Laney 40th Anniversary Home

Laney College celebrates 40 years at 900 Fallon Street

Laney College 1950s Aerial View

Photo: A 1950s aerial view of the lands south of Lake Merritt showing Auditorium Village, a wartime housing project, the Exposition Center and Exposition Field. The site was later cleared for Frank Youell Field, the campus of Laney College, the Oakland Museum of California and Bay Area Rapid Transit facilities. Photograph by William A. High, Director of Audio-Visual Education, Oakland Unified School District. Courtesy Oakland Public Library, Oakland History Room.