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Showing posts with label Lake Merritt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lake Merritt. Show all posts
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April 2, 2017
8th Annual Oakland Running Festival Marathon ~ 2017
From there, those running the half follow an out-and-back loop course
that follows a roughly clockwise direction around the city, first north
along Broadway for a run past the Paramount Theatre and then left onto
Grand Avenue. The course then turns left onto Martin Luther King Jr. Way
and then follows southward past Lafayette Park to 8th Street, where
runners turn left again and heads east toward Chinatown, and then turns
left again on Harrison Street.
The next stretch of the race follows turns on 14th Street, Madison
Street and 10th Street, as runners make their way to the race’s first
significant downhill stretch around the mile 3 marker.
The course then drops in elevation between miles 3 and 4 as runners
make their way around Laney College and the Frank Youell Athletic Field,
turning right on 5th Street and then again on 7th Street, toward the
stretch of the race through miles 5 and 6 along the Oakland Waterfront,
taking runners past the Oakland Inner Harbor.
As runners make their way past the waterfront, they next start the
stretch of the race that takes them along the northernmost part of the
half marathon route, northward along Cypress Street up to 26th Street,
where they turn right and head east toward 27th Street.
Between miles 8 and 9 runners hit what is the biggest uphill stretch
of the half route, and then keep heading eastward to the stretch that
takes them through Lakeside Park and around Lake Merritt. After the run
around the lake, runners head back into downtown for the finish back on
Broadway.
Styrous® ~ Sunday, April 2, 2017
October 16, 2013
Scottish Rite Temple, Oakland
photos by Styrous®For the last two years I have been experiencing circles long abandoned come full cycle. Friends, people, situations, jobs and events of 10, 20 30, even as far back as 60 years ago have been making an appearance after decades of lost contact. One of these cycles completed after 30 years last weekend.
On Aug. 24, 1983, I produced a fashion show for Oakland designer, Ignacio Peri, at the Scottish Rite Temple at Lake Merritt in Oakland. Flash forward thirty years and I am preparing for a visit to my studio by the Oakland Heritage Alliance Artist's Studio tour. The OHA organizes events, tours and lectures on various subjects (historical, cultural, artistic, etc.) pertaining to Oakland. What's the connection? On Saturday, Melissa Pauna, Board Member and organizer for the tour, give me a ticket for one of their tours happening the next day; a tour of the Scottish Rite Temple.
When I did the fashion show at the Temple for I. Peri in the '80's, I'd had no time to see more than the theater where the show was held. I've always wanted to see the rest of the building but it is a Masonic temple and it is usually private. I couldn't believe my luck! What are the chances? Kismet?
Paul Adams, a Masonic member, conducted the tour while regaling us with the history of the Masons and Freemasonry, the rooms of the building (there are many of them) and items in them (many, many, MANY of these). He told us a little about the degrees, the codes and ethics of Freemasonry; events of importance, ghost stories regarding the building, even demonstrated a toast given at a Mason ceremony. He was sensational and his vast wealth of knowledge was greatly appreciated.
Some of the rooms and lobbies were not brightly lit which at first disappointed me but the low lighting made the architectural details more dramatic and stunning.
but let the photos tell the story
Paul Adams - tour conductor
photos by Styrous®
Links:
1547 Lakeside Dive
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 451-1903
Oakland, CA 94612
(510) 451-1903
446 17th Street, Suite 301
Oakland, CA 94612
info@oaklandheritage.org
(510) 763-9218
Oakland, CA 94612
info@oaklandheritage.org
(510) 763-9218
My thanks to the Oakland Heritage Alliance. It was everything and more than I had expected and it was worth the thirty years wait!
Styrous® ~ October 16, 2013
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