Oakland’s Alley doesn’t miss a beat going virtual
For music lovers, the piano bar is family in the best sense, and they won’t let it slip away
By Emma Silvers
Oakland’s Alley doesn’t miss a beat going virtual
For music lovers, the piano bar is family in the best sense, and they won’t let it slip away
By Emma Silvers
By Emma Silvers | San Francisco Chronicle
The first time Jacqualine Simpkins set foot in the Alley, she felt overcome, and not in a good way. It was 1995, and she was visiting Oakland from her home in Bellevue, Ohio, finally seeing the Prohibition-era piano bar owned by her uncle and his longtime girlfriend. For the past few years, they’d been talking up the place, trying to convince her to move out and help run it.