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Shouts from the street

The latest dispatches from 51st street and Telegraph avenue

8.63:40pm

working at the temescal branch and having a blast!!


8.611:51am

Fantastic Sam\’s is offering free haircuts outside their shop!


7.21:01pm

selling local-made baby/kids clothes. Sorting the gently-used rack.


7.211:50am

Just had Genova sandwich. a guy walked in holding one of our flyers!


7.211:46am

i’m here sitting in my car waiting 4 my husband.


7.211:45am

It’s my neighborhood!


7.111:36pm

i almost want to write a Choose Your Own Adventure-style story about the future of the long-abandoned lot on the northeast corner. i’m curious: what have you heard about that property?


7.110:04pm

So I am here in the neighborhood. I live just up 51st, and have come to enjoy our local Peet’s. I am a speech-language pathologist working for the Oakland Unif. School District. Actually, just starting work–tomorrow is my first day. So right now I am reviewing class lists, and trying to get a sense of who my students are and what their needs are. Should be an interesting and fun summer….


7.110:02pm

Returning a tool to the tool library.


7.19:36pm

i visit my friends who live and have businesses in the neighborhood i lived in for 20 years and remember the happy and the sad times and have new times