Fruitvale Follies: 6 Generations of Tinkering and Failed Experiments in Oakland
Channel: Nerd Nite East Bay
Date: 2014-05-12

Emma Bassein at Nerd Nite East Bay #2, The Stork Club, 27-Nov-2012

The anecdotal and biased story of technology in Oakland told through the first hand accounts of 6 generations of one family living in the east bay. From exploding radio vacuum tubes to shop fires, the dependents of the Cohen-Bray family have managed to injure themselves, but preserve their historic house in the Fruitvale neighborhood and are here to tell the tale.

Emma has absolutely no qualifications as a historian, except that her family has lived in the East Bay for 6 generations. As the child of two aged hippies, she spent her youth roaming the bay area protesting everything in existence, and then went off to MIT and Princeton to study Environmental Engineering. She now works as an engineer for an energy efficiency company in San Francisco.

Credits
Bosses: Rick Karnesky and Ian Davis
Video Editor: Rebecca Cohen
Videography: Amber Crabbe and Brian Patton
Audio Recording: Christian Lunch