ALAMEDA COUNTY Transcribed by: Linda Jackson 5/21/2008
The Ideal Place for Your California Home
by Henry Anderson Lafler
The Sequoyah Country Club is situated in the hills near the famous Foothill Boulevard, a part of the Lincoln Highway. This is a newly organized club, set in a wonderfully picturesque location amid rolling hills, sparsely wooded with live oak. The
AN OAKLAND PLAYGROUND
Sequoyah Country Club links are laid out as a championship course, with ample room and the regulation number of holes. This country club also has facilities for tennis and other sports. The University of California has just finished the construction at a cost of $20,000 of nine new terraced asphalt courts, which indicates, in a degree, the attention which is given to healthful play in Alameda County.
Nor is the aesthetic side of life neglected in this land of dreams on the shore of San Francisco Bay. The Greek Theatre at Berkeley naturally attracts great dramatic artists, and the dome of blue above and the green waving banners of the trees give to the great classics of the stage when produced here an unforgetable quality.
GOLF LINKS OF THE CLAREMONT COUNTRY CLUB ON
CHRISTMAS DAY, NINETEEN FOURTEEN
As a dramatic critic once remarked:
"When Ben Greet as Hamlet pointed to the sky and cried: 'Do you see yonder cloud that's almost in the shape of a camel?' he pointed to no tinsel sky, nor painted cloud, but to the blue heavens themselves. And high aloft by some strange chance did indeed float a fleecy cloud in which it required little imagination to find a camel's shape."
THE
CLAREMONT COUNTRY CLUB, OAKLAND, WHERE TENNIS
AND GOLF ARE PLAYED EVERY DAY IN THE YEAR
Oakland's auditorium, built at a cost of $1,000,000 and equalling in size old Madison Square Garden, New York, provides for all the people the highest type of entertainment at nominal cost. Great orchestras, great singers, great speakers, here find immense and appreciative audiences. The auditorium is so constructed that it may be used for more spectacular entertainments--popular dances, horse shows, fairs, poultry and dog shows, circuses. In connection with the auditorium, there is a complete theatre seating 2,000, as well equipped as any west of New York City.
A
PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS IN PIEDMONT, WHICH IS THE
EXCLUSIVE RESIDENCE CITY OF ALAMEDA COUNTY, HAVING
FIFTEEN HUNDRED HOMES AND ONLY ONE STORE.
Proximity to the population center of Western America also assures dwellers in the balmy climate of Alameda County enjoyment of the best in the way of Grand Opera, during extended seasons. It is a well known fact that such musical aggregations frequently "make" but one city west of the Rockies, and that city the City of San Francisco Bay.
On the aesthetic side may also be mentioned the remarkable gallery of paintings owned by Mr. F. C. Havens, on exhibition in beautiful Piedmont Park. This is said to be the most extensive private gallery west of New York City. It is especially rich in modern American and Russian painters.
Among the large canvases is the painting "The Battle of San Juan Hill," by Vassili Verestchagin, the Russian artist--a picture painted under the direct supervision of Roosevelt himself and showing the colonel making the famous charge.
CADETS
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Forty Sundays in the year (there is so slight a likelihood of rainy weather) Steindorff's Band plays to audiences of thousands seated on the turf in Lakeside Park, Oakland, and a "half hour of Music" is given in the Greek Theatre in Berkeley. Free band concerts are also given elsewhere in the East Bay Cities.