Next in the Where They Lives series, 1948 E. 25th Street. View Larger Map This house was in the family between 1910 and 1920. It is the smaller tan colored house on the left. First, Manoel & Jacintha (Moniz) Pacheco lived here. They later moved to another part of Oakland. Second, their son Jacintho “Jesse…
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Where They Lived: 1942 E. 25th Street
This is the third entry in the series, 1942 E. 25th Street, Oakland View Larger Map This house was in the family between 1910 and 1920. It is the smaller tan colored house on the left. First, Manoel & Jacintha (Moniz) Pacheco lived here. They later moved to another part of Oakland. Second, their son…
Where They Lived: 1936 E. 25th Street, the Cosma House
Second in the series, 1936 E. 25th Street, Oakland, California. This is the house where the Cosma’s lived. View Larger Map This bluish house with the stairs leading up and the picket fence around it was very well known to all the Pacheco and de Braga cousins. This is the house that Joaquim Jacinto da…
Where they lived: 1912, 1916, and 1922 E. 25th Street
This begins a series on where my Pacheco de Braga relatives lived when they moved to Oakland, California in the early 1900. The family owned a portion of the very long street and for several decades relatives moved in and out of those houses. This post covers 1912, 1916, and 1922 E. 25th Street. View…
Working at the French Laundry
[Fearless Females–Women’s History Month, March 12th: Working Girl] This photograph was taken around 1905-1910. It shows the Mazeres family in front of one of their French laundries in Oakland, Alameda Co., California. My great grandmother, Brigitte (Breilh) Mazeres, always worked alongside her husband, Charles. When he died in 1921, she ran the laundries. In the…