AFD FIRE WIRE

2 Dec. 26, 2013 www.alamedasun.com Alameda Sun

The Sun Shines Everywhere

“The Sun Shines Everywhere” attempts to show the Alameda Sun in every state of the Union and every country in the world. Submit a small descriptive paragraph along with your photo to the Alameda Sun, 3215-J Encinal Ave., Alameda, CA 94501. Submissions may also be e-mailed to editor@alamedasun.com. The Sun Shines Everywhere is published on a completely random basis.

Frank and Debbie George brought The Alameda Sun with them in October to Kauai Hawaii in celebration of their 37th wedding anniversary. While there, a history making purchase for Alameda was made by visiting the plantation and

striking a deal to be the very first outside of the Hawaiian Islands to sell Kauai Cigars. You can stop by Bonne Vie, inside The Park Street Plaza and pick one up for New Year’s. From their Island to our Island!

COMPUTER SERVICES• Computer Sales & Repairs• Virus Removal• Data Recovery

• Remote Repair• Internet Set-up/Repair

2309 Santa Clara Ave. • Alamedawww.abmpc.com • 522-4921

Award Winning Service • Established 1939

TAKE OUT • CATERING • BANQUET

1619 Webster St. • Alameda

510.521.9090

Fax: 510.749.0499

Sun-Thurs7AM-10PM

Fri-Sat7AM-11PM

Alameda Food Bank provides nutritious food to low-income Alamedans. To donate food or money or to receive services, call us at:

523-5850SINCE 1977You can help!

visit www.alamedafoodbank.org

Compiled by AFD Capt. Rick Murray

and Dennis EvanoskyMonday, Dec. 16

Emergency medical responses: 2:57 a.m. Janis Circle; 7:37 a.m. Willow Street; 8:23 a.m. Webster Street; 8:36 a.m. Lincoln Avenue; 9:06 a.m. Atlantic Avenue; 9:49 a.m. Stardust Place; 10:28 a.m. Coral Reef Road; 11:56 a.m. Central Avenue; 4:46 p.m. Westline Drive; 5:27 p.m. Island Drive; 6:30 p.m. Stanton Street; 6:36 p.m. Ninth Street; 9:08 p.m. Shore Line Drive; 9:43 p.m. Webster Street; 11:04 p.m. Park Avenue.

Fire responses: 1:51 a.m. 1300 block of Marina Village Parkway, residential smoke investigation. Firefighters determined that smoke was coming from a clothes dryer. There was no emergency.

Tuesday, Dec. 17Emergency medical responses:

12:18 a.m. Shore Line Drive; 6:01 a.m. Catalina Avenue; 7:03 a.m. Webster Street; 7:22 a.m. Pacific Avenue; 8:34 a.m. Willow Street; 8:59 a.m. Central Avenue; 9:01 a.m. South Loop Road; 9:32 a.m. Park Street; 8:15 p.m. Buena Vista Avenue; 8:54 p.m. West Tower Avenue; 9:29 p.m. Lincoln Avenue; 10:04 p.m. Marina Village Parkway; 10:05 p.m. Sheffield Road.

Fire responses: 9:45 a.m. 1600 block of Morton Street, residen-tial natural gas odor. Firefighters arrived, turned off gas appliances and called Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to respond for investigation. 5:52 p.m. Stanford Avenue, block num-ber not given, outside odor inves-tigation. Firefighters were unable to discover the source and cleared the call.

Wednesday, Dec. 18Emergency medical responses:

12:32 a.m. Taylor Avenue; 12:51 a.m. Webster Street; 2:59 a.m. Court Street; 3:13 a.m. Shore Line Drive; 7:56 a.m. St. Charles Street; 10:37 a.m. Atlantic Avenue; 12:26 p.m. South Shore Center; 12:49 p.m. Willow Street; 1:47 p.m. St. Charles; 2:19 p.m. Willow; 2:36 p.m. Maple Way; 4:11 p.m. Atlantic; 5:56 p.m. Buena Vista Avenue; 6:15 p.m. Central Avenue; 6:27 p.m. Doolittle Drive; 6:50 p.m. Wilver “Willie” Stargell Avenue; 8:31 p.m. Island Drive.

Fire responses: 8:46 a.m. 2200 block of Encinal Avenue, commer-cial fire alarm; 9:21 a.m. Webster Street, commercial fire alarm; 4:35 p.m. 1500 block of Verdi Street, unfounded smoke odor investiga-tion. Odor had dissipated by the time firefighters had arrived. 11:45 p.m. 2100 block of Lincoln Avenue, Dumpster debris fire behind a resi-dence. Firefighters made certain that no structures were threatened

and extinguished the fire with a pre-connected hose line.

Thursday, Dec. 19Emergency medical respons-

es: 2:07 a.m. Central Avenue; 3:07 a.m. Pacific Avenue; 4:56 a.m. Park Street; 8:36 a.m. Central; 11:02 a.m. Holly Street; 12:08 p.m. Central; 1:59 p.m. Creedon Circle; 3:55 p.m. Central; 6:53 p.m. Ansel Avenue; 7:26 p.m. Northwood Drive.

Fire responses: 3:51 a.m. High Street, block number not given, commercial fire alarm; 7:30 a.m. Willow Street, block number not given, commercial fire alarm; 8:34 a.m. 900 block of Shorepoint Court, apartment fire alarm; 10:46 a.m. 300 block of Brush Street, residential smoke investigation. Firefighters discovered smoke coming from a smoldering item next to space heater inside the residence. 6:19 p.m. 1100 block of Park Avenue, apartment fire alarm.

Friday, Dec. 20Emergency medical responses:

3:25 a.m. Lincoln Avenue; 7:42 a.m. Park Street; 8:12 a.m. Willow Street; 9:32 a.m. Atlantic Avenue; 10:42 a.m. Shorepoint Court; 11:10 a.m. Barbers Point Road; 12:21 p.m. Shore Line Drive; 2 p.m. Buena Vista Avenue; 2:11 p.m. Central Avenue; 2:44 p.m. Blanding Avenue; 3:14 p.m. Park Street; 4:04 p.m. San Antonio Avenue; 4:13 p.m. Santa Clara Avenue; 4:59 p.m. Washington Street; 6:04 p.m. Encinal Avenue;

7:47 p.m. Webster Street; 10 p.m. Santa Clara; 11:39 p.m. Willow.

Fire responses: 9:50 a.m. 2200 block of Mariner Square Loop, unknown liquid washed into storm drain. Firefighters contained mate-rial to its location and sealed off the storm drain. Material was removed from the drain and a responsible party was identified. The incident remains under investigation. 12:45 p.m. 2200 block of South Shore Center, commercial fire alarm; 5:27 p.m. 400 block of Buena Vista Avenue, apartment fire alarm; 9:53 p.m. 1500 block of Oak Street, citizen assist; 11:39 p.m. 2400 block of Blanding Avenue, commercial fire alarm.

Saturday, Dec. 21Emergency medical respons-

es: 1:28 a.m. Buena Vista Avenue; 2:23 a.m. Corpus Christi Road; 2:57 a.m. Pacific Avenue; 5:25 a.m. San Antonio Avenue; 7:13 a.m. Eagle Avenue; 7:40 a.m. Webster Street; 9:43 a.m. Sherman Street; 10:20 a.m. Central Avenue; 10:42 a.m. Hollister Avenue; 1:08 p.m. Park Avenue; 3:17 p.m. Central; 3:24 p.m. Pacific; 3:44 p.m. Encinal Avenue; 5:34 p.m. Lincoln Avenue; 6:03 p.m. Encinal; 7:38 p.m. Santa Clara Avenue; 10:23 p.m. Westline Drive; 10:34 p.m. Kitty Hawk Road; 10:59 p.m. San Jose Avenue.

Fire responses: 3:04 a.m. 2000 block of Alameda Avenue, residential fire alarm; 6:07 a.m. 400 block of Pacific Avenue, commercial fire alarm; 9:23 p.m. 200 block of Cumberland

Way, residential odor investigation. Firefighters determined odor was coming from a clothes dryer. There was no emergency.

Sunday, Dec. 22Emergency medical responses:

1:01 a.m. Central Avenue; 6:40 a.m. Oak Street; 7:51 a.m. Glenwood Isle; 9:01 a.m. Central; 9:24 a.m. Buena Vista Avenue; 10:28 a.m. Harbor Light Road; 11:33 a.m. Armitage Street; 12:20 p.m. Ninth Street; 12:42 p.m. Park Street; 2:07 p.m. High Street; 2:21 p.m. Page Street; 3:24 p.m. Pacific Avenue; 6:22 p.m. Ballena Boulevard; 6:32 p.m. Central; 6:38 p.m. Park Street; 7:21 p.m. Santa Clara Avenue; 8:27 p.m. Park Street; 8:44 p.m. Buena Vista; 9:51 p.m. Webster Street.

Fire responses: 2:58 p.m. Blanding Avenue, block number not given, report of a parked vehicle leaking fuel. Firefighters used absor-bent to contain a small amount of fuel that had leaked onto the street. They plugged the hole that was causing the leak. The vehicle’s owner removed the car from the street to make repairs. 6:41 p.m. 2000 block of Grand Street, report of a fire in a parking lot. Firefighters arrived to find a blazing boat on a trailer. The boat’s interior was fully involved in flames. Crewmembers used a pre-connected hose line to extinguish the blaze and contain the fire to the boat. There were no reported injuries. Cause is undeter-mined and under investigation.

Call now for your FREE Brochure: 8 Critical Mistakes that can cost you $$ if

you've been injured in an accident

(510)337-1600 / 800 856-7508 WWW.LEWELLYNLAW.COM

Personal Injury AttorneyAuto Accidents, Slip & Fall, Wrongful Death

AV Martindale-HubbellPeer rated top 5% of all attorneys nationwide

(510) 337-1600 / 800 856-7508www.lewellynlAw.com

Sun Advertising: 263-1824

Biplane over the West EndDennis Evanosky

Webster Street dissects this photograph taken from a biplane sometime in 1920, three years after Robert Strehlow and his business partners opened Neptune Beach, seen here along the shoreline.

The triple-helix tracks in the-photograph is the roller coaster “Scenic Railway” that thrilled visi-tors at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition across the bay in San Francisco.

Lamarcus Thompson designed this ride for the exposition. During his lifetime the prolific Thompson designed and built some 31 roller coasters.

Strehlow and his partners pur-chased Thompson’s creation com-plete with its Green Dragon and Red Dragon cars. They loaded it kit and kaboodle onto a barge and transported it across San Francisco Bay to the side of the old Neptune Gardens amusement park.

When they discovered that they didn’t have the space to lay out the ride in its original L-shaped configuration they twisted it into a triple helix.

This ride, along with the enitre park, was uncerrmoniously sold off for pennies on the dollar. (One story relates that a junk dealer purchased the Red Devil cars for just $60.

MacKay Avenue was laid down on the Scenic Railway’s old foot-

print. All that remains of this thrill-ing ride can be seen at the Alameda Museum. The next time you’re on MacKay Avenue be quiet and listen. You just might hear the screams of the riders on this masterpiece from a bygone era.

This ride was so popular that Strehlow added a second roller coaster to his amusement park. See page 3 and learn how Strehlow transformed this smaller version of Neptune Beach into a larger affair.

Photo courtesy John Bosko

AS Coupons valid through Sunday, Dec. 29th!

1100 Lincoln Ave., Alameda522-1345

P-3051Locally owned and operated in the Alameda community for over 50 years!

SO MUCH MORE THAN A HARDWARE STOREALAMEDA, CALIFORNIA U.S.A.

2298-E South Shore Center Alameda, CA 94501510-769-7540

COUPONThe regular price of

any single item priced $25 or more.

Limit one coupon per item.

COUPONThe regular price of

any single item priced $50 or more.

Limit one coupon per item.

COUPONThe regular price of

any single item priced $350 or more.

Limit one coupon per item.

COUPONThe regular price of

any single item priced $100 or more.

Limit one coupon per item.

$5 OFF!

$10 OFF!

$75 OFF!

$25 OFF!