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- From: rjwill6@PacBell.COM (Rod Williams)
- Newsgroups: ba.motss
- Subject: Re: downtown Oakland
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.160939.23609@PacBell.COM>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 16:09:39 GMT
- References: <28550@sybase.sybase.com> <1993Jan28.012431.25094@netcom.com> <1993Jan28.025712.1439@netcom.com>
- Sender: news@PacBell.COM (Pacific Bell Netnews)
- Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, California
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- > jfh@netcom.com (Jack Hamilton) writes:
- >> foucault@netcom.com (Howard Arthur Faye) writes:
-
- >>Lake Merritt, with its art deco apartment buildings and curvaceous
- >>boulvards, has a beautiful park with the Alameda county hall and
- >>Oakland Museum at one end and the Grand Lake theatre at the other
- >>end. I actually rented a paddle boat there once.
- >
- >And Merritt's Restaurant, which has the best fried chicken I've found in
- >NorCal so far. I'd be interested in hearing about other possibilities,
- >though.
-
- That's good to hear -- I didn't know of any culinary meccas
- in the downtown area. There used to be a delightful family-
- run French Restaurant -- Chez Lucien -- on Broadway around
- 18th St., where I once had the most delicious Selle d'Agneau
- en Croute. But that was then and this is now...
-
- I'm also a big Holmes Bookstore fan, often to be found on the
- mezzanine scouring the fiction section -- their prices are
- much lower than San Francisco bookstores. Is the Housewives'
- Market still in operation? It was on 9th St., I think, a few
- blocks north of Broadway. A fabulous place to browse among
- exotic, redolent foodstuffs...
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- rod williams -=- pacific bell -=- san ramon, ca -=- rjwill6@pacbell.com
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