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1959 Map of Oakland West

Name: 1959 Topographic Map of Oakland West
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1969
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1969

About this map

The University of California campus and the bustling waterfronts of Berkeley and Oakland define this mid-century survey of the East Bay. The landscape is dominated by heavy maritime and military infrastructure, including the Alameda Naval Air Station and the Oakland Naval Supply Center, while the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge provides the critical link across San Francisco Bay via Yerba Buena Island.

Transit networks are in a state of evolution, with the Nimitz Freeway and Mac Arthur Freeway cutting through established neighborhoods. This edition shows the density of local education, from Technical High Sch to both the Merritt and Laney campuses of Oakland City College. Civil and cultural hubs like Lake Merritt and the Alameda Administration Center sit alongside industrial corridors served by the Southern Pacific and Western Pacific railroads.