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August 2, 2014 by tomdalzell

Cars and Trucks; Trains; Planes and Rockets

Cars from outside Berkeley can and do come to Berkeley, and Berkeley cars and trucks are sometimes not here – two challenges for a car/truck-based investigation of quirky Berkeley.  Knowing my limitations, here are the vehicular postings:

Quirky BerkeleyArt Cars

We didn’t invent the art car, but we have a bunch and they are great.  Pure quirk.  Step right up -the  quirky art cars of Berkeley.

"Quirky Berkeley "

Hippie Buses and Vans

Hippies buses came and hippie buses went, but in Berkeley some didn’t go.  See them here – the Feel the Love Bus, the Cool Bus, the Ecstatic Dance bus, etc.  Feel the love!

Derby

Cars that Neal Cassady Drove (or could have driven)

Kar Kulture is not big in Berkeley, but we have some beauties from the 1940s and 1950s.  And we have my lifelong fascination with Neal Cassady, which I blend into these collection of photos of Berkeley classic beauties.

Quirky BerkeleyCar Art

Same words as car art, but different order.   Here we have artistic depictions of cars as well as artistic use of cars and trucks as sculpture.  Very fun stuff.

Quirky Berkeley

Trains 

Model trains in store windows, train apparatus in yards, trains in Berkeley history, trains in Tilden, and a caboose in a back yard on 5th Street.

 

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Flight

Airplanes, rocket ships, and space ships as art.  Very quirky if not very many.  Enough.

 

Quirky Berkeley 09-14-2016

Ken Shapiro’s Airplane Joy

Take a peek inside Precision People’s Auto Repair on San Pablo at Camelia.   Suspended from the ceiling, and scattered throughout, dozens of large remote control airplanes.  Suspended and quirky do da max.

Quirky Berkeley in Berkeley, Calif. on March 22nd, 2019.

Tyler Hoare Update

A third post about Tyler Hoare, telling the story of  missing Snoopy submarine, a missing Red Baron triplane, and a missing UFO.

 

My friend took a look at this table of contents page. He liked it, but was disappointed that I didn’t use any car art by Stanley Mouse within the table of contents.

Okay, he wins, I relent.

FreddyFlypoggerRatFink-361x500So there it is. Stanley Mouse’s Rat Fink.  I took care of his problem, now wanted his appraisal of the page.

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One Response to Cars and Trucks; Trains; Planes and Rockets

  1. Stacey Porter says:
    August 30, 2019 at 7:54 pm

    Rat Fink is the creation of hot rod legend Big Daddy Ed Roth- definitely a quirky guy you should know about!
    Love the site. You’re not kidding about the Berkeley Vortex- I’ve met or known most of the people you write about. Probably you as well!

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