{"id":24511,"date":"2016-06-02T00:01:25","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T07:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=24511"},"modified":"2016-06-02T00:01:25","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T07:01:25","slug":"oakland-tribune-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/oakland-tribune-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"The Oakland Tribune Tower — A 1923 Structure With a Twenty-First Century View"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The view from the Oakland Tribune Tower. In the foreground, the Bank of America Building. In the background, 1111 Broadway and the Clorox Building. In the distance, the Bay Bridge and San Francisco. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

I worked at\u00a0the Oakland Tribune for years, but, working stiff that I was, I was never invited to the lofty heights of the Oakland Tribune Tower. I finally got my chance on April 4, the last day of my paper’s publication, to take the elevator all the way to the top and take in the view — the bay, the East Bay\u00a0hills,\u00a0the\u00a0sometimes sleek, sometimes fanciful architecture produced in Oakland\u00a0over\u00a0the past 100 years. Young, old, graceful, awkward,\u00a0the buildings of the\u00a0East Bay\u00a0sparkled in the April sunshine.<\/p>\n

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The Oakland Tribune Tower viewed from 13th and Franklin Street. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Tribune Tower, designed by Edward T. Foulkes and erected in 1923 at the behest of Oakland Tribune publisher Joseph R. Knowland, no longer houses the Tribune. The paper was absorbed\u00a0on April 5\u00a0by the Bay Area News Group’s East Bay Times. But the tower remains the symbol of the city of Oakland.<\/p>\n

The 22-story brick structure\u00a0is in much better shape than when I worked there as a feature writer and columnist back in the ’80s. That fact hit home\u00a0when I took the elevator to the top of the building along with dozens of other\u00a0former Trib employees who’d come together to mourn\u00a0the Tribune’s last day of publication.<\/p>\n

The occasion was gloomy, but the photo op was lit by a cloudless sky. These pictures are the result.<\/p>\n

More about the wake for our old newspaper at “The Trib Is Dead, Long Live the Tribbers.”\u00a0<\/a> More about life after\u00a0newspapering at “My First Royalty Check Has Arrived — How Cool Is That?”\u00a0<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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San Pablo Avenue stretches north through Oakland, Berkeley and Albany toward the Albany Hill. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Looking northwest, Oakland City Center with Clorox building, left, and Citibank, right. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Oakland’s Lake Merritt and the Oakland Hills. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The back of one of the Tower’s four clocks. Now repaired, the clocks rarely showed the correct time when I worked there. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Former Tribune employees got an up-close view of the filigree atop the Tribune Tower on the paper’s last day of publication. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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As a reporter, I was never invited to the lofty heights of the Oakland Tribune Tower. On the paper’s last day of publication I finally got my chance. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1344,34,1717,671,1323,1251,81,31,488,1718,1719],"class_list":["post-24511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","tag-cityscapes","tag-dont-miss","tag-east-bay","tag-journalism","tag-newspapers","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-tribune","tag-photo-ops","tag-the-writing-life","tag-tribune-tower","tag-views"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}