About the Author

Eric J. Kos is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design and has provided his design expertise to various publications in the East Bay since 1997. In 2001 he helped start his first corporation, Stellar Media Group, which publishes the Alameda Sun, a free weekly newspaper in California. He lives in Alameda, CA.

Dennis Evanosky is a former editor at Hills Newspapers in the East Bay. In 1997 his love of history helped fashion an award-winning calendar that featured the history of his Oakland neighborhood. Together with Eric J. Kos he has written East Bay Then and Now (2004) and San Francisco In Photographs (2006) along with several local history books for Californian communities. He lives in Oakland, CA.