Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #1 - Oakland Tribune, January 28, 1947

"History is Written by the Victors." This article is from 1947, written by a white man in California, himself an immigrant to this land. You will read dated ideas which are at odds with our current understanding of history. I believe this article is worth transcribing, researching and sharing. I don't condone his views. - MF

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks

By Dave Hope

(First in a series of five articles. Tomorrow - The Creeks in their heyday.)

Steelhead trout and salmon wriggled up Oakland streets to spawn. 

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #2 - Oakland Tribune, January 29, 1947

"History is Written by the Victors." This article is from 1947, written by a white man in California, himself an immigrant to this land. You will read dated ideas which are at odds with our current understanding of history. I believe this article is worth transcribing, researching and sharing. I don't condone his views. - MF

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks

By Dave Hope

(Second in a series of five articles. Tomorrow - Maybe You Remember.) 

Gold had not yet been discovered, but the hamlet of Yerba Buena was already assuming city-like dignity by repudiating its goat feed and adopting the name San Francisco. 

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #3 - Oakland Tribune, January 30, 1947

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks

By Dave Hope

(Third in a series of five articles. Tomorrow - The City Grows.)

For two generations of Oakland residents, the forgotten creeks are not yet forgotten.

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #4 - The City Grows - Oakland Tribune, January 31, 1947

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks

By Dave Hope

(Fourth in a series of five articles. Tomorrow - The Creeks Today.) 

There must be moments when Mother Nature, reviewing her accomplishments, wonders why she created man.

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #5 - The Creeks Today - Oakland Tribune, February 1, 1947

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks

By Dave Hope

(Last in a series of five articles.)

Never let it be inferred that Oakland's forgotten creeks gave up their identities without a struggle.

Oakland's Forgotten Creeks - Oakland Tribune - Jan - Feb, 1947

A series of five articles by Dave Hope, telling the history of Oakland's 21 creeks, from the beginning of known history until the publication in 1947

1. Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #1 - Oakland Tribune, January 28, 1947
   
2. Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #2 - The Creeks in their heyday - Oakland Tribune, January 29, 1947
   
3. Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #3 - Maybe You Remember - Oakland Tribune, January 30, 1947
   
4. Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #4 - The City Grows - Oakland Tribune, January 31, 1947
   
5. Oakland's Forgotten Creeks #5 - The Creeks Today - Oakland Tribune, February 1, 1947

Tribune's Dave Hope Is Dead - Oakland Tribune, 14 Feb 1969

DAVE HOPE
A natural newsman

Tribune's Dave Hope Is Dead

Tribune political writer Dave Hope died today of an apparent heart attack a short time after he collapsed at his desk in the city room. He was 65.

STEAM SHOVELS BARE ANCIENT COAST FOREST - Oakland Tribune, 14 Jun 1928

[I went looking for this, after reading about it Annalee Allen's Walking tours feature uptown, old Capwell's article, in her Landmarks series, while hunting for them in newspaper archives. - MF]

STEAM SHOVELS BARE ANCIENT COAST FOREST

Trees In First Stages of Petrification Dug Up On Site of New H. C. Capwell Store.

Remains of a forest in the early stages of petrification were uncovered today by workmen excavating foundations for the new H. C. Capwell department store at Broadway and Twentieth streets. Thirty feet below the street level steam shovels began to bring up-pieces of trees that have lain beneath the surface of the earth for years. Petrification was still in the first stages and the stone crumbled easily in one's fingers.