Mark Bulwinkle is best known for his metal work, but he is also a prolific tile maker. Check out the restrooms in the Mad Monk Media Center for Anachronistic Media for a glimpse.
Tom Dalzell
Freelancer Tom Dalzell has lived in Berkeley since 1984. After working for Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers for 10 years as a legal worker and then lawyer, he went to work for another labor union in 1981 and has been there since, first as an attorney, and, since 2006, as its elected leader. In his free time he walks the streets of Berkeley, street by street and block by block, recording and photographing the quirky material culture that he finds. Dalzell, who is an expert on slang, writes the Quirky Berkeley blog and contributes to Berkeleyside about his finds, both in the present tense and with an occasional foray into Berkeley’s non-conformist past.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? Airplanes at Precision Peoples Car Repair
Ken Shapiro repairs cars but his true passion is flying model airplanes – some with a ten-foot wing span. Many of them hang from the ceiling of his San Pablo Avenue garage.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? Ron and Abbey’s muffler men
Over the years, Ron Hulse and those working in his automotive shop have built creative metal statues from discarded automobile mufflers.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? The murals of Cloyne Court
Thousands of students have lived in Cloyne Court, part of the University Students Cooperative Association, and have decorated the hallways with numerous colorful murals.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? Julia Vinograd’s visual creativity
Poet, bubble lady, creative: Julia Vinograd lives her life with Dylan’s “Desolation Row” as the soundtrack, Berkeley and Telegraph Avenue of the last 50 years swirling around her.
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Quirky Berkeley: Berkeley Revolution site offers insights into Third World Liberation Front
The demands of the Third World Liberation Front to create classes at Cal that incorporated the history of non-whites led to a ten-week strike and a strong police presence on campus
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How Quirky is Berkeley? Peace poles!
Today, we’re all about peace — and there’s little doubt that Berkeley has more peace signs per capita than any city in the United States.
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Vintage quilt collection of local collector Eli Leon for sale
The 500 quilts, part of the stunning collection of Reichian psychotherapist Eli Leon, date from the mid-19th century through the mid-20th century.
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7 years after Fito Celedón was killed, his fiancée still honors his memory
Amber Nelson has planted a garden, created a street mosaic, traveled throughout Brazil, married and had a child in the seven years since her fiancée was murdered in Berkeley.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? Tree houses
Tree houses, while invariably transient, are special, a good and safe place to be, shelter from the storm, autonomy from the adult world. Here are a selection in Berkeley.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? Wish Trees.
Berkeley has two full-fledged “wishing” trees, where people write notes about their dreams and hopes.
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How Quirky is Berkeley? Debbie Vinograd and the Magical Doors
Debbie Vinograd arrived in Berkeley in 1973 and has been painting its characters ever since.