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    Newark
    Newark
    Newark
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    Newark

    By Frank Addiego

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    Often overlooked as a minor enclave surrounded by the sprawling suburb of Fremont and confused with its New Jersey namesake, Newark, California, has been a hub of innovation commercially, industrially, and technologically, even before it officially became a city in 1955. While Newark had already been home to factories and chemical plants, citizens were reticent to allow the small town to become an industrial section of the city and thus opted out of an ambitious plan among several hamlets to become Fremont. Since then, it has become a functioning city unto its own with its own infrastructure and a passionate constituency whose spirit has made Newark a friendly city but never a boring one.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateAug 3, 2015
    ISBN9781439652664
    Newark
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    Frank Addiego

    Frank Addiego is a longtime Newark resident who has been published in the local newspaper the Tri-City Voice as well as the nationally published comic book history magazine Back Issue. Addiego holds a bachelor's of fine arts in illustration from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, as well as an associate's degree from Ohlone College in the field of journalism. Working with local historians, Addiego has managed to create a pictorial history of Newark in time for the city's 60th anniversary.

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      Newark - Frank Addiego

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      INTRODUCTION

      Newark, California, surrounds an area of wetlands just off of San Francisco Bay. Its earliest inhabitants were members of the Ohlone tribe, and like much of the surrounding area, it was built in the shadow of a great mission after Spanish exploration. It saw its first signs of industrialization in the middle of the 19th century. Railroads, factories, and hotels dotted its landscape by the early 1900s, and as time wore on, more and more people moved to the small hamlet toward the southern end of Alameda County. Times were changing, and the unincorporated village was changing with the times.

      These changes set the stage for the city of today, which, while nestled within the barriers of its larger neighbor, is an all-American small town on the forefront of technology and steeped in the timeless traditions that have made American industry such a force. Newark has become a sort of Anytown, USA, in the middle of the Bay Area.

      And yet, it all could have been lost in those pivotal days of the early 1950s. As the nation became defined more and more by suburbs, the Washington Township of southern Alameda County was well on its way to becoming one large city. That city became Fremont, comprised of the Centerville, Irvington, Warm Springs, Niles, Mission San José, and Warm Springs districts. The plan also called for Newark to become part of the city along with Alvarado and Decoto; but Clark Redeker—Newark’s representative on the county planning commission—did not want to see Newark become, as he put it years later, a ghetto, fit for nothing but factories and low-income housing.

      On September 22, Newark officially became its own city, and the original city council consisted of Redeker, George M. Silliman, Leonard Lucio, Wesley Sears, and Louis Milani, each serving as mayor on a rotating business, beginning with Silliman. The term of each mayor—always an elected member of the city council—would be only one year until 1972, when Newark elected Jim Balentine, who remained in office until 1978 and the election of Dave Smith.

      During its entire preincorporation history, Newark’s population never exceeded 100. Today, it stands in excess of 43,000, far short of that of Fremont, but four times as large as Emeryville, which is nestled in between Berkeley and Oakland and known for being a mainly commercial/industrial city. Clark Redeker insisted he did not want Newark to be like Emeryville because, he said, who lives there?

      As with the rest of the nation, sweeping changes hit the young city in the 1960s. A brand-new city hall cropped up in 1966 along with a library, and more and more schools adorned the landscape. These hallmarks of the city’s infrastructure stand today as a monument to everything Newark has done in not only becoming a city independent of Fremont but in truly carving out its own identity.

      In 1978, Newark elected Dave Smith as mayor, a position he retained well into the 21st century. Smith was a boisterous man who suffered no fools and sometimes butted heads with local activists. Great things happened during his tenure; the city experienced a tremendous period of growth, with industry and infrastructure growing at an incredible rate.

      While Fremont and Union City each surpassed Newark’s population by far—each having been comprised of multiple villages while Newark was only one—the spirit of Newark nevertheless kept it commercially competitive with the two bigger cities into the 21st century.

      One of Newark’s signature triumphs was the victory in a bidding war with Fremont in the late 1970s for

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