Fremont, California recent comments:

In 1972 I met the last resident of Drawbridge. He had a little cart fitted out to ride on the rails. Apparently he had made a grocery run. He had a big pistol strapped to his waist. Not very chatty.

It is Sofi Fremont and Redwoods apartments.

The church is gone. This is now "Dharma Drum Mountain San Francisco Bay Area Center (法鼓山旧金山道场)"

I grew up in Niles. My neighbor, Joe Rose, worked there. I remember he made clay pipes. I grew up in a victorian house on second street, on the block northeast of the post office. My father lifted our house because it had a redwood foundation, and Joe Rose and my dad (Howard Riggs, town butcher - Quality Meets), built a beautiful foundation and front porch of red brick from the pottery. Later they built a brick backyard barbecue and a raised brick fence with redwood on top. Joe built a beautiful brick front porch and fence across the front of the house, and a brick patio in the back. I remember my father using broken pottery for drainage under a new garage he built.

My 1969 Oldsmobile 442 was built here.

12/13/2016 The first (3) production model Chevy Bo;ts were delivered here. A very short way from the Tesla factory.

Most likely a percolation pond, from the looks of it. Water levels vary constantly.

I used to live two houses above his (if u scroll up). Not the house with the red roof the but one with the grey and it was about 11,000 sqft. Mc hammers old house was close to 40,000 sqft

Asking price for the six-bedroom, seven-bath estate is $6.5 million. It's been assessed at $9 million. To be sure, the home is unique. The 12.5-acre estate is located near Mission Peak. A steep winding road leads a guest to the center of a sprawling white, U-shaped home. The security gate reads "Hammertime."

M. C. Hammer, the financially strapped rapper who is attempting a comeback to the music scene, has sold his custom-made dream house in the hills of Fremont for $5.3 million. The energetic singer has moved with his wife and three children to a rental house in Tracy as he reorganizes his finances, according to his lawyer, Mike Cooper, and his real estate agent, Faye Carlson. "We'll be filing a plan of reorganization by the end of the month," Cooper said yesterday. The home buyer is Sterlingsat Television Ltd., a Singapore company whose California manager will move in with his family, Cooper said. The 12.5 acres surrounding the mansion includes two swimming pools with computer-controlled thermostats, a reflecting pool, a nine-car garage and, inside the house, four dishwashers, a media room, exercise room, recording studio and rehearsal hall. It has three master bedrooms. Sterlingsat got the house for considerably less than Hammer's $6.5 million asking price. The sale became final Tuesday. Carlson said Hammer and his family had begun moving out two weeks ago. The three-time Grammy winner told The Chronicle in an interview last month at the Fremont home that selling the house was the best thing to do to get "back in the black" financially. Hammer, whose five albums sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and who earned an estimated $33 million, filed for bankruptcy in April 1996. At the time, he said he had $10 million in debts that included a $500,000 loan from football-baseball star Deion Sanders, $500,000 to a lawyer and $100,000 to the Internal Revenue Service. Born Stanley Kirk Burrell and raised poor in Oakland, Hammer built his home during the peak of his music career in 1991.

Where can I find more info/pictures on this?

Western outlet portal for the "New Irvington Tunnel"

Who wants a body massage?

I guess Hammer learned his lesson after not investing his money wisely, building a huge home, and acting like an ATM card for a huge entourage of freeloaders.

Grew up in Fremont and trip to Joyland was something we did every summer.

Thank you for listing this site. We have wondered about this for years. How did you fin out that is what it is? Is there a history link you can point me to?

These guys aren't here anymore - they moved to Mountain View, then basically disappeared.

You can go for a ride! <en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niles_Canyon_Railway#Rail_excursions>

Construction is well under way as of May 2013