SAN FRANCISCO AREA BY AREA - San Francisco and Northern California - page 159

Children's Fairyland where
young visitors can enjoy pony
rides, puppet shows, and
nursery rhyme scenes.

s Jack London
Square
g to Oakland. 12th Street, then
AC Transit 58, 72, 88 bus.

Jack London, author of The Call
of the Wild and White Fang , grew
up in Oakland in the 1880s, and
was a frequent visitor to the
Oakland Estuary waterfront.
You can drive or catch the
ferry to its cheerful, bright
promenade of shops and
restaurants, which have outdoor
tables in fine weather. There
are also pleasure boats offering
trips along the estuary.
Little of the waterfront
that London knew remains.
However, the writer's footsteps
can be traced to Heinold's First
and Last Chance Saloon, which
has now sunken with age into
the street. The Yukon cabin that
was purportedly occupied by
London during the Gold Rush
of 1898 has also been erected
at the dockside.

View from Oakland across Lake Merritt
f Old Oakland
12th Street. Farmers' Market Tel
[phone]. Open 8am-2pm Fri.

and Saturday night “Pasta
Operas,” when the management
and visiting singers serenade
the clientele.

Also known as Victorian Row,
these two square blocks of
wood and brick commercial
buildings were erected
between the 1860s and 1880s,
but they were thoroughly
renovated in the 1980s and
now contain an array of shops,
restaurants, and art galleries.
Fridays bring crowds of
shoppers to the Farmers' Market,
where stalls sell fresh produce
and prepared foods. By night,
the crowds move to the Pacific
Coast Brewing Company on
Washington Street. Don't miss
103-year-old Rattos, at 827
Washington Street, an Italian
delicatessen famed for its Friday

g Oakland
Chinatown
12th Street or Lake Merritt.
The bay area's second-largest
Chinatown should perhaps be
called “Asiatown.” Its Cantonese
majority is augmented by
immigrants from Korea,
Vietnam, and other parts
of Southeast Asia. The
neighborhood receives far
fewer tourists than San
Francisco's Chinatown. Its
restaurants have a reputation
for hearty, dependable, and
reasonably priced food.

d Oakland Museum
of California

See pp168-9.

bridge collapsed during the
Loma Prieta earthquake (see p21) .
The East Bay crossing was rebuilt
between 2002 and 2013 to make
it more earthquake resistant.
The new suspension bridge
features a single tower across
the shipping channel, which
gives way to a graceful skyway.
Boring through the island in
a tunnel 76 ft (23 m) high and
58 ft (17 m) wide, the roadway
emerges at the West Bay section
of the bridge. Two suspension

spans join at the
concrete central
anchorage, which is
deeper in the water than
that of any other bridge.
The World's Fair
(1939 to 1940) was held
on Treasure Island, part
of Yerba Buena Island,
to celebrate the bridge's
completion (see p33) .
Now this small island
is home to small parks
and fine residences. Plan of the 1939-40 World's Fair on Treasure Island

Pylons supporting
both road decks

Central anchorage 5-lane double-level highway

2,310 ft (704 m)

400 ft (122 m)