Jingletown (arts district) (Oakland, California)

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Jingletown got its name from Portugese cannery workers who would walk home from canning fruits when they got paid and they’d “jingle” their pockets to express their pride in their earnings. Oakland’s Jingletown district is currently thriving as one of the fastest growing arts districts in the San Francisco Bay area. Among other notable artistic enterprises, it is the location of the only Institute of Mosaic Art in the United States. There are a large number of residential artists living in the converted lofts that are situated between the Park and the Fruitvale street bridges along the estuary that separates Oakland from the island of Alameda.

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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruitvale,_Oakland,_California
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Coordinates:   37°46'20"N   122°13'56"W
This article was last modified 12 years ago