The August 29, 1922 bond measure didn't get enough votes. If it had, we might have had a 1500-acre park that stretched from Snake road to Skyline & Joaquin Miller roads:
Proposed map of Oakland Sequoia Mountain Park, from the August 10, 1922 issue of the Oakland Tribune, drawn by Howard Gilkey, city landscape engineer. See Part 1 for the article. 300 dpi version of this image here, if you want to see detail. You'll notice current street names under the northern section. (Map is rotated -45ยบ, to represent the artwork the way it was printed.) |