Attention history lovers! The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley is 150 years old and is throwing itself a party.
The party won’t be centered around cake and candles (although there will be a reception on Friday night). Instead, it will feature scholarship, which is only fitting for one of the world’s most distinguished libraries.
Historians from around [...]
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Bancroft Library throws itself a 150th birthday party
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Magnes Museum to sell its Russell Street property
The Judah L. Magnes Museum will be putting its property at 2911 Russell Street on the market next month, in anticipation of moving to a new facility in downtown Berkeley in 2011. The 12,000 ft stately home, which is sited on a 25,000 sq ft lot, is expected to list for around $3 million.
The museum [...]
Remembering Berkeley’s vibrant Japanese-American community
In 1914, five Japanese-American families, the Fujiis, Kimbaras, Imamuras, Tsubamotos and Tokunagas, banded together to open the University Laundry. Located on the corner of Shattuck and Blake, the University Laundry was a partnership of five smaller laundries. The families lived upstairs and shared a kitchen, dining room and living room, and worked on the ground [...]
Berkeley and Indian independence
If you nose around the Internet for unexpected Berkeley connections, you can find extraordinary things.
The other day development economist Atanu Dey wrote a lengthy post on his blog tearing into the usually hagiographic portrayals of Mahatma Gandhi. It’s worth reading if you’re interested in Indian history. But I was more taken with the Berkeley connection [...]
Landmark north Berkeley property up for sale
Anyone wanting to get their hands on an architecturally distinctive property in Berkeley — and with $3,680,000 in their pockets — is in luck with the recent arrival on the market of this multi-unit complex on Codornices Road.
Designed by Henry Gutterson in 1924, the nine units are across the way from Bernard Maybeck’s Rose Walk. Four two-story [...]
Remembering August Vollmer, the Berkeley police chief who created modern policing
As Berkeley gets ready to swear in Michael K. Meehan on Thursday as the city’s new police chief, perhaps it is appropriate to take a look back at the city’s very first chief. After all, he is credited with modernizing American policing.
Not many people know about August Vollmer, but when he was alive he was [...]
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