Berkeley Troll House, where the ‘psychedelic elite’ partied, has sold for $1.4 million
Owsley Stanley, famed Grateful Dead soundman and the first person to privately manufacture LSD, lived in the Poet’s Corner cottage during the Summer of Love.
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Why hasn’t UC Berkeley built more student housing?
For much of Cal’s history, providing housing for students was not a priority. Troubled finances in the last few decades have hobbled Cal’s efforts to catch up.
Find out where your grandparents lived in Berkeley with new 1950 census records
Details from 72 years ago are available for the first time and paint a clearer picture of life in Alameda County and beyond.
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Betty Reid Soskin: The extraordinary life of the nation’s oldest park ranger
In this 2018 interview with Soskin who retired Thursday at the age of 100, the nation’s oldest park ranger said she considers herself “an absolutely ordinary extraordinary person.”
A Berkeley architect is obsessively tracking the East Bay’s backyard water towers
Aaron Goldstein has been peering over fences to admire the area’s remaining windmill-topped water towers, vestiges of an era before municipal water. Now he’s writing a book.
Black Berkeley town father invented the lawnmower grass-catching pan in 1889
Henry Peterson arrived in Berkeley in its earliest days and co-founded the city’s first church.
How the war in Ukraine is being taught in Berkeley schools
History teachers have been fielding questions about Russia’s nuclear capabilities, Putin’s motivations and whether the draft would return if the U.S. joins the war.
Bancroft Library exhibit marks 80th anniversary of Japanese American internment
Uprooted: The Incarceration of Japanese Americans chronicles the life and stories of thousands who were imprisoned during World II.
When Playboy sparked a national protest at Bette’s Oceanview Diner
A 1991 dispute over a Playboy reader at the iconic Berkeley diner turned into a showdown between free speech advocates and feminists.
Podcast: The history of Berkeley as told by East Bay Yesterday
Host and producer Liam O’Donoghue interviews historian Charles Wollenberg about the first 100 years of Berkeley.
Gene Ransom, basketball star killed in freeway shooting, was shaped by youth in Berkeley
Ransom, who was shot and killed on I-880 on Friday, was guided by Berkeley mentors and the city’s multicultural spirit.
She tore up burning roof shingles bare-handed to douse 1905 Berkeley fire
Mary Shaplin, who was recovering from an illness, jumped into action when the roof of her neighbor’s adjoining house in downtown Berkeley caught fire more than a century ago.
