Oakland’s Kwik Way Drive In and Golden Era Baseball

It’s been 13 years since we launched The Time Traveler site and subsequent Bay Area Backroads. For our inaugural trip, in 2006, we went
beyond the Bay Area to explore still existing ’40s and ’50s TIKI culture and related Living Nostalgia in the Los Angeles area. The trip spawned TheTimeTraveler.com which became TheTimeTraveler.info and then BayAreaBackroads.org which is now
BayAreaBackroads.us Like much of our past, these sites went to sleep, as it were , for years but we’re back -hopefully permanently – along with some of our past as we attempt to keep our glorious Mid-Century Golden Years alive, discovering and re-discovering places and people and related music, movies and memories of the simpler ‘Happy Days’ era.

While what were considered decaying cities have headed in perhaps a worse direction what with the gentrifying destruction of yesteryear’s Golden Palaces
such as Oakland.s Biffs (UFO-shaped) Coffee Shop, the Hofbrau and Dave’s Coffee Shop , just to name a few. Yet, while city life continues to decay, in a post-modern kind of way, many small towns in the hinterlands have risen up -often through
a new generation – like the proverbial Phoenix, maintaining their quality of life edifices from that earlier, simpler era of the 1930s-1960s . It seems folks in the so-called ‘fly over’ areas, well beyond the growing generic urban sprawl, seem to appreciate their roots and past more than those
of the once-spectacular big cities and we
will attempt to celebrate their efforts to restore and keep alive what were memorable formative years for many of us