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Neptune Beach Community Celebration
September 6, 2014 @ 10:00 AM - 5:30 PM
Neptune Beach Community Celebration
Saturday-Sunday, September 6-7, 10:00AM-5:30PM
along Webster Street between Pacific Avenue and Central Avenue, Alameda
Free admission
http://neptunebeachcc.com/about
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3DGq964p84
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssn_79ru9NQ
“The Neptune Beach Community Celebration is a two-day street festival along Webster Street in Alameda, California, which recalls and commemorates Neptune Beach, a popular Alameda amusement park known as Coney Island West from 1917 to 1939. In its heyday during the Roaring 20s, the Neptune Beach amusement park drew throngs to the Bay at the end of Webster Street with carnival rides, concerts, picnic areas, and large swimming pools.
Early park attendees enjoyed a prosperous time in history, as automobiles, electricity, telephones, and motion pictures became more widely available after World War I. Along with these innovations came a more freewheeling culture, with changes in dress and dance, the blossoming of jazz, and a proliferation of local speakeasies defying Prohibition laws.
The 2014 3rd Annual Neptune Beach Community Celebration is produced by the Alameda Chamber of Commerce and recalls this festive carnival atmosphere of the early 1900s, offering a full weekend of rides and children’s amusements, music, food and drink, arts and crafts, a history walk, and more.
The Neptune Beach Community Celebration celebrates not only this interesting period of Alameda’s past but also the current renaissance of West Alameda and Webster Street. When you come to the Celebration, please take note of the many improvements to the street and support the new businesses now offering a wide variety of dining options and services to our community. We look forward to seeing you!”