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Alameda (ăləmē`də, –mā`də), city (1990 pop. 76,459), Alameda co., W central Calif., on an island just off the eastern shore of San Francisco Bay; settled 1850, inc. as a city 1884. Industries include printing and publishing, electronics, plastic products, food, consumer goods, and machinery. It is primarily residential and has excellent beaches, parks, and leisure-boating facilities. The former Alameda Naval Air Station has been partially redeveloped. An important Coast Guard base is also there. The city is connected with Oakland, Calif., on the mainland by bridges and tunnels.
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A shaded public walk or promenade.
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Rather than a 10-acre park punctuated with trails and benches, the city's residents would have been better served, he said, with "properly scaled urban public spaces with plazas, alamedas, and boulevards.
ANOTHER FINE MYTH by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)
The cutting edge as far as what we're doing is 29[degrees] beer," says Jimmy Cleland of Los Alamedas, CA-based Cleland Sales and Blizzard Beer Systems.
Bring back the draft: a brewing staple modernizes fast by Riell, Howard / Cheers
This is strange, for downtown Lima is arguably South America's most exquisite Spanish colonial capital, with its sprawling royal palace, broad plazas and alamedas (parks), massive cathedral and convents, and handsome colonial mansions with barred windows and carved oak balconies.
Letter from South America. (Our Special Correspondent) by Wawro, Geoffrey / Naval War College Review
 
 
 
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