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Snuggled
between the eastern coasts of San Francisco Bay and the
coastal rocky hills, the Oakland city has a rich heritage,
vivacious activities, entertainment, worth-seeing ambience,
exclusive café and hotels with plenty of amusement. The
Oakland city has been constructed on the modern
architectural basis. The proximity of places to each other
specifically of San Francisco, Wine Country, and Silicon
Valley makes them the hub of leisure and business
transactions. Precisely, the city of Oakland is a global
village, which proffers solution for all the modern day
complexities. In 2002, Oakland was ranked 10th
greatest city for business in the U.S. The periphery of the
city towards the north is bounded by the city of Berkeley,
the domicile of the renowned University of California,
Berkeley. The western hem of the city has San Francisco, the
fourth-largest town in the state of California. The city of
Oakland has the populace of over 404,000. Oakland is the
Port of Oakland’s abode which was the world’s second largest
port in container tonnage somewhere in 60’s. Now it is among
the three major shipping ports on the West coast of US.
From the
excursionists, flight lovers, environmentalists to the
connoisseurs and sports fans to the little kids, Oakland has
numerous aspects to drop in for. The
Oakland
Museum of California,
Western Aerospace Museum, Habitot Children’s Museum,
the
Art Deco
Paramount Theater,
Chinatown,
Jack
London Square,
Lake
Merritt,
Children's Fairyland and
many more. The city was
listed on
the National Register of Historic Places.
The Art
Deco Paramount Theatre is positioned in the subordinate part
of the city and is a memorial which reflects the modernism
of art, as perceived by the connoisseurs. Lake Merritt is in
the south of the city. It is a salty water body and a
transitory home of the migratory birds. It is also
recognized as
National wildlife
refuge.
Children's Fairyland lies
on the coast of this lake. It is a
theme park, that gratify the innocent
fanciful moods of the families with young toddlers.
Chinatown is an ultra modern county with a large population
of Chinese people inhabiting the area with non-Chinese
culture. To know more about the indigenous of Oakland, their
heritage, art and history the
Oakland
Museum of California is
perhaps the ideal place to visit. For the admirers of
baseball, football and basketball, the city houses
Oakland
Raiders
National
Football League team, the
Oakland
Athletics
Major
League Baseball and the
Golden
State Warriors
National
Basketball Association.
Though the city of Oakland has earned a notorious name for
the high-crime and subordinate areas that are struggling for
their up gradation, the city attracts thousands of visitors
every year. Indeed, oblivion of the prices, the visitors
find it irresistible to love the exquisiteness of the
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