JOEY KNOWS HISTORY

20TH CENTURY

TODAY'S EDITION

NO. 5105456390

IMAGES OF AMERICA

HISTORY OF EAST BAY RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE

I have been fascinated with history for as long as I can remember, and it was always a dream of mine to put together one of these fun Arcadia Images of America books, and in 2020, I wrote a proposal for one and it was accepted. Now my book is available for sale in bookstores, at Target and other local retailers.

If you are in the Bay Area, click HERE to purchase a signed copy which I will have delivered to you along with a special gift.

My intent is to explore this history, through local leaders, archives, historians as well real estate brokers, investors, agents and homeowners.

Oakland, Alameda, Berkeley and the surrounding areas were architecturally developed and influenced by the modern concept of efficient assembly line building. I will also explore how that building was affected by redlining and race relations at that time.

I have wanted, for a long time, to write an Arcadia history book outlining local history, but this is the topic that struck me, finally, as the one thing that remains unwritten. I think it will be exciting for locals, and especially homeowners who live in semi-manufactured, flat pack or catalog homes.