Western Pacific Depot
Oakland | ||||||||||||||||||
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 The Depot in 2017 | ||||||||||||||||||
| General information | ||||||||||||||||||
| Location | 470-496 3rd Street or 300 Washington Street[1] Oakland, California | |||||||||||||||||
| Coordinates | 37°47′50″N 122°16′36″W / 37.7972°N 122.27666°W | |||||||||||||||||
| Platforms | none[2] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Opened | August 22, 1910[3] | |||||||||||||||||
| Closed | March 22, 1970 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Designated | 1974 | |||||||||||||||||
| Reference no. | 1 | |||||||||||||||||
The Western Pacific Depot, also known as 3rd Street station, was a train station in Oakland, California. It opened in 1910 as the western terminus of the Western Pacific Railroad, located on 3rd Street with street running tracks at the corner of Washington Street.[4] It was the last stop of the original California Zephyr,[5] and earlier Exposition Flyer. The station closed in 1970 with the end of the service.[6] The rails leading into the station were also removed with neighboring area redeveloped. The building was subsequently sold and converted to a restaurant and multiple other tenants since. In 1974, it was designated the first Oakland Designated Landmark.[7]
References
[edit]- ^ "Western Pacific Depot". Oakland Wiki. 1915. Retrieved June 30, 2023.
- ^ Hegemann, Ph.D., Werner (1915). "Report on a City plan for the Municipal Railways of Oakland & Berkeley". The Municipal Governments of Oakland and Berkeley. p. 60. Retrieved June 3, 2020.
- ^ "Next stop, disco depot". San Francisco Examiner. March 6, 1978. p. 4. Retrieved March 9, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "Western Pacific Timetables" (PDF). June 1929. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- ^ Niemeyer, Daniel (August 8, 2013). 1950s American Style. Boulder, Colorado: Fifties Book Publishers. p. 92. ISBN 978-1-304-20165-2. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
- ^ "300 on Board for Sentimental Journey". San Francisco Examiner. March 22, 1970. p. 17. Retrieved March 9, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
- ^ "List of Designated Landmarks". City of Oakland. Retrieved June 2, 2020.
Further reading
[edit]- Cerny, Susan Dinkelspiel (2007). An Architectural Guidebook to San Francisco and the Bay Area. Gibbs Smith. p. 244. ISBN 978-1-58685-432-4.
- Dowling, Tom (April 25, 1991). "Chinese center gets depot". San Francisco Examiner. p. 9. Retrieved March 9, 2019 – via Newspapers.com.
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