In Our Own Backyard - A Celebration Of The East Bay Regional Parks
date:Wednesday, July 9, 2008 time:10:00 AM to 5:00 PM venue:Oakland Museum Of California address:1000 Oak Street at 10th Street Oakland, CA 94607 View map from:Oakland Museum of California
Bob Walker Archive. The exhibition offers visitors a virtual tour
through the East Bay's most scenic parks and open spaces, following the
flow of water from snow-capped Mt. Diablo downstream and eventually
into the Bay.
Between 1982 and 1992, Bob Walker created one of
the most remarkable portraits of the East Bay landscape ever captured
on film. Walker planned to leave his archive - more than 40,000 35-mm
slides and historical documents—to the Oakland Museum of California. It
came to the museum after his death, in 1992.The East Bay Regional Park
District was created in 1934 by concerned citizens who wanted to
protect surplus watershed land in the hills over Oakland and Berkeley
from development.
Admission:
- $8 for adults
- $5 for seniors (65 and over)
- $5 for students (youth and adults, with valid ID) Children under the age of six are free.
- Free Second Sundays.
