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Jack London Square

Address: Embarcadero at Broadway, Oakland, CA | Map It
Phone: 866/295-9853
www.jacklondonsquare.com

Category: Squares, Stores/Malls
Location: Oakland

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Fodor's Review:

Shops, restaurants, small museums, and historic sites line Jack London Square, which is named after one of California's best-known authors; London wrote The Call of the Wild, The Sea Wolf, and many other books. When he lived in Oakland, he spent many a day boozing and brawling in the waterfront area. The tiny, wonderful Heinold's First and Last Chance Saloon (48 Webster St. 510/839-6761) was one of London's old haunts. It has been serving since 1883, although it's a little worse for the wear since the 1906 earthquake. The Klondike cabin in which London spent a summer in the late 1890s was moved from Alaska and reassembled here, next door to Heinold's saloon, in 1970. The square also contains a bronze bust of London. Since it's on the waterfront, the square is an obvious spot for tourists to visit and is worth a peek if you take a ferry that docks here; to really get a feel for Oakland, though, you're better off browsing downtown, or at least in Rockridge.

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