Jingletown Geyser!

Dateline: Jingletown, USA | February 6, 2008 2pm
Runaway Tombstone Pizza 18-wheeler gets best of local fireplug!
Just another day in the go-go Jingletown neighborhood.

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• Jingletown
• Oakland
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[victrolux]

it's still a good place... with new energy as many folks still like and create there!

[bravedavemusic]

wait so is jingle town a real place? i thought it was fake from american idiot

[victrolux]

@bravedavemusic As real a s a busted fire hydrant! Google: Jingletown. Canneries, factories & mills formed an industrial cluster along the railroad line between 1880 & 1940. Turn of the cent small working class homes 4 workers employed by these cos. A mix of German, Italian & Portuguese immigrants, settled in Fruitvale. Paid good wages by the canneries & mills, workers were said to jingle coins in their pockets as they strolled home on payday--signifying their prosperity. Hence: "Jingletown".

[victrolux]

@bravedavemusic Nope Green Day has it real!

[bravedavemusic]

@victrolux so just seein? is jingle town the place fromt the jesus of suburbia music video and all that stuff?

[victrolux]

@bravedavemusic I think so. And this info too:

Mike Dirnt:

Owns a café/resturant named Rudy's Can't Fail Café, after a song by the Clash. The café is located in Emeryville, CA.

[9taco4u]

I moved to J town in 1956,first on 26th ave & 11th st..then two blocks over across from the church on 9 st..lived there till i moved in 63,,,was a great place to grow up, in them days..everyone got along and no crime...wish the whole world could of been like Jtown...really missed those days

[oaklandlatinosunited]

@bravedavemusic yea Jingletown is a real place in East Oakland it used to be a portuguese neighborhood but since the late 50s till now it's a predominatly Mexican laltino neighborhood . i grew up near there on E7th st .