Alameda, California
Alameda County · Population 78,280 · Card no. 10002
An island city in San Francisco Bay, cut off from Oakland by a tidal canal dug in 1902, with the largest collection of Victorian houses in the region.
- The Alameda Naval Air Station closed in 1997 and its runways now host film shoots and a distillery.
- The USS Hornet is moored there as a museum.
- The name is Spanish for a grove of poplars.
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