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August 5, 2014 by tomdalzell

Shingles

 

1352 Acton

1352 Acton

Part of what gives Berkeley the feel of Berkeley are the many shingle-sided homes, especially brown shingles.  It is a college feel.  Which fits.

For me, it is also an east coast feel.  My maternal grandmother, whom we called Dami, lived in a brown shingle on Radnor Street in Bryn Mawr, across the street from the Baldwin School, from the early 1920s until 1968.  My parents moved into that house in 1972 and lived there three years before moving to California.  It is the safest place from my childhood.

And so I have a soft spot for brown shingles.  I live in one.  And I admire them.

This posting is an exercise in visual acuity, in looking for detail.  Like my posting on grids, and like my planned postings on decorative cinder blocks and glass blocks, the search for intricate designs in shingles is about the search more than the shingles.  Some of the shingle designs are intrinsically quirky, but most just are bit players in the quirky feel of Berkeley.

And so, here they are, the intricate shingle patterns.

1334 Spruce

1334 Spruce

2014 Vine

2014 Vine

1837 Berryman

1837 Berryman

1809 California

1809 California

2524 Piedmont

2524 Piedmont

2524 Piedmont

2524 Piedmont

1810 San Lorenzo

1810 San Lorenzo

2906 Regent

2906 Regent

2727 Dwight

2727 Dwight

1939 Oregon

1939 Oregon

1917 Stuart

1917 Stuart

1611 Woolsey

1611 Woolsey

2014 Vine

2014 Vine

1810 San Lorenzo

1810 San Lorenzo

2524 Piedmont

2524 Piedmont

2524 Piedmont

2524 Piedmont

1168 Arch

1168 Arch

1309 Parker

1309 Parker

1400 Arch

1400 Arch

1486 Delaware

1486 Delaware

1815 San Juan

1815 San Juan

1815 San Juan

1815 San Juan

2305 Ward

2305 Ward

2826 Regent

2826 Regent

37 San Antonio

37 San Antonio

829 Delaware

829 Delaware

1129 Bancroft

1129 Bancroft

1209 Henry

1209 Henry

1505 Cornell

1505 Cornell

1129 Bancroft

1129 Bancroft

1621 Chestnut

1621 Chestnut

2014 Cedar

2014 Cedar

I spread the pictures out for my friend. He was watching Blow-Up for at least the 30th time.  He is really taken with the movie.  He thinks that the key to the Kennedy assassination may well be hidden in the movie.   I asked him to take a break from London 1966 and look at the shingle pix.  What did he think?

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