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- From: jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton)
- Subject: Re: downtown Oakland
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.054529.27002@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 05:45:29 GMT
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- In article <28550@sybase.sybase.com> black@sybase.com (Chris Black) writes:
- >I just made a WONDERFUL discovery in downtown Oakland, so I thought I'd
- >share it, and a couple of my other downtown faves, in the interests of
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- [About the Oakland museum]
-
- > and give you video snippets of oral history (one of them from a
- > gay rights activist, Serria I think)
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- Jose Sarria, perhaps? He's appearing at The Blue Muse on Gough in SF on
- Sundays through February.
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- > Th Paramount Theater, Broadway near 20th -- An absolutely
- > astonishing Art Deco movie palace. Many, though not all,
- > Friday evenings they show a classic film complete with a cartoon
- > and an old newsreel. Not to be missed! Motss relevance:
- > camp-a-rama.
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- You said it, sister.
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- >I'd be delighted to hear other folks' recommendations in the area.
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- Ratto's food market, a few blocks to the (northwest?) of what used to be
- the Hyatt. Lots of interesting groceries, and they sometimes serve meals.
- If you like food, or you like to look at food, it's worth a visit.
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