Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
A century ago the Berkeley building in the foreground above at Telegraph Avenue and Channing Way was under construction and an opulent theater behind it was proposed.A century ago, on April 19, 1924, as part of an apparent effort to oppose a ballot measure that would reverse the creation of Berkeley’s garbage landfill in San Francisco Bay, the city of Berkeley held its first “municipal picnic” … at the city dump.
The event, the paper reported, showed “that the sanitary fill is entirely sanitary, odorless and actually not offending.” The article said that the property had a 30-foot frontage on Telegraph and a 60-foot frontage on Channing and surrounded another building on two sides that was “nearing completion.” That would make it an “L-shaped” lot. Was a theater actually built there? It seems not.A night watchman foiled what appeared to be an effort to steal the Stanford Axe from the Mercantile Trust Building on Center Street and Shattuck Avenue early in the morning of April 18, 1924.
While being driven to the police station, the older boy threw money out of the car. The police looked back over the route and found a $2 bill as evidence. Police withheld the names of the two boys because of their age; the older boy said his brother was not involved in the burglary.Berkeley was facing a big election in May 1924, and the April 17 Gazette that year reported that the city had 33,220 eligible registered voters.
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