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Ordinaire is a wine bar, wine shop, and bistro-style restaurant in Oakland, California. Located on Grand Avenue in the Grand Lake District, Ordinaire had its grand opening in September 2013. Ordinaire only sells natural wine, produced from organic grapes with minimal chemical and technological intervention. Owner Bradford Taylor opened Ordinaire while pursuing a Ph.D at the University of California, Berkeley with a dissertation on the sense of taste in early 20th century modernist literature. Taylor is also an organizer of an annual natural wine festival in Oakland called Brumaire, which has held events at Ordinaire. In addition to selling and serving wine, Ordinaire serves small plates and periodically partners with chefs to open as a pop-up restaurant called Bistro Ordinaire. Food and wine critics have praised Ordinaire for its selection of wines and hip yet unpretentious atmosphere. Amid a wave of interest in natural wine in the United States, Ordinaire has helped to establish Oakland as a natural wine hub. The shop has been described as an important site for natural wine culture within the East Bay, the San Francisco Bay Area, the West Coast, and the United States as a whole.

The Grand Lake Theatre is a historic movie palace located at 3200 Grand Avenue and Lake Park Avenue in the Grand Lake neighborhood of Oakland, California.

Grand Lake, or the Grand Lake District, is a neighborhood in Oakland, California, United States. The neighborhood is located in the northeast corner of Lake Merritt, where Grand Avenue and Lakeshore Avenue pass under Interstate 580. It borders Adams Point to the west, Trestle Glen/Crocker Highlands to the east, and the city of Piedmont to the north. It lies at an elevation of 52 feet (16 m). There are two shopping areas in the Grand Lake District: Grand Avenue, between Piedmont and Adams Point, the larger of the two. The Grand Lake Theater dominates the corner of Grand and Lake Park Ave. Lakeshore Avenue, between Lake Park Ave and Mandana Blvd.The two streets are connected at their closest point by Lake Park Avenue and Splashpad Park, home of the neighborhood's large Saturday farmers' market. In 1928, Joseph Edy and William Dreyer first sold their Grand Ice Cream at 3315 Grand Avenue.The Grand Lake neighborhood has seen a significant degree of revitalization since the 1990s. The property values of the area have increased as a result, contributing to the overall rise in land value of the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Morcom Rose Garden (formerly the Morcom Amphitheater of Roses) is located in a residential neighborhood (the Rose Garden neighborhood) in Oakland, California, near the Piedmont border. The exact address is 700 Jean St., Oakland, CA 94610.

The Cleveland Cascade is a 250-foot-long ornamental stairway near Lake Merritt in Oakland, California, with cascades in the center, designed in 1923 by Howard Gilkey. It opened with great civic pride as "one of the few things of this kind in the West".The Cascade was reportedly modeled after features in the hill towns of Italy. From the lakefront downhill end, wide concrete steps rise to a landing, then divide around a round-topped fountain niche and pool, and continue to the top following the middle landing as two narrow stairways on either side of a series of concrete bowls that form the cascade. Water flowed down over twenty concrete bowls past colored lights. It was adequately maintained into the early 1940s but then began to suffer from neglect and resulting disrepair. Until about 1950 the bowls were illuminated at night by colored lights, and an electric pump returned water from the pool to the top of the cascade. The lights and water were shut off sometime in the 1950s, and the bowls were filled in. As “Cleveland Stairs,” the Cascade never lost its popularity. The feature is an active pedestrian thoroughfare and popular with joggers.Over the past decade efforts have been underway to restore the Cascade to its past glory.

Kehilla Community Synagogue is a politically progressive synagogue in Oakland, California, founded in 1984 by "people who wanted a synagogue that would be a spiritual home for politically progressive people who felt no connection with traditional synagogues." It sees its "spiritual mandate to heal and repair the world by increasing social justice, eschewing war and all forms of violence and aggression, caring for the planet, and exhibiting loving kindness to all." It is open to people of all colors, genders, and sexual orientations.

Adams Point is a neighborhood of Oakland, California. It is located on the northern shore of Lake Merritt, directly adjacent to Downtown Oakland and the Grand Lake district. It is a triangle bounded by Grand Avenue on the south, Harrison Street on the northwest, and the MacArthur Freeway on the northeast. It lies at an elevation of 79 feet (24 m). Neighborhood landmarks include the Veteran's Memorial Building, the Earl Warren House, the art deco Bellevue-Staten Building, Lakeside Park, one of Oakland's larger parks, and Children's Fairyland, which is in the park.

The Bellevue-Staten is a historical building in Oakland, California. The Bellevue-Staten building was built in 1929. The building is listed to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1991. The The Bellevue-Staten is built in Art Deco and Spanish Colonial architecture, designed by Herman Carl Baumann. The Bellevue-Staten was built and still is an apartment building. Due to likeness to the building used in the 1984 movie 'Ghostbusters, locals call it the Ghostbusters Building. The Bellevue-Staten building is in the Adams Point neighborhood of Oakland.Architect Herman Carl Baumann (1890–1960), was born in Oakland in 1890 and had an architect office in San Francisco. Baumann died on April 6, 1960, in San Francisco. Baumann also desigened the Bellaire Tower and the Gaylord Hotel (1929) in San Francisco' Lower Nob Hill Apartment Hotel District. Baumann designs are found in San Francisco, Oakland, and Sacramento, over 500 apartment buildings. During World War II, he designed building for the United States Navy at the Mare Island Naval Shipyard.

Brooklyn Presbyterian Church is a historical building in Oakland, California. The Brooklyn Presbyterian Church was built in 1887. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on September 18, 2017. The building was also home to the Grace Temple Baptist Church of Oakland. Also at the Brooklyn Presbyterian Church is the Parish Hall also was built in 1887. The 1887 buildings were designed by Samuel Newsom and Joseph Newsom, who also designed the fourth city hall building in Oakland. Architect, George Bordwell, may have been part of the design also. Brooklyn Presbyterian Church used the church from 1887 to 1972. The church has a three-stage 66-foot bell tower and larger stained glass windows. Sunday school classroom wings were added later. After the church closed, the building was vacant for sometime, in 2022 Strive Wealth Builders started converting the church in to a 21,300 square feet 42 unit housing unit and 5,450 square feet for other uses. The building is in the Clinton neighborhood.

The Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County, at 525 Bellevue Ave. in Oakland, California, was built in 1928–29. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2009. It has also been known as The Bellevue Club, as Women's Athletic Club, and as Bellevue Club Building.The Women's Athletic Club of Alameda was formed in 1926 and purchased the site. It hired architects Charles F.B. Roeth and E. Geoffrey Bangs to design their building. Its name was changed to "The Bellevue Club" in the 1990s.The building is a 47,000 square feet (4,400 m2) clubhouse, with a stucco exterior, plus an internal parking garage. It was built as a five-story (plus partial basement and attic) squarish footprint building, with a one-story section behind. A one-story garage addition at the rear was added in 1964. The interior spaces are Chateauesque or Classical Revival in style.

Trestle Glen is a neighborhood in Oakland, California. It is located east of Lakeshore Avenue, a shopping street which it shares with the Grand Lake District. It lies at an elevation of 144 feet (44 m). The streets are laid out in the curvilinear pattern of early 20th century garden suburbs. Many of the houses are nestled in the surrounding hills, and were built shortly before The Great Depression. The neighborhood is named after a railroad trestle built in 1893, which was dismantled in 1906 when the line was rerouted. The railroad line ran along Trestle Glen Creek, which was named Indian Gulch by early settlers after the Huchiun village that was located near the present-day intersection of Lakeshore Avenue and Trestle Glen Road. (The creek is now mostly underground.) The streetcar was instrumental in spurring the development of residential neighborhoods in the area. It is often written that Mark Twain was a passenger on the maiden voyage of the streetcar, though Twain lived in Europe at the time.

California's 13th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California. Barbara Lee, a Democrat, has represented this district since January 2013. Currently, the 13th district consists of the northwestern portion of Alameda County. Cities in the district include Alameda, Albany, Berkeley, Emeryville, Oakland, Piedmont, and San Leandro. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of D+40, it is the most Democratic district in California.Prior to redistricting by the California Citizens Redistricting Commission of 2011, the 13th district was in southwestern Alameda County, anchored by Hayward and Fremont.