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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former Oakland city staffers took the stand in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/shengthaotrial\">Sheng Thao’s corruption trial\u003c/a> on Thursday, testifying about the inner workings of the various departments that advance potential housing projects, like the one alleged to be at the center of a sprawling bribery scheme.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">LaTonda Simmons, who served as Oakland’s assistant city administrator during Thao’s mayoral administration, and Jestin Johnson, who Thao named city administrator in May 2023, also testified about the city’s dealings with potential contractors, including Evolutionary Homes, the housing startup founded by defendants in the case, David Duong and his son Andy Duong.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Duongs, along with Thao and her former romantic partner Andre Jones, are facing bribery, conspiracy and fraud charges for an alleged quid pro quo in which the Duongs purportedly pledged to support Thao’s 2022 mayoral campaign and a no-show job for Jones. In exchange, Thao would allegedly pursue a city contract with Evolutionary Homes and extend an existing contract with the Duongs’ other company, California Waste Solutions. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-11.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098349\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-11.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-11-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-11-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Sheng Thao stands next to her attorney, Jeff Tsai, as he makes a statement outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" data-id=\"12098352\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-14.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098352\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-14.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-14-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-14-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andre Jones, a longtime partner of former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao, leaves the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12098354\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-2000x1334.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12098354\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-2000x1334.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-1536x1025.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260903-ShengThaoTrial-16-2048x1366.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Andy Duong exits the U.S. District Court in Oakland on Friday, Jan. 17, 2025. (Santiago Mejia/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Prosecutors also allege that Thao agreed to elevate city staffers to director-level positions at the request of the Duongs and their co-conspirator-turned FBI informant, Mario Juarez.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simmons told the court that after she was fired as the assistant city administrator in June 2025, after 20 years working for the city of Oakland, she wrote and handed over to the Justice Department a document detailing what she believes was a vast conspiracy by city officials during Thao’s administration to consolidate control of all of the city’s homelessness funding into one department.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“You wrote up this treatise … of people you thought were part of a cabal that was trying to merge departments, correct?” Shawn Halbert, Jones’ defense attorney, asked Simmons. She agreed that she did. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“You decided this was a much more far-reaching conspiracy than even the government was alleging,” Halbert said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I did believe that, yes,” Simmons told the court. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simmons testified that she believed former interim City Administrator Harold Duffey and Johnson — both named as witnesses in the ongoing trial — were part of the conspiracy, and that multiple other city staffers had been “secretly recruited amid a ploy to merge the city’s Housing and Community Development Department with the Community Homelessness Services program, which was under the Human Services Department. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The consolidation, which was included in Thao’s May 2023 budget proposal, was not ultimately enacted. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Simmons also accused Duffey and Johnson of being untruthful in certain interactions with her.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Specifically, she referenced an interview she and Duffey both attended while he was interim city administrator with an employee who “had lodged a complaint of sexual harassment.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her statements related to the content of that meeting were stricken from the record by Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rodriguez. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Johnson, who was terminated this summer over \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12091317/oakland-councilmember-proposes-a-409000-severance-for-former-city-administrator\">allegations of inappropriate text messages\u003c/a> about female colleagues, took the stand around noon. He told the court that Thao asked him to meet with David and Andy Duong in late 2023, and to tour Evolutionary Homes in January 2024. He said she did not ask him to visit any other homelessness operations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261014-ShengThaoOpeningStatements-14-BL-KQED-8b44fd15.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12104321\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261014-ShengThaoOpeningStatements-14-BL-KQED-8b44fd15.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261014-ShengThaoOpeningStatements-14-BL-KQED-8b44fd15-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261014-ShengThaoOpeningStatements-14-BL-KQED-8b44fd15-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">David Duong, co-owner of California Waste Solutions and a co-defendant in former Oakland Mayor Sheng Thao’s federal corruption trial, left, enters the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in Oakland on Oct. 14, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thao’s attorney Jeff Tsai used his cross-examination to point out that the introductory meetings were typical for a new city administrator, especially given David Duong’s role as a city contractor: “[Thao] introduced you to David Duong in his capacity as the CEO of [California Waste Solutions].”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He also suggested that going on such a tour was not unusual, and that after, Thao didn’t ask him to pursue a deal to purchase housing units from Evolutionary Homes.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“After this text on Jan. 8, [2024], the mayor never discussed Evolutionary Homes with you?” Tsai asked. “I do not recall,” Johnson said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He’ll return to the stand on Friday morning, before Juarez is expected to begin what could be one of the government’s most pivotal testimonies.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the next two weeks, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12105352/alcatraz-island-closed-oct-26-when-reopen-tickets-alternatives\">public entry to Alcatraz Island is closed.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But standing on San Francisco’s Pier 33 on Wednesday, where boats usually depart multiple times a day to take visitors across the bay and inside the former federal prison, you’d have no way of knowing this iconic landmark was even closed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The usual blue signage encouraging tourists to buy tickets to the island was still plastered everywhere. Not a single sign mentioned the closure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A group of tourists, including Julian Vrialenk and Kevin Hamilton visiting from the Netherlands, lined up to get on a boat. But because of scheduled maintenance to the island’s ferry dock, vessels were only going \u003cem>around\u003c/em> the world-famous tourist destination and not allowing anyone to disembark.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12048382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their reaction to the closure? “A bit mad,” said Hamilton.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pair had hoped to take the famed night tour of the island. Frustratingly, their three-week visit coincided precisely with the closure, “exactly when we came here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alcatraz-alternatives\">Jump straight to: Three alternatives to Alcatraz Island for visitors \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many tourists to San Francisco — 1.5 million of them each year — Alcatraz is the pinnacle of their trip. No other landmark is quite as famous, said Martha Winning, visiting from Germany with her twin sister Frida.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s one-of-a-kind,” she said. “It’s basically \u003cem>the\u003c/em> attraction.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Park Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/news/alcatraz-island-to-temporarily-close-for-dock-repairs-this-fall.htm\">announced the scheduled three-week closure in late September\u003c/a>, saying the repairs are critical to safely and reliably bringing visitors to the island.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alcatraz City Cruises, the company that runs the ferry to and from the island, offered those who booked tours in advance refunds — or the option to cruise around the island instead. While the company is targeting Nov. 18 to reopen, it said bad weather or other factors could extend the closure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Katie and Kenneth Durham, educators from Sacramento, touring the island is a chance to learn about some of the more nuanced parts of local history. They planned to bring 15 German exchange students to the city for the day for a hands-on opportunity to learn about the island’s history both as a prison and a protest site. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, they accepted the tour company’s offer to switch their tickets to a bay cruise instead, and their students had to see the island from afar.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s great when kids can experience things beyond just a movie or a book or classroom,” Durham said. “I remember the first time that we went over to Alcatraz just seeing how teeny-tiny the cells are. It’s like, ‘whoa.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some local businesses, the closure has slowed business to a halt. The cafe closest to Pier 33, Queen’s Louisiana Po-Boy Cafe, had a sign on its door saying it would be closed for three weeks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Down at Pier 39, at the black-and-white striped Alcatraz Gift Shop, employee Cindy Yu was working behind the counter. Business was slow, she said — even for a weekday in October.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s like more than 5,000 people that go out there [to Alcatraz Island] each day,” Yu said. “So when they’re closed,” she gestured around to the empty store, “it does affect.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucky for tourists, there is plenty else in the city to do instead. Hamilton and Vrialenk had just come from watching the sunrise over the Golden Gate Bridge. Winning and her sister, too, said they’d make other plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’re huge foodies,” Winning said. “So I think we’re going to spend that money on restaurants.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"alcatraz-alternatives\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three Alcatraz alternatives for visitors to the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you’re hosting family ahead of the holidays or planning some exploring of your own, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064296/san-francisco-bay-area-holiday-hikes-things-to-do-thanksgiving-where-take-guests-holidays\">Alcatraz Island is a popular choice for a reason\u003c/a> — the views from the ferry and the facility’s famous, thoughtful audio tour have kept it on the list of classic San Francisco excursions for decades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if your tour got canceled or you want to skip the headache of worrying about reopening dates entirely, we’re here to help. Here are three ideas to salvage your day trip plans:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. 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Explore Angel Island instead\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still hankering for a boat trip with some history on the side? 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But because of scheduled maintenance to the island’s ferry dock, vessels were only going \u003cem>around\u003c/em> the world-famous tourist destination and not allowing anyone to disembark.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12048382\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/07/127967603_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A National Park Service ranger walks down “Broadway” in the main cell block on Alcatraz Island on June 14, 2007, in San Francisco Bay. (Robyn Beck/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Their reaction to the closure? “A bit mad,” said Hamilton.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pair had hoped to take the famed night tour of the island. Frustratingly, their three-week visit coincided precisely with the closure, “exactly when we came here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"#alcatraz-alternatives\">Jump straight to: Three alternatives to Alcatraz Island for visitors \u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For many tourists to San Francisco — 1.5 million of them each year — Alcatraz is the pinnacle of their trip. No other landmark is quite as famous, said Martha Winning, visiting from Germany with her twin sister Frida.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s one-of-a-kind,” she said. “It’s basically \u003cem>the\u003c/em> attraction.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Park Service \u003ca href=\"https://www.nps.gov/goga/learn/news/alcatraz-island-to-temporarily-close-for-dock-repairs-this-fall.htm\">announced the scheduled three-week closure in late September\u003c/a>, saying the repairs are critical to safely and reliably bringing visitors to the island.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Alcatraz City Cruises, the company that runs the ferry to and from the island, offered those who booked tours in advance refunds — or the option to cruise around the island instead. While the company is targeting Nov. 18 to reopen, it said bad weather or other factors could extend the closure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For Katie and Kenneth Durham, educators from Sacramento, touring the island is a chance to learn about some of the more nuanced parts of local history. They planned to bring 15 German exchange students to the city for the day for a hands-on opportunity to learn about the island’s history both as a prison and a protest site. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Instead, they accepted the tour company’s offer to switch their tickets to a bay cruise instead, and their students had to see the island from afar.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s great when kids can experience things beyond just a movie or a book or classroom,” Durham said. “I remember the first time that we went over to Alcatraz just seeing how teeny-tiny the cells are. It’s like, ‘whoa.’”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For some local businesses, the closure has slowed business to a halt. The cafe closest to Pier 33, Queen’s Louisiana Po-Boy Cafe, had a sign on its door saying it would be closed for three weeks. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Down at Pier 39, at the black-and-white striped Alcatraz Gift Shop, employee Cindy Yu was working behind the counter. Business was slow, she said — even for a weekday in October.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“There’s like more than 5,000 people that go out there [to Alcatraz Island] each day,” Yu said. “So when they’re closed,” she gestured around to the empty store, “it does affect.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lucky for tourists, there is plenty else in the city to do instead. Hamilton and Vrialenk had just come from watching the sunrise over the Golden Gate Bridge. Winning and her sister, too, said they’d make other plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’re huge foodies,” Winning said. “So I think we’re going to spend that money on restaurants.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"alcatraz-alternatives\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Three Alcatraz alternatives for visitors to the Bay Area\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you’re hosting family ahead of the holidays or planning some exploring of your own, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12064296/san-francisco-bay-area-holiday-hikes-things-to-do-thanksgiving-where-take-guests-holidays\">Alcatraz Island is a popular choice for a reason\u003c/a> — the views from the ferry and the facility’s famous, thoughtful audio tour have kept it on the list of classic San Francisco excursions for decades. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But if your tour got canceled or you want to skip the headache of worrying about reopening dates entirely, we’re here to help. Here are three ideas to salvage your day trip plans:\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Take a different tour of San Francisco Bay\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If your plans are somewhat set in stone (and you were hoping to go to Alcatraz the first week of the closure), you can easily pivot to another tour that’s also run by Alcatraz City Cruises, called the \u003ca href=\"https://alcatrazcitycruises.com/tickets/bay-discovery-cruise\">Bay Discovery Cruise\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While it doesn’t dock at Alcatraz Island, so you can’t explore the buildings, this 90-minute tour will get you up close to see the island and — weather permitting — will even sail under the Golden Gate Bridge.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2291684525-2a86a801-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107438\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2291684525-2a86a801-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2291684525-2a86a801-2000x1429.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2291684525-2a86a801-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2291684525-2a86a801-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2291684525-2a86a801-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A view of Marshall’s Beach and Golden Gate Bridge during warm weather in San Francisco on Aug. 26, 2026. (Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You’ll also get to see nearby landmarks like Angel Island, Sausalito, and, of course, views of downtown San Francisco and the city’s waterfront. Tours start at $44 per person and are subject to availability. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If that doesn’t suit your needs, there are many other tour companies offering tours of San Francisco Bay all year long, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.adventurecat.com/\">Adventure Cat\u003c/a>, which offers daytime and sunset sailing in the bay, \u003ca href=\"https://www.redandwhite.com/\">Red and White Fleet\u003c/a>, which also offers whale tours (plus occasional “\u003ca href=\"https://www.redandwhite.com/floating-features\">floating features\u003c/a>” in partnership with the Roxie Theater, where you can catch a movie while you sail!), and the Blue and Gold Fleet, whose “\u003ca href=\"https://www.blueandgoldfleet.com/escape-from-the-rock/\">Escape from the Rock\u003c/a>” tour circles Alcatraz Island while recounting the tales of its famed escapees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There are also several wildlife-specific boat tours, like the \u003ca href=\"https://sanfranciscowhaletours.com/whale-watching/golden-gate-whale-watch/\">Golden Gate Whale Watch\u003c/a> tour, that can get you and your guests out on the bay for an adventure.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Explore Angel Island instead\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still hankering for a boat trip with some history on the side? A visit to \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=468\">Angel Island State Park\u003c/a> could be a perfect match. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ferries to the Bay Area’s largest island depart from the San Francisco Ferry Building four times per day, leaving enough time to explore the island on foot or — if you’re hoping to cover more ground — by bike.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-174565512-9414474b-scaled-e1793120172447.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106588\"/>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The San Francisco Ferry Building is a terminal for ferries that travel across the San Francisco Bay, a marketplace on The Embarcadero in San Francisco. (John S Lander/LightRocket via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Once there, you’ll have your pick of beaches, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13976437/best-swimming-spots-public-pools-rivers-lakes-beaches-holes-bay-area\">several of them ideal for swimming\u003c/a>, or you can attempt a hike up to Mt. Livermore, the highest point on the island. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">End your circumnavigation at the \u003ca href=\"https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=1309\">U.S. Immigration Station\u003c/a>, often called “the Ellis Island of the West,” where you can learn the painful history of the 175,000 Chinese immigrants who were detained and interrogated there while attempting to immigrate to the United States between 1910 and 1940. You can \u003ca href=\"https://learning.parks.ca.gov/recreation-safety/activities/k12-field-trips/in-person-field-trips-to-angel-island-immigration-station/\">reserve a guided tour\u003c/a> or peruse the museum at your own pace.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Rent kayaks or take a paddling tour of San Francisco Bay\u003c/h3>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-MCCOVEY-COVE-KAYAK-SW-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12038889\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-MCCOVEY-COVE-KAYAK-SW-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-MCCOVEY-COVE-KAYAK-SW-02-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-MCCOVEY-COVE-KAYAK-SW-02-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-MCCOVEY-COVE-KAYAK-SW-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-MCCOVEY-COVE-KAYAK-SW-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/05/250506-MCCOVEY-COVE-KAYAK-SW-02-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kayakers paddle on McCovey Cove as the San Francisco Giants face off against the Los Angeles Dodgers on June 30, 2024. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more than a decade, Sarah Kirnon presided over one of the Bay Area’s most widely celebrated restaurants. Until it closed in 2022, Miss Ollie’s, Kirnon’s Afro-Caribbean spot in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/old-oakland\">Old Oakland\u003c/a>, served up some of the tastiest braised oxtails, Bajan pepper sauce and skillet-fried chicken in the Bay. The restaurant also served as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910410/miss-ollies-oakland-closing\">important gathering place for Oakland’s Black, brown and queer communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now, Kirnon is going home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’m focused on going back to my roots to Barbados next year,” she tells KQED, explaining that she’s decided to move back to her home village on the island. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent weeks, Kirnon has embarked on something of a farewell tour, hosting a number of pop-ups, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd2BzwCyjQ2/\">month-long residency\u003c/a> at Gold Palm in Uptown Oakland. Her final farewell dinner — at least for now — will be hosted at \u003ca href=\"https://www.burdelloakland.com/event-details-registration/grandma-series-sarah-kirnon\">Burdell on Sunday, Nov. 1\u003c/a>. The event is part of the fine-dining soul food restaurant’s ongoing “Grandma Series,” which has previously featured guest chefs such as Intu-On Kornnawong (formerly of Jo’s Modern Thai), \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hamegram/\">Ham El-Waylly\u003c/a> (Strange Delight in New York) and James Syhabout (Commis). \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The series provides a platform for chefs to share dishes rooted in family recipes. It’s a fitting theme to celebrate Kirnon’s legacy, as her own grandmother was the original “Miss Ollie.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands in front of a Basquiat-style mural while wearing a blue chore coat, green beanie and black-rimmed glasses.\" class=\"wp-image-13995190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kirnon’s restaurant, Miss Ollie’s, was one of Oakland’s most important and exciting restaurants before it closed in 2022. (Courtesy of Sarah Kirnon)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DexfGJfPYIf/?hl=en\">menu for the pop-up\u003c/a> ($114) features six family-style courses, plus additional sides and a dessert. One of the first courses is a roasted boniato with smoked herring Creole sauce. Kirnon says she wanted to highlight the sweet potato that is commonly eaten in the Caribbean because of its unparalleled fluffy texture. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other dishes on the menu will be familiar to longtime fans of Kirnon’s work — most notably her famous skillet-fried chicken with Bajan seasoning. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Bajan [seasoning] is from Barbados. It’s like epis or sofrito,” Kirnon says of the seasoning paste, which she makes by adding vinegar, garlic and cloves to a mixture of chopped herbs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg\" alt=\"A piece of fried chicken on blue-and-white checkered paper.\" class=\"wp-image-13910461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The secret to Kirnon’s legendary skillet-fried chicken is “seasoning.” (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another dish will feature cassava dumplings, which she describes as the most difficult dish to nail down so the dumplings don’t wind up with an “overchewiness.” For the final savory course, Kirnon will serve oxtails braised in spice-infused casareep (cassava root juice reduced to a molasses-like consistency). “I believe the Amerindian tribes in Guyana would use [casareep] to preserve meat dishes,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Burdell dinner is the final Bay Area event Kirnon has planned before her big move, though she says she may occasionally come back and visit. It’s the perfect, full-circle way to go out: Kirnon designed the menu based on the Sunday dinners she grew up eating during her childhood in Barbados. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“As someone who was raised in a very matriarchal home, it’s inspired by the women that came before me,” she says. “Not just directly my grandmother, but my great-grandmother, my great-aunt, my aunt and my mother — them all being grandmothers as well.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003chr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"/>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>Sarah Kirnon’s Grandma Series dinner at\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/burdell_oak/?hl=en\">\u003cem>Burdell\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>(4640 Telegraph Ave., Oakland) is on Sunday, Nov. 1, with a limited number of\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.opentable.com/booking/experiences-availability?rid=1277533&restref=1277533&experienceId=818450&utm_source=external&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=shared&dateTime=2026-11-01T17%3A00%3A00&partySize=2\">\u003cem>reservations\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> available at publication time. 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The restaurant also served as an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13910410/miss-ollies-oakland-closing\">important gathering place for Oakland’s Black, brown and queer communities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And now, Kirnon is going home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I’m focused on going back to my roots to Barbados next year,” she tells KQED, explaining that she’s decided to move back to her home village on the island. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In recent weeks, Kirnon has embarked on something of a farewell tour, hosting a number of pop-ups, including a \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/Dd2BzwCyjQ2/\">month-long residency\u003c/a> at Gold Palm in Uptown Oakland. Her final farewell dinner — at least for now — will be hosted at \u003ca href=\"https://www.burdelloakland.com/event-details-registration/grandma-series-sarah-kirnon\">Burdell on Sunday, Nov. 1\u003c/a>. The event is part of the fine-dining soul food restaurant’s ongoing “Grandma Series,” which has previously featured guest chefs such as Intu-On Kornnawong (formerly of Jo’s Modern Thai), \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/hamegram/\">Ham El-Waylly\u003c/a> (Strange Delight in New York) and James Syhabout (Commis). \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The series provides a platform for chefs to share dishes rooted in family recipes. It’s a fitting theme to celebrate Kirnon’s legacy, as her own grandmother was the original “Miss Ollie.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"2000\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47.jpg\" alt=\"A woman stands in front of a Basquiat-style mural while wearing a blue chore coat, green beanie and black-rimmed glasses.\" class=\"wp-image-13995190\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/10/SarahKirnon-crop-b4c7ef47-600x600.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Kirnon’s restaurant, Miss Ollie’s, was one of Oakland’s most important and exciting restaurants before it closed in 2022. (Courtesy of Sarah Kirnon)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/DexfGJfPYIf/?hl=en\">menu for the pop-up\u003c/a> ($114) features six family-style courses, plus additional sides and a dessert. One of the first courses is a roasted boniato with smoked herring Creole sauce. Kirnon says she wanted to highlight the sweet potato that is commonly eaten in the Caribbean because of its unparalleled fluffy texture. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Other dishes on the menu will be familiar to longtime fans of Kirnon’s work — most notably her famous skillet-fried chicken with Bajan seasoning. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Bajan [seasoning] is from Barbados. It’s like epis or sofrito,” Kirnon says of the seasoning paste, which she makes by adding vinegar, garlic and cloves to a mixture of chopped herbs. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg\" alt=\"A piece of fried chicken on blue-and-white checkered paper.\" class=\"wp-image-13910461\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/03/016_KQEDArts_MissOllies_03042022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The secret to Kirnon’s legendary skillet-fried chicken is “seasoning.” (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another dish will feature cassava dumplings, which she describes as the most difficult dish to nail down so the dumplings don’t wind up with an “overchewiness.” For the final savory course, Kirnon will serve oxtails braised in spice-infused casareep (cassava root juice reduced to a molasses-like consistency). “I believe the Amerindian tribes in Guyana would use [casareep] to preserve meat dishes,” she says. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Burdell dinner is the final Bay Area event Kirnon has planned before her big move, though she says she may occasionally come back and visit. 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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The edges of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-bay\">San Francisco Bay\u003c/a> are flooding this week. Kayakers cruised water-filled streets along \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999871/after-king-tides-swamp-marin-san-rafael-weighs-billion-dollar-defenses-against-the-bay\">Marin County\u003c/a>‘s bayside. Waves splashed over Pier 14 in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106584/san-francisco-embarcadero-floods-as-tides-peak-2-feet-above-normal\">San Francisco’\u003c/a>s Embarcadero. A river of water surrounded a Mexican restaurant in San Rafael. And it’s just the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have not seen the worst coastal flooding this year that we’re likely to see later,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, said. “This is probably, unfortunately for those who are dealing with it, just a preview of what is to come.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Weather Service extended a moderate coastal flood advisory through Saturday for nearly 2 feet of flooding in low-lying spots throughout the Bay Area and Central Coast. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several factors are driving the extra-high water, including the influence of the full moon earlier this week and warming water caused by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12105518/this-years-powerful-el-nino-may-preview-californias-climate-future\">El Niño\u003c/a> expanding and pushing local and sea levels up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8apd4lcP9w\n\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have that thermal expansion of the water from the El Niño, and that anomaly has been helping keep the water a bit higher than initially forecast,” Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flooding is happening on sunny days, without storms to exacerbate impacts, and when the region isn’t experiencing the year’s highest tides. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“In Northern California, we’re pretty much running as high as we ever have been, including record-breaking October tides,” Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This winter’s king tides fall around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Swain said there’s a “very high likelihood of widespread and potentially serious coastal flooding” during those windows.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parts of Marin County underwater\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy called Marin County a flooding “hotspot.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It is starting to reach some people’s homes,” she said. “So, it’s more moderate than minor since people’s lives are being impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday afternoon, floodwaters blocked entrances to Highway 101 in north Sausalito. Cars and buses sloshed through the water and kayakers took to the new waterways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the tides’ peak on Thursday around 2 p.m., workers from El Tucan Tacos and Beer, a Mexican restaurant on the edge of a small harbor in San Rafael, raced to move their cars as a river of water separated the restaurant from the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-2000x1429.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Floodwaters covered roads in Marin County as residents kayaking on the bike trail during high tide between Sausalito and Mill Valley in California, United States on October 27, 2026. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For three days, employee Marilyn Garcia watched water race down the street, stopping lunch service and racing to protect the waterside restaurant. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Yesterday was bad, but today it got totally worse and a little higher,” Garcia said. “Right now, we have no entrance for anyone to get in or a way for people to pick up food.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restaurant recently poured a cement barrier to block water from entering the business, but Garcia said water seeps up underneath the patio near the water’s edge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have sandbags, but it’s getting hectic,” Garcia said. “The water is still coming under and in the restaurant.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Low-lying parts of San Rafael flooded most days this week. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The edges of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco-bay\">San Francisco Bay\u003c/a> are flooding this week. Kayakers cruised water-filled streets along \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999871/after-king-tides-swamp-marin-san-rafael-weighs-billion-dollar-defenses-against-the-bay\">Marin County\u003c/a>‘s bayside. Waves splashed over Pier 14 in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106584/san-francisco-embarcadero-floods-as-tides-peak-2-feet-above-normal\">San Francisco’\u003c/a>s Embarcadero. A river of water surrounded a Mexican restaurant in San Rafael. And it’s just the beginning.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have not seen the worst coastal flooding this year that we’re likely to see later,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist with UC Agriculture and Natural Resources, said. “This is probably, unfortunately for those who are dealing with it, just a preview of what is to come.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The National Weather Service extended a moderate coastal flood advisory through Saturday for nearly 2 feet of flooding in low-lying spots throughout the Bay Area and Central Coast. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Several factors are driving the extra-high water, including the influence of the full moon earlier this week and warming water caused by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12105518/this-years-powerful-el-nino-may-preview-californias-climate-future\">El Niño\u003c/a> expanding and pushing local and sea levels up.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/c8apd4lcP9w'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/c8apd4lcP9w'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/div>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have that thermal expansion of the water from the El Niño, and that anomaly has been helping keep the water a bit higher than initially forecast,” Rachel Kennedy, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service’s Bay Area office, said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The flooding is happening on sunny days, without storms to exacerbate impacts, and when the region isn’t experiencing the year’s highest tides. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“In Northern California, we’re pretty much running as high as we ever have been, including record-breaking October tides,” Swain said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This winter’s king tides fall around Thanksgiving and Christmas. Swain said there’s a “very high likelihood of widespread and potentially serious coastal flooding” during those windows.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Parts of Marin County underwater\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kennedy called Marin County a flooding “hotspot.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It is starting to reach some people’s homes,” she said. “So, it’s more moderate than minor since people’s lives are being impacted.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday afternoon, floodwaters blocked entrances to Highway 101 in north Sausalito. Cars and buses sloshed through the water and kayakers took to the new waterways.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At the tides’ peak on Thursday around 2 p.m., workers from El Tucan Tacos and Beer, a Mexican restaurant on the edge of a small harbor in San Rafael, raced to move their cars as a river of water separated the restaurant from the street.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1829\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107300\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-2000x1429.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-1536x1097.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/GettyImages-2301814093-96c4f076-2048x1463.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Floodwaters covered roads in Marin County as residents kayaking on the bike trail during high tide between Sausalito and Mill Valley in California, United States on October 27, 2026. (Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu via Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For three days, employee Marilyn Garcia watched water race down the street, stopping lunch service and racing to protect the waterside restaurant. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Yesterday was bad, but today it got totally worse and a little higher,” Garcia said. “Right now, we have no entrance for anyone to get in or a way for people to pick up food.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The restaurant recently poured a cement barrier to block water from entering the business, but Garcia said water seeps up underneath the patio near the water’s edge. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We have sandbags, but it’s getting hectic,” Garcia said. “The water is still coming under and in the restaurant.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Low-lying parts of San Rafael flooded most days this week. Agencies blocked roads until water receded, and water surged out of utility holes and rippled onto front yards, said Kate Hagemann, a climate adaptation and resilience planner with San Rafael.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We are trying to focus on preparedness, since these are not the highest tides of the year,” Hagemann said. “We have a large part of San Rafael that is lower than the bay.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A preview of what’s to come\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hagemann said Thursday’s flooding could be the worst this week, and she expects several dozen days of flooding over the next few months. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We may have high tide flooding like this maybe 20 or 30 times this winter, and so we don’t necessarily have staff capacity to be out directing traffic every time this happens,” Hagemann said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She sees the flooding as a window into a future where sea levels keep rising because of human-caused climate change. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Unfortunately, what we are seeing this week will be every day in the future,” Hagemann said. “Fortunately, this isn’t forever. It’s just for this season. But in the background, these are the water levels that we would expect every day in the next 20 to 40 years.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The city is also slowly working on a long-term fix, but it could cost around $2 billion. The city is studying solutions and published a sea level rise feasibility study last December. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They found that the area could flood repeatedly over the next few decades, but each potential solution would require major community feedback, restructuring parts of the city and big bucks.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the meantime, Hagemann said that residents should take caution and pay attention to areas that flood.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Just because the road is open, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s totally safe to just barrel through at 40 miles an hour,” Hagemann said. “I want to stress that everyone needs to keep up awareness and not drive through water that they can’t see through.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"title": "A Park for the Living, Rest for the Dead: The Shared Space of Mountain View Cemetery",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up in the hills above \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> Piedmont Avenue is a beautiful, peaceful stretch of more than 200 acres of land, dotted with little lakes, ornamental trees and thoughtful winding paths. It’s something of a public park: Locals picnic here. Walk their dogs. Bring their kids to play.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they also come to mourn the dead, because this isn’t a city park. This is Mountain View Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bay Curious listener Sarah Fockler wanted to know if this cemetery was originally designed to be used as a public park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think it’s a really interesting place,” Fockler said. “There are people grieving or visiting graves, as well as a public recreation area, and one that’s very popular.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The origins of Mountain View Cemetery\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mountain View cemetery got started in 1863. The City of Oakland was just eleven years old at the time, but it had already filled up one cemetery, and most of a second. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> “Nobody wanted a cemetery in town anymore,” said historian Dennis Evanosky, a docent at Mountain View for more than 30 years. “Especially when they fill up, what are you gonna do?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gravestones at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuel Merritt, who would soon become mayor of Oakland, called a meeting with other wealthy businessmen. They wanted the bodies moved out of the old cemeteries, which were right downtown by what’s now Lake Merritt, to make way for streets and houses. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They envisioned a new, grand, European-style, park-like cemetery instead, well outside of the city limits of the day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The businessmen offered the job of designing their new cemetery to Frederick Law Olmsted, who was already famous for having designed New York’s Central Park. He accepted, and wrote up a thoughtful, detailed \u003ca href=\"https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=OLMS-print-01-05-02-0014-0002#OLMS-01-05-02-pb-0485\">plan\u003c/a> featuring curving paths that followed the shapes of the hills and specifications for which trees and shrubbery would “prompt the consolations of faith.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107174\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A view of downtown Oakland from Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He suggested “the heaven-pointing spires of the immortal cypress [tree].” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though his plan didn’t say anything about public recreational use, the cemetery, once constructed, was immediately recognized as exceptionally beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, there are around 210,000 people interred here. Millionaires, children, victims of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic and death row inmates are among the inhabitants of Mountain View Cemetery – as diverse as the living who walk its grounds.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few unsettling stories\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since it’s almost Halloween, Michael Colbruno, who, together with Evanosky, wrote \u003cem>Lives of the Dead at Mountain View Cemetery\u003c/em>, shared some of the wilder stories buried here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’ve got murder and mayhem,” Colbruno said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a mausoleum with stained glass windows is a grave marked only with a mildewed paper card that reads “Frank Paul Gonzalez.” Gonzalez was an Olympic athlete who competed with the Philippine sailing team in 1960. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The mausoleum at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterward, Gonzalez moved to the Bay Area and fell deep into debt. On May 7, 1964, he was flying back from a gambling trip in Reno. As the plane passed over the East Bay, Gonzalez went into the cockpit, shot both pilots in the head, and then shot himself. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/354490445/?match=1&terms=airplane%20crash%20reno&search-id=98db4d9c-34b1-4295-b61d-e315cff9230f&search-rank=1\">plane crashed\u003c/a>, killing all 44 people aboard.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one ever came to claim his remains. No one paid for his burial. But Evanosky said cemeteries are required to take certain bodies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s done on a rotating basis,” he said. “And if it’s Mountain View’s turn, they come here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another grim story lies higher up the hillside at a tall, graceful Victorian vault. It was made in 1866 for Civil War surgeon Orran Warren, who was buried there with several family members.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Orran Warren vault at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1988, a Skyline High School graduate, together with an accomplice, forced open the door to the vault, got into the caskets and removed four of the corpses’ heads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Evanosky was a local newspaper reporter at the time, so he was on the scene with sheriff’s deputies when the crime was discovered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We found two skulls . . . in Walgreens bags,” Evanosky said. “I took them out of the bags.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two other skulls were gone. Colbruno thinks the thieves were involved in devil worship. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“That’s why they had come in here to steal the skulls,” Colbruno said. “They were gonna use them for their rituals.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the perpetrators was \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/779198063/?article=22b567ce-f493-4d7a-b1e7-0ed5fd210122&search-id=2a322f08-3768-4d81-a2af-c93df23a444b&search-rank=8\">caught and charged\u003c/a>, but he refused to give up his accomplice or the location of the two missing skulls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“But then, maybe five or six years ago, I got a call,” Evanosky said. Someone had mailed a skull to the cemetery, using a fake return address. The staff called the coroner’s office, which verified that it was one of those missing from the vault. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evanosky and the staff returned it to its place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I went down to the florist shop here, and got a dozen roses,” Evanosky said. “And then the place is all clean, with roses on the ladies’ graves.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These days, people come and take wedding photos in the doorway of the Warren family vault – which is still open after the break-in. They probably have no idea about the grisly crime. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A peaceful park for all\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further still up the winding paths is what’s called Millionaire’s Row – a line of huge, spectacular monuments. Domingo Ghirardelli of chocolate fame has an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum as big as a small house. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland Mayor Samuel Merritt’s is a replica of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Next to it is the 60-foot-tall domed cylinder that houses railroad tycoon Charles Crocker. He had it built to look like a Greek temple. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland residents Heather Riffel and Hannah Young strolled by them in the shade of the oak trees. They said they’d been having a deep talk on their visit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107175\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Millionaire’s Row at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107176\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Samuel Merritt’s vault at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I feel like it’s essential to this city, to all of us, to have places to zoom out and get perspective,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Frederick Law Olmsted laid out these winding paths back in the 1860s, he envisioned a place where grief and beauty could coexist. A space for the dead and the living.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wrote in his plans: “Hence, no place of burial is satisfactory to us, which does not exhibit, besides evidences of respect paid by individuals and families to the memory of their own dead, evidences also of respect paid by the community of the living to the community of the dead.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gravestones at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So maybe it \u003cem>was\u003c/em> part of his vision for people to come to the cemetery for enjoyment. This is, after all, the only cemetery Olmsted ever designed. He’s most remembered today for his parks and college campuses.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think if I was dead, I would want the company showing up at my tombstone, just hanging out,” Riffel said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Whether you come here to trace the names of Oakland’s past or just watch the sunset over the Bay, Mountain View Cemetery reminds us that the living and the dead can share this city. And maybe, in a place like this, neither side is ever truly alone.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode transcript\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> If you ask people who live near Piedmont Avenue in Oakland where to go and watch the sunset, you might get an answer you don’t quite expect. Up in the hills is a beautiful, peaceful stretch of more than 200 acres of land, dotted with little lakes, ornamental trees, and thoughtful winding paths. This place is something of a public park – locals picnic here, walk their dogs, bring their kids to play, but they also come to mourn the dead. Because this isn’t a city park, this is Mountain View Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> I believe during COVID, they had to shut it down to recreational users because so many people were using it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That’s Bay Curious listener Sarah Fockler. She lives in Oakland and likes to walk at Mountain View Cemetery for exercise and the sweeping views of downtown, the Bay, even San Francisco. And she likes the history of the place. The cemetery is more than 150 years old.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> Even the graves themselves, you know, being in several different languages and from a vast time period, it’s as diverse as Oakland itself.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Saraf wanted to know if this cemetery was originally designed to be used the way it is today, essentially as a public park. I think it’s a really interesting place.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> The idea that there are people grieving or visiting graves, as well as a public recreation area and one that’s very popular.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> This is Bay Curious, the show that answers listener questions about the Bay Area. I’m your host, Olivia Allen-Price. To find out more about the cemetery’s origins, and also because it’s almost Halloween, we sent reporter Katherine Monahan to wander around the place. It turns out that things here aren’t always as bucolic as they seem.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> At the entrance to the Mountain View Cemetery, there’s a tall fountain and a circular pool surrounded by trees. Just beyond, people are strolling in the sun.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Lake Patterson Greer:\u003c/strong> I wish I had a ghost costume.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> That’s Lake Patterson Greer. He’s walking with his mom, Paige Patterson.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Paige Patterson:\u003c/strong> He’s been seeing a lot of Halloween decorations, and I said those are headstones, and he said, what is that? So that’s why we’re here. He’s really curious about death and about where bodies go.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Lake looks at ease playing among the grave markers.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Lake Patterson Greer:\u003c/strong> When can we dig up the people?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Paige Patterson:\u003c/strong> We don’t dig up the people. Yeah, we’re respectful of them. When people’s families choose to put them in the ground, we leave them in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Good rule of thumb. Interestingly, someone actually is digging up a body, just a little deeper into the cemetery. A big machine hoists a casket out of the earth, swings it carefully onto a green cart, and a worker drives off with it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Yeah, somebody is being moved.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Dennis Evanosky has been a docent here at the cemetery for almost 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Families will be crushed that somebody’s buried here and they want to put them someplace else. Right on time for Halloween, an exhumation!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Evanosky says moving bodies around is actually part of how the Mountain View Cemetery got started in 1863. The city of Oakland was just 11 years old at the time, but it had already filled up one cemetery and most of a second.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Nobody wanted a cemetery in town anymore. So especially when they fill up, what are you gonna do?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Samuel Merritt, who would soon become mayor of Oakland, called a meeting with other wealthy businessmen. They wanted the bodies moved out of the old cemeteries, which were right downtown by what’s now Lake Merritt. They wanted to build streets and houses there instead. As for where to put the bodies, they envisioned a new grand European-style park-like cemetery instead, well outside of the city limits of the day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> They discovered Frederick Law Olmsted was in town, and Olmsted was very, very famous for having designed Central Park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> So the businessmen offered Olmsted, who was probably the best-known landscape architect of the day, the job of designing their new cemetery. He accepted and wrote up a thoughtful, detailed plan. His design featured curving paths that followed the shapes of the hills and specifications for which trees and shrubbery would prompt the consolations of faith. He suggested the heaven-pointing spires of the immortal cypress tree. Though his plan didn’t say anything about public recreational use, the cemetery, once constructed, was immediately recognized as exceptionally beautiful and began attracting both the living and the dead. An 1876 newspaper article in Oakland’s Morning Times said…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Voiceover:\u003c/strong> No wonder that sincere and thoughtful mourners remove the bodies of loved ones from the bleak and dreary wastes to the cheerful and soothing surroundings of our own silent home of the dear departed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> It was a peaceful place and popular from the start.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We have to take a quick break. When we return, some unsettling stories. Stay with us.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And we’re back, walking around Mountain View Cemetery with KQED’s Katherine Monahan.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Today, there are around 210,000 people buried here, and a few of them come with wild stories. Dennis Evinowski and his fellow docent, Michael Colbruno, are ready to share. The two of them actually wrote a book together called \u003cem>Lives of the Dead.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Oh yeah, I’ll tell you. For Halloween, we have a very special skull story.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> First, they want to show me the grave of a mass murderer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Let’s do it. He’s right in that little white building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> Let’s go across.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Colbruno leads us to a mausoleum with stained glass windows. Inside, the walls are set with graves, floor to ceiling like filing cabinets. Colbruno points out one towards the back, which, unlike most of the others, doesn’t have an engraved nameplate.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> And this just has a little paper card, which is still original from 1964.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> It’s mildewed, but you can make out the typed name. Frank Paul Gonzalez. He was an Olympic athlete, competed with the Philippine Sailing Team in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> But unfortunately, he has become notorious for something other than his Olympic days, which is he moved to the Bay Area and he accumulated a massive gambling debt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> González was flying back and forth to Reno regularly to gamble, and on one of the return flights.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> He went into the cockpit and shot both pilots in the head, and the plane crashed over in the East Bay, and all the passengers aboard were killed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> 44 people. No one ever came to claim his remains. No one paid for his burial. But Evanosky says cemeteries are required to take certain bodies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> It’s done on a rotating basis, and if it’s Mountain View’s turn, they come here, and normally they would just cremate you.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Back outside, we walk on past immaculate lawns with graceful trees, but up in a corner, there’s a section that looks a little less cared for.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> We have the stranger’s plot across the way, and that’s where they’ll find you on this side of the road. They don’t know who you are.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> The stranger’s plot also has some death row inmates over there from San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> But people with social standing and a lot of money could get a tall, lovely hillside vault big enough for them and their family.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> We’re almost to it, coming right up here on the right-hand side here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Like Dr. Oren Warren did. He was a Civil War surgeon, and in 1866, he had one of the cemetery’s first monument-sized vaults made. It’s tucked under trees along one of main roads, and it’s the site of one of Evinowski’s wildest stories.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> The Stolen Skulls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Warren and his family rested peacefully in the vault until 1988, when a Skyline High School graduate, together with an accomplice, came in the dark of night.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> They forced this door open.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Got into the caskets and one by one removed four of their heads. Evanosky was a local newspaper reporter at the time, so he was on the scene with sheriff’s deputies when the crime was discovered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> We found two skulls in Walgreens bags. I took them out of the bags.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Two other skulls were gone. Colbruno thinks the thieves were involved in devil worship.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> They interviewed kids at Skyline High School who said that these guys were into monsters and goblins. That’s why they had come in here to steal the skulls. They were going to use them for their rituals.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> One of the perpetrators was caught and charged, but he refused to give up his accomplice or the location of the two missing skulls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> But then, maybe five or six years ago, I got a call, and they said, Dennis, get down here, wait until you see this.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Someone had mailed a skull to the cemetery using a fake return address. The staff called the coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> And they took part of a bone from in there, and they used that to match. And they said, it’s a match, and it’s woman.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> It was one of the missing skulls. Evanosky and the staff returned it to the vault.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> I went down to the florist shop here and got a dozen roses, and then the place is all clean with roses on the ladies’ graves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> These days, people come and take wedding photos in the doorway of the Warren family vault, which is still open after the break-in. They probably have no idea about the grisly crime. Further still up the winding paths is what’s called Millionaire’s Row, a line of huge, spectacular monuments. Domingo Ghirardelli of chocolate fame has an Egyptian revival-style mausoleum as big as a small house. Oakland Mayor Samuel Merritts is a replica of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Next to it is the 60-foot-tall dome cylinder that houses railroad tycoon Charles Crocker. He had his built to look like a Greek temple. Strolling by them in the shade of the oak trees are Oakland residents Heather Riffel and Hannah Young. Young says they’ve been having a deep talk on their visit today.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Hannah Young:\u003c/strong> I feel like it’s essential to the city, to all of us, to have places to, like, zoom out and get perspective.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> When Frederick Law Olmsted laid out these winding paths back in the 1860s, he envisioned a place where grief and beauty could coexist, a space for the dead and the living. Here’s a quote from his plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Voiceover of Olmstead:\u003c/strong> Hence, no place of burial is satisfactory to us which does not exhibit, besides evidences of respect paid by individuals and families to the memory of their own dead, evidences also of respect paid by the community of the living to the community of the dead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> So maybe in a way, it was part of this plan for people to come here and enjoy. Here’s Riffel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Heather Riffel:\u003c/strong> I think if I was dead, I would want the company just like showing up in my tombstone, just hanging out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Whether you come here to trace the names of Oakland’s past, or just watch the sunset over the bay, Mountain View Cemetery reminds us that the living and the dead can share this city. And maybe in a place like this, neither side is ever truly alone.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was KQED’s Katharine Monahan. Thanks to Sarah Fockler for submitting this week’s question. If you want more spooky-ish stories from Bay Curious, we made a Spotify playlist for you. Check our show notes for the link. If you love hearing listener questions get answered on our podcast, you should subscribe to the Bay Curious newsletter. We answer even more of your questions over there. We’re just about to send our November dispatch out, so subscribe now so you don’t miss it. KQED.org/newsletters is the place to go.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious is a production of member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, Anna Casalme and me, Olivia Ellen Price. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Ethan Tovan-Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED. Big thanks to KQED members who help support our work. You can become one today by visiting donate.kqed.org slash podcasts. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. I’m Olivia Allen Price. Happy Halloween.\u003c/p>\n",
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"innerHTML": "\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> If you ask people who live near Piedmont Avenue in Oakland where to go and watch the sunset, you might get an answer you don’t quite expect. Up in the hills is a beautiful, peaceful stretch of more than 200 acres of land, dotted with little lakes, ornamental trees, and thoughtful winding paths. This place is something of a public park – locals picnic here, walk their dogs, bring their kids to play, but they also come to mourn the dead. Because this isn’t a city park, this is Mountain View Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Up in the hills above \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland’s\u003c/a> Piedmont Avenue is a beautiful, peaceful stretch of more than 200 acres of land, dotted with little lakes, ornamental trees and thoughtful winding paths. It’s something of a public park: Locals picnic here. Walk their dogs. Bring their kids to play.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But they also come to mourn the dead, because this isn’t a city park. This is Mountain View Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Bay Curious listener Sarah Fockler wanted to know if this cemetery was originally designed to be used as a public park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think it’s a really interesting place,” Fockler said. “There are people grieving or visiting graves, as well as a public recreation area, and one that’s very popular.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The origins of Mountain View Cemetery\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Mountain View cemetery got started in 1863. The City of Oakland was just eleven years old at the time, but it had already filled up one cemetery, and most of a second. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> “Nobody wanted a cemetery in town anymore,” said historian Dennis Evanosky, a docent at Mountain View for more than 30 years. “Especially when they fill up, what are you gonna do?”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107178\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-12-KQED-50aca0f8-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gravestones at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samuel Merritt, who would soon become mayor of Oakland, called a meeting with other wealthy businessmen. They wanted the bodies moved out of the old cemeteries, which were right downtown by what’s now Lake Merritt, to make way for streets and houses. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They envisioned a new, grand, European-style, park-like cemetery instead, well outside of the city limits of the day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The businessmen offered the job of designing their new cemetery to Frederick Law Olmsted, who was already famous for having designed New York’s Central Park. He accepted, and wrote up a thoughtful, detailed \u003ca href=\"https://rotunda.upress.virginia.edu/founders/default.xqy?keys=OLMS-print-01-05-02-0014-0002#OLMS-01-05-02-pb-0485\">plan\u003c/a> featuring curving paths that followed the shapes of the hills and specifications for which trees and shrubbery would “prompt the consolations of faith.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107174\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-08-KQED-0eff4f8b-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A view of downtown Oakland from Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He suggested “the heaven-pointing spires of the immortal cypress [tree].” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Though his plan didn’t say anything about public recreational use, the cemetery, once constructed, was immediately recognized as exceptionally beautiful.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today, there are around 210,000 people interred here. Millionaires, children, victims of the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic and death row inmates are among the inhabitants of Mountain View Cemetery – as diverse as the living who walk its grounds.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A few unsettling stories\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Since it’s almost Halloween, Michael Colbruno, who, together with Evanosky, wrote \u003cem>Lives of the Dead at Mountain View Cemetery\u003c/em>, shared some of the wilder stories buried here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We’ve got murder and mayhem,” Colbruno said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a mausoleum with stained glass windows is a grave marked only with a mildewed paper card that reads “Frank Paul Gonzalez.” Gonzalez was an Olympic athlete who competed with the Philippine sailing team in 1960. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107168\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-01-KQED-dd247f95-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The mausoleum at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Afterward, Gonzalez moved to the Bay Area and fell deep into debt. On May 7, 1964, he was flying back from a gambling trip in Reno. As the plane passed over the East Bay, Gonzalez went into the cockpit, shot both pilots in the head, and then shot himself. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/354490445/?match=1&terms=airplane%20crash%20reno&search-id=98db4d9c-34b1-4295-b61d-e315cff9230f&search-rank=1\">plane crashed\u003c/a>, killing all 44 people aboard.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No one ever came to claim his remains. No one paid for his burial. But Evanosky said cemeteries are required to take certain bodies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“It’s done on a rotating basis,” he said. “And if it’s Mountain View’s turn, they come here.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Another grim story lies higher up the hillside at a tall, graceful Victorian vault. It was made in 1866 for Civil War surgeon Orran Warren, who was buried there with several family members.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107172\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-05-KQED-d6558ddf-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The Orran Warren vault at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1988, a Skyline High School graduate, together with an accomplice, forced open the door to the vault, got into the caskets and removed four of the corpses’ heads. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> Evanosky was a local newspaper reporter at the time, so he was on the scene with sheriff’s deputies when the crime was discovered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We found two skulls . . . in Walgreens bags,” Evanosky said. “I took them out of the bags.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two other skulls were gone. Colbruno thinks the thieves were involved in devil worship. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“That’s why they had come in here to steal the skulls,” Colbruno said. “They were gonna use them for their rituals.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One of the perpetrators was \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/779198063/?article=22b567ce-f493-4d7a-b1e7-0ed5fd210122&search-id=2a322f08-3768-4d81-a2af-c93df23a444b&search-rank=8\">caught and charged\u003c/a>, but he refused to give up his accomplice or the location of the two missing skulls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“But then, maybe five or six years ago, I got a call,” Evanosky said. Someone had mailed a skull to the cemetery, using a fake return address. The staff called the coroner’s office, which verified that it was one of those missing from the vault. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Evanosky and the staff returned it to its place. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I went down to the florist shop here, and got a dozen roses,” Evanosky said. “And then the place is all clean, with roses on the ladies’ graves.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These days, people come and take wedding photos in the doorway of the Warren family vault – which is still open after the break-in. They probably have no idea about the grisly crime. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A peaceful park for all\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Further still up the winding paths is what’s called Millionaire’s Row – a line of huge, spectacular monuments. Domingo Ghirardelli of chocolate fame has an Egyptian Revival style mausoleum as big as a small house. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland Mayor Samuel Merritt’s is a replica of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Next to it is the 60-foot-tall domed cylinder that houses railroad tycoon Charles Crocker. He had it built to look like a Greek temple. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Oakland residents Heather Riffel and Hannah Young strolled by them in the shade of the oak trees. They said they’d been having a deep talk on their visit.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-3 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107175\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107175\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-09-KQED-ab998817-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Millionaire’s Row at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" data-id=\"12107176\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107176\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-10-KQED-41bb122c-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Samuel Merritt’s vault at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I feel like it’s essential to this city, to all of us, to have places to zoom out and get perspective,” Young said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When Frederick Law Olmsted laid out these winding paths back in the 1860s, he envisioned a place where grief and beauty could coexist. A space for the dead and the living.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He wrote in his plans: “Hence, no place of burial is satisfactory to us, which does not exhibit, besides evidences of respect paid by individuals and families to the memory of their own dead, evidences also of respect paid by the community of the living to the community of the dead.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12107173\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261028-MOUNTAIN-VIEW-CEMETERY-MD-06-KQED-95b0ac49-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gravestones at Mountain View Cemetery in Oakland on Oct. 28, 2026. 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Because this isn’t a city park, this is Mountain View Cemetery.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> I believe during COVID, they had to shut it down to recreational users because so many people were using it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That’s Bay Curious listener Sarah Fockler. She lives in Oakland and likes to walk at Mountain View Cemetery for exercise and the sweeping views of downtown, the Bay, even San Francisco. And she likes the history of the place. The cemetery is more than 150 years old.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> Even the graves themselves, you know, being in several different languages and from a vast time period, it’s as diverse as Oakland itself.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> Saraf wanted to know if this cemetery was originally designed to be used the way it is today, essentially as a public park. I think it’s a really interesting place.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> The idea that there are people grieving or visiting graves, as well as a public recreation area and one that’s very popular.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> This is Bay Curious, the show that answers listener questions about the Bay Area. I’m your host, Olivia Allen-Price. To find out more about the cemetery’s origins, and also because it’s almost Halloween, we sent reporter Katherine Monahan to wander around the place. It turns out that things here aren’t always as bucolic as they seem.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> At the entrance to the Mountain View Cemetery, there’s a tall fountain and a circular pool surrounded by trees. Just beyond, people are strolling in the sun.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Lake Patterson Greer:\u003c/strong> I wish I had a ghost costume.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> That’s Lake Patterson Greer. He’s walking with his mom, Paige Patterson.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Paige Patterson:\u003c/strong> He’s been seeing a lot of Halloween decorations, and I said those are headstones, and he said, what is that? So that’s why we’re here. He’s really curious about death and about where bodies go.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Lake looks at ease playing among the grave markers.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>\u003cstrong>Lake Patterson Greer:\u003c/strong> When can we dig up the people?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Paige Patterson:\u003c/strong> We don’t dig up the people. Yeah, we’re respectful of them. When people’s families choose to put them in the ground, we leave them in the ground.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Good rule of thumb. Interestingly, someone actually is digging up a body, just a little deeper into the cemetery. A big machine hoists a casket out of the earth, swings it carefully onto a green cart, and a worker drives off with it.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Yeah, somebody is being moved.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Dennis Evanosky has been a docent here at the cemetery for almost 30 years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Families will be crushed that somebody’s buried here and they want to put them someplace else. Right on time for Halloween, an exhumation!\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Evanosky says moving bodies around is actually part of how the Mountain View Cemetery got started in 1863. The city of Oakland was just 11 years old at the time, but it had already filled up one cemetery and most of a second.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Nobody wanted a cemetery in town anymore. So especially when they fill up, what are you gonna do?\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Samuel Merritt, who would soon become mayor of Oakland, called a meeting with other wealthy businessmen. They wanted the bodies moved out of the old cemeteries, which were right downtown by what’s now Lake Merritt. They wanted to build streets and houses there instead. As for where to put the bodies, they envisioned a new grand European-style park-like cemetery instead, well outside of the city limits of the day.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> They discovered Frederick Law Olmsted was in town, and Olmsted was very, very famous for having designed Central Park.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> So the businessmen offered Olmsted, who was probably the best-known landscape architect of the day, the job of designing their new cemetery. He accepted and wrote up a thoughtful, detailed plan. His design featured curving paths that followed the shapes of the hills and specifications for which trees and shrubbery would prompt the consolations of faith. He suggested the heaven-pointing spires of the immortal cypress tree. Though his plan didn’t say anything about public recreational use, the cemetery, once constructed, was immediately recognized as exceptionally beautiful and began attracting both the living and the dead. An 1876 newspaper article in Oakland’s Morning Times said…\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Voiceover:\u003c/strong> No wonder that sincere and thoughtful mourners remove the bodies of loved ones from the bleak and dreary wastes to the cheerful and soothing surroundings of our own silent home of the dear departed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> It was a peaceful place and popular from the start.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> We have to take a quick break. When we return, some unsettling stories. Stay with us.\u003cbr>\u003cbr>SPONSOR MESSAGE\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> And we’re back, walking around Mountain View Cemetery with KQED’s Katherine Monahan.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Today, there are around 210,000 people buried here, and a few of them come with wild stories. Dennis Evinowski and his fellow docent, Michael Colbruno, are ready to share. The two of them actually wrote a book together called \u003cem>Lives of the Dead.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Oh yeah, I’ll tell you. For Halloween, we have a very special skull story.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> First, they want to show me the grave of a mass murderer.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> Let’s do it. He’s right in that little white building.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> Let’s go across.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Colbruno leads us to a mausoleum with stained glass windows. Inside, the walls are set with graves, floor to ceiling like filing cabinets. Colbruno points out one towards the back, which, unlike most of the others, doesn’t have an engraved nameplate.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> And this just has a little paper card, which is still original from 1964.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> It’s mildewed, but you can make out the typed name. Frank Paul Gonzalez. He was an Olympic athlete, competed with the Philippine Sailing Team in 1960.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> But unfortunately, he has become notorious for something other than his Olympic days, which is he moved to the Bay Area and he accumulated a massive gambling debt.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> González was flying back and forth to Reno regularly to gamble, and on one of the return flights.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> He went into the cockpit and shot both pilots in the head, and the plane crashed over in the East Bay, and all the passengers aboard were killed.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> 44 people. No one ever came to claim his remains. No one paid for his burial. But Evanosky says cemeteries are required to take certain bodies.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> It’s done on a rotating basis, and if it’s Mountain View’s turn, they come here, and normally they would just cremate you.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Back outside, we walk on past immaculate lawns with graceful trees, but up in a corner, there’s a section that looks a little less cared for.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> We have the stranger’s plot across the way, and that’s where they’ll find you on this side of the road. They don’t know who you are.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> The stranger’s plot also has some death row inmates over there from San Quentin.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> But people with social standing and a lot of money could get a tall, lovely hillside vault big enough for them and their family.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> We’re almost to it, coming right up here on the right-hand side here.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Like Dr. Oren Warren did. He was a Civil War surgeon, and in 1866, he had one of the cemetery’s first monument-sized vaults made. It’s tucked under trees along one of main roads, and it’s the site of one of Evinowski’s wildest stories.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> The Stolen Skulls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Warren and his family rested peacefully in the vault until 1988, when a Skyline High School graduate, together with an accomplice, came in the dark of night.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> They forced this door open.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Got into the caskets and one by one removed four of their heads. Evanosky was a local newspaper reporter at the time, so he was on the scene with sheriff’s deputies when the crime was discovered.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> We found two skulls in Walgreens bags. I took them out of the bags.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Two other skulls were gone. Colbruno thinks the thieves were involved in devil worship.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Michael Colbruno:\u003c/strong> They interviewed kids at Skyline High School who said that these guys were into monsters and goblins. That’s why they had come in here to steal the skulls. They were going to use them for their rituals.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> One of the perpetrators was caught and charged, but he refused to give up his accomplice or the location of the two missing skulls.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> But then, maybe five or six years ago, I got a call, and they said, Dennis, get down here, wait until you see this.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Someone had mailed a skull to the cemetery using a fake return address. The staff called the coroner’s office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> And they took part of a bone from in there, and they used that to match. And they said, it’s a match, and it’s woman.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> It was one of the missing skulls. Evanosky and the staff returned it to the vault.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Dennis Evanosky:\u003c/strong> I went down to the florist shop here and got a dozen roses, and then the place is all clean with roses on the ladies’ graves.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> These days, people come and take wedding photos in the doorway of the Warren family vault, which is still open after the break-in. They probably have no idea about the grisly crime. Further still up the winding paths is what’s called Millionaire’s Row, a line of huge, spectacular monuments. Domingo Ghirardelli of chocolate fame has an Egyptian revival-style mausoleum as big as a small house. Oakland Mayor Samuel Merritts is a replica of one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. Next to it is the 60-foot-tall dome cylinder that houses railroad tycoon Charles Crocker. He had his built to look like a Greek temple. Strolling by them in the shade of the oak trees are Oakland residents Heather Riffel and Hannah Young. Young says they’ve been having a deep talk on their visit today.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Hannah Young:\u003c/strong> I feel like it’s essential to the city, to all of us, to have places to, like, zoom out and get perspective.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> When Frederick Law Olmsted laid out these winding paths back in the 1860s, he envisioned a place where grief and beauty could coexist, a space for the dead and the living. Here’s a quote from his plans.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Voiceover of Olmstead:\u003c/strong> Hence, no place of burial is satisfactory to us which does not exhibit, besides evidences of respect paid by individuals and families to the memory of their own dead, evidences also of respect paid by the community of the living to the community of the dead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> So maybe in a way, it was part of this plan for people to come here and enjoy. Here’s Riffel.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Heather Riffel:\u003c/strong> I think if I was dead, I would want the company just like showing up in my tombstone, just hanging out.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Katherine Monahan:\u003c/strong> Whether you come here to trace the names of Oakland’s past, or just watch the sunset over the bay, Mountain View Cemetery reminds us that the living and the dead can share this city. And maybe in a place like this, neither side is ever truly alone.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price:\u003c/strong> That was KQED’s Katharine Monahan. Thanks to Sarah Fockler for submitting this week’s question. If you want more spooky-ish stories from Bay Curious, we made a Spotify playlist for you. Check our show notes for the link. If you love hearing listener questions get answered on our podcast, you should subscribe to the Bay Curious newsletter. We answer even more of your questions over there. We’re just about to send our November dispatch out, so subscribe now so you don’t miss it. KQED.org/newsletters is the place to go.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Sarah Fockler:\u003c/strong> Bay Curious is a production of member-supported KQED in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Olivia Allen-Price\u003c/strong>: Our show is produced by Katrina Schwartz, Christopher Beale, Anna Casalme and me, Olivia Ellen Price. We get extra support from Maha Sanad, Katie Springer, Jen Chien, Ethan Tovan-Lindsey and everyone on Team KQED. Big thanks to KQED members who help support our work. You can become one today by visiting donate.kqed.org slash podcasts. Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by the Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco, Northern California Local. I’m Olivia Allen Price. Happy Halloween.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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