Since Tepper bought the land for his beer garden from Dimond,
I doubted that this could be an early example of the "A" problem.

Dennis Evanosky explains

"It was the "Red Diamond" line; the name had nothing to do with the district. It was the designation for the streetcar line that ran from downtown Oakland at 13th and Washington streets to Fruitvale and up to Hopkins (MacArthur). In the days before they numbered the cars, they used disks with different symbols. This particular streetcar sported a disk with a red diamond. Over the years the line had other designations: The "G," the "A," the "10"' and the Second 15 (the first 15 [just called the 15] ran from 13th and Washington up Liese Avenue (38th Aveune) to Hopkins (MacArthur)."

back