Now we are on a trip to Berkeley in 1906. (My grandmother graduated from what was then the University of California in 1912.) “The camera looks north near Berkeley Way along Oxford … the streetcar can turn right up Hearst Avenue. Note the small orchard seen as the streetcar turns into Euclid Avenue … the streetcar line ended four blocks north on Euclid at Hilgard Avenue.”
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Fabulous!
There’s a fabulous text by physicist Ludwig Boltzmann about his stay in Berkeley in 1905. You can read about it here: http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-05-21/article/32946?headline=East-Bay-Then-and-Now-A-Viennese-Epicure-in-the-Athens-of-the-West
That is absolutely marvelous! ! !
If you read German, Boltzmann’s text is available through archive.org (or I can send you a copy). I don’t think it has ever been translated.
Those are my hills. I cannot express the effect it has on me to see those shapes, so unchanging.
The house at the corner of Hearst and Le Conte Ave, ( 2300 Le Conte Ave, Berkeley CA ) Burnt down in 1923 fire, and was rebuilt:
http://berkeleyheritage.com/berkeley_landmarks/harris_house1.html
@DEH, ain’t it true! @I Cumming thank you! @Andrew, that is amazing. Thank you. I will look but would also love to receive … profacero@gmail.com.