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	Phil's Blogservations Monday, October 29, 2001 Posted by philgomes 3:25 PM East Bay: "We Want Ours": As a lifelong East Bay resident and frequent attendee of EastBayTechNet events, last week's "BioScope" column by The SF Chronicle's Tom Abate (on Hayward's courting of biotech firms) very much struck a chord with me. I've long felt that the East Bay offered an amazing opportunity for tech firms to plant roots but, for some reason, the corridor between Oakland and Hayward has never been able to shake off the image of a bedroom community with a rough-and-tumble blue collar industrial base. I've heard (apocryphal?) tales of East Bay companies that have used Mailboxes, Etc. locations in Palo Alto or Menlo Park as mailstops in order to be able to give out a more conventionally prestigious address to customers and investors. Such companies reportedly dispatched an administrator across the Dumbarton Bridge to pick up the mail. Even during the tech boom, Oakland had a metro-area fiber optic loop around the city that was mostly dark. That's a huge amount of bandwidth that could be tapped for any number of rich media projects worth funding in these uncertain times. HOME | OBSESSIONS | FAQ | HEROES | CAREER | BLOG | CONTACT Note that the views expressed on this site do not necessarily reflect those of Phil's employer, its business partners, its clients, or anyone or anything that doesn't come from Phil.	ABOUT THIS BLOG This blog not only discusses PR and media matters, but Phil's everyday observations about a variety of topics. EMAIL phil[at] philgomes[[dot}]com SYNDICATE Feedburner ARCHIVE YAHOO! IM SKYPE WISH LIST PITCH POLICY MY PHOTOS www.flickr.com Photostream RSS Enter your Email Powered by FeedBlitz COMMENT AND TRACKBACK POLICY Comments and trackbacks are unmoderated, though I will delete the patently offensive ones. Any comments and trackbacks are the opinions of the individual writer of those comments and trackbacks, and not those of Phil Gomes, his employer, its clients, or its business partners. If you have a bone to pick, bug the people who wrote the comment or trackback.