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Downtown Richmond (Neighborhood)
Richmond CA
~2.76 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Downtown El Cerrito (Neighborhood)
El Cerrito CA
~4.32 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Tilden Regional Park
Berkeley CA
~5.21 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Tilden Regional Park, also known as "Tilden" is a 2,079-acre regional park in the East Bay, part of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. It is situated between the Berkeley Hills and San Pablo Ridge.Tilden Regional Park was named in honor of Charles Lee Tilden, a Bay Area attorney and businessman who purchased much of the land in order to preserve remaining wilderness areas for public enjoyment. Tilden also served on the first Board of Directors of the East Bay Regional Park District.
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Rose Garden
Berkeley CA
~5.94 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The Berkeley Rose Garden was one of the first Civil Works Progress Projects built under the Works Progress Administration (WPA). It was conceived in 1933 and completed and dedicated for public use in September 1937. East Bay rose societies and community members donated hundreds of hours of volunteer time. The terraced amphitheatre and 220-foot-long redwood pergola were suggested by architect Bernard Maybeck; the final design and execution were the work of landscape architect Vernon M. Dean and rose specialist C. V. Covell.For many years, the Parks Department held Rose Week activities in the garden each May, with a Rose Day Celebration on Mother’s Day (the Mother’s Day event was resurrected in 2001 as a joint project of the City of Berkeley and the Friends of the Berkeley Rose Garden). ...
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Lawrence Hall of Science
Berkeley CA
~6.68 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The Lawrence Hall of Science (LHS) is a public science center featuring hands-on exhibits and activities. Located in the hills above the University of California, Berkeley campus, LHS is also a resource center for preschool through high school science and mathematics education.Established in 1968 in honor of Ernest Orlando Lawrence, UC's first Nobel laureate, Lawrence Hall of Science also develops teaching materials and programs for students, teachers, families, and the general public.
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Univ. of CA at Berkeley
Berkeley CA
~6.69 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The University of California, Berkeley (also referred to as Cal, California, Berkeley, Cal-Berkeley, UCB, and UC Berkeley), is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. The oldest of the ten major campuses affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley offers some 300 undergraduate and graduate degree programs in a wide range of disciplines. The university occupies 6,651 acres (2,692 ha) with the central campus resting on approximately 200 acres (80.9 ha). The University was founded in 1868 in a merger of the private College of California and the public Agricultural, Mining, and Mechanical Arts College. Berkeley was a founding member of the Association of American Universities.Berkeley physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director ...
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Berkeley Repertory Theater
Berkeley CA
~6.71 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Berkeley Repertory Theatre is a regional theater company located in Berkeley, California. Founded in 1968 as the East Bay’s first resident professional theatre. Michael Leibert was the founding artistic director, who was then succeeded by Sharon Ott in 1984. The company runs seven productions each season from its two stages in Downtown Berkeley. The company won the Regional Theatre Tony Award in 1997. The theater added the 600-seat proscenium Roda Theatre next door to its existing 400-seat asymmetrical thrust stage in 2001, as well as opening its Berkeley Rep School of Theatre the same year. Its current artistic director is Tony Taccone who has been the artistic director since 1997. Managing Director Susan Medak is the current president of the League of Resident Theatres.Productions ar...
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Berkeley Marina
Berkeley CA
~6.74 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The Berkeley Marina is the westernmost portion of the city of Berkeley, California, located west of the Eastshore Freeway (Interstate 80 and 580) at the foot of University Avenue on San Francisco Bay. Narrowly speaking, "Berkeley Marina" refers only to the city marina, but in common usage, it applies more generally to the surrounding area.There are several restaurants, a hotel and a yacht club in the Berkeley Marina. There are also several walking and bicycle paths. The area is accessible from the rest of Berkeley by foot or bike over the Berkeley I-80 Bridge at the foot of Addison Street (one block south of University Avenue), and is traversed near Interstate 80 by a segment of the San Francisco Bay Trail. In addition, it is the western terminus of AC Transit route 9.The eastern-m...
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Greek Theater
Berkeley CA
~6.76 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Built at the turn of the 20th century, this theater has played host not only to the University's graduation ceremonies, but has also been one of the premier venues in the city for live shows, and one of the only under the open sky. Designed like a classical Greek amphitheater with its tiered concrete seating and immense stage, it seats 8,000, every seat is a good one, and the acoustics are fantastic. Since it is outdoors, be sure to bring a coat or sweater as it gets chilly even during the summer, and a blanket if you want to sit on the grass before the stage. Call to have a schedule sent to you. Prices depend on the show.
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Downtown Berkeley (Neighborhood)
Berkeley CA
~6.79 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Berkeley Community Theater
Berkeley CA
~6.82 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The Berkeley Community Theatre is a theatre located in Berkeley, California on the campus of Berkeley High School. The theater has 3,400 seats, including a balcony section. A large stage is extended by an orchestra pit that can be raised or lowered.While the theater has held performances of musical acts such as the Grateful Dead, The Mamas & the Papas, Joni Mitchell, Jimi Hendrix, The Clash, Led Zeppelin, Sonic Youth, Oasis, Metallica and Elvis Costello, the 'backstage' resources are extremely limited, and large acts tend to have trucks and buses lined up along the road immediately behind the stage.The theater is also the site where Metallica's S&M live album was recorded with the San Francisco Symphony. In recent years it has also held lectures from noted political activists Arund...
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Doe Library
Berkeley CA
~6.87 miles from El Sobrante city center
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For more information visit:http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/about.html
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Sather Gate
Berkeley CA
~6.96 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Sather Gate is a prominent landmark separating Sproul Plaza from the bridge over Strawberry Creek, leading to the center of the University of California, Berkeley campus. The gate was donated by Jane K. Sather, a benefactor of the university, in memory of her late husband Peder Sather, a trustee of the College of California, which would later become the University of California. It is California Historical Landmark No. 946 and No. 82004649 in the National Register of Historic Places.Designed by John Galen Howard, Sather Gate was completed in 1910. Atop the gate are eight panels of bas-relief figures: four nude men representing the disciplines of law, letters, medicine, and mining, and four nude women representing the disciplines of agriculture, architecture, art, and electricity. They ...
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Memorial Stadium
Berkeley CA
~7.05 miles from El Sobrante city center
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California Memorial Stadium is an outdoor football stadium on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley. Commonly known as Memorial Stadium, it is the home field for the University of California Golden Bears of the Pacific-10 Conference. The venue opened in 1923 and currently seats 71,799 fans, making it northern California's largest football stadium in terms of seating capacity. The stadium was listed in the National Register of Historic Places on November 27, 2006.Memorial Stadium was funded from public contributions, as a memorial to Californians who lost their lives in World War I (1917-18). The chair of the architectural committee was John Galen Howard, the university's chief architect, and his influence is evident in the stadium's neoclassical motif. In addition to its...
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Pacific Film Archive
Berkeley CA
~7.09 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is associated with the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. The director is Lawrence Rinder, who was appointed in 2008.The museum was founded in 1963 by following the donation to the university of forty-five paintings and $250,000 from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann. A competition to design the building was announced in 1964, and the museum opened in 1970. The museum has featured works by Albert Bierstadt, Jonathan Borofsky, Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, Juan Gris, Ant Farm, Howard Fried, Paul Kos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Knox Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Sebastião Salgado. It also offers the The MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art.The Pacific Fil...
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Berkeley Art Museum
Berkeley CA
~7.11 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) is associated with the University of California, Berkeley in Berkeley, California. The Director of BAM/PFA is Lawrence Rinder, who was appointed in 2008.The museum was founded in 1963 following the donation to the university of forty-five paintings and $250,000 from artist and teacher Hans Hofmann. A competition to design the building was announced in 1964, and the museum opened in 1970. The museum has featured works by Albert Bierstadt, Jonathan Borofsky, Joan Brown, Robert Colescott, Jay DeFeo, Helen Frankenthaler, Paul Gauguin, Juan Gris, Paul Kos, Robert Mapplethorpe, Knox Martin, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Sebastião Salgado. It also offers the The MATRIX Program for Contemporary Art.The Pacific Film Archive bega...
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University of California Botanical Gardens
Berkeley CA
~7.14 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The University of California Botanical Garden is a 34 acre (13.7 ha) botanical garden located on the University of California, Berkeley campus. The Garden is in the campus's Strawberry Canyon which overlooks the San Francisco Bay. It is one of the most diverse plant collections in the United States, and famous for its large number of rare and endangered species.Established in 1890, the Garden now contains more than 20,000 accessions, representing 324 plant families, 12,000 different species and subspecies, and 2,885 genera. Outdoor collections are in general arranged geographically, and nearly all specimens have been collected from the wild. The major family collections include: Cactus (2,669 plants), Lily (1,193 plants), Sunflower (1,151 plants), Heath (897 plants), and Orchid (950). Ot...
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People's Park
Berkeley CA
~7.28 miles from El Sobrante city center
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People's Park in Berkeley, California, USA is a park off Telegraph Avenue, bounded by Haste and Bowditch Streets and Dwight Way, near the University of California, Berkeley. The park was created during the radical political activism of the late 1960s.Today People's Park serves as a free public park. Although accessible to members of the larger community, the park serves mainly as a daytime sanctuary for Berkeley's large homeless population who, along with others, take advantage of meals offered by East Bay Food Not Bombs. Public restrooms are available, and the park offers innovative demonstration gardens, including organic community gardening beds and areas landscaped with California native plants, all of which were user-developed by volunteer gardeners. Many students make regular use o...
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Judah L. Magnes Museum
Berkeley CA
~7.93 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The Judah L. Magnes Museum is a Jewish museum in Berkeley, California. It was founded in 1962 and named not for its founders, Seymour and Rebecca Fromer, but for Judah L. Magnes, an Oakland native who became a Jewish activist. Judah Magnes was a co-founder of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a well-known rabbi, political activist and speaker.
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Downtown Emeryville (Neighborhood)
Emeryville CA
~8.60 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Emeryville
Oakland CA
~9.43 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Emeryville is a small city located in Alameda County, California, in the United States. It is located in a corridor between the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, extending to the shore of San Francisco Bay. Its proximity to San Francisco, the Bay Bridge, the University of California, Berkeley, and Silicon Valley has been a catalyst for recent economic growth. It is home to Pixar Animation Studios and Jamba Juice. In addition, several well known biotech and software companies have made their home in Emeryville: LeapFrog, Sendmail, MobiTV, and Bayer, Novartis (formerly Chiron before April 2006). The population was 9,727 at the 2008 census.
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Angel Island
Marin County CA
~9.58 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Mountain View Cemetery
Piedmont CA
~9.72 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The hills of Oakland cradle one of the finest examples of a memorial park found on the West Coast. With its stately avenues and winding roadways, its native live oaks and imported Italian stone pines, its simple columbarium and elaborate mausoleums, Mountain View Cemetery is a wonderful example of early American culture and the lively spirit of early California.Designed by Frederick Law Olmsted, Mountain View is the resting place of famous figures and ordinary people, the principal players in California's and San Francisco Bay's dramatic settlement.People like author Frank Norris, artist Thomas Hill, architects Julia Morgan and Bernard Maybeck, captains of industry such as powerful railroad builder and banker Charles Crocker... all made their contributions to the shaping of a natio...
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Old St. Hilary's Church
Tiburon CA
~9.93 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Old Saint Hilary Church is a historic landmark and former place of worship on the Tiburon Peninsula, Marin County, California, USA. The church is situated on the flank of the Tiburon Hills, which is characterized by serpentine soils and hence has a distinct plant community. The area surrounding the church is a Marin County protected area, the Old St. Hilary's Open Space Preserve.
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Downtown Vallejo (Neighborhood)
Vallejo CA
~9.98 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Vallejo Naval and Historical
734 Marin St Vallejo CA - 707-643-0077
~10.06 miles from El Sobrante city center
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There is a Marine Academy in Vallejo. The old City Hall now houses an Historical Naval Museum portraying the history of the town and the naval dockyard.Hobbies & Activities category: Historical museum; Nautical museum or attraction
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Downtown Martinez (Neighborhood)
Martinez CA
~10.19 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Grand Lake (Neighborhood)
San Francisco CA
~10.20 miles from El Sobrante city center
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Grand Lake, or the Grand Lake District, is a neighborhood of Oakland, California. The neighborhood is located near the northeast corner of Lake Merritt, where Grand and Lakeshore Avenues pass under Interstate 580. It borders Adams Point to the west, Trestle Glen to the east, and Piedmont to the north. It lies at an elevation of 52 feet (16 m). It is a dense urban environment that hosts a diverse population of peoples from many walks of life.There are two shopping areas in the Grand Lake District:Grand Avenue, between Piedmont and Adams Point, the larger of the two. The Grand Lake Theater dominates the corner of Grand and Lake Park Ave.Lakeshore Avenue, between Lake Park Ave and Mandana Blvd.The two streets are connected at their closest point by Lake Park Avenue and Splashpad P...
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Downtown Benicia (Neighborhood)
Benicia CA
~10.21 miles from El Sobrante city center
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China Cabin
Tiburon CA
~10.37 miles from El Sobrante city center
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The glitter of 22-karat gold greets visitors to the China Cabin, once the elegant social saloon of the SS China, giving them a glimpse of the old-world luxury and attention to detail that first-class passengers enjoyed when the ship first sailed from its home port of San Francisco.
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