History

File Photo -- Far be it from us to criticize anyone — especially when it comes to typos — but this street sign is misspelled.

What’s in a Name? ‘Ellen Crag’ Avenue

Feb 23,2023

On the Main Island between Grand and Hibbard streets sits a one block long road known as “Ellen Crag Avenue” if you read the street signs. A crag is defined as a steep cliff or rugged rock face. Not exactly a common sight in Alameda. So what is going on?

File photo. In January, some residents expressed concern over a lack of parking at this proposed hotel, still on schedule for Park Street at Clement Avenue.

2019: Year in Review

Dec 27,2019

A look at 2019 through the pages of the Alameda Sun.

Part One: January to June

January

Dennis Evanosky &nbsp&nbsp Joseph Knowland commissioned the building of the Honeymoon Cottage as a wedding gift to his daughter and son-in-law.

Tour Homes this Sunday

Sep 17,2019

The Alameda Museum and the Alameda Architectural Preservation Society (AAPS) present their annual Legacy Home tour this on Sunday, Sept. 22, from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

Celebrate Black History Month with Island Poets on Feb. 7

Jan 30,2018

Alameda Island Poets’ monthly free reading Wednesday, Feb. 7, from 7 to 9 p.m., will celebrate Black History Month with local poets Amos White and Wanda Sabir.

File photo A B-25 bomber takes off from the USS Hornet’s flight deck at the beginning of the 1942 Doolittle Raid.

Doolittle Raid Anniversary to Feature Flyover

Mar 28,2017

Alameda Naval Air Museum’s (ANAM) motto — “Come see history in your own backyard” — will have special meaning this Saturday, April 1. The museum invites everyone young and old to visit Alameda Point, where they can look to the skies around 11:45 a.m.

Courtesy Chuck Millar During 1920s and ‘30s, the “Aerial Thompsons,” — known as “The Kings of the Air” and billed in the newspapers as “a pair of vaudeville artists and headliners” — thrilled crowds at Neptune Beach by performing stunts on a wire 175 feet in the air.

Neptune Beach Opened 100 Years Ago this Month

Mar 14,2017

Doolittle Raider Passes

Jun 30,2016

Eric Baker Samuel Austin Chapin, for whom Chapin Street is named, traced his ancestry to, and shared his name with Deacon Samuel Chapin, who played a prominent role in the unfolding history of the Pilgrims in America. The deacon is the subject of this Saint-Gaudens statue in Springfield, Mass.

What’s in a Name: Chapin Street

Feb 23,2016

Chapin Street recalls Samuel Austin Chapin who owned a tract of land in Alameda that bore his family’s name.

Robin Seeley photos. Farrah Morin, Safia Pigott and Abby Hayton sit on the steps of Post Street’s Gold Rush cottage. Others who participated in the Culinary Academy event but not pictured are Daniel, Evan and Vivian Pell.

Panning for Gold in My Kitchen

Jan 27,2016

At 1223 Post St. in Alameda’s East End, a humble Gold Rush-era cottage still stands. It once housed a Norwegian immigrant named Christopher Christensen and his family.

Courtesy photo -- Fighter pilots of the USS Lexington leaning across the horizontal stabilizer of a Grumman F6F Hellcat. November 1943. The image is courtesy Edward Streichen from Streichen at War in Alameda Naval Air Museum library.

Step Into Local WWII History

Mar 30,2023

Museum at Alameda Point a hidden Island treasure trove

Alameda Sun