Stories from Berkeley

These stories were started in 1963 while sitting a philosophy class on the second floor Wheeler Hall of the UC Berkeley Campus. Looking out the window facing the bay, watching traffic on the highway 80 Bayshore freeway, I wondered if academia was going to work out for me. Instead of taking notes on Plato's Republic, I found myself writing about the contrast between those trucks on the freeway and the lecture from the professor. 

Fourty years later, after graduating in 1966 from Cal and spending time earning a living on Telegraph Avenue playing street music, working out of Local 63 Longshore Hall along the waterfront in Ketchikan and fishing for salmon in Southeast Alaska,  playing music in a few clubs and so forth, the notebook followed me back to Berkeley and the to the Central Coast. Now it's done and I wonder if anyone is curious about those days in Berkeley. 

From the Rose Garden to the Free Speech Movement to People's Park to gigs at New Orleans House to Fat Dawg's Subway Guitar shop and everything in between, what an interesting journey. Anyone else spend time on the Avenue during the '60s and '70s? Anyone remember Cody's Books before they moved to the corner of Tele and Haste, and before the advent of Amazon and all the internet shopping that helped close down Fred Cody's great part of the Berkeley culture?