Editing Alameda, California (section)

===Modern era===
[[File:Bathing Pavilion, Neptune Beach, Alameda, California (1917).jpg|thumb|left|[[Neptune Beach (California)|Neptune Beach]], established in 1917]]
In 1917, a private entertainment park called [[Neptune Beach, California|Neptune Beach]] was built in the area now known as Crab Cove, which became a major recreation destination in the 1920s and 1930s. It was sometimes referred to as the "Coney Island of the West".<ref>{{cite news|title=Alameda Museum Quarterly Newsletter |url=http://www.alamedamuseum.org/Quarterly/alamedamuseumQ405.pdf |page=8 |access-date=December 4, 2007 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229174221/https://www.alamedamuseum.org/Quarterly/alamedamuseumQ405.pdf |archive-date=February 29, 2008 }}</ref> The [[popsicle (brand)|popsicle]] was first sold to the public at Neptune Beach in 1923.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Pope |first=Shelby |date=2015-07-22 |title=How An 11-Year-Old Boy Invented The Popsicle |url=https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/07/22/425294957/how-an-11-year-old-boy-invented-the-popsicle |access-date=2025-05-14 |work=NPR |language=en}}</ref> The park closed down in 1939.

The [[Alameda Works Shipyard]] was one of the largest and best-equipped shipyards in the country. Together with other industrial facilities, it became part of the defense industry buildup before and during World War II, which attracted many migrants from other parts of the United States for the high-paying jobs. In the 1950s, Alameda's industrial and shipbuilding industries thrived along the [[Oakland Estuary|Alameda Estuary]].

In the early 21st century, the [[Port of Oakland]], across the estuary, has become one of the largest ports on the West Coast. Its operators use shipping technologies originally experimented within Alameda. As of April 2006,<ref>{{Cite web |title=COAST GUARD CITIES |url=https://www.uscg.mil/Community/cities/}}</ref> Alameda is a "[[Coast Guard City]]", one of six then designated in the country (as of  2025, it is one of 34).<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060322/ai_n16140812|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100202181523/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4176/is_20060322/ai_n16140812/|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 2, 2010|title=After 80 years, Alameda named 'Coast Guard City'|last=Bender|first=Kristin|date=March 22, 2006|work=Oakland Tribune|publisher=BNET|access-date=February 15, 2010}}</ref>
[[File:Alameda, California 1936 Aerial Photo.jpg|thumb|right|Aerial view of Alameda, 1936]]
In addition to the regular trains running to the [[Alameda Mole]], Alameda was also served by local steam commuter lines of the Southern Pacific (initially, the Central Pacific). Alameda was the site of the Southern Pacific's West Alameda Shops, where all the electric trains were maintained and repaired. These were later adapted as the [[East Bay Electric Lines]]. The trains ran to both the [[Oakland Long Wharf|Oakland Mole]] and the Alameda Mole.

In the 1930s [[Pan American Airways]] established a [[seaplane]] port along with the fill that led to the Alameda Mole, the original home base for the [[China Clipper]] flying boat. In 1929, the University of California established the San Francisco Airdrome located near the current Webster Street tube as a public airport. The Bay Airdrome had its gala christening party in 1930. The Airdrome was closed in 1941 when its air traffic interfered with the newly built [[Naval Air Station Alameda]] (NAS Alameda).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.airfieldsfreeman.com/CA/Airfields_CA_Oakland.htm#sanfranbay|title=Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields: Oakland Area|last=Freeman|first=Paul|date=December 27, 2009|work=[[Abandoned & Little-Known Airfields]]: California|publisher=Paul Freeman|access-date=February 15, 2010}}</ref>

In the late 1950s, the Utah Construction Company began a landfill beyond the ''Old Sea Wall'' and created ''[[South Shore, Alameda, California|South Shore]]''.

On February 7, 1973, a USN [[Ling-Temco-Vought|Vought]] [[LTV A-7 Corsair II|A-7E Corsair II]] fighter jet on a routine training mission from [[Lemoore Naval Air Station]] suddenly caught fire {{convert|28,000|ft|m}} above the [[San Francisco Bay]], crashing into the Tahoe Apartments in Alameda. Eleven people including the pilot died in the crash and fire.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Crash of Navy A-7E Corsair II – Alameda, Calif. – February 7, 1973|url=http://www.check-six.com/Crash_Sites/Navy_A-7_CorsairII_crash_site.htm|website=Check-Six.com|access-date=September 11, 2014}}</ref><ref>Kulczyk, David. (2009). Death In California – The Bizarre, Freakish, and Just Curious Ways People Die in the Golden State. Craven Street Books. P117 {{ISBN|978-1-884995-57-6}}</ref>