GROOVES-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!

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.

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?

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