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Emeryville Historical Society: Park Avenue District Walking Tour

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Tour Overview

A walk along Emeryville’s Park Avenue District showcasing the many stories behind the historic buildings.

Emeryville, CA’s Park Avenue District is chock full of beautiful warehouses and important historical sites that played vital roles in Industry, recreation and science.

Notable sites include the Oakland Oaks Ball Park, the birthplace of modern greyhound racing, a steam car factory that almost revolutionized automobile manufacturing and other more notorious sites that helped give “The Rottenest City” its moniker.

* This tour is actively being edited and fact-checked and we hope to finalize it by early Fall 2023.*

Stops

  1. Stop 1: Foot of Park Ave - Commercial Union Hotel & Judson Steel (Both Razed)

  2. Stop 2: Air Reduction Co. of California

  3. Stop 3: Peck & Hills Furniture Co. (Now Emeryville Warehouse Lofts)

  4. Stop 4: Blue Star Amusement (Now Peet's Coffee HQ)

  5. Stop 5: Sherwin-Williams Paint Factory & Warehouse (Now “The Lab Emeryville”)

  6. Stop 6: The Kirsch Company (Now 45th Street Artist Cooperative)

  7. Stop 7: PG&E Central Warehouse Group

  8. Stop 8: Watkins Terminal Building (Now Pixar's “West Village”)

  9. Stop 9: Morehouse Mustard Co.

  10. Stop 10: Dugan’s Café (Now Paula Le Duc Catering)

  11. Stop 11: Old Town Hall

  12. Stop 12: Fisher Body Building (Formerly Park Avenue Auditorium)

  13. Stop 13: Peoples’ Baking Co (Now Folkmanis Puppets)

  14. Stop 14: California Cracker Company

  15. Stop 15: American Rubber Co.

  16. Stop 16: Western Canning Company (now Pixar Animation Studios)

  17. Stop 17: Oakland Oaks Ball Park (Now Pixar Parking Lot)

  18. Stop 18: Joseph Emery Estate (Razed - Now Joseph Emery Skate Park)

  19. Stop 19: Oaks Card Club

  20. Stop 20: Mt. Diablo Wine Association (Now B&W liquor)

  21. Stop 21: California Pickle & Sauce Company

  22. Stop 22: Watts Street at 40th

  23. Stop 23: Doble Steam Motors (now Besler Building)

  24. Stop 24: Albert Wright Co. (future home of Emeryville Arts Center)

  25. Stop 25: Rio Grande Oil Service Station (Now Rudy's Can't Fail Café)

  26. Stop 26: 1396 Park Avenue

  27. Stop 27: Industrial Hard Chrome Plating Corp. (Icon at Park Apartments)

  28. Stop 28: Park Avenue Live-Work Studios

  29. Stop 29: Foxx Manufacturing Company (now The Rug Depot Outlet)

  30. Stop 30: Westinghouse Pacific Coast Brake Company (Now Life Science Space)

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