Grooves in the Park Day Time Party BBQ 7/10/2010

July 6th, 2010

grooves0710 Grooves in the Park Day Time Party BBQ 7/10/2010GROOVES-IN-THE-PARK
SATURDAY, JULY 10th
2pm-8:30pm

@ MLK Shoreline Park View Map
7250 Doolittle Dr.
Oakland, Ca
(fyi: this location is very close to the Oakland Airport – entrance)

Free daytime park party, groovin’ under the sun & into the sunset, by the Bay! Bring your family, friends, kids, dogs (on leashes) and join us for drinks, BBQ, fireworks, music, sun and good times.

We’ve scheduled this one on the same date as the Oakland A’s fireworks night, so we’ll have a great view from our location at the end of the evening!

dj’s:

- CHRIS LUM (moulton media, harlum muziq)

- ELZ w/ live vocals by ELISE (harlum muziq, green gorilla lounge)

- KINCAID (grooves-in-the-park, culture)

- MIKE C (grooves-in-the-park)

- live percussion by Eric Groove, Rob “the bongo man” & Lito Carrillo

*DIRECTIONS:
From 880 fwy in Oakland – take the Hegenberger exit & drive towards the Oakland airport – about 1 mile (from that exit). Take a right on Doolittle Drive & go about 1 mile and make a right ‘immediately-before’ the
“MLK Shoreline Park/Shoreline Center” sign & drive into the park towards the water. We will be to your right once you drive into the parking lot. Parking is free.

Restrooms are close by. This is a fully permitted party & a beautiful location right by the water/bay! Dogs on leashes only! & no drinking in the parking lot or you will get cited by park police. If you bring hard liquor DO NOT have it visually out in the bottle to be seen by others. Keep it put away in your ice-chest and/or covered up and keep it in cups. Park police will cite you if they see any hard alcohol bottles! Beer and wine is fine. Please clean up after yourselves & respect this location.
Thanks & see you all under the sun!

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Visit Oakland

July 14th, 2009

Oakland is a great place to visit! We may not have the best tourism department at the City of Oakland so these guys took it upon themselves to spread the word!

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Do you like living in Oakland?

March 1st, 2009

Well I am testing out a new poll feature of the blog here so please participate.
It’s a pretty simple question. But I want to hear your reasons as well.
Post comments by using the button below and let me know why?

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Oakland Merchants suppressing street food vendors?

April 3rd, 2010

When you think Oakland street food you think Burrito and Taco Trucks. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had many more independent options? If you were bar hopping in the Ave and you could grab some gourmet munchies?

It seems there are food vendors trying to bring us variety but Oakland Merchants are fighting them off in fear of losing customers to variety and options.

I can understand that these Merchants that have been set up a long time do not want to lose customers to street food vendors and are scared of going out of business, but I mean really? We the consumer should have the choice where to shop and who stays in business.

This is why I never understood the Walmart is so evil standpoint. People choose to shop there because it benefits them. If that means Fred’s Vacuum Repair Shop goes under then so be it. He was over charging and his customers were not loyal. Walmart wins and the customer is happy now.

Same thing here, if you lose customers to new businesses offering what we want then you’re doing it wrong. In this case it seems Oakland Merchants are playing the suppressor role and holding down independent businesses. I am not a fan of this.

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Star Wars AT-AT Walkers? Port of Oakland Cranes?

July 4th, 2008
Port of Oakland star wars cranes
Oakland Pictures

This is a picture of the Port of Oakland shipping container cranes at one of the berths. It was taken from a Ferry on the Ports Free Harbor Tours. As you have probably heard George Lucas got his idea for the AT-AT Walkers (All Terrain Armored Transport) from the Port of Oakland Cranes while flying into the Bay Area’s Oakland International Airport (OAK)at one time. Can it be confirmed? Who knows the truth. I think it is highly possible because he does live here in the North Bay. However he claims recently that this is NOT the case. George Lucas says he did not get his AT AT Walker idea from the Port Cranes. Is this true? Would he give the Shipping Container Cranes credit for his Walkers? Or would he say it is obviously an unique idea created purely by my own imagination?
AT-AT Walkers

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The Historical Oakland Tribune Building Clock Tower

July 5th, 2008
Oakland Tribune Tower Building
Oakland Pictures

First of all I love this building, it has always been my favorite and will always be.

The Oakland Tribune Clock Tower is a famous Oakland Landmark. It was declared a landmark on May 4, 1976 after about 70 years of life. The Tower was actually built in two stages. The six floors of base were completed in 1907 and the clock tower section was finished in 1923.

In recent years the Tower was damaged in the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake. Because the building was not occupied the Oakland Tribune Newspaper had to relocate. The Tower remained empty until 1995 and was bought and renovated. Ten years later in 1999 the great Tower was reopened. To this date it is occupied with condos and businesses. My company is actually locate din the Tower as well.

The Tower is a part of Oakland and will always be. It was recently sold for about $15 million dollars so I don’t think it will be going anywhere anytime soon.


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Weirdest Youtube video you have ever seen?!!?!? MUTO wall painted animation by BLU

July 14th, 2008


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MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU.
Wow this is such a trip! Have you ever seen anything weirder? Does it almost seem unreal?

Do you wonder if other graffiti artist consider this rude and disrespectful because he covers hundreds of other pieces and tags?

Maybe he uses more of a chalk and that will all wash away soon?

What do you guys think??? Leave some comments!

Youtube and his Website

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The Oakland Landmark debate

August 22nd, 2009

What is the most known Oakland LandMark?

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What landmark do you think most defines Oakland?

What one is greatest to you? I’m honestly not sure but do have a few favorites. I wanna hear your opionons.

Leave some comments if you have others I forgot that should be mentioned.

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Oakland San Francisco Bay Area Panoramic Photo by me

July 15th, 2008

Hey guys,

I figured I would share this picture with you since you’re all so cool and frequent my new blog. Of course a lot of you have seen it but the new comers, googlers and stumblers have not yet.

Because it is pretty damn big you will have to open it in a new window and then click it to view full size.
Hope you like it!

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Oakland San Francisco Bay Area Panoramic picture

Leave a comment, let me know what you think! And Yes I have my other site on there however it is being reworked. If you would like to see all of my photography please visit my Oakland Photos on flickr.

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Transamerica Pyramid Tallest Building in San Francisco

July 13th, 2008

Transamerica Pyramid Building
The Transamerica Pyramid is to date the tallest building in San Francisco. It stands 48 stories tall at 853 feet. It is located at 600 Montgomery Street and was completed in 1972.

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Tallest Building in Oakland, The Ordway Building

July 10th, 2008

Ordway Building

The Ordway building is the tallest building in Oakland and tallest building in the Bay Area outside of San Francisco. It is 28 floors high and was built in 1970. The Architecture for this building was Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. It will remain the tallest building for a while, other buildings are in the works but have yet to gain approval. There is a group of cry babies complaining about Oakland having tall buildings. Oakland is awesome, let it reach for the sky.

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Only in Oakland! SCRAPER BIKE

July 7th, 2008


Scraper Bike by Trunk Boiz.
This is the knock!
Check em out on myspace. Trunk Boiz myspace

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New, Oakland is Proud Tree T shirts!

July 13th, 2008

Oakland is Proud T ShirtNew design folks! Grab em while they’re hot. be the first to rock one in your hood. Oakland is proud and you should be too. This displays our lovely Oakland oak tree as well! You can buy your shirt here on CafePress.com

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Oakland Fireworks from Jack London Square Port of Oakland Building

July 7th, 2008
Oakland Fireworks Jack London Square

Oakland, CA – July 4th, 2008 Jack London Square Firework Display by the Port of Oakland Building.
What a grand display, here are a few photos I took of the event. You can find them on my Oakland flickr photos.

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The Lakeshore Cafe in Oakland, Brunch at its finest!

August 12th, 2008

The Lakeshore Café is a GREAT place to get a Weekend Brunch. Whether it be Saturday or Sunday they have an amazing menu and specials on Mimosas. Yes, that’s right $2 Mimosas! Well $1.95 to be exact. They serve both Orange and Strawberry. The brunch special goes from 10am till 4pm both days. This is located on Lake Shore Avenue in the Grand Lake area of Lake Merritt right across from Trader Joe’s near the Saturday Farmers Market.
They have an amazing staff, very friendly and quick. They’re always smiling, nice and personable. The food is A+++ and you can leave with a nice bubbly buzz all for under $30 for 2 people. While it may look like a long wait you typically wait no longer than 10 minutes. They have a lot of seating and also a small out door patio as well as sidewalk seating. Just Do It! Check them out!
*update* I have a link to their site and an image from their site but it seems they do not have a real hosting company because it is always down and always says bandwidth exceeded. How sad. You should just go, trust me it’ll be good.
I suggest the Tequila Sausage Scramble and some Strawberry Mimosas.

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