Friends of Montclair Library

If you read Ishmael Reed’s Blues City: A Walk in Oakland along with us and wondered about some of the locations, we made a map! Some of the places mentioned, like the first locations of the University of California and Merritt College and the 7th Street Blues scene, are long gone, and a few are in limbo (Kaiser Convention Center, we’re looking at you), but many of them (the Paramount Theatre, Peralta Hacienda, Camron-Stanford House, AAMLO and more) are still around and open for visitors.

Check out the map here – click on any point to see details and usually a link to more info: https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/3/edit?mid=1xdrR2Yfpihp2cCWsppjZAjhdmhMxsBg&usp=sharing