Bay Curious: Oakland’s 16th Train Station Helped Build West Oakland and the Civil Rights Movement
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West Oakland Station
West oakland and the sixteenth street station were thriving in the late 19 fifties. The construction of the eight 80 freeway and later the bart line, demolishes a lot of those west oakland businesses. By the late eighties, just a few trains a day stop at the Sixteenth Street station. In two thousand five it was bought by bridge housing, a non profit affordable housing developer. They wanted to turn the station into something the community could use. But like other re development plans in west oakland, they have been derailed by recessions during that time.
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