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PrintableRenHoek said: bboy87 said: I told CalhounSq once how shocked my mom was when she came back here My mom grew up in Oakland, right on Seminary in East O. Went to Havenscourt Middle and Fremont High. We moved from Oakland when I was 2 then moved back when I was 12. She had been telling us about how great Oakland was....then we saw it 
The only thing I loved about Oakland at the time was Kwik Ways burgers and See's Candies 
Now I love the O but it saddens me of what it's become. The city has ALOT of history Wow, I went to school right near Seminary across the street from the cemetery... Did you ever get a chance to go to T's Wauzi Records back when Eastmont was actually a mall?? That's where I got my first rap albums back in '86-87... It's progressively gotten worse but I used to love shopping at that mall for Ellesee sneaks and Troop jackets... fuck, I'm dating myslef right about now... When I moved to Oakland in '99, T's Wauzi was still around and I REALLY wanted to go but never got the chance too. And Eastmont....my mom told me how Eastmont used to be THE mall, now that place is just a building and Bayfair is going that route 
Went to Bayfair 2 weeks ago with my mom and it was like a ghost town. All this time since '04 I thought Bayfair had Hilltop Mall and Sunvalley mall beat. I told my mom and brother "Ya know, I think I may have misjudged Hilltop..." "We may deify or demonize them but not ignore them. And we call them genius, because they are the people who change the world." | |
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