Journal of Emeryville Historical Society: The Long, Strange Trip of North Oakland’s Club Triangle
Summer 2024
By Donald Hausler
Club Triangle, originally known as Landregan & White and later as The Triangle Café, was located on Adeline Street in North Oakland’s Santa Fe neighborhood that abuts the Berkeley border.
During its long, 60-year history, the business went through many owners and several transformations.
At one time or another, it functioned as a liquor store, a café, hiring agency, a factory, speakeasy, beer garden, cabaret, restaurant, bar, art studio and most recently as a community gathering space.
James A. Landregan
Born in 1865, James A. Landregan was the son of pioneering family, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Landregan.1
Originally from Boston, they arrived in the Bay Area in 1850 and settled in the East Bay. They bought a
large tract of land, known as the Landregan Tract, located west of San Pablo Avenue and south of Peabody Lane. They had three sons, James, Dennis, and Thomas.2
The younger James worked as a farmer in the early 1890s on a plot of land near Alcatraz and San Pablo Avenue in North Oakland.3 By 1900, middle brother Dennis had become the proprietor of the California Hotel, located at Shattuck and University in Berkeley. The third brother, Tom, was involved in Oakland politics and once ran for the office of Sheriff.4