Temescal

The following night we reached a little place at the foot of the higher mountains called Temescal, a very diminutive place, consisting, indeed, of but one small house.

Adventures in Many Lands Various

It's on a very cute block of Telegraph Avenue in Oakland known as the Temescal district.

poppytalk 2008

Get much above 40th and you're into the "Temescal" shopping district.

A Tale of Two Koreatowns clairelight 2009

It was at Lake Temescal, not far from the one-time city of Oakland, that I came upon the first live human beings.

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Don't I remember when I first met them catching fish at Lake Temescal?

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And I sat there, perforce, by the campfire on the shore of lake Temescal, and saw Vesta, Vesta Van Warden, kneel and remove the moccasins of that grinning, hairy, ape-like human brute.

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Xolo, a taqueria in Uptown Oakland opened in April by the owners of the Temescal neighborhood's upscale Dona Tomas, has gone a step further with its Danger Dog.

Mission Munchers Bite 'Danger Dogs' Stu Woo 2011

They're goin 'to have beer, an' if that Temescal bunch comes, there'll be a rough-house.

Chapter 5 2010

The 32-year-old, a child of two deaf parents, grew up in North Oakland's Temescal neighborhood and bounced around the area's schools for much of his youth.

Local Comic Puts His Pain on Paper John Letzing 2012

That was what your other grandfather said to me, Hare-Lip, when he greeted me there on the shore of Lake Temescal fifty-seven years ago.

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