Friends of the Cleveland Cascade
the rediscovered fountainworks of Lake Merritt
Channel 5, KPIX, is sending a camera crew on Thursday to film the Cascade and volunteers at work. They are scheduled to arrive at 2pm on the 13th. Any volunteers who can manage to come are welcome, to add interest Continue reading News crew to film volunteers at Cascade, Thurs Mar 13 at 2pm
Welcome to the new & improved web site for the Cleveland Cascade. The new site is implemented in WordPress which will make it easier to keep the site updated and supported by the community. The site comprises all the history Continue reading New Web Site for the Cleveland Cascade
[ from the San Francisco Chronicle, Mar. 11, 1923, on the first page of a section called “East Bay Cities News”. This article has been a primary source of information about the original Cascade. ] WATERFALL ON LAKE MARGIN NOVEL Continue reading 1923: East Bay City Acquires Bit of Italian Landscape
[ from the Oakland Post-Enquirer, May 8, 1946. ] A petition for separate maintenance against Howard E. Gilkey, designer and director of Oakland’s famed California Spring Garden Show, was filed today in Alameda County Superior Court by Mrs. Margaret H. Continue reading 1946: H.E. Gilkey, Garden Show Architect, Sued by Wife
[ from the Oakland Tribune, Dec. 26, 1947. ] Your Town by Jack Burroughs “How’d you like to be a bumble bee?” said Luther Burbank. “Fine,” said Howard Gilkey. This conversation, one of the shortest on record, took place about Continue reading 1947 Block House to “Expo” Building
[ from the Oakland Tribune, Jan. 16, 1964. ] Howard Gilkey, designer of the famed California Spring Garden Show and outstanding Oakland landscape architect, has been named “Man of The Year” for 1963 by the Oakland-East Bay GardenCenter Inc. He Continue reading 1964: Gilkey Garden ‘Man of Year’
[ from the Oakland Tribune, Sept. 12, 1972. ] Howard Ellsworth Gilkey, a prominent Oakland landscape architect for more than half a century and designer of 23 California Spring Garden Shows, died here Saturday. He was 82. Mr. Gilkey, born Continue reading 1972: Howard E. Gilkey Rites in Private
[ From Arthur E. Navlet, “Howard Gilkey and the California Spring Garden Shows,” Pacific Horticulture Vol. 37, No. 4, October 1976, pp. 27 – 31 ] Howard Gilkey and the California Spring Garden Shows Earlier this year the Oakland Businessmen’s Continue reading 1976: Arthur Navlet reflects on Howard Gilkey
[ From Oakland Heritage Alliance News, Vol. 24, No. 1, p. 6 ] A neighborhood group of volunteers plans to restore Cleveland Cascade to at least a measure of its former glory. Beginning in May 1996, Friends of the Cascade Continue reading 1996: New Life for Cleveland Cascade