Tom Hanks is back in Oakland and his tweet of the Bay Bridge proves it

Posted Feb 01 2018 12:17PM PST

Updated Feb 02 2018 05:29AM PST

OAKLAND - Tom Hanks is back in the Bay Area and already people are inviting him over to dinner.

The 61-year-old actor, who most recently starred in The Post and is about to appear in the upcoming Mr. Rogers biopic "You Are My Friend," announced Thursday that he's home in Oakland, tweeting a fuzzy picture of the Interstate Highway 80 Bay Bridge sign as evidence.

Can I cook you dinner?
— Greg Miller (@GameOverGreggy) January 31, 2018

As of about noon, he'd gotten about 1,500 retweets, 17,000 likes and 500 replies, many of them asking him to visit.

Let’s go home! Hanx! pic.twitter.com/hLzaPoDyja
— Tom Hanks (@tomhanks) January 31, 2018

His return to the Bay Area also prompted Kathe Hamilton to wax nostalgic about Hanks and share some class photos when she went to school with him. "Remember Mrs. Castle's class?" she tweeted to the actor, displaying their third- and fourth-grade class pictures of them in the now-closed Woodstock Elementary in Alameda, Calif. (Hanks is in the third row, the fourth from the left.) "He was kind, smart and brilliant," Hamilton told KTVU. "Just like the character he played on Big." Of course, she admitted, she also had a crush on him as a child.

Hanks was born in Concord, Calif. and attended the now-closed John Swett Elementary School, Bret Harte Junior High and Skyline High School, all in Oakland. He also attended Chabot College in Hayward before transferring to California State University in Sacramento and then moving to New York City.

Remember Mrs Castles class. I was Kathe Knight ..last one last row on 3rd grade pic. 1st one 2nd row on 4th grade. Time flies. pic.twitter.com/l7a5qxgTR0
— Kathe Hamilton (@Kathe_Hamilton) January 31, 2018

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