Uptown: Paramount Block

Tonight!

Had a gander at the old palace

dormant in daylight

 Oakland's dazzling

Paramount Theater

 Let's go

 Where's all my
squirrel nut zippers?

Oakland's Town Hall

everything from King Kong

with a raffle wheel and cartoons

to Bob Dylan and  Merle Haggard

sundry high school graduations

 

 Time-honored ticket booth,

Actually sold around the corner

nowadays

 Escape from busy Broadway

 The California style,

a living world is our theme

 The glorious I Magnin building 

next door to the theater,

Recall shopping there with my ex

 Now the ground floor is home.

to Tierra Mia

an attractive cafe

 Exposed industrial ducts,

fealty to Spanish America's

coffee bean production,

 

 Impressive woodwork

Was here with a friend

not so long ago

the coffee and croisants

were great

 Outside 

Thomas L. Berkeley Way

multi bus-stop transit center

 Round back

always a roll of the dice,

new mural on top

 Here's comes 

the new cyber super center

The spooky UBER 

headquarters,

Something wicked

this way comes

August 2016