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90022_43788_1989_Oakland_Promotional

1989
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This 1989 clip is a promotion for the city of Oakland, located in Northern California just over the Bay Bridge from San Francisco. 

Footage includes shots of: the Oakland A’s baseball team, Jack London Square, Lake Merritt, downtown Oakland, people exiting an Amtrak, people leaving a BART station, the NBA’s Golden State Warriors in action, The Oakland Convention Center a.k.a. The George P. Scotland Memorial Center, the Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center, a Holiday Inn, a Hilton, a Hyatt Regency, The Claremont Resort Hotel & Tennis Club, people swimming, a maid putting champagne in a hotel room’s sterling silver champagne bucket, the Scott’s Seafood Grill & Bar, the Paramount Theater’s marquee, Oakland’s Chinatown, exterior of the Kim Hay Tea House, inside a produce store, the neon sign of Il Pescatore Restaurant & Cocktails, interiors of a shopping mall, inside an art gallery that’s showing paintings and figurative sculptures, people playing music at Oakland’s Festival at the Park, boating on Lake Merritt, people playing soccer in a park, a couple playing tennis, and a man golfing on a green. There are also snippets of Vallejo’s Marine World, San Francisco's cable cars, Napa Valley's wine country, skiing in Lake Tahoe, the Monterey Aquarium in Monterey, and golfing in Pebble Beach.