Name/Title
Flyers for Marina Village and Waterfront History Day, 1988Entry/Object ID
2021.77.1Description
Acc. No. 21.77.1 A, B
Subject Category: History; Streets of Alameda
Date or Period: 1988
Object: flyer and booklet
Description:
A. 2-page advertising booklet with title and outlines in blue on a white background, titled 'Welcome to Marina Village... Where Much of Alameda's Rich Maritime History Took Place'. Front cover features a black-and-white photo which appears to be of the launching of a vessel named 'Talabot'. Inside is a map, identifying the Power House, Marina Village Center, Shipways, Relational Technology, Inc. Building, and Waterfront Park. Verso has two further black-and-white images, one of a square-rigged ship, the Lavenir, and the other showing the President Wilson and President Cleveland under construction.
B. Program Flyer in black type on white, titled 'Alameda Waterfront History Day, August 13, 1988'.
Sizes: L 11 x W 8 1/2 inches.
History of Object: Flyer promoting newly built Marina Village. Relational Technology, Inc., was founded in 1980 by Michael Stonebreaker and Eugene Wong, commercializing a relational database software called Ingres. The company was renamed Ingres Corporation in the late 1980s.
Object was discovered in a box of non-Alameda related old publications, donor unknown.
Acquired from: unknown
Catalog Date: 8/6/2021
