Alameda California Tour - (Take A Drive With Me)

This video takes you on a tour of Alameda, California.
If you are thinking of moving to Alameda, California or anywhere else in the SF Bay Area, then this video is for you.
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
1:53 - Alameda Point
8:37 - West End
11:06 - Webster Street
13:42 - Central Alameda
18:00 - Shoreline Drive
21:00 - Park Street
24:52 - East End
30:12 - Bay Farm Island
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Zach DeRossette
CA DRE 02178078
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[@livinginthesfbayarea]

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[@oldmanandthesea3384]

My family has just over 90 years of life here. My home was purchased for 10k. LOL. My son will be taking over later. It was fun hearing all the stories of Alameda when they were growing up. Neptune is my favorite. I loved taking my children there and telling them this is ware the roller coaster stared. So many changes. I am a Faction man myself, and St. Georges.

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Thanks for watching! Faction certainly has some incredible views.

[@garyssimo]

Growing up in San Leandro I went there often to work out at Alameda Athletic club. The Pacific Pinball Museum is AMAZING! You can play about 100 different machines from every era all for a very low entrance fee. The city looks great! I miss it. Lots of great memories there. The Gold Coast area and St Charles Street was my favorite.

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Thanks for watching. I also really like the Gold Coast area!

[@tacocruiser4238]

I was born and raised on Bay Farm Island. I lived in one of those townhouses across the street from Harrington Field. I went to high school at St. Joseph Notre Dame and enjoyed playing tennis at the Harbor Bay Club. I left the Bay Area after graduating from high school in 2003. I have good memories of the place but will never go back due to the high housing prices. I've been living in SoCal for the last 15 years.

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Thanks for sharing! It seems like a nice place grow up.

[@clemfandango5886]

I miss Alameda. I was paying $1000 a month for a 1 bd/1 ba apartment with a back yard four years ago. I should have never left. Had a good paying job a 10 minute walk from home as well.

[@RobinShepard-nz7fq]

Hello from Rancho Mirage California ❤ Want to move back !! I ❤ Alameda

[@rajuguide8874]

Excellent photography 👍 Really I enjoy to see your video. I love my Alameda ❤

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Thank you!

[@davidd.perata2085]

I was born and raised in Alameda. I'm 70 now and Alameda was a great little island city back then. Now it seems so yuppy. The housing prices are ludicrous, but that is California. It's too bad that the city caved to the elite crowd. Who are these people who buy a fixer upper for 1 million and decent houses for 1.5 - 3 million? The house my dad built is now over a million. I can't believe it. When I lived there in the 50's -70's you had a wide variety of incomes that gave Alameda more of a realistic balance. If most of the houses begin at 1 mil Alameda must have a very upper middle-class to upscale population. Nice drive around and thanks, but this is nothing what Alameda was. The charm is gone.

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Thanks for watching and it seems like a great place to grow up. Yes, the housing prices have gone up quite a bit. Sadly that is the case in most of the Bay Area.

[@davidd.perata2085]

@@livinginthesfbayarea I appreciate your swift reply. For you, in the biz you're in, Alameda is a gold strike. Great clientele with $$$. I wish you great success in panning!! Really, I mean that. Wish it was me! Hey, I'll come back and open up shop.

[@richardcharvet1411]

I was born and raised in Alameda. I lived on the lagoon on the corner of Otis and Grand. Back then (as seen in "Play Ball") the park system was the best and every summer we all waited for the color of our shirt (I was a Rittler Wildcat) and ended up at Encinal High School (Grad '78). My entire family lived in Alameda and it WAS a great place as a kid. I just went back for my 45th high school reunion and David you are so correct: waaaaay expensive and SUPER CROWDED. I spent many times visiting at the Naval Air Station and the highlight was watching the Blue Angels. Yeah, charm is gone, but super fond memories.

[@davidd.perata2085]

@@richardcharvet1411 Rittler? I was a Franklin Eagle and, may I humbly add, an All-Star shortstop in 1967, I think it was. We used to practice at Rittler park. I didn't like it because it was so wide open. No fence. Franklin's fence was so close that a fly ball could go over it with little trouble. We had a purple shirt one year and then a mundane light gray. I remember the team to beat was Estuary. I also went to Encinal and graduated 1972. Good school. But I always thought that Alameda High had more of a selection of good looking girls. I worked at Alameda Hobby in my senior year. My dad also had a milk route called Lakehurst Dairy and I used to work with him on the route from a very early age. What a drag. But I did learn a lot about how to deal with people intelligently. In fact, my dad also sold real estate for for My older brother Don was pretty politically connected around the area. I used to watch the planes fly over our house on Central and Bay Street. We were under the Naval Base landing pattern I guess. I can still hear the testing of jet engines at the base. Summer, the Goodyear Blimp, baseball, and the Beatles: what more could a young boy want? It's one thing to hear their music today, but having been there when they were happening was a really treasured experience. Maybe you were just enough behind me to have missed some of these things. I didn't recognize much in your video, even as you were driving down streets I knew well. Working on the milk route, I knew the town pretty well. Even Bay Farm Island looks nothing like it did. Well, maybe the bridge seemed to look the same. I must compliment you on a very clever way to advertise your line of work on You Tube. You get to show off "charm and personality" while simultaneously getting a leg up on your competition because people will feel like they "know you." You come across very well for a Rittlerite. I'd be curious to know just how many contact you from this video. I was almost gonna come back at the end of the month for my aunt's 100th birthday, but I just put my wife in a care center with dementia, and it 's too soon to take off. Man, it's a long way from Franklin Park to becoming alone, and you never know what turns life will take. Take care and God Bless.

[@richardcharvet1411]

@@davidd.perata2085 We played at Franklin, too. You may have know the Carsons and a whole bunch of other kids. Franklin was a little field, but great for kids. Yeah, in high school my fondest memory is our flag football team, one year Rittler and the "no one scored on us" for Franklin Eagles 1978. I think I delivered the Oakland Tribune to Don Perata. I knew I recognized your name. Susie and Mike Bartell; Ironsides brothers; Jaworski, Sebasian? Danny Marshall? Those were the older kids. Yes, when I went back Alameda was exactly as you described it, but a great place to grow up as a kid. Peace out.

[@user-zx3tt4gj2h]

I learned a lot

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

great, thank you for watching!

[@drguffey]

My home town in the 50's. So much is the same & much is different. Haven't been there in 20 years. Thanks for posting this trip down memory lane ! P.S. I didn't see the 'spite house', or did I miss it ??

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Thanks for watching! The spite house didn't make an appearance in this video, but maybe next time!

[@angoins07]

Thanks for making this video. I have a much better idea of Alameda now.

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

I'm glad you liked it. Thanks for watching!

[@tomkim-825]

Nice video. You did a lot of california rolling stops in the video. When I lived in Alameda years ago, i would get ticketed for that. I heard the cops don’t really enforce it anymore

[@AdrianBautista-le4uk]

Ermpso lugar.me tocó conocerlo en persona ermoso ,saludos desde mexico

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Gracias Adrian!

[@jamesharris2841]

Show more Alameda Videos my former home. Would love to live there too high for me.

[@jameshudkins2210]

You pointed out that there are so many bike paths. You might notice that on such a lovely day there were no bikes to see. The City is influenced by people who want more and ever more bike paths. They say we need them and that they are for the good of the community. Your film is evidence that we have so many paths and no bikes. We don't need them and they take up space for cars and parking. We need lots more parking, which you pointed out. The main complaint which makes people not want to live in Alameda is it not being "Urban" enough.

[@jamesveston394]

Aaaaaaa

[@esterquinonez7187]

We used to take the kids to Alameda for Halloween. It was safer and the candy was better. That was over 20 years ago. Went to college in Alameda. That was the place to go. Not to sure now.

[@Nmomand1]

Thank you. Next time, just mention the name of the street you are driving on or turning to …

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Thank you for watching and for the feedback. I'm working on getting a little map with a GPS icon showing where I am for future videos

[@greg7404]

Alameda has a lot to offer, including unavoidable vandalism, property crime, and a local police force that admits they cannot keep up with it because they are dealing with increased violent crime.

[@esterquinonez7187]

Lol, it kind of spilled over from Oakland

[@brianlinke7846]

Please consider doing more research before you make these videos. 1. Alameda Naval Air Station, not a Navy base per se. 2. Admiral Malting is not a brewery, they process malt and have a taproom and food. 3. You drive by one of the best, if not the best restaurant in Alameda, Saltbreaker, without mention. As a resident, I had to stop watching due to the errors. Do you live in Alameda or is this just marketing for your real estate business?

[@livinginthesfbayarea]

Hi Brian, thanks for watching. 1. You are right. 2. I mention I have never been there in the video. If they make malts and have a taproom I probably would have called it a brewery anyway. 3. I've never been to Saltbreaker. I will check it out. I live in Oakland. I make videos about different cities in the Bay Area. I don't claim to be a local to every city, I just give a high level overview to people thinking about moving to the area.