Towne Crier #18
NEIGHBOR NEWS
Comings and Goings: JULIA OGRYDZIAK and JEFF KRAUSE in #301 will be moving this summer, and selling their loft. Julia is going back to college at Cambridge to get her Masters Degree in Design at the School of Architecture. Jeff will move their business, Blacksquare, as Jeff says it can be done from anywhere. They hope to move back to the area after the year of matriculation is completed.
TRES FONTAINE and JACK ALLEN in #105 are the new owners of their loft, having bought it from MARK RIVARD. Double Congratulations are in order, as they are getting married this Saturday afternoon at 3pm. After the wedding, they will be 'driven' back here in a Rickshaw built by Jack. There is a reception in their Loft around 6-7pm and you all are invited to celebrate.
FSL BOD/HOME OWNERS MEETING
We have an important meeting next Monday night, 12 July 2004, to discuss, among other things, financing for the water leaks/window repairs/exterior painting tasks. Watch for the notice in the Mail Room, and/or your email box.
STREETS AND ROADS
Block by block, Fourth Street is getting repaved. Our turn was this week and is all done. The blocks between Jackson and Oak Streets are next.
The cross streets could be next, starting with Alice. The markings are all over the intersection, and since construction is due in the neighborhood, the street repaving needs to be done quickly, so the streets can be torn up. Third Street could be do for some water main repairs. At least so said the surveyors I met. But it will come after the repaving. That's how it works, said the surveyors.
And how about that new Stop Sign at Third and Alice? Now there are some who want one at Fourth and Alice.
WEBSTER TUBE CLOSING
Here we go again. The Broadway entrance to the Alameda Tube is being closed again. There are two conflicting signs at the entrance, which would indicate that the closings don't start until Saturday and then in August....but it was closed Thursday night.
PARAMOUNT MOVIE CLASSICS
Starting tonight, there is another round of Friday nights with old movies are scheduled for this summer at the art deco historical landmark movie palace, the Paramount Theater on Broadway. After umpteen years, the price has gone up rom $5 to $6. You still get a live organ concert, a cartoon, newsreel, trailers and Deco-Win for valuable prizes, such as dinner at a Jack London Square restaurant. They all start at 8pm and there is a cocktail bar on the second floor.
- JULY 9 The Producers/1968 - Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder
- JULY 16 The Wiz/1978-Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, Nipsey Russell, Ted Ross and Lena Horn
- JULY 23 The Asphalt Jungle/1950-Sam Jaffe
- JULY 30 Jailhouse Rock/1957-Elvis Presley
- AUGUST 6 Somewhere in Time/1980-Christopher Reeve
- AUGUST 20 Shaft/1971-Richard Roundtree
- AUGUST 27 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea/1954 (Studio Print - Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre, Kirk Douglas, and James Mason
- SEPT 17 The Candidate/1971 (new print)-Robert Redford
CITY CENTER SUMMER SOUNDS CONCERT SERIES
Every Wednesday noon at City Center Plaza are free lunchtime concerts, with a variety of music including cocktail swing, reggae, Latin Jazz, Cajun/Zydeco, Marimba and blues. The next one is Wednesday 14 July 2004 with Pure Ecstasy doing Motown, gospel and Capella selections. They go through the month of August. Go to www.
OLD OAKLAND HOME GROWN BLUES SERIES
During the summer in Old Oakland, at Ninth and Broadway - within walking distance - are free dusk concerts. The next one is Wednesday 14 July 2004 featuring Bobby Webb & Smooth Blues.
OLD OAKLAND OUTDOOR CINEMA
The next film is Friday 16 July 2004 in Old Oakland, on Washington Street between Ninth and Tenth streets. It will be Kevin Costner in "Field of Dreams. Admission is free. They're once a month, and the first one was in June drawing 350 visitors. In August it will be "Tootsie" and "Singing In The Rain" will show in September. You can bring your own chairs. Preceding each movie will be Bay area short films. There are many good restaurants around if you want to eat before the 8pm showing.
WOODMINSTER SUMMER MUSICALS
The summer season for outdoor musicals at Woodminster Amphitheater in Joaquin Miller Park on Redwood Road has opened. This weekend is "Annie," which runs for -- weekends in the classic open-air performance facility which was a 1940 WPA project and dedicated to California writers.
The first two weekends in August will be "The Will Rogers Follies, A Life in Revue." It will start Friday 6 August 2004 and run that weekend, and on Thursday-Sunday the following weekend.
The September offering is "Flower Drum Song," starting Friday 3 September 2004 for three nights, and then Thursday-Sunday the following weekend.
NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS
It appears that we are in for another round of neighborhood construction, this time in the empty lot facing our Alice Street side. Signature Properties bought the lot, and plan to build a 91-unit condominium project starting early next year. It's a done deal, so there is no further public review unless significant changes are proposed for the project which is already approved.
MIKE GHIELMETTI of Signature will meet with neighbors for a Project show and tell next Tuesday at 6:30pm for an hour or so. It will be held at The Egghouse at 229 Harrison, which is the corner of Third and Harrison. Dial 30 for
entry. RSVP to GARY KNECHT so he knows how many chairs. 510/893-9829. He's the President of SoNIC - South of the Nimitz Improvement Council, and the one who arranged this meeting.
The project will have 91 units, as originally proposed, and 117 off-street parking stalls. The only concessions gained so far is that the building will be about three feet shorter - 65 feet instead of 68 feet.
The Good News? There will be no need for pile-driving.
DRAGON BOAT RACES
It's almost time again for the annual International Dragon Boat Races right here in Jack London Square. They will happen the weekend of 7-8 August 2004.
CIRCUS
The circus is coming to town in August. Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus will be at the Oakland Arena 18-22 August 2003.
HAVE A NICE WEEKEND!
Lynne
Comments
I echo Lynn's comments about attending the homeowner's meeting on the 12th. Hardly anyone attended the last one. The Board is seriously addressing the repair and leak issue in the windows and walls of our building. The project(s) sound extensive. It affects so many of us. It will be an expensive undertaking. I think it's necessary. You may want to weigh in on the project.
Posted by: Robbie | July 9, 2004 3:16 PM
I agree with Robbie. Let's participate, people!!
Posted by: Jim Pire | July 9, 2004 8:33 PM