| 1923 March 11 |
San Francisco Chronicle, “East Bay City Acquires Bit of Italian Landscape.”
Source of important textual description as well as a photograph of the entire Cascade at the time of its birth. |
| 1929 September |
Gilkey, Howard, “The Importance of Garden Design: It Should Fit All of the Conditions of Site, Climate, Home,” California Arts & Architecture, Vol. XXXVI, No. 3, pp. 37–38.
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| 1931 March |
Gilkey, Howard, “The Role of the Landscape Architect,” American Landscape Architect, Volume IV, Number 3, pp. 36 – 38.
Source of the crucial photograph of water running in the Cascade. None of the text is directly relevant to the Cleveland Cascade. The article also presents photos (1) of “Fountain center, Mills College, Oakland,” where Gilkey is identified as the landscape architect, and (2) from the estate of Mr. C. J. Heeseman, Piedmont, California, where the landscape architect is not identified. |
| 1946 May 8 |
Oakland Post-Enquirer, “H.E. Gilkey, Garden Show Architect, Sued by Wife."
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| 1947 April 29 |
Oakland Post-Enquirer, “Howard Gilkey Is Credited With Designing Great Shows.”
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| 1947 Dec. 26 |
Burroughs, Jack, “Your Town: Block House to Expo Building,” Oakland Tribune. |
| 1948 June 24 |
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Out of Garden Show: Designer, Architect Resigns to Give Full Time to Own Business,” p. 21.
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| 1948 June 25 |
San Francisco Chronicle, “Veteran Garden Show Designer Quits in Oakland.”
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| 1955 Nov. 27 |
Oakland Tribune, “Howard Gilkey to Design Home and Garden Show.”
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| 1956 Dec. 21 |
Oakland Tribune, “Designer Named For Garden Show.”
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| 1960 May 1 |
Oakland Tribune, “Howard Gilkey’s Career Coincides With the Show’s.”
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| 1964 Jan. 16 |
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Garden ‘Man of Year.’”
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| 1964 Jan. 23 |
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Gets Trophy At Garden Ceremony.”
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| 1965 May 2 |
Oakland Tribune, “Gilkey Publishes ‘The Great Design.’”
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| 1972 Sept. 12 |
Oakland Tribune, “Howard E. Gilkey Rites in Private.” |
| 1976 October |
Navlet, Arthur E., “Howard Gilkey and the California Spring Garden Shows,” Pacific Horticulture Volume 37, Number 4, pages 27 – 31. |
| 1987 |
Wilson, Mark A., A Living Legacy: Historic Architecture of the East Bay, Lexikos, 1987. |
| 1996–97 Winter |
Moore, Bill, “New Life for Cleveland Cascade,” Oakland Heritage Alliance News, Vol. 16, No. 3, page10. |
| 1998 September |
Cutler, Phoebe, “Howard Gilkey,” Eden: California Garden and Landscape History Society Journal, Vol. 1, No. 8.
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| 2003 April 27 |
Oakland Tribune, “Map Offers Foot-Friendly View of Oakland,” April 27, 2003. (Republished on Oakland Parks and Recreation web site.)
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| 2004 Spring |
Roy, Joyce, “Preservation Action Committee news: Cleveland Cascade,” Oakland Heritage Alliance News, Vol. 24, No. 1, page 6. |
| 2004 May 2 |
Brand, William, “Volunteers uncover part of city’s history,” Oakland Tribune, May 2, 2004, page Local-1.
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| 2004 May 12 |
Newcombe, Barbara, “Adding to cascade success,” Oakland Tribune, May 12, 2004. (Letter to Editor)
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| 2004 May 21 |
Gerstman, Bruce, “Volunteers dig up old cascade,” Montclarion, May 21, 2004, page 1.
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| 2004 June 18 |
Gerstman, Bruce, “Hangin’ with the get-in-shape crowd,” Montclarion, June 18, 2004, page 1.
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| 2004 Aug. 15 |
Pullen, Suzanne, “Chronicle Watch — Working for a better Bay Area: Help Wanted,” San Francisco Chronicle, August 15, 2004, page B1.
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| 2004 Aug. 22 |
Allen, Annalee, “Oakland stairway movin’ on up,” Oakland Tribune, August 22, 2004.
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| 2004 Sept. 12 |
Sanders, Joshunda, “A daily dose of vitamin G: Oakland man has created a workout regimen you won’t find in a gym,” San Francisco Chronicle, September 12, 2004, page F1.
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| 2004 Oct. 22 |
Pullen, Suzanne, “Oakland: Volunteers giving new life to long-buried fountain near Lake Merritt,” San Francisco Chronicle, October 22, 2004, page F10.
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| 2005 Feb. 8 |
Kurhi, Eric, “Fountain’s renovation on agenda,” Montclarion, February 8, 2005, page A1.
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| 2005 Feb. 10 |
Herron Zamora, Jim, “$300,000 to fix man-made waterfall,”San Francisco Chronicle, February 10, 2005, page B-5.
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| 2005 Feb. 11 |
Kurhi, Eric, “Cash to go to backers of Cleveland Cascade,” Montclarion, February 11, 2005.
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| 2005 Feb. 12 |
Stinnett, Peggy, “Getting fired up about fire hydrants,”Oakland Tribune, February 12, 2005, page Local 1.
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| 2005 February |
Nadia, Ilyin, “Walking Distance: Just Exactly Where is the Cleveland Cascade?”, The Lakeside Voice, Vol. 4, Issue 2, page 2.
(The Lakeside Voice is a publication for residents of The Regillus building at 200 Lakeside Drive, overlooking Lake Merritt.) |
| 2005 March 14 |
Casey, Laura, “Money pours in for Cleveland Cascade,” Oakland Tribune, March 14, 2005, page Local 1.
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| 2005 March 18 |
Edtiors, “Our Opinion” editorial, “Volunteers bring beauty to Oakland,” Oakland Tribune, March 18, 2005, page Local 9.
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| Cleveland Cascade from 1931 article by Howard Gilkey in American Landscape Architect |
Cleveland Cascade at The Organic City
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| Watch the video of “The Cleveland Cascade Story — Part 1: Mysterious History”
“Part 2: Turning Point” “Part 3: Future Plans” |
Our big thanks to filmmakers Seamus Byrne and Sarah Mattern, creators of TheOrganicCity.com, an awesomely creative interactive site chronicling the stories of the Lake Merritt area. It’s open source, so you can contribute your own stories.