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Integrated Support Command Alameda (ISC Alameda) is a large operating base of the United States Coast Guard, located on Coast Guard Island[1] in Alameda, California Now known as Base Alameda ISC Alameda provides a wide variety of services in direct support of Coast Guard activities throughout the west coast of the United States of America. Among these are the management of approximately 1200 Coast Guard owned housing units, warehousing, health care services, work-life services, transportation of household goods, and personnel support services. Facilities maintenance is provided to all tenant commands on Coast Guard Island and industrial support is provided throughout the West Coast. ISC Alameda is home to a variety of tenant commands including: Commander, Pacific Area [2] Commander, Maintenance & Logistics Command Pacific [3] District 11 [4] Sector San Francisco [5] Training Team One Naval Engineering Support Unit Alameda Electronics Support Unit Alameda Coast Guard Island, where ISC Alameda is located, is also homeport for three National Security Cutters. USCGC Bertholf (WMSL-750) USCGC Waesche (WMSL-751) USCGC Stratton (WMSL-752)

Oakland Harbor Light is a former lighthouse, now a restaurant in Embarcadero Cove, California.

Brooklyn is a former city in Alameda County, California, now annexed to Oakland, California. Brooklyn first formed from the amalgamation in 1856 of two settlements, the sites of which are both now within the city limits of Oakland: San Antonio and Clinton. The name Brooklyn commemorated the ship that had brought Mormon settlers to California in 1846. In 1870, Brooklyn absorbed the nearby town of Lynn, which housed a footwear industry, and incorporated as a city.The San Francisco and Oakland Railroad had built a station at San Antonio. When the Central Pacific Railroad took over the line in 1870, the name was changed to Brooklyn.In 1872, voters approved their city's annexation by Oakland. Afterward, when the Southern Pacific Railroad took over the rail line in 1883, the Brooklyn station name was changed to East Oakland.A post office was opened in Brooklyn in 1855; it became a branch of the Oakland post office in 1878.Looking at historical maps, Brooklyn is shown as a fairly large area, lying adjacent and to the south of Lake Merritt and the Piedmont tract, and adjacent and to the north of Alameda, the San Leandro Creek, and the town of San Leandro. Today this is East Oakland.

Mr. Floppy's Flophouse was a mansion in East Oakland that at one time housed a bordello and saloon patronized by writer Jack London; in later years a picture of the writer was placed behind the elegant bar. In the early 1990s it was also the home to a well-known, wild underground party and rave. Mr. Floppy himself was said to be an elusive archeologist from Finland who, when not busy excavating an inverted pyramid thought to house the knowledge of all mankind, was hosting late night events in the bowels of one of Oakland's most notorious districts. The party that never happened, "Go Native" was shut down from Native American communities in Texas from online social networks! Picketers and some representing the party stood ground the night the party was held. That night sparked them all which began a slew of parties ranging from psytrance to dubstep around 2009. The flophouse had around 15-20 different rooms, with something different going on in each. In the main ballroom, DJ's and acts such as Psychic TV or Olli Wisdom would perform, while upstairs boasted any variety of acts ranging from a naked man playing sitar, to freestyle house, to a black light mushroom garden paradise. The organizers were granted by the City of Oakland all needed permits to host the events. It was the goal of the organizers to provide a fun and safe atmosphere for its patrons. At dawn it was not uncommon for George, the owner of the property, to appear in a wizard cape serving shrimp cups or noodle soups from behind his piano.

Harborside, formerly Harborside Health Center, is a recreational and medical cannabis dispensary, with its flagship location in Oakland, California, and an additional location in San Jose. Founded in 2006 by longtime activist and entrepreneur, Steve DeAngelo and dress wedding, Harborside operates as a non-profit patient collective. In December 2011, Harborside Health Center was featured in the Discovery Channel's four-part documentary series, Weed Wars. In June 2013 CNN premiered "Inside Man", an 8-episode documentary hosted and produced by Morgan Spurlock. The show's first episode provided a detailed, inside look at California's medical marijuana industry and featured Spurlock working in Harborside Health Center, as well as it described the legal troubles of the center. It is considered to be the largest nonprofit medical cannabis dispensary in the state, if not the nation.

General Engineering & Dry Dock Company was a shipbuilding company in Alameda, California that was active from the 1920s through the 1940s. The company built ships for the Southern Pacific Railroad and the United States Coast Guard in the late 1920s and early 1930s. At the beginning of World War II, the U.S.Navy started the program for expand the navy. The U.S.Navy used two separate shipbuilding and shiprepair sites to create the Naval Industrial Reserve Shipyard (NIRS) Alameda. The first was the General Engineering and Dry Dock Company. The company worked under contract NObs-344 and built small warships for the U.S. Navy. The shipyard had four shipbuilding ways, which were designed for the simultaneous construction of several ships. During World War II General Engineering and Dry Dock Company built sixteen 1,250-ton minesweepers, eleven 850-ton minesweepers, and four 560-ton anti-submarine net layers at the Site. In 1946, the U.S. Navy ceased contract with company. The second portion of the Site was to the east of the shipbuilding company. It was purchased from March 24 to July 7, 1942.General Engineering & Dry Dock Company shipbuilding company started in Oakland, California. To support the World War II demand for ships General Engineering built: minesweepers and Net laying ships. General Engineering was opened in 1919 as Barnes & Tibbitts shipyard by J. D. Barnes and W. G. Tibbitts. Mr. Barnes sold his interest to Tibbitts in 1922 and changed the company name to General Engineering & Dry Dock Company. Tibbitts purchased Hanlon Dry Dock shipyard in Oakland in 1928. After World War II, both shipyards closed in 1948. The shipyard was located at 1805 Clement Ave, Alameda, California. The site is now the Alameda Marina and Island Yacht Club.

Cryer & Sons or Cryer Boatworks was a wooden shipbuilding company in Oakland, California. To support the World War 2 demand for ships Cryer & Sons Company shipyard switched over to military construction and built: US Navy APC coastal transports. Cryer & Sons was started in 1907 by William Cryer, an migrant from England, in San Francisco. William Cryer first boatyard was started 1890s. Cryer & Sons boatyard first boat opened in 1907 was located at 11th Avenue, Oakland. In 1912 he move the boatyard to 1890 Dennison Street Street, Oakland at the corner of Embarcadero. The boatyard was owned and run by William Cryer's son William James Cryer, and later by his grandsons William J, Cryer III and Robert R. Cryer. Cryer & Sons built and repaired wooden powerboats and began working on steel-hulled boats in the 1960s. Many of the boats built used engines from Atlas Gas Engine Company or Standard Gas Engine Company. There is a historical marker at 2301 Embarcadero, Oakland in Union Point Park, just south of the Coast Guard Island bridge near the waterfront remains. The current site has been vacant since 1989. The main building was heavily damaged in a fire on the morning of November 13, 2020. The Cryer & Sons is and has been a site of contamination, some of the contaminated soil has been removed. Some of the land reclaimed has been used for the northern park of Union Point Park. This work has been done with the owners of the land, Measure DD, the city and the Port of Oakland. The City of Oakland had hoped to update the main Cryer & Sons building to use as a community center, but fire damage has ended that hope. Notable ships: Small, coastal transports for the US Navy. 40 launches and Cannery tenders for the Alaska Packers' Association. The Black Swan a 130-foot yacht for Oakland automaker William C. Durant of Durant Motors. Concrete hulled 63-foot sailboat for Mayor John H. Reading in 1974. Thomas Crowley's Crowley Maritime tugboats Police patrol boat, like the 1908 San Francisco 50x10 Police patrol launch boat.

Pacific Bridge Company was a large engineering and construction company. During World War II, Pacific Bridge Company of Alameda, California was selected to build US Navy Auxiliary Repair Docks (ARD) a type of Auxiliary floating drydock and Type B ship barges.

Nexus Audio Recording Studio is a recording studio located in East Oakland, California. It was established in October 2004 by Chris Paxton, who presently owns, manages, and is the head engineer. The seven-room facility offers tracking, mixing and mastering for all audio projects, including musical genres as diverse as reggae and rock. Nexus is frequently used by artists in the San Francisco Bay Area urban music scene, and recording acts have included Kreayshawn, Mistah F.A.B, Spice 1, Turf Talk, Clyde Carson and Shock G.

The Church of St. James the Apostle, or as it is known today as St. James Episcopal Church or Iglesia Episcopal de Santiago is an Episcopal church in Oakland, California, United States. The church has been providing weekly services without break since 1858. It is a California Historical Landmark.

California Cotton Mills Company Factory is a historical building in Oakland, California Fruitvale neighborhood. The California Cotton Mills Company Factory was founded in 1883. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 30, 2013. California Cotton Mills Company Factory was founded by Scotsmans William Rutherford and John Yule Millar. When completed it was the largest cotton mill west of the Mississippi River. Rail freight train cars full of cotton arrived arrived at the factory. California Cotton Mills Company Factory manufactured comforters, drapery cloth, table padding, towels and mops. During World War I and World War II it has 1,500 employees made: tents, parachutes and fabric for the United States Armed Forces. The current buildings were built in 1917, replacing the older original 1883 buildings. The 1917 buildings were designed by Civil Engineer, Arthur C. Griewank. After the war on June 30, 1954, the mills closed. Some of the buildings were removed for the completion of the nearby Interstate 880. The main building of the California Cotton Mills Company Factory has been converted into the California Cotton Mills Studios, which opened in March 2006. The 138,000 Sq. foot California Cotton Mills Studios gives artist and small businesses, if they wish, the ability to live and work in a studio. California Cotton Mills Studios has in its lobby an small museum about the California Cotton Mills Company Factory.

Wind River Systems, also known as Wind River, is an Alameda, California–based wholly owned subsidiary of Aptiv. The company develops embedded system and cloud software consisting of real-time operating systems software, industry-specific software, simulation technology, development tools and middleware.