||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| This is an important story for Oakland and the nation|By P., Orinda, CA|In general, this series of pictorial histories tell the stories of places so well, and I've enjoyed many of them. But having grown up in Oakland, I was astounded to learn from this one not about only an important chapter in my hometown's development, but of the Oakland-based Pullman porters' role in the fo||Title: |Author: Heidi Benson |Publisher: San Francisco Chronicle |Date: 2/11/2009 ||On his first day of work on a passenger train in 1943, James Smith didn't get a chance to drink in the landscape on the run from Los Angeles to Portland, OR. ||He was deep ins
A hub of transportation and industry since the mid-19th century, West Oakland is today a vital commercial conduit and an inimitably distinct and diverse community within the Greater Oakland metropolitan area. The catalyst that transformed this neighborhood from a transcontinental rail terminal into a true settlement was the arrival of the railroad porters, employed by the Pullman Palace Car Company as early as 1867. After years of struggling in labor battles and ne...
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