Latest Issues
Fall 2022: Volume 40, Number 4
- Eco-Berkeley
- Reminiscences of “Maybeck Country” (part 3)
- Treasured Videos of Jacomena Maybeck and Florence Jury
- Coming Soon: Updated History of the Berkeley Fire Department
- Florita Cook: Philip K. Dick’s First Editor
Summer 2022: Volume 40, Number 3
- African Americans in Berkeley
- Edythe Boone, Berkeley Artist & Activist
- The South Berkeley Mural
- New Videos of Berkeley’s Yiddish-Speaking Mameloshn Mamas
- Second Printing of Ying Lee’s Oral History Available
- Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography book review
- Catherine Bauer: Public Housing Advocate, Co-founder and Associate Dean, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design
Spring 2022: Volume 40, Number 2
- African Americans in Berkeley: Art, Entertainment, Literature, Sports
- New Exhibit-Related Interviews Available
- Dr. Carol Aronovici: City Planning Educator and Affordable Housing Advocate
- Reminiscences of “Maybeck Country” (part 2)
- Taylor’s Leather Goods
Winter 2022: Volume 40, Number 1
- The Mundstock Collection
- The Berkeley Daily Gazette and Its Publishers and Carrier Boys
- New Historical Plaque at Becky Temko Tot Park
- J.F. Altermatt, Berkeley Builder, Part 2
Archives
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| 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 |
| 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 |
| 2001 | 2000 | 1999 | 1998 | 1978 |
Subject Index of Articles
| Topic | Article / Author | Issue |
| African Americans | Family Bonds, Determination and a Small Community Circle Paved the Way: Looking Back at the Griffin Family / Margot, Merryl, Danielle and Joseph Dashiell | Winter 2020 |
| African Americans in Berkeley’s History and Legacy / Stephanie Anne Johnson and Harvey Smith | Spring 2021 | |
| African Americans in Berkeley: Art, Entertainment, Literature, Sports / Harvey Smith and Tina Jones Williams | Spring 2022, Summer 2022 | |
| Architects | John Hudson Thomas and the Hume Cloister / Ken Cardwell | Winter 1999 |
| J.F. Altermatt / George Petty | Fall 2021, Winter 2022 | |
| Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography (book revew) / Lloyd Linford | Summer 2022 | |
| Catherine Bauer: Public Housing Advocate, Co-founder and Associate Dean, UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design / Fred Etzel | Summer 2022 | |
| Artists | Jane FitzGibbon Recalls Berkeley’s Bay Area Figurative Painters / Burl Willes | Fall 2018 |
| John Bernhardt, Berkeley “Window Trimmer” / Bill Roberts | Fall 2019 | |
| Sculptor Douglas Tilden was California’s Finest / Ken Stein | Winter 1998 | |
| Edythe Boone, Berkeley Artist & Activist / Tina Jones Williams | Summer 2022 | |
| Authors | Local Boy’s Work Returns to Berkeley, “Our Town” Benefit at Berkeley Rep | Fall 2005 |
| Do Androids Dream in Berkeley? Philip K. Dick’s Life in Our City / Maureen Foster | Summer/Fall 2008, Winter 2009 | |
| Literary Lights of the Berkeley Hills / Aleta George | Spring 2016 | |
| Baldy of Nome and Berkeley / Leonard Schwab | Summer 2019 | |
| Florita Cook: Philip K. Dick’s First Editor / Fred Etzel | Fall 2022 | |
| Aviation | The Hall-Scott Car Company, When Berkeley Built Aviation Engines / Ric Dias and Francis Bradford | Spring 2006 |
| When Berkeley Takes Off! Little-Known Aviation History, Part One / Linda Rosen | Spring 2006, Summer 2006 | |
| B | ||
| BART | Undergrounding BART / Steven Finacom | Fall 1999 |
| Berkeley Historical Society | Berkeley Historical Society – 20 years / Gloria Cooper | Fall 1998 |
| Forty Years of Collecting Berkeley History / Bill Roberts | Winter 2018 | |
| The Beginnings of the Berkeley Historical Society in 1978 / Stephanie Manning and Ken Stein | Winter 2021 | |
| Creation of the Berkeley History Center with a Museum, Archive, and Library / Linda Rosen with Burl Willes and Brenda Luckin | Winter 2021 | |
| Buildings | The Berkeley Library: The Beginnings of a Literary Place / James Cara and Ken Cardwell | Fall 1998 |
| Remembering the Original Thousand Oaks School / Evelyn Whitehead McCool | Fall 2001 | |
| Before the Claremont Hotel, There Was the Palache Family / Judith Markel | Summer 2002 | |
| Mansions on Marin / Baird Whaley | Winter 2003 | |
| Tuohy’s Second Addition / Nicholas Rosenlicht | Spring 2004 | |
| Remembrance of a Life at the United Artists Theater / Suzie Workman | Summer 2013 | |
| Topping out of the Sather Campanile / Steven Finacom | Winter 2014 | |
| Happy 100th Birthday to Our Campanile / John Aronovici | Spring 2015 | |
| A Startling Fact about Julia Morgan’s Berkeley City Club / Dr. Sarah Gill | Fall 2015 | |
| Berkeley’s First State Institution Came Here 151 Years Ago, Before the University / Steven Finacom | Fall 2018 | |
| Veterans Memorial Building: Plaques, Monuments, and Displays / Fred Etzel | Spring 2020 | |
| Businesses | Historic Spenger’s will reopen in late summer as Spenger’s Fresh Fish Grotto / Lee Houskeeper | Summer 1999 |
| Some Fascinating Fish Tales From Paul Spenger / Paul Spenger | Summer 2002 | |
| Recollections of Paul Spenger, Part II | Fall 2002 | |
| Fermenting Berkeley / Daphne Tooke and Susan Austin | Winter 2005 | |
| Cutter Laboratories / Jack Cutter | Winter 2005 | |
| The Old Order Passes: The Last Days at Spenger’s / Paul Soltow, Jr. | Winter 2011 | |
| The Giant Powder Company / Philip L. Gale | Winter 2012 | |
| The Layout of Berkeley / Larry Layne | Winter 2016 | |
| Singing and Dancing and Beer – “Oh My!” The Battle Against Berkeley’s Anti-Cabaret Ordinance / Shelley Rideout | Fall 2017 | |
| Where the Action Was: Berkeley’s Music City Records / Alec Palao | Fall 2017 | |
| The Rise and Fall of the Co-op (book review) / Charles Wollenberg | Fall 2020 | |
| Taylor’s Leather Goods / Ann Harlow | Spring 2022 | |
| C | ||
| Churches | Northbrae Community Church Celebrates Centennial / Barbara Hill | Winter 2014 |
| Civil War | Berkeley’s Civil War Legacy / Fred Etzel | Spring 2021 |
| D | ||
| Dance | Early Days of Dance in the East Bay- Part I: The Partheneia / Tonya Staros & Jeanine Castello-Lin | Spring 2012, Summer 2012 |
| Disasters | History Repeats Itself / V. S. Aronovici | Winter 1998 |
| Who Was Seneca Gale? (post-1906 earthquake account) / Phil Gale | Winter 1999 | |
| Berkeley’s Old Fashioned Earthquake / Ken Pettit | Summer 2000 | |
| Paul Spenger Recalls the Earthquake of 1906 | Spring 2003 | |
| One Family’s Experience in the 1923 Fire / Phil Gale | Fall 2003 | |
| Flooding in Berkeley at Hearst and Euclid / Janet Reid Sherwin | Spring 2004 | |
| Berkeley Fire of 1923, September 21, 1923 letter by Clara Setchell | Fall 2004 | |
| E | ||
| Events | First European Tourists Take Bay Cruise / Carl Wilson | Fall 1998 |
| Football Days at Cal, 1938: Arriving by Ferry, Steam Train, Street Car and/or Bus | Spring 2013 | |
| Celebrating the Opening of the East Bay Bridge, 1936 / Steve Finacom | Fall 2013 | |
| The McGee-Spaulding District Goes Radical / Hal Reynolds | Fall 2013 | |
| Looking Back: The Free Speech Movement at Fifty | Fall 2014 | |
| Berkeley Goes to the Fair / Steven Finacom | Spring 2015 | |
| F | ||
| Fire Department | Histories and Historians of the Berkeley Fire Department / Fred Etzel | Winter 2021 |
| Berkeley Fire Department Adopts New Logo | Summer 2021 | |
| Food | Berkeley’s Fascination with Food / Ann Harlow | Spring 2020 |
| Counterculture and Food in Berkeley / Ann Harlow | Summer 2020 | |
| G | ||
| Garbage—see Solid Waste | ||
| Gardens | Over 100 Years of Community Gardening in Berkeley “A Garden for Every Child. Every Child a Garden” | Summer 2013 |
| Berkeley’s Columbus School Garden 1920-1930+ / Phyllis M. Housel Gale | Summer 2013 | |
| Edible City: Grow the Revolution, Sustainable Agriculture in the Bay Area, Film and Panel, September 22 / Jeanine Castello-Lin | Fall 2013 | |
| H | ||
| Histories of Berkeley | Historians and Histories of Berkeley / Fred Etzel | Fall 2019 |
| Discovering the Swingle Collection of Berkeley History / Fred Etzel | Summer 2019 | |
| A Brief Survey of Histories and Historians of the Berkeley Public Library / Fred Etzel | Summer 2020 | |
| Histories and Historians of the Berkeley Fire Department / Fred Etzel | Winter 2021 | |
| Houses | Researching Berkeley Houses: Part 1 / Fred Etzel | Fall 2018, Winter 2019 |
| Researching Berkeley Houses: Alameda County Records / George O. Petty | Winter 2020 | |
| J.F. Altermatt, Berkeley Builder / George O. Petty | Fall 2021 | |
| L | ||
| Laws | Early Laws impacting Local Life in Berkeley / Rajeev Sachdev | Winter 2013 |
| M | ||
| Milk | The Days of Home Milk Delivery / Gary Sabatte | Winter 2001 |
| Museums | The Evolution of Berkeley’s University Art Museum / Ann Harlow | Fall 2015 |
| The Downtown Berkeley Art Museum of the 1920s / Ann Harlow | Winter 2016 | |
| A Visual Postscript to the Art Museum Exhibit / Steve Finacom | Spring 2016 | |
| Fifty Years of Berkeley’s “The Magnes” / Burl Willes | Summer 2016 | |
| N | ||
| Neighborhoods | Childhood Memories of Nut Hill / Deborah Whitney | Summer 1999 |
| Berkeley’s Finnish Community / Margot Lind, Harri Siitonen, Auni Hendrickson, Helen Harlow and Linda Rosen | Fall 2000 | |
| Swedish Life in Lorin, 1905-1925 / Merle Dean | Summer 2005, Fall 2005 | |
| Businesses in Lorin in 1925 | Summer 2005, Fall 2005 | |
| Why is it Called Lorin? / John Ginno Aronovici | Winter 2009 | |
| The Heart of Berkeley: The Historic McGee-Spaulding District | Summer 2013 | |
| The Fountain and Walk of Northbrae: The Challenge of Maintaining a Berkeley Treasure / Michael Gray | Summer 2013 | |
| The Heart of Berkeley: The Historic McGee-Spaulding District | Fall 2013 | |
| Reminiscences of “Maybeck Country” / Lloyd Linford | Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022 | |
| The South Berkeley Mural | Summer 2022 | |
| New Deal | Traces of the New Deal In Berkeley, 1933-42 / Tanya March | Summer 2001, Fall 2001 |
| P | ||
| Parks and Pathways | Taking a Walk Through History of City’s Pathways / Paul Grunland | Spring 2001 |
| The Rose Walk Story Step by Step / John Underhill | Fall 2003 | |
| The Evolution of Berkeley’s Downtown Park: Washington Square-Constitution Park-Provo Park-Civic Center Park-Martin Luther King Junior Park / John G. Aronovici | Spring 2012 | |
| The True Story of the Rose Walk: Step by Step Rose Walk Centennial: 1913-2013 / John R. Underhill | Spring 2013 | |
| How Barbara Luce-Richey Added a “Pocket Park” to John Spring’s Solano Avenue Terrace Tract / Fred Etzel | Summer 2017 | |
| Berkeley’s First “People’s Park”: The Becky Temko Tot Park / Hal Reynolds | Spring 2019 | |
| People—see Residents and Women (pioneering) | ||
| Plans | Berkeley’s First City Plan in 1915 / Steven Finacom | Summer 2015 |
| The Layout of Berkeley / Larry Layne | Winter 2016 | |
| Poets and Poems | Two Early Poems About Berkeley / Steven Finacom | Fall 2018 |
| And a Little More Poetry…” On Permanence” / Linda Rosen | Fall 2018 | |
| Police/Public Safety | Captain Vollmer’s New Patrol Program: 25 Bicycles Sold to Berkeley Police Department | Summer/Fall 2008 |
| Uncle Gus (Chief Vollmer) and Mrs. Miller / Steve Taylor | Fall 2009 | |
| Fingerprint Everyone in Berkeley? / John G. Aronovici | Winter 2011 | |
| August Vollmer: The Father of American Policing / Will Oliver | Fall 2016 | |
| Young Gus Vollmer, Berkeley Hero / Willard M. Oliver | Spring 2017 | |
| Was Berkeley Police Chief August Vollmer a Nazi Sympathizer? / Willard M. Oliver | Summer 2017 | |
| A Tale of Two Badges / Will Oliver | Fall 2017 | |
| A Short History of Vollmer’s Revolver / Will Oliver | Winter 2017 | |
| Captain Vollmer’s New Patrol Program: 25 Bicycles Sold to Berkeley Police Department | Summer/Fall 2018 | |
| August Vollmer and the Japanese Internment / Will Oliver | Winter 2018 | |
| Yes, Berkeley Once Had a Vigilante Riot: The Shocking Incident of Joshua Sykes in April 1918 / Steven Finacom | Spring 2018 | |
| Politics | Who Is Myrna? / Bill Roberts | Summer 2019 |
| She Is Yearning to Vote / Phyllis M. Housel Gale | Summer 2019 | |
| Presidents | Early US Presidents Visit Berkeley’s School Children | Winter 2007 |
| Protest | “Ready, Aim, Sing!” –Songs of Protest / Ed Herny | Winter 2018 |
| Recollections of the Free Speech Movement / Linda Rosen | Fall 2014 | |
| Recollections of the Free Speech Movement / Ed Herny | Fall 2014 | |
| R | ||
| Racism | Some Racist Traces From Berkeley’s Past / Ken Stein | Spring 2000, Summer 2000 |
| Radio | History of KRE: Berkeley’s Radio Station / John F. Schneider | Spring 2007, Summer 2007 |
| Residents (alphabetical order) | Dr. Carol Aronovici: City Planning Educator and Affordable Housing Advocate / Fred Etzel | Spring 2022 |
| I was a Depression Bride in Berkeley: Reminiscences of 1933-1934 / Eleanor Bliss | Summer 2004 | |
| A Paper Boy in Berkeley / Buzz Cardoza | Spring 2011 | |
| Mme. Chiang Kai-shek and Claremont Court / Burl Willes | Winter 2016 | |
| Berkeley As I Knew It In Early Days / Wilhelmine F. Bolsted Cianciarulo | Fall 2010 | |
| Do Androids Dream in Berkeley? Philip K. Dick’s Life in Our City / Maureen Foster | Summer/Fall 2008, Winter 2009 | |
| Marjory Farquhar, Peak Woman / Burl Willes | Spring 2020 | |
| Who Was Seneca Gale? / Phil Gale | Winter 1999 | |
| Leonore Hermann Ginno, DDS, Berkeley’s First Woman Dentist / John Ginno Aronovici | Summer 1999 | |
| “Living Link” Weston Havens / Burl Willes | Winter 2001 | |
| Mable Howard and BART / Mildred Howard and Stephanie Anne Johnson | Spring 2020 | |
| Serendipity: Used Book on Berkeley History Was Once Owned by City’s First Woman Mayor (Carrie L. Hoyt) / Fred Etzel | Spring 2017 | |
| Samuel James Hume and Portia Bell Hume / Ken Cardwell | Winter 1999 | |
| Coming to Berkeley by Florence Jury and Jacomena Maybeck | Spring 2010 | |
| Treasured Videos of Jacomena Maybeck and Florence Jury / Pam Valois | Fall 2022 | |
| Transformation on Spaulding Avenue: The Story of Jack LaLanne in Berkeley / Hal Reynolds | Winter 2009 | |
| How Barbara Luce-Richey Added a “Pocket Park” to John Spring’s Solano Avenue Terrace Tract / Fred Etzel | Summer 2017 | |
| The Marstons in Berkeley: The Captain and His Wife, Part 1 / Phil Gale | Winter 2005 | |
| The Marstons in Berkeley, The Children, Part 2 / Phil Gale | Spring 2011 | |
| Coming to Berkeley by Florence Jury and Jacomena Maybeck | Spring 2010 | |
| Treasured Videos of Jacomena Maybeck and Florence Jury / Pam Valois | Fall 2022 | |
| Joseph H. McCourt and Bruno L. Putzker: Berkeleyans Who Fought in the Philippine Insurrection of 1899-1902 / Fred Etzel | Fall 2020 | |
| Pioneer Farmer and Benefactor: James McGee / Members of the McGee-Spalding-Hardy Historic Interest Group | Winter 2007 | |
| Memories of David Park / Burl Willes | Summer 2011 | |
| New Monument to a Berkeley Resident (William Byron Rumford) / Ann Harlow | Summer 2016 | |
| Paul Salz: Kindertransport Refugee and Scientist at Lawrence Berkeley Lab / Tonya Staros | Summer 2017 | |
| Lydia Sturtevant: Berkeley’s Opera Singer / Willard M. Oliver | Winter 2019 | |
| Captain Richard Park Thomas, Nut Hill Pioneer / Carl Wilson | Spring 2000, Summer 2000 | |
| James Tippett’s Memories | Summer 2006 | |
| Uncle Gus (Chief Vollmer) and Mrs. Miller / Steve Taylor | Fall 2009 | |
| Samuel Hopkins Willey, Pioneer Berkeley Resident / Fred Etzel | Fall 2021 | |
| J. Stitt Wilson, Berkeley’s Socialist Mayor / Stephen Barton | Summer 2011 | |
| Berkeley Mayor J. Stitt Wilson and the 1911 Women’s Suffrage Campaign / Stephen Barton | Fall 2020 | |
| Leon Wofsy, 1921-2019: Pioneering Immunologist, Lifelong Champion of Social Justice / Jeanine Castello-Lin and Tonya Staros | Winter 2020 | |
| Bertha Wright and Mabel Weed: Berkeley’s Early Nurse and Social Worker / John Ginno Aronovici | Fall 2007 | |
| S | ||
| Schools | Remembering the Original Thousand Oaks School / Evelyn Whitehead McCool | Fall 2001 |
| Berkeley’s Columbus School Garden 1920-1930+ / Phyllis M. Housel Gale | Summer 2013 | |
| Was Willard the First Junior High? / Phyllis Gale and Jennifer Dix | Summer 2016 | |
| Berkeley’s First State Institution Came Here 151 Years Ago, Before the University / Steven Finacom | Fall 2018 | |
| Shellmound | The West Berkeley Shellmound in 1907 / Chris Walker | Summer 2018 |
| Ships | Down to the Seas in Berkeley’s Ships, Margot Lind / John Aronovici and Phil Gale. | Spring 2009 |
| The Great White Fleet’s Visit to Berkeley in 1908 / Steven Finacom | Fall 2009 | |
| Social Worker | Bertha Wright and Mabel Weed: Berkeley’s Early Nurse and Social Worker / John Ginno Aronovici | Fall 2007 |
| Solid Waste (garbage) | Garbage In… Not Always Garbage Out / Susan Schwartz | Spring 1999 |
| Streets | Telegraph Avenue, Revisited | Dec. 2006 |
| Life on Edwards Street, Judy Kennedy Interview | Spring 2008 | |
| The Marquis of Russell Street / Burl Willes | Summer 2012 | |
| Wild Streetcars on Spruce Street | Winter 2013 | |
| New Light on 101 Oxford Street / Susan Austin, Ph.D | Summer 2015 | |
| A Brief History of the 500 Block of Neilson Street / Fred Etzel | Winter 2017 | |
| T | ||
| Transportation | Getting on Track During World War II / Philip Gale | Spring 1999 |
| Ferries from Berkeley to SF: 1874-1937 / Phil Gale | Winter 2000 | |
| Hall-Scott’s Railcars / Phil Gale | Dec. 2006 | |
| The Pullman Sleeping Car Berkeley / Phil Gale | Spring 2009 | |
| Wild Streetcars on Spruce Street | Winter 2013 | |
| Trees | Under the Shade of the Araucaria / Oscar N. Abeliuk, MD | Spring 2009 |
| U | ||
| University | Student Housing Berkeley Style / Ken Cardwell | Fall 1999 |
| University Students’ Cooperative, Association Origins / Madeline Loh | Summer 2012 | |
| Mystery Solved: What Happened to the Class of 1881 / Inga Vanek | Summer 2013 | |
| Edward Chace Tolman: The Cognitive Map and the Loyalty Oath / Fred Etzel | Winter 2018 | |
| V | ||
| Veterans | Commemorating War Veterans on the Home Front / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2017 |
| W | ||
| Weather | The Biggest Snowstorm in Berkeley’s History, Snow? In Berkeley? / John Aronovici | Fall 2005 |
| Ski Berkeley! / Mark McLaughlin | Fall 2005 | |
| Berkeley Snow Scorecard | Fall 2005 | |
| Women (pioneering) | Minnie Russell Churchill / Martha E. Simmons | Spring 1999 |
| Early Berkeley Women 1878-1953 / Phyllis Gale | Spring 2003 | |
| Millicent W. Shinn (1858-1940) / Phyllis Gale | Fall 2003 | |
| Bertha Wright and Mabel Weed: Berkeley’s Early Nurse and Social Worker / John Ginno Aronovici | Fall 2007 | |
| 90th Anniversary of America’s First Woman Law Professor: Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong / Zita Ballinger Fletcher | Spring 2018 | |
| Carrie F. Young: Temperance Advocate, Suffragist and Physician / Fred Etzel | Summer 2018 | |
| First Woman Elected to the California State Legislature 100 Years Ago / Phyllis Gale | Fall 2018 | |
| Myra Simmons, Black Suffragist 1881–1965 / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2019 | |
| Marion Johnson and Leela Craig Create Chaparral House on Strawberry Creek / Fred Etzel | Spring 2019 | |
| 1914 – Berkeley Women Prepare for a School Bond Vote / Phyllis Gale | Spring 2019 | |
| Black Women’s Sororities at UC Berkeley and Their Distinguished Leaders / Linda P. Rosen | Fall 2019 | |
| Suffragist Margaret Angela Haley, November 15, 1861 – January 5, 1939 / Phyllis Gale | Fall 2019 | |
| Carrie Hendrickson Gibbs: Suffragist, School Board Member, President of the Berkeley Federation of Mothers’ Clubs / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2020 | |
| Berkeley Suffragists March Down Broadway, 1908 / Phyllis Gale | Spring 2020 | |
| Dr. Mary Coolidge: Suffragist, President of Both Berkeley and California Civic Leagues / Phyllis Gale | Summer 2020 | |
| Soroptimist International Leader Violet Richardson Ward, Early Proponent of Physical Fitness / Carol Dippel | Summer 2021 | |
| World War II | Getting on Track During World War II / Philip Gale | Spring 1999 |
| Recollections of Berkeley in the ’30s and the Impact of World War II / George M. O’Connor | Winter 2002 | |
| Camp Ashby, Berkeley | Dec. 2006 | |
| On the Homefront in Tilden Park / Richard Lang | Winter 2017 | |
| Oral History: World War II and the Abraham Family / Frank Abraham | Winter 2017 | |
| Was Your Mother a Rosie the Riveter? / Phyllis Gale | Winter 2017 | |
| My Memories of the Home Front / John Ginno Aronovici | Winter 2017 |