New 'Inspiration Point' on Sequoia Park Road Uncovered - Oakland Tribune - 17 Dec 1930, Wed - Page 14

New 'Inspiration Point' on Sequoia Park Road Uncovered Wed, Dec 17, 1930 – Page 14 · Oakland Tribune (Oakland, Alameda, California, United States of America) · Newspapers.com

UNEMPLOYED RELIEF WORK BENEFITS PARKS 

New 'Inspiration Point' on Sequoia Park Road Uncovered 

A permanent and tangible benefit to the city of Oakland, for its work in creating jobs for the unemployed, began to appear in the public eye today when the park department revealed a new "inspiration point" in the hills which is said to give the finest view of the Eastbay cities, the bay, San Francisco, and the northern bay, that has ever been offered to citizens and tourists.

The new view-point is lower, and not higher, than the present Sequoia Point which it will supplant at the junction of the Sequoia Park and the Joaquin Miller road. The present Sequoia point, with its wide circle for automobiles, gives a splendid view but it is mostly southward because a hillside cuts off the northern view. The new point further down is at the brow of a hill and gives a view in all directions.

Superintendent Leo Kerfoot of the park department has had his emergency workmen cut down 1000 trees already, as well as large volumes of brush, to clear away the new vantage point. A road will be built and all facilities will be made for tourists, he says.

Meanwhile, Kerfoot is employing 12 additional men today, to extend the pipe line in Sequoia park. He declares that, although the unemployment situation is regrettable, it has helped beautify the parks more than ever before.