H73.286.1

Pamphlet. Description: "The Hotel Oakland, Oakland, California, with inside color view view of interior lounge. From the History Information Station: Object: Cup, plate, butter dish, tea menu, and brochure from the Hotel Oakland. History: Built in 1912, the Hotel Oakland still stands (despite extensive damage in the 1989 earthquake) at 13th and Alice Streets in downtown Oakland. Today it is a retirement residence. But it spent its first thirty years as a center of Oakland's social life, a meeting place for elite society. Its popular afternoon tea service was served on dishes sporting California Live Oak leaves and acorns. With its Spanish-style towers, its columns, gardens, and elegant public rooms, the Hotel Oakland represented the sophisticated prosperity of turn-of-the century California. Gifts of Laetitia Meyer and Bertha Toy