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March 23, 2016 by tomdalzell
The Ashby Corridor: April 3, 2016
On April 3, 2016, I led a Berkeley Path Wanderers walk along the Ashby corridor with a major excursion south on Shattuck. It was a beautiful April day. As was the case in my August, 2014 walk, we met at Adeline and Emerson. At Emerson and Adeline, you have perhaps seen the “Imagine” mosaic honoring […]
February 15, 2016 by tomdalzell
Field Trip: Susan Alexander and Tom Tollefsen – Glen Ellen
Field trip! This is a NEW FEATURE. I will try to take you on a field trip every holiday. Starting with today, President’s Day. So, though: Mark Bulwinkle introduced me to Susan Alexander who introduced me to Tom Tollefsen at the Quirky Berkeley Holiday Party. I am not name-dropping here, although I concede that […]
January 30, 2016 by tomdalzell
Mike Nagamoto – Welder (and artist) at Work on Marin
If Quirky Berkeley were to grant Quirky Landmark Status, the rusting steel skeleton playing a saxophone in front of 2219 Marin would be an early and unanimous choice of the QLS Commission. It is prominent, quirky, and because to is on a well-traveled street it is known by many. The sax-playing skeleton, the rusting […]
January 2, 2016 by tomdalzell
Quirky Bathrooms
It is a new year! The fifth calendar year for Quirky Berkeley. There is a motion on the floor to put Joe Cocker coming in through the bathroom window on the stereo and throw the rule book out the window for the first post of the new year – the bathroom window if you want […]
December 13, 2015 by tomdalzell
Mayerson & Tinker: The Best in Berkeley
My quest and this blog are about Berkeley. The photos here are from a house with a Berkeley zip oode. That is the truth. It may not be the whole truth, but it is the truth and nothing but the truth. No need to cross-examine on this point. So we will proceed with it. […]
November 21, 2015 by tomdalzell
Jana Olson’s flamboyant confidence of style
Jana Olson arrived in Berkeley the day after I turned 20. I was still in Philadelphia, working at the University of Pennsylvania Dining Service. My family still lived on Old Gulph Road in Bryn Mawr. All about me! The point being: on July 6, 1971, Olson came from Minnesota looking for work in landscape architecture. […]
September 20, 2015 by tomdalzell
Peter Mitchell’s Bugs on Cedar
An insect made of welded car parts. Not one, but many. Inside a kiosk on at 1745 Cedar. Peter Mitchell – the Peter of Peter’s Automotive – starting making the bugs in his spare time when his shop was on San Pablo Avenue. He displayed them on the shop roof, tolerating the occasional […]
September 2, 2015 by tomdalzell
Gabby’s Rasputin Movie Poster Collection
Early in his now 40-plus-year love affair with Young Emily, my friend Gabby had a talk with her about Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. She had just resolved a tense situation with a joint for the warring parties. From his memoir: I say to Emily, “I don’t mean this as an insult and please don’t take it […]
May 29, 2015 by tomdalzell
Sketch Subjects
April 18, 2015 by tomdalzell