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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 11:49am PT
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Yo, keepin' it real at Telegraph and Haste!
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bixquite
Social climber
humboldt nation
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Jan 16, 2013 - 11:51am PT
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king jr. high baby, '88, and the french hotel coffee dude, soo clasic
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 12:00pm PT
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hey, I lived at the corner of Haste and Telegraph, above "Mario's Mexican Restaurant," which burned down in the last year or so...
was the 1971* academic year... my senior year at Cal...
...and I don't worry about being "Berkeley enough"
[edit]* they say if you can remember those times you weren't really there... Gary emailed me that I couldn't have been a senior at Cal in 1971, and he's right, it was 1975, but if I had been smart enough, maybe I could have been a senior then after one year... the reality: it took me four and one summer class, to complete.
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 01:20pm PT
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I spent four of my happiest climbing years at Berkeley; freshman year (1969-70) in Smythe Hall at the top of Dwight, next two in "The Zoo" (still standing on Piedmont, just north of Dwight), and last across from Live Oak Park on Shattuck within easy walking distance of Indian Rock. Thanks for posting this. It's a classic.
John
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WBraun
climber
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Jan 16, 2013 - 01:21pm PT
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University of California, Berkeley
Where lab coats are born .....
:-)
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 01:29pm PT
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University of California, Berkeley
Where lab coats are born .....
That's hitting a little too close to the mark, Werner. In 1969, Dave Altman and I were in Chem 4A together. In the lab, we were given a glass cleaner with instructions that said, essentially, "Only let this touch your clothing where you want a hole to appear." I suspect Dave took the hint and kept his clothing intact. I, on the other hand, got holes in my sweater and vest. I should have had a lab coat!
John
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 01:36pm PT
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University of California, Berkeley; where strange things grow...
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Fletcher
Trad climber
The great state of advaita
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Jan 16, 2013 - 02:07pm PT
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MADE.... MY.... DAY!!!!
TPFU!
Eric
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Inner City
Trad climber
East Bay
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Jan 16, 2013 - 02:21pm PT
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Living in B town now. It is hard to be Berkeley 'enough'...been living here all my life and anywhere else I go, it seems a little weird.
This rapper also does that more well known "Whole Foods Parking Lot" rap..very funny..."these dudes with clip boards lookin' at me like they know me.."
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FredC
Boulder climber
Santa Cruz, CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 03:42pm PT
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La Fiesta!
We were totally fueled by that place. The dinners were huge, about right after a long day at Indian Rock when we were young. Dave A. and I went there many times in the 70s.
As part of the Berkeley Rock scene I felt I needed to ride my bike to the Valley in a day. The fuel for that ride came from Mario's. (I also carried a plastic bag full of cooked potatoes, my super secret formula for success!)
I bumped into Dave at the Berkeley gym last week and he mentioned you John. Some climb you guys did way back in the dawn of time.
Fred
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 05:37pm PT
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Fred,
Everything we did was at the dawn of time ;>). When we were freshmen, I had already been climbing for a few years, and Dave hadn't started yet, but he kept asking questions that showed his interest. Around 1973 he got serious about climbing, and I had to get serious about the working world, so he passed me up in climbing and, if I remember rightly, you passed me up in bouldering about the same time.
John
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jbaker
Trad climber
Redwood City, CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 05:49pm PT
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Here's a video Sam Dorman did with DJ Dave - also shot in Berkeley - Daddy Skills
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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climbski2
Mountain climber
Anchorage AK, Reno NV
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Jan 16, 2013 - 05:52pm PT
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Hmm I don't get it.
Stopped by Berkley a few time.. no Hippies that I could see.. ugly place.. with car lots.
Wanting to be Berkley Enough sounds like a stupid idea to me.
A place that history tells me was cool once but ain't no more
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Jan 16, 2013 - 06:03pm PT
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The answer is in Portland my homies!
Where my flannel shirt still looks fly!
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Jan
Mountain climber
Okinawa, Japan
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Jan 16, 2013 - 08:37pm PT
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I lived in Berkeley from October 1965 until January 1970.
I got there a few months after Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement captured the scene and was there for the war protests including guard shacks blown up on campus from time to time. Once while doing laundry at a laundromat on Telegraph, students built a bonfire in the middle of the street and I had to lug loads of clean laundry to the car under the gaze of rooftop police.
I was unsuccessfully evangelized by Hubert the street preacher, and converted to radical politics by Noam Chomsky and others. No Oakland draft riots but marched in San Francisco. Saw Bobby Kennedy speak a couple of months before he was assassinated. Lived in fear of Oakland race riots which miraculously never materialized and rejoiced that none of our friends were drafted. Some climbers managed to get disqualified for mental reasons and some went to Canada.
I had to breathe second hand ganja through every movie I ever attended, shopped at the Berkeley Co-op and REI when they still rad (two girls were busted for trying to decompact their dope in the coffee grinder), went to slide shows and parties with Harding, Sacherer, Morton, Erb, Dozier, Thompson and Beck, among others.
Concerts, lectures, and wonderful intellecutal conversations with strangers. That was the Berkeley I remembered. Climbing in the Valley by that time was just a slde show.
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DJDave
Social climber
Berkeley
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Jan 16, 2013 - 09:19pm PT
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@climbski2, it's really okay. No hard feelings whatsoever. You're just not Berkeley enough.
-DJDave
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jan 16, 2013 - 09:39pm PT
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The Berkeley Barb had a columnist named Alice Kahn originally from Chicago. This is the sixties-seventies. Knowing her big city origins, none of us here should be surprised that Alice had access to irony and even could do sardonics. Many loved her stuff; I sure did. She coined a number of memorable phrases regarding Berkeley. She eventually also wrote for the SF Chronicle as well. I think she might have been syndicated by that point. Anyway, one quote was, "more Berkeleyer than thou". Another was how "the City Council had made the streets safe for dog shit" when they passed some ordinance regarding curbing your pets---an ordinance that remained in effect far too long, apparently. And Alice is credited with coining, "Yuppie" and had two fictional yuppies as a starter kit, Dirk and
Bree.
PH (Berkeley 1951 to 1970) Berkeley Co-op number #3454
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