Golden Gate Bridge with flowersBay EconRootsDIGITAL LOCAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · EST. 2025

Bay EconRoots

Bay EconRoots is a digital community archive created by students to document the stories of small businesses across the Bay Area.

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Bill’s Trading Post and Gem Gallery storefronts in Berkeley

Elmwood, Berkeley

Jewelry & Native American arts

Bill's Trading Post

Modern Cliff’s Variety storefront with its red awning on Castro Street

Castro, San Francisco

Variety & hardware store

Cliff's Variety

The Food Mill storefront on MacArthur Boulevard in Oakland, with its green awnings

Laurel, Oakland

Natural foods

The Food Mill

About the project

We are two high school students from Oakland . . .

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Document your own community

We put together the interviewing guide, sample questions, and outreach tips we use, in case other students want to start an archive where they live.

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