East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse sign 2009

Description:
Sign in storefront window, East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, 4695 Telegraph Avenue (looking west), Temescal District, Oakland Calif.

Date of Document:
1-Nov-09

Document Author:
UnknownJeff Norman

Geographic Location:
52nd Street and Dover Street, Oakland, Calif.

Context:
The nonprofit East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse began as the Scrap Mobile, a program of the Oakland Recreation Department run out of North Oakland Recreation Center/Studio One, at 365 45th Street. Scrap Mobile staff would collect old billboard paper, cardboard, and wood scraps from lumber yards, and then drive their big van to various rec centers in the city to conduct sculpture-making programs for kids during the summer. The staff coordinated their efforts with Oakland Public School teachers, who also needed arts and crafts supplies for their classrooms. This program eventually spun off to form the East Bay Depot for Creative Reuse, which started out in a former fire house on 60th Street, near San Pablo Avenue. It later moved to Berkeley, near University and San Pablo avenues, before moving to its current Telegraph Avenue location.