Nerd Nite East Bay: Mass Transit in the 1900s | Oakland
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Club 21 | 2111 Franklin St, Oakland, CA
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CANCELED: Nerd Nite East Bay: Geeky Lectures in a Bar | Oakland
This event is on indefinite hiatus
Nerd Nite East Bay is a monthly lecture-in-a-bar series. They get smart and interesting people, give them lots of free drinks, and put them on stage in front of a couple hundred tipsy nerds.
Sometimes it’s funny, sometimes it’s salacious, and it’s always nerdy.
Nerd Nite East Bay
Every last Monday | Doors at 7 pm; Talks begin at 7:30 pm
The Uptown Nightclub, 1928 Telegraph in Oakland
$8 in advance; $10 at the door | 21+
Please note that Nerd Nite East Bay moved to their new location at The Uptown Nightclub.
Last Update: 2/11/20 – Event Link
In the early 1900s, the Borax King consolidated horse cars and electric streetcars to serve Richmond, Albany, Berkeley & Oakland, allowing, in the words of retired radio announcer Fred Krock, “the East Bay to become a bedroom community for San Francisco”. Hear how the Key System provided over 50 years of luxury travel at almost the same rate-of-travel as BART and how it was ultimately done in by the high costs of deferred maintenance and a conspiracy of private automobile companies.
Allan Fisher is the curator of the Western Railway Museum Archives in Suisun City and supervises 32 volunteers who work in a 5000 square foot temperature and humidity controlled archives and library that houses corporate papers and images from the Northern California Electric Railroads. For 32 years, he was an Operating Officer and system executive staff member for the Penn Central and Conrail.
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Cost: $8*
