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Location of Jack London Square in the City of Oakland
Jack London Square is a popular tourist attraction on the waterfront of Oakland, California. Named after the author Jack London and owned by the Port of Oakland, it is the home of stores, restaurants, hotels, an Amtrak station, a ferry dock, the historic Heinold’s First and Last Chance Saloon, the (re-located) cabin Jack London lived in in the Klondike, and a movie theater. A farmer's market is hosted among the retail shops on Sunday mornings. The former presidential yacht USS Potomac is moored at an adjacent slip.
Jack London Square is located at the south end of Broadway, across the Oakland Estuary from Alameda.
The name has also come to refer to the formerly industrial neighborhood surrounding Jack London Square proper now known as the Jack London District, which has undergone significant rehabilitation in the last decade, including loft conversions and new construction. Former Oakland mayor Jerry Brown made his home here before moving north to the Uptown neighborhood.
KTVU (Channel 2), the Bay Area's Fox affiliate, has had studios at the Square since it began broadcasting in April 1958, and the offices of the Port of Oakland are located there as well.
A mainline railroad runs though the middle of the street, with the train speed limit set at 15 MPH (25 km/h). Amtrak passenger trains- Capital Corridor, Coast Starlight, and San Joaquin, commuter trains, and mainline container freight trains share the road with pedestrians, cyclists, and automobiles.[1][2]
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Reconstruction of Jack London's Klondike Hut in Jack London Square
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Jack London docks at dawn, summertime
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Coordinates: 37°47′39″N 122°16′29″W / 37.7942°N 122.2747°W / 37.7942; -122.2747
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