Poplar Playground

Poplar Playground is a park in Alameda, California. Poplar Playground is situated nearby to the neighborhood Ghost Town, as well as near the suburb West Oakland.

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Type: Park
Description: park in the United States of America
Also known as: “Poplar Recreation Area”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Union Plaza and McClymonds High School.

Union Plaza

Park

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Union Plaza is a park.

McClymonds High School is a public high school in the West Oakland neighborhood of Oakland, California, United States. In addition to being the third oldest high school in Oakland, it is the only comprehensive high school in West Oakland, operated by the Oakland Unified School District.

California Hotel

Building

Photo: Sanfranman59, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The California Hotel is a historic Oakland, California, hotel which opened in the early days of the Great Depression and became an important cultural center for the African-American community of San Francisco's East Bay during the 1940s, 50s and 60s.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Emeryville and Ghost Town.

Emeryville

Photo: Mx. Granger, CC0.

Emeryville is a small city on the San Francisco Bay that acts as a gateway to the East Bay from San Francisco. It exists at the edges of Berkeley and Oakland, and at the intersection of three major freeways: I-80, I-580, and I-880.