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WBraun
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Jan 16, 2013 - 11:01pm PT
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When I got drafted out of Yosemite Valley in 1970 for the Vietnam War I got sent to Berzerkeley or was it Oakland induction center of all places ......
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 17, 2013 - 12:07am PT
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In '73, when Dolores and I lived with Randy Hamm and Gypsy, we rented directly across from Herrick hospital on Dwight, just below Shattuck. Then we moved to Telegraph when they left for Europe because, apparently by this time Randy and Gypsy were in danger of becoming tooo Berkeley, so they decided to travel and roughen up the edges.
Our apartment on Telegraph was three floors up, above Casa de Eva (overrated) & faced the Berkeley Hills with a wide vista. The time it snowed down to our level, that was a special treat.
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Ed Hartouni
Trad climber
Livermore, CA
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Jan 17, 2013 - 11:48am PT
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thanks to zBrown for the picture of the building... our appt. was on that row of windows, a floor up from the street, on the Haste St. side, the one at the end of the building away from Mario's.
Mario's was an economic solution to the problem of eating out... though we always looked to see who got an actual piece of chicken in the soup course!
It was a rough corner with a lot of street life intervening, often for the worse, into that building. But it was Berkeley.
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scuffy b
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heading slowly NNW
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Jan 17, 2013 - 11:53am PT
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That's where my friend Susie lived in 1968, Ed.
Jan, REI didn't come to Berkeley until 1975.
I think you are recalling the Co-op Wilderness Supply, at Cedar and
Shattuck, across the streets from the Co-op grocery store.
They also had a branch down near Ski Hut, I think, perhaps right across
University from their other grocery store.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Jan 17, 2013 - 11:56am PT
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Ha, Scuff, I was gonna point that out, too. In fact, Big Jim asked me to
go help open that store and I said, "What, leave Seattle to go live with a
bunch of crazy hippies? Besides, it's like 3 hours to the mountains, none
of which has a real glacier." That dude was deluded.
"I swear, I never inhaled!"
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Jan 17, 2013 - 01:18pm PT
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Herr Braun ... that would have been Oakland, be thankful they didn't send you to L.A. The inductors actually wanted me to spend the night so they could do some further tests one me. I declined.
Anyway, as long as we're doing pictures
Here'e one place I lived. The student co-op on Ridge Road, a converted, historic hotel
Cloyne Court Hotel (John Galen Howard, 1904) shortly after completion, looking northeast from Le Roy Avenue. Also visible are Allenoke Manor (left), Beta Theta Pi chapter house (right), and a cluster of five steep-roofed Maybeck houses on Ridge Rd. and Highland Place, including Charles Keeler’s house & studio just above the eastern Cloyne wing. (photo: Louis L. Stein Jr. collection)
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 17, 2013 - 01:37pm PT
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This is a good one for two reasons. If there's ever a 1960's Berkeley youtube vid it's gotta have dogs, lots of dogs and soap in the fountain.
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m.
Trad climber
UT
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Jan 17, 2013 - 01:51pm PT
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Berkeley rules. Fiat Lux!
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Social climber
SLO, Ca
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Jan 17, 2013 - 02:25pm PT
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The east bay sucks. Berkeley is a suburb. SF or nothing!
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Jan 17, 2013 - 02:54pm PT
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This is a good one for two reasons. If there's ever a 1960's Berkeley youtube vid it's gotta have dogs, lots of dogs and soap in the fountain.
Right, and besides, what other university has a fountain named for a dog?
John
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Melissa
Gym climber
berkeley, ca
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Jan 17, 2013 - 02:58pm PT
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U really coming to Berkeley, Dingus? Hit me up for a coffee or tea!
I love the Portlandia song. Esp. the bit about SF at the end.
Berkeley isn't nearly as Berkeley as I would have guessed before moving here. My neighborhood is almost (not quite) as ghetto as where I lived in West Oakland, although the house across the street is covered in murals and has flowers planted in brass beds in the front yard.
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Jan 17, 2013 - 03:38pm PT
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It usually comes as a surprise to many to find that Berkeley was a right wing retirement community prior to the early sixties. It had been turning school bond issues for years for example until that famous sea change fifty years ago.
And the town was starkly segregated even though blacks were 36% of the population. Obviously the schools had a problem and the city was the first to start busing kids to try to solve de facto segregation. Bussing was a crisis for many of the pseudo liberals and there was kind of a white flight amongst even these families or at least their kids who suddey were schooling privately. My sister's kid was even one of them; he was suddenly in Athenian School in Walnut Creek!
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 17, 2013 - 03:50pm PT
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@3:44 Not Sgt. Pepper:
[Click to View YouTube Video]
At the time, funds were lacking to buy the land, and the plan was shelved until June 1967, when the university acquired $1.3 million to take the land through the process of eminent domain (compulsory purchase). After taking control of the land, neighborhood residents were evicted and demolition of homes began
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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mouse from merced
Trad climber
The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.
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Jan 17, 2013 - 04:12pm PT
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zBrown, that's sooooo Berkeley.
Ain't got enough farms in Berkeley, I guess.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 17, 2013 - 06:11pm PT
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Not a good choice of colors I'd say, since the map appears to show that the richest folks live on Tilden Golf Course. :)
Another point, since you can reverse text, as we have all seen on another thread, why can't you rotate it 90 degrees and get an upright smiley? Next thing you know they'll be colorzing everything. In the immortal words of Barbarella, "Damn that Turner".
Go Cal pyscho-delic Bears
Berkeley, circa 1967
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Jan 17, 2013 - 11:40pm PT
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Raised in So Cal, I didn't make it to Bezerkeley until 2011. The moment I hit the place it was love at first sight. When I walked thru Peoples Park it was a fantastic, glorious experience. I kept pointing at all the wonderment and my friend kept yelling at me to quit pointing.
Spring in the B. Place is also Fantastic. The Gardens are Glorious!!!
Best Ever is Walking the Claremont Trail and at the top viewing All of the Bridges....Wow and Yow!!! L.
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 17, 2013 - 11:45pm PT
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Don't miss the sunsets up at the rad lab.
Did anyone offer you some of the people's stew, cooked up in metal trash cans? Can you spare some change?
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zBrown
Ice climber
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Jan 18, 2013 - 12:10am PT
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OK - What's Freds
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