Emeryville

Emeryville
Author: The Emeryville Historical Society
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780738530062

Emeryville, one tough square mile wedged between Oakland and Berkeley with its back to the bay, has a gritty, colorful history and a bright future. Before the Gold Rush, its creek-fed grasslands served as a huge slaughtering ground for the Peralta family's hide and tallow operations. Later, railroad tracks crisscrossed a community formed on the fringe of Oakland to catch its cultural and industrial refuse. The stench from stockyards and slaughterhouses, the happy roar of a crowd at the Oakland Oaks Ball Park, acidic plumes from steel and petroleum manufacture, pomaded swells rubbing elbows with rowdies at the racetrack, and smoky gambling dens were all part of old Emeryville. Recently, an innovative, business-friendly city government brought about a striking economic transformation, making once-blighted Emeryville--now home to corporate giants like Pixar Animation Studios and IKEA--the envy of its neighbors.

The Emeryville Shellmound

The Emeryville Shellmound
Author: Max Uhle
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2022-08-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

"The Emeryville Shellmound" by Max Uhle recounts California's few but characteristic archaeological remains such as are found in the mounds of the Mississippi valley or the ancient pueblos and cliff-dweller ruins of the South. In the shellmounds along this section of the Pacific coast, artifacts were found that have helped researchers piece together history. This text helps average readers understand the profound benefits of these studies.

Resource Depression and Intensification During the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay

Resource Depression and Intensification During the Late Holocene, San Francisco Bay
Author: Jack M. Broughton
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 1999-07-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9780520915916

The Emeryville Shellmound, on the east shore of San Francisco Bay, was excavated and subsequently destroyed in the early twentieth century. From its stratified deposits, which span the period 2600 to 700 years ago, the author identified 2,004 fish and 15,893 mammal specimens, and analyzed these and 2,302 avian remains previously identified by Hildegarde Howard in the 1920s. A battery of independent tests derived from foraging theory supports the conclusion that human-induced impacts on vertebrate populations caused declines in the efficiency of foraging across the time that the Emeryville locality was occupied.

Emeryville Stories

Emeryville Stories
Author: Craig Webster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2021-06-13
Genre:
ISBN: 9781636928210

Hop on your bike and ride with Craig and Brian as they create and experience lessons and adventures. Sit on the wall with the whole gang and feel for yourself the warmth built from friendships and mutual experiences. Emeryville, a small town, nestled between two big cities and the San Francisco Bay, provides the perfect backdrop for fun and adventure. The author gives you a manual for growing up the right way with these memoirs from a different time, in a different place, in a unique way from an adult's point of view. From the admiration of older siblings to the dedication of best friends. Talents discovered and utilized and put to good use in reminiscences of a wonderful reflection of the author's childhood. Craig Webster combines memories, mirth, and shared ventures in this totally true, nonfiction, nothing-made-up book of memories from a childhood done the right way. Enjoy your bike ride as you experience Emeryville Stories.