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Title: Grand Complimentary Concert at Dietz Opera House, Oakland. Friday, December 7th, 1877, Tendered to the Oakland Light Cavalry Companyby the Schmidt Quintette
Description: N/A, 1877. Softcover. Program, single sheet printed recto and verso; 5 x 8; mint-green paper printed in various elaborate fonts; small nick to top edge; a few faint crease lines; minor age-toning; very good. The program commemorated a benefit concert for the Oakland Light Cavalry Company - a volunteer organization of, initially, 101 men which was established earlier that same year, in 1877. In the years between 1867 and 1877 Oakland had been steadily growing - boasting new residences, sewage system, and improvements to the harbor. On the other hand, the progress had merchants and citizens worried about overpopulation, waterfront problems, and civil unrest. It did not help the matter that groups of hoodlums from Oakland and San Francisco would roam around and look for any chance to "help" start riots and disobedience. To keep the agitators at bay was the reason the Cavalry Company was formed. The men furnished their own horses, carried themselves as soldiers, and saved the county thousands of dollars in salaries to the active duty men employed to deal with the unrest. The Dietz Opera House (c. 1874–1911) was Oakland's very first theatre located on the northeast corner of Webster Street and 12th Street. The opera house was on the second floor while the first floor housed a saloon. It is known that at some point of the theater's history Jack London delivered a lecture on Socialism there and around 1911 the Socialist Party had its headquarters in the building around 1911 (Alfred Dietz had sold the theater in 1903). On May 1, 1911 the Dietz Opera House burned to the ground amidst speculations that the fire was deliberately set to "dislodge" the Socialists. Ill.: 0. 2.

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