA ), and abolishing PSLs.

Upon moving to Oakland, the " A " cap emblem was restored, although in 1970 an " apostrophe-s " was added to the cap and uniform emblem to reflect the fact that Finley was in the process of officially changing the team's name to the " A's.

Later, the western part of the route was extended to the Alameda Terminal in Alameda, California, and shortly thereafter, to the Oakland Long Wharf at Oakland Point in Oakland, California.

By 1960, the road was extended to a northern terminus at U. S. Route 202 and West Oakland Avenue in Oakland, where traffic could exit and continue over Skyline Drive to Ringwood.

The original deadline, October 1, 1921, was extended to December 31, 1921 and the prize money was increased to $ 100 .< ref > Offering Prize for State Song, < u > Oakland Tribune </ u >, Sect B, pg 5Dec.

Route 13 was to have been a freeway bypass of Oakland and Berkeley and would have extended south from its present end to the Nimitz Freeway ( Route 880 ).

After 1797 the road was extended to the estuary that later became the site of Oakland.

That route had initially begun at Woodland and traveled northeast and east through the Feather River Canyon, and was extended southeast from Woodland along Sign Route 16 to Sacramento and then south and west via Antioch to the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge approach in Berkeley.

* A – Downtown Oakland ( was extended far into East Oakland to near the San Leandro border on the competing Southern Pacific interurban ( see East Bay Electric Lines ) tracks when they shut down their operations in 1941 )

Oakland subsequently extended a road to connect with Berkeley's Choate, but named it Humboldt Avenue.

It was extended to Temescal a year later, then to the university campus via Humboldt and Choate after the university relocated from Oakland in 1873.

Later SR 9 was extended north along SR 17 ( which had replaced SR 13 ) from Milpitas to Warm Springs, SR 21 to Mission San Jose, and the independent section of former US 101E-all part of Route 5-to US 50 ( also Route 5, which included a branch to Oakland ) near Hayward.

The west end was extended in 1936 to end at the Livingston – Oakland county line.

Until the mid-1980s, SR 17 extended from its current southern terminus at State Route 1 in Santa Cruz through Oakland and across the Richmond-San Rafael Bridge to San Rafael.

On Friday, July 20, 2012, Cano extended his career high hitting streak to 23 games with a single off of Oakland Athletics pitcher Tommy Milone in a 3-2 Yankees loss.

They extended their winning streak the following season to 18 straight wins, finally losing to the Oakland Raiders on September 23, 1973.