Dennis Evanosky Archive

Election season is again upon us. Although the date set for the General Election is November 8, eligible registered voters in California are now receiving...

Part one of a series. Last May, the City of Alameda expressed its discontent with Greenway Golf Associates by filing a “verified complaint” with the...

An ill-fated hotel, a women's home, and a school all preceded today's Longfellow Park. John Kohlmoos was born near Verden an der Aller, Germany, close...

In 1908, Alameda voters approved the purchase of James and Virginia Waymire’s home and property on Buena Vista Avenue at Walnut Street. The following year,...

Preview Bay Farm Island history before Saturday's walking tour. At 10 a.m. on September 10, join me for a walk through the “East Side” of...

September walking tours will uncover the history of three local parks and their surrounding neighborhoods. Join me and the Alameda Post for an investigation of three...

See early prefab houses and other historic East End architecture on this Saturday’s walking tour. Many people automatically associate prefabricated houses—prefabs—with a Sears catalog. During...

A. A. Cohen’s family were plagued by pirates and scandals but greatly profited from owning enslaved people. Alfred Andrew Cohen profited handsomely from the San Francisco...

Alameda began its existence on today’s East End, and the domestic architecture therein reflects its birth. East End architectural styles range from the earliest in...

August’s history walking tours with Dennis Evanosky will cover Alameda’s East End Architecture from the 19th and 20th centuries. The beginning of the 20th century brought change...

The Southern Pacific Railroad’s East Bay Electric lines, which riders dubbed “the Big Reds,” began running in Alameda in 1911, five long years after the...

The 1906 Earthquake led to Southern Pacific Railroad’s Big Red trains. The Southern Pacific Railroad’s (SP) Big Red trains were born out of catastrophe that...

This week, Alameda Post Editor and award-winning historian Dennis Evanosky will take you not only on an imaginary electric streetcar ride through Alameda into Oakland,...

Walter Blair built the Broadway & Piedmont Horsecar Line in 1875, the same year the Alameda, Oakland & Piedmont Railway began carrying passengers through Alameda...

In the summer of 1869, the Oakland and Encinal Turnpike & Ferry Company began carrying passengers on a small ferry from the foot of Franklin...

Learn how Utah Construction created South Shore, a whole new part of Alameda, in the 1950s. In July 1955, a large vessel appeared in the...