The Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont is celebrating the 100-year anniversary of the beginning of film making in Niles.
Alvarado has seen a number of small airplane crashes over the years.
Farley Granger, an Alvarado Farmer, grew Chicory, a coffee substitute.
Decoto was well known for football in the late 1890's.
The recent Academy Awards have shown a spotlight on the artistry of the silent era. That spotlight is something the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont does every month.
Granted the term "tax" makes many shudder, the parcel tax proposed is honestly for the collective good of our society.
The Alvarado Grammar School existed in Alvarado since 1878 and continues today as the Alvarado Elementary School.
On February 25, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont will show "Twin Peaks Tunnel," a rare, recently restored short film shot in San Francisco nearly a century ago.
A duck hunter runs across two maidens duck hunting in the Alvarado marsh.
The creation of the East Shore Freeway took traffic and customers from Alvarado.
This month, the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont has something for everyone.
Does two historic photos show the same courthouse in Alvarado?
The George Tay Foundry was a major employer in Alvarado from 1871 until 1905.
Alvarado and Decoto residents celebrate the centennial at Dry Creek picnic grounds.
January 2012 schedule of films for the Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum in Fremont.
A look at Union City, then and now, through historic and recent pictures.
The paper "Alvarado (1850-1870)" provides a detailed look at Alvarado in its earliest days.
A constable and patrolman from Alvarado hear complaints about a local "witch."
The flour mill founded by John Horner had a second life as a foundry.
Duck clubs and duck hunting were popular in Alvarado for over 150 years.
Water from Alvarado was piped to Oakland and started a water war with another water company.
Fred Muller, from Alvarado, played professional baseball from 1928 to 1940.
A number of inventors from Alvarado and Decoto have been awarded patents.
John Brizee of Alvarado was awarded 4 patents from 1866 to 1878.
Newspaper reports detail the raids in Decoto during Prohibition
Did Rufus Whipple build the first automobile in California?
Union City rapper relocates to Los Angeles to follow his dream and continue the legacy of his father, Bay Area rap legend Saafir.
Reports of a large snake send out residents into the wilds of May Ranch to hunt it down.
Francis Robie was a school board trustee for the Alvarado Grammar School for 32 years, starting in 1912.
Fires caused damage to Decoto homes and businesses in the 1890's.
A special train was charted by a real estate company to get prospective buyers to Decoto.
With two rail lines and farms in the local area, Decoto was the right place to have a cannery.
The market at the corner of 10th and I Streets has been a market for more than 100 years.
Two of the earliest bridges over Alameda Creek were in Alvarado. One was used to hang criminals.
There was a time when Decoto was not shown on local area maps.
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A newspaper article from 1909 describes the mystery of an abandoned buggy in Decoto.
Across from the Union City Historical Museum is a small convenience market that sits between a couple of homes. This market is the oldest market in Alvarado, having been a market for 100 years.
Letters from members of the Dyer family to their relatives back in Maine, written from 1858 to 1860, provide a rare glimpse at early Alvarado.
The Lyle/Harvey/Dinsmore Building on Smith Street in Alvarado is over 100 years old and has served Alvarado and Union City as a store and a pizza parlor.