By C.J. Hirschfield
The decision to locate
Children’s Fairyland in downtown Oakland was made long before my time here – in
1948, to be exact. Ever since we opened in 1950, being in the heart of the city
has had its up and downsides. It certainly is never dull.
Last Friday was one of those
not-dull days.
Early in the morning I was
awakened by the sound of helicopters over my Adams Point neighborhood – the
same neighborhood in which Fairyland lives. There was a fire a few blocks away
from the park, at the site of a building that was to include market-rate apartments
and retail shops.
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| The Valdez fire as seen from across Lake Merritt early on the morning of July 7. |
