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Article: Picturing the early days of San Leandro
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- Oakland Tribune
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- January 28, 2008
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SAN LEANDRO -- If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Cindy
Simons has one heck of a story to tell.
The retired San Leandro librarian is digging into her treasure
trove of city history and collecting thousands of vintage
photographs for a new book she is writing that, when published in
the fall, will become part of the "Images of America" series.
Arcadia Publishing produces the series to chronicle the histories of
various communities around the country through pictures.
San Leandro already has two history books, one published in the
1950s and the other for the city's centennial in 1972. But this
history will be different, Simons said, because it will be more