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Oakland Greek Festival – Our 50th Year! From the Oakland Auditorium in 1972 to the hills of Oakland in 2022, the Greek community celebrates its treasured local history
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Greek Week festivities kick off in downtown Oakland. AHS Photo: May 1972.
hile there had been “food festivals” in Ascension’s early history, there had never been anything that compared to the scale of “Greek Week” in May 1972. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the Ascension church, scores of parishioners volunteered and came together to put on a month-long series of events leading up to the culminating weekend of our first official Greek festival. At the time it was called “an ethnic celebration that made a resounding impact on the East Bay”. It was the first of its kind and was a citywide historic event. For one week, the Continued on page 8 city of Oakland embraced the Greeks
Community is something Gus “Costa” Triggas learned early on since his days attending Sunday School … and, all of the Oakland Greek festivals since day one! Congratulations Ascension! Celebrating our 50th year! 1972 to 2022
Gus Triggas
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