When we last wrote about Doggie High, a diner on Milvia across the street from Berkeley High, it was to laud it for donating money to a Haiti relief fund. But that looks like the final act for the lunch place, which was also something of a BHS sports museum.

A high school student told me Doggie High closed “a couple of weeks ago”. The closure isn’t surprising. Owner Vincent Trahan told the Berkeley High Jacket in January that the diner was in danger of closing.

Lance Knobel (Berkeleyside co-founder) has been a journalist for nearly 40 years. Much of his career was in business journalism. He was editor-in-chief of both Management Today, the leading business magazine...