04/15/2022
Hey look! It's the flower farm WOW Farm created in 2014, when we hired a bulldozer to dig up concrete and local teens to cultivate the flowers. This history of the train station and its place in Black history is a good read. https://www.kqed.org/news/11910890/how-oaklands-16th-street-train-station-helped-build-west-oakland-and-the-modern-civil-rights-movement?fbclid=IwAR1S7Z5t0zmXfLAZMI9GIiluE95dr60oB5Uws_uVMTdZWbrYw1fRC4nfZKM
Oakland's 16th Street Station used to be a hub of transcontinental rail travel. Its presence in West Oakland helped build a thriving Black community and business district, before 1950s redevelopment, along with a new reliance on the automobile, disrupted everything.