A Walk to Oakland's Rose Garden & Piedmont's Mansions
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Now open for RSVPs. The only cost is $3 cash per adult. Kids free. At 10:30 AM we gather in front of Tierra Mia Coffee, on the corner of Broadway & 20th Street. Those taking BART should go to Oakland's 19th Street BART Station and exit at the 20th Street exit and our starting point is right across the street.
One may bring a sack lunch or buy one at Tierra Mia Coffee or about 15 minutes later at Oakland Whole Foods Market. I want at least some of our attendees to buy drinks or food at Tierra Mia and give tips so they will like us.
Below is a link about Tierra Mia Oakland:
https://www.yelp.com/biz/tierra-mia-coffee-oakland
At 10:40 AM we will walk West on 20th Street, then North on Harrison to the giant Whole Foods Market. We plan to eat lunch a little after Noon at Oakland's Morcom Rose Garden. If something such as a wedding prevents us from eating there we will eat later at the Piedmont Park.
Our SF mansions walk is super popular. Oakland is unjustly famous for nothing but poverty and crime. However Oakland like San Francisco, has wealthy areas as well as poor ones. We will walk in some of the good places in Oakland and Piedmont. Inside Oakland is the town of Piedmont which in the 1920's had more millionaires per square mile than any other place in the USA. Piedmont used to be a city of super rich Republicans and now it is a city of ordinary rich Democrats. Piedmont looks as good as now as then. All of the mansions are still there in all of their old glory with flowers and gardens.
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There are historic sites that we will see in Oakland such as the former home of former Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, Earl Warren, and the former home of the once famous entertainer Al Jolson, who was the star of the first talking movie. We end this 7.2 mile walk back at the 19th Street BART Station about 4:30 PM.
If you have any questions about how to get around the Bay Area on public transportation below is a trip planner link provided by government: http://transit.511.org/
I highly recommend taking BART because our starting/ending point is just across the street from 2 BART entrances. If you have to drive you will probably find free street parking in the Adams Point neighborhood, but that is not certain. Do not park in the Whole Foods Market parking lot for more than 2 hours. Oakland's street meter parking is not free on Saturdays, only on Sundays.
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A Walk to Oakland's Rose Garden & Piedmont's Mansions