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Downtown Oakland

Oakland's Community and Economic Development Agency stepped in to provide financial aid to the shop owners whose windows were smashed as a part of the response by the Dellums administration.



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Indian Rock Park

The top of the main outcropping, Indian Rock, commands a spectacular view that encompasses sights from downtown Oakland and the University of California campus to the south; central Berkeley, San Francisco Bay, and San Francisco to the west; and Marin County and Richmond, California to the northwest and north.

Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life

Beginning as one room above the Parkway Movie Theater off Lake Merritt in downtown Oakland, the Museum eventually expanded to its present site in the former Burke Mansion (architect: Daniel J. Patterson) down the road from the Claremont Resort and Spa in Berkeley.