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  Emeryville, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
In the early 20th century, a large park, dance hall and fairground were built along the waterfront on the shellmound to serve as an entertainment and social spot in the area.
This was due to the hydrogen sulfide gas resulting from the effluent of untreated sewage from Emeryville and nearby cities, particularly nearby Oakland and Berkeley.
The Emeryville Mudflats then became famous for public art - built from washed up timbers and boards by professional and amateur artists, skilled and unskilled, and art students from local high schools, the University of California, Berkeley, the California College of Arts and Crafts and the.
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 Emeryville, California -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville is a small city located in (Click link for more info and facts about Alameda County, California) Alameda County, California.
A new retail development named Bay Street Emeryville sits along Highway 80 and is home to such merchants as Banana Republic, Gap, Coach, The Apple Store, and restaurants such as CPK and Pasta Pomodoro.
Emeryville is located at 37°50'9" North, 122°17'14" West (37.835926, -122.287253).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/e/em/emeryville,_california.htm   (1142 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Emeryville, California
The Emeryville Shellmound, in Emeryville, California, is a massive archaeological shell midden deposit (dark, highly organic soil containing a high concentration of human food waste remains, including shellfish).
Hydrogen sulfide (hydrogen sulphide in British English), H2S, is a colorless, toxic, flammable gas that is responsible for the foul odor of rotten eggs.
University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (also known as Cal, University of California, UC Berkeley, UCB, or simply Berkeley) is a public coeducational university situated in Berkeley, California, USA to the east of San Francisco Bay, overlooking the Golden Gate.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Emeryville,-California   (4179 words)

  
 Emeryville, California - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They would dispose of their clam and oyster shells in a single place, over time creating a huge mound— the Emeryville Shellmound [1].
The Emeryville Mudflats then became famous for public art - built without monetary compensation from washed up timbers and boards by professional and amateur artists, skilled and unskilled, and art students from local high schools, the University of California, Berkeley, the California College of Arts and Crafts and the Free University of Berkeley.
Among their anchor tenants is the first store of Ikea in Northern California, as well as more familiar merchants such as the Home Depot and Toys 'R' Us.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Emeryville,_California   (1517 words)

  
 Emeryville, California (Cities)
Emeryville is located on the waterfront at the foot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge.
Emeryville is part of the Oakland, California metro area.
The Emeryville AMTRAK station is the primary West Coast east-west & north-south junction of AMTRAK.
www.ohwy.com /ca/e/emeryvil.htm   (207 words)

  
 Emeryville Facts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville is the second densest city in the Bay Area, after San Francisco.
Emeryville has made a marked change in the past 10 years, redeveloping much of the city.
Emeryville's Amtrak station is one of the nation's busiest, with 500,000 riders per year.
cities21.org /EGR/facts.html   (166 words)

  
 North Gate News Online :: As Emeryville's Fortunes Rise, Choices Get Easier   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville’s general budget has grown from under $11 million at the end of the recession 10 years ago to nearly $26 million today—an impressive 9 percent annual growth rate.
The most difficult financial challenge for Emeryville and many cities will be retirement costs for employees, which are likely to soar in coming years after the state renegotiated terms with public safety workers this summer.
Emeryville’s daytime population roughly triples the number of the city’s residents.
journalism.berkeley.edu /ngno/stories/000391_print.html   (1241 words)

  
 City of Emeryville - South Bayfront Project
The Emeryville Shellmound was the largest of several large mounds near the mouth of Temescal Creek.
Uhle excavated a trench and tunnel in the west side of the mound, to study a cross section of the deposit.
His work at Emeryville is now recognized as extraordinary for its time, and his conclusions form the foundations of much of the subsequent archaeological work around the bay.
emeryville.wli.net /public_info/archaeology_history.htm   (1153 words)

  
 North Gate News Online :: Emeryville Divided Over Pixar Quest for Expansion
They say Pixar, the city's second largest employer behind biotech firm Chiron, is one of Emeryville's biggest supporters of education, the local food bank, and the arts.
Emeryville currently receives $1 million a year in property taxes from Pixar.
Brian Donahue, Emeryville resident of 25 years, says Pixar's ultimatum is only a bluff and wants the city council to demand a better deal.
journalism.berkeley.edu /ngno/stories/003473.html   (480 words)

  
 City of Emeryville - Bay Street Archaeology
The Emeryville Shellmound was the largest shellmound in the Bay Area and possibly in all of California.
Archaeologists considered the Emeryville Shellmound to be a very important archaeological site because of its large size and great age, and because it could provide so much information about the prehistory of the Bay Area.
Because the Emeryville Shellmound was a very deep deposit that had been occupied for almost 2500 years, it could provide information about how the lives of the native people changed and developed.
emeryville.wli.net /kids/kids_intro.htm   (3022 words)

  
 Recall Threat For Emeryville School Board / $1.8 million debt made parents angry   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville -- A group of Emeryville residents has begun a recall of all five school board members, who they blame for bankrupting the school district and triggering a state takeover.
Emeryville went into the red last March, and needed a $650,000 loan from the Alameda County Office of Education to stay afloat.
Lillian Oliveras, an Emeryville parent of a preschooler, is one of 10 people who is considering a bid to replace the current school board members.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/01/10/MNE163915.DTL   (794 words)

  
 Emeryville California Real Estate   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville, located in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area, has a strong consumer market.
Because of major new commercial developments, redevelopment and an influx of new business, Emeryville is one of the fastest growing cities in the San Francisco Bay area.
Emeryville not only welcomed new biotech and Internet companies, it also tried to keep pace with its housing stock by adding densely packed, market-rate units and units affordable to low- and moderate income residents.
www.snick.com /states/ca/cities/emeryville.htm   (390 words)

  
 City of Emeryville - South Bayfront Project
The South Bayfront Project is an ambitious redevelopment project in the heart of Emeryville.
However, the small size of construction equipment in the 1920s and the different construction techniques used at that time meant that there was far less destruction of the native ground surface than modern construction methods typically inflict.
The City of Emeryville Redevelopment Agency therefore sponsored an archaeological excavation (data recovery) of a sample of the deposit, including mechanical trenching to recover data on site formation, geomorphology and stratigraphy.
emeryville.wli.net   (671 words)

  
 Emeryville California Resource Guide, City or community of Emeryville, California Facts, Information, Relocation, Real ...
The population of Emeryville is approximately 5,740 (1990).
The distance from Emeryville to Washington DC is 2569 miles.
Emeryville is positioned 37.83 degrees north of the equator and 122.29 degrees west of the prime meridian.
www.usacitiesonline.com /cacountyemeryville.htm   (176 words)

  
 Emeryville: The Little City That Did! (California Job Journal)
Yet Emeryville has emerged from its neighbors' high-profile shadows to be a shining city in its own right, a bustling center of commerce with an identity and image all its own.
Emeryville represents a new type of city, not beholden to any one company or industry, combining high tech and biotech with retail, service and residential interests, a culturally rich community at the epicenter of the booming San Francisco Bay Area.
Emeryville is no longer the little town that could, but the little city that IS.
www.jobjournal.com /article_full_text.asp?artid=226   (549 words)

  
 Pandemonia - Emeryville / West Berkeley
Emeryville is a little over one square mile of urban flatlands and landfill, wedged between Berkeley, Oakland, and the San Francisco Bay in California.
Emeryville was the sort of industrial town that still had working railroad tracks running down the middle of city streets and into the factory sidings (some of these are still in use in 2002).
Most of Emeryville west of the railroad is landfill and toxic waste from Berkeley and Oakland.
www.pandemonia.com /pandemonia/eville   (1644 words)

  
 Emeryville Artists Art Exhibition
Much of Emeryville had become run down and full of vacant warehouses by the late 1960's and early 1970's when the first artists moved in.
The sad part of the story is that many of the businesses and professional people who now call Emeryville home have no idea who came before them, how Emeryville got to be so desirable, and who paved the way for them to have all the options and conveniences and pleasures that they so effortlessly enjoy.
The happy part of the story is that several Emeryville warehouses and more than a handful of residences are still owned by artists, so not everybody had to leave, and Emeryville's visual arts culture survives.
www.artbusiness.com /1open/eville.html   (402 words)

  
 Fire & Emergency Services - Emeryville, CA   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
This catastrophic fire convinced the Board of Trustees of the Town of Emeryville that they needed a fire fighting force, and in 1908 they undertook the creation of the Emeryville Fire Department.
Emeryville was to become the first department west of the Mississippi to be fully motorized.
Gradually heavy industry faded from the scene in Emeryville and by the 1960's, the first new residential and office development started showing up west of the I-80 freeway.
www.emeryville.net /city/fire   (920 words)

  
 Emeryville Art Exhibition 2005 Press Release   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The 19th Annual Emeryville Art Exhibition, sponsored by Emeryville Celebration of the Arts, Inc., features works of 90 artists and craftspeople, both established and emerging, who live or work in Emeryville.
As a first time juror for Emeryville’s Art Exhibition, Barbara Anderson of Berkeley’s Barbara Anderson Gallery, wrote: “ I’m so impressed by Sharon Wilchar (Project Coordinator); she attempts the nearly impossible—arranging a hundred studio visits in three days—and pulls it off.
A necessary component of this support is the donation each year of 10-12,000 square feet of space by a property owner, providing our curator with a canvas to develop a successful temporary gallery space.
www.emeryarts.org /press.html   (1101 words)

  
 Real Estate Web Site Design: All About the City of Emeryville
The City of Emeryville is located in the center of the San Francisco Bay Area.
Emeryville's temperate climate, diverse cultural attractions, and world-class bayside setting offer a quality of life that is unsurpassed.
Emeryville is also home to leading companies in cutting-edge fields like software and biotechnology as well as dynamic smaller startups and firms in numerous other fields.
agentnetplus.blitzdevelopment.com /public/page.do?page.ID=2646   (149 words)

  
 Sunset: East Bay bohemia: Emeryville boasts good art and great breakfasts - Northern California Day Trip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville, the bayside enclave between Oakland and Berkeley, stands proudly in the middle phase.
On display are landscape paintings inspired by the nearby bay, photography of East Bay neighborhoods, and industrial-influenced sculpture, by more than 100 artists who live or work in the 1 1/4-square-mile town.
Emeryville historic area is centered at Hollis and Powell Streets.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_4_211/ai_109667875   (522 words)

  
 Photographers in Emeryville CA - Emeryville Photographers
Emeryville Photographers, Emeryville Photojournalists for Emeryville Weddings, Mitzvahs, Corporate Events and more in Emeryville, CA Emeryville Photographers, Photography in Emeryville CA CA local pages
Relax and enjoy a casual engagement photo session, stress-free pre-ceremony images, formal group and family portraits, and photojournalistic candids throughout your ceremony and reception.
, Emeryville, CA - My goal as a wedding photographer is to capture the emotions of your wedding, the love, joy, and hope that you feel for each other and your friends and family feel for you, in unobtrusive photojournalistic style.
emeryville-photographers-ca.wedj.com   (3269 words)

  
 Pets Newswire | Emeryville Pets   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville Pets is made available in California through IPR Wire - the online leader in pet news and information.
It is our pleasure to provide residents of Emeryville with pet related news and information.
We appreciate our members in Emeryville helping us to make this network one of the fastest growing pet sites in the nation.
www.surfmeister.net /california/emeryville/003.html   (94 words)

  
 Automotive Newswire | Emeryville Automotive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Emeryville Automotive is made available in California through the IPR Wire Automotive Newswire - the online leader in automotive news and information.
It is our pleasure to provide residents of Emeryville with automotive related news and information.
We appreciate our members in Emeryville helping us to make this network one of the fastest growing automotive sites in the nation.
www.surfmeister.net /california/emeryville/001.html   (97 words)

  
 Emeryville Taiko
Emeryville Taiko with Aiko Taiko and guests from Zanzylum
Please check our calendar for information on when you can see us perform live.
This "International Taiko WebRing" site is owned by Emeryville Taiko, (c) 2000.
www.etaiko.org   (69 words)

  
 Emeryville Real Estate Agents, Emeryville Homes For Sale, REALTORS and Emeryville
Originally a manufacturing and warehouse area, the Emeryville economy is evolving to include high tech offices such as Pixar and Chiron and retail businesses such as Ikea.
HomeGain provides Emeryville, California real estate information and resources to guide homeowners and homebuyers through the process of selling and buying a house, condo or other Emeryville realty property.
HomeGain has services to help you find a top Emeryville real estate broker or agent, get the value of your Emeryville home and a comparative market analysis (CMA), view Emeryville real estate and MLS listings, prepare your home for sale, and more.
www.homegain.com /local_real_estate/CA/emeryville.html   (562 words)

  
 allemeryville.com - Emeryville and Eastbay Condo and Real Estate Sales, Jason Crouch, Virginia McNeil
Virginia and I felt that the time has arrived for a brokerage that is devoted to Emeryville properties - all Emeryville properties.
Emeryville has grown so much, and so many new communities have sprung up.
Our agents are very familiar with Emeryville; and more than likely they are one of your neighbors or have been one of your neighbors in the past.
www.eastbay-condos.com   (329 words)

  
 Sunset: Emeryville's Stroll, a chance to buy unusual gifts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
But during the Emeryville Holiday Stroll you can shop your socks off here, just north of the Bay Bridge, in the warehouses and studios-- normally closed to the public--of wholesalers, importers, and artists.
The free event takes place from 11 to 5 on November 28 and 29, and December 5, 6, 12, and 13.
Photo: In Emeryville's warehouse district (above), shoppers stroll past 59th Street Annex, former factory now housing galleries, studios; they chose maple chair at one stop.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1216/is_n6_v179/ai_6144499   (369 words)

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