Oakland Tribune - Sunday Jan. 22, 1928 Unearthing the history of Piedmont poses a challenge, given the limited availability of written...

New: Armando Valdés Peza bio

Next year there will be an influx of new photos, documents, maps and other historical information added to this site. I was incredibly...

While taking a break from researching Piedmont, I started looking into the history of another beautiful park in our area, the Rose Garden...

Updates: I scanned more photos and added them to the Blair Park page (and the blog post before this one), Piedmont Park's page (new maze,...

“Oakland’s Deserted Park” By ARTHUR LEWIS Oakland Tribune – Sun - Oct. 15, 1916 Before Oakland had any electric cars, its street railway...

Introduction to the History of Homes in the Piedmont Hills.