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They also emphasize that, despite their opposition to the project, they support the development of more housing for students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is no need for this legislation since there is a path forward for UCB to build the much-needed student and supportive housing on a site other than People’s Park, thus preserving a nationally recognized historical resource and a valuable public open space,” the groups stated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university has tried for decades to build housing at the park, but those efforts have been met with fierce resistance from opponents. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t been to the bar at the Claremont Hotel… it is beautiful. Light floods in from windows that overlook the San Francisco Bay, and reflects off the textured metal ceiling. From the terrace, you can see the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and Angel Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for decades, even before Prohibition, the Claremont Hotel didn’t have a bar at all. Bay Curious listener Sam Hopkins lives nearby and wondered why. [baycuriousbug]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always interesting to me that you’d have this really grand hotel and it’s beautiful in every way but it operated for a long time without a bar,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were the owners involved with the temperance movement? Was there actually a speakeasy there? How did they finally get a bar after all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer all this, we’ll need to step all the way back to the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The temperance movement and the University of California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The theory was, alcohol was the root of all evil,” explains Jef Findley, librarian at the Berkeley Public Library’s History Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prohibition was still 50 years in the future, and there was plenty of drinking going on. Northern California was considered especially depraved, full of gold miners and ruffians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this reputation, the first University of California campus was initially built in downtown Oakland. But members of the anti-alcohol temperance movement thought it was in “an unsavory part of Oakland because of bordellos and saloons,” says Findley. So in 1873, they moved it — to its present campus in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then Berkeley was much more rural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was populated probably by more cows than people at the time,” says Findley. “It was considered an OK place to send a bunch of 20-year-old men without having the evil influences of alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To further protect the students, a state law was added — California penal code section 172, banning the sale of alcohol within two miles of UC Berkeley. In 1876 that distance was reduced to one mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Claremont Hotel would soon be built just under a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business idea\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The UC trustees weren’t the only ones eyeing the East Bay hills for development. A pair of investors calling themselves the Realty Syndicate was buying up tens of thousands of acres, which they would soon develop into some of the fanciest neighborhoods in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 1900, Francis Marion “Borax” Smith bought the property that the Claremont is on today. Smith earned his fortune, and his nickname, from borax, a mineral with household and industrial uses. He mined it in Death Valley and hauled it with a 20-mule team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shortly after he acquired the property, however, in a game of checkers, he lost it,” says Findley. “But he lost it to Frank Havens, a business partner of his.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the property was within one mile of UC Berkeley — within the legal dry zone — Smith and Havens wouldn’t be able to sell alcohol at anything they built. But they had a much larger scheme in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith had used his borax fortune to buy up all the streetcar lines in the Bay Area, and some ferries. He unified all of it into a single network called the Key System. So he and Havens were selling not just sunny properties with beautiful views, but also a way to commute to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really appealed to the people who had a lot of money that lived in San Francisco when it was destroyed by the earthquake,” says Findley. “It’s like, this is a great place to relocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To entice potential homebuyers over from San Francisco, Smith and Havens built a tourist attraction at the end of their new streetcar line: the biggest hotel on the West Coast, shaped like a castle. The Claremont Hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fairy tale hotel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The hotel’s opening was timed to coincide with the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a World’s Fair in San Francisco (the one the Palace of Fine Arts was built for). The original plan was for trains to pull right up into the lobby, but the station ended up being built in front of the hotel’s carriage entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine arriving in your corset and your umbrella and your big steamer case,” says Michelle Heston, director of public relations for the Claremont Hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guests would enter under a stone archway and pass through the lobby, with its marble floors and velvet couches. If they liked, they could attend concerts and dances in the hotel’s grand ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where the band would have performed,” says Heston, indicating a built-in stage with a shiny curtain. “And you’d have cocktail tables around the perimeter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no cocktails. The hotel still couldn’t sell alcohol. But that doesn’t mean people didn’t bring it in, speculates Heston. “What would you do?” she says. “I know what I’d do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wink wink.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prohibition and the Big Band era\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1920, alcohol became completely illegal nationwide. But dancing was still okay! Big bands performed at the Claremont all through the ’20s and ’30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the UC Berkeley students came to dance! The Claremont ran advertisements in the Daily Cal, the student paper, for the college special: dancing, punch, and assorted sandwiches. All for a dollar. The Daily Cal also had a column called Who’s Whooie, about what the cool kids were doing, and it was always talking about how so-and-so went out to the Claremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heston says there are no records of a speakeasy in the hotel, but “there were always private rooms in hotels, that locked from the inside, that guests could rent for the evenings, that were meant for events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image in a book of people dancing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">80-year-old Lesley Emmington, who grew up in the neighborhood, thumbs through a book of Claremont Hotel photos. She remembers visiting this room as a girl. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 1922 photograph in a booklet of Claremont Hotel history shows jolly young men and women in suits and dresses, dancing in the ballroom. It says, “Prohibition did not dampen the enthusiasm of partygoers, some of whom recall carrying their portable bars to a suite for between-dance refreshment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on the surface, Berkeley kept it pretty lawful and wholesome — unlike San Francisco and Oakland, which had obvious, active speakeasies and a reputation for not caring at all about Prohibition. When Prohibition eventually ended in 1933, that one-mile dry zone around the university finally started to hydrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>At last … Cheers!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, beer was permitted within the dry zone. Then in 1937 the law changed again, to say that the one-mile distance could be measured by road, rather than as the crow flies. According to legend, a female Cal student was the first to measure the distance from the university to the hotel, showing that by road, it was indeed over a mile. And the hotel gave her free drinks for life. At least, that’s how the story goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so finally, after more than two decades of serving punch and tea and the like, the Claremont Hotel was able to open a bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesley Emmington grew up right near the hotel. She is just 80 years old, so she was too young to go to the Claremont Hotel’s bar when it first opened, shortly before WWII broke out. But her cousin Lorraine was a student at Cal at the time, and she used to love going there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the war, you see the guys would come,” says Emmington. “They’d come from Treasure Island.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naval base at Treasure Island was a last stop for young men heading out to Pacific battlegrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 555px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of the end of a train, taken on the tracks. In the background a large white hotel sits on a hillside.\" width=\"555\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train.jpg 555w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ‘E’ Line Train approaches the Claremont Hotel some time in the 1940s. \u003ccite>(Public Domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the train would suddenly just be jammed with military guys,” says Emmington. “And they could come to the Claremont because it was right on the train … I mean, the whole Bay Area was just jammed with American young men who’d never been west, of course. And they were here and they were on limited time. It was crawling with the men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what did cousin Lorraine say about all that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emmington laughs. “Well, she loved it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, a good time was had by all, both with and without alcohol. And Berkeley eventually became the wild swinging Berkeley of the hippie era, but it took its time. It didn’t even allow people to dance and drink in the same room until the 1960s!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funny part is, that one-mile law, which dates all the way back to 1855 … is still on the books! It’s been amended to bits, and obviously there are bars next to campus now. But the law is still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[baycuriousquestion]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The historic Claremont Hotel in Oakland is nothing short of an absolute stunner, OK. It’s got a castle-like architecture that looks like nothing else in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole façade is brilliantly white … like even the windows and roof tiles are white! So it really pops against the Eucalyptus grove behind it. And it’s bursting with amenities — a pool, tennis courts, a spa … the works.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the one amenity it didn’t have for a very long time? A bar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It’s always interesting to me that you’d have this really grand hotel and it’s beautiful in every way but it operated for a long time without a bar. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is Sam Hopkins of Oakland. He lives near the Claremont Hotel and over the years has heard a lot of speculation about why the hotel didn’t serve alcohol long before Prohibition took hold. Were the owners a part of the temperance movement, promoting abstinence from alcohol? Was there actually a speakeasy there? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’d heard there’s a legend or a myth about a Berkeley co-ed who was part of helping them get their liquor license. So that’s an interesting story too, though I don’t know if it’s true or not. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What took so long for the place to finally get a bar? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which just seems so crazy to think of a hotel without a bar, especially one of that stature.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today on Bay Curious we’re answering Sam’s question, which was the winner of our July voting round on BayCurious.org. Today’s the last day to vote in August’s round, by the way, so be sure to check those questions out… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. We’ll get to it after this quick break…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re answering Sam’s question about why the Claremont Hotel didn’t have a bar in its early years. Well, spoiler alert, they eventually did get a bar, and we sent reporter Katherine Monahan to check it out, try a drink and get the backstory…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Sound of bartender shaking a cocktail in a crowded bar]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The light is soaking in from the bay … reflecting off the textured metal ceiling. The floor is these … tiny black and white tiles radiating into hexagons. And…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Sound of a drink being poured]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…my drink is ready.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was the name of this again?\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bartender: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosa Mexicano.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It’s beautiful.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It looks like a unicorn’s crystal jacuzzi. It’s all pink and frothy. It goes perfectly with the fairy tale castle look of this hotel. And the terrace, where I’m about to carry my drink?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I can see the Bay Bridge. I can see the Golden Gate. I can see Mount Tam, Alcatraz, Treasure Island. That’s Angel Island. I mean this is spectacular.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the terrace bar hasn’t always been here. For decades, the Claremont Hotel didn’t have a bar at all. And to understand why, we’ll need to step all the way back to the late 1800s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Old-timey music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The theory was, alcohol was the root of all evil. So get rid of alcohol, and you’ll get rid of a lot of the evils. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jef Findley is the librarian at the Berkeley Public Library’s History Room. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temperance movement was really taking on. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prohibition was still 50 years in the future, and there was plenty of drinking going on. Northern California was considered especially depraved, full of gold-miners and ruffians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Saloon sound effects, someone get punched] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But that was where the first University of California was built – in downtown Oakland!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The professors and the like found that it was in an unsavory part of Oakland because of bordellos and saloons. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in 1873, they moved it — to its present campus in Berkeley. Back then Berkeley was much more rural.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was populated probably by more cows than people at the time, it was considered as an okay place to send a bunch of 20-year-old men without having the evil influences of alcohol. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To further protect the students, a state law was added: California penal code section 172, banning the sale of alcohol within two miles of UC Berkeley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But then, cooler heads prevailed in 1876. They reduced that to one mile. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Claremont Hotel would soon be built just under one mile away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now the UC trustees weren’t the only ones eyeing the East Bay hills. A pair of investors calling themselves the Realty Syndicate was buying up tens of thousands of acres. Which they would soon develop into some of the fanciest neighborhoods in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By about 1900, Francis “Borax” Smith acquired the property that the Claremont is on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith had earned his fortune — and his nickname — from borax, a mineral with household and industrial uses. He mined it in Death Valley and hauled it with a 20-mule team. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortly after he acquired the property, however, in a game of checkers, he lost it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Checkers?\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Checkers. But he lost it to Frank Havens, a business partner of his.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the property was within one mile of UC Berkeley — within the legal dry zone — Smith and Havens wouldn’t be able to sell alcohol on it. But they had a much larger scheme in mind.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The people that were doing all this were all about making money.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith had used his borax fortune to buy up all the streetcar lines in the Bay Area, and some ferries, and unify all of it into a single network called the Key System. So he and Havens were selling, not just sunny properties with beautiful views, but also a way to commute to work. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Go ahead and guess how long it took to get from Berkeley to the city in 1906 via electric train and ferry? 35 minutes!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> They really appealed to the people who had a lot of money that lived in San Francisco when it was destroyed by the earthquake. It’s like this is a great place to relocate. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To entice potential homebuyers over from the city, Smith and Havens built a tourist attraction at the end of their new streetcar line: the biggest hotel on the west coast, shaped like a castle. The Claremont Hotel.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The opening was timed to go with the World’s Fair in San Francisco, the one that the Palace of Fine Arts was built for. It was 1915.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So the train would have dropped us off right here.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah, the train would have dropped off guests. And then you could walk up kind of this grand promenade under the stone masonry arch \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> With all these same kind of flowers on the side? \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Exactly.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Michelle Heston is director of public relations for the Claremont Hotel. She says the original plan was for the trains to pull up right up into the lobby. But the station ended up outside, in front of the carriage entrance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Imagine arriving right in your corset and your umbrella and your big steamer case \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I was wearing a corset? Did I have a horse?\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (laughing) You were probably from a wealthy family. So you probably arrived in a carriage. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Oh. of course.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heston shows me in through the stone archway, through the lobby, with its marble floors and velvet couches.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Gosh it’s pretty\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Isn’t it pretty?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: A\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd into the hotel’s ballroom. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It smells old – not in a bad way.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (giggles) No, it does.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s a long, wide room, with thick columns, and a carpet, and a big built-in stage with a shiny curtain.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So this is where the band would have performed.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And the dancers back here? \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Exactly. And you’d have cocktail tables around the perimeter, \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> But no cocktails!\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (laughing) Yes, exactly. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So it was not permitted for alcohol to be sold near the university. But prior to and after Prohibition, there was nothing against actually having alcohol or drinking it so far as I understand, right? \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That’s what I understand as well. So what would you do? (laughing)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I mean, come on. (both laughing)\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I know what I’d do.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, just because the hotel couldn’t sell alcohol, doesn’t mean people didn’t bring it in. Then came Prohibition in 1920. Alcohol became completely illegal nationwide. But dancing was still okay.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[A Charleston tune plays]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Big bands performed at the Claremont all through the ’20s and ’30s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Ambience of people in a large ballroom, accompanied by music] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the UC Berkeley students, those vulnerable, innocent students, came to dance! The Claremont ran advertisements in the Daily Cal, the student paper, for the college special: dancing, punch, and assorted sandwiches, for a dollar! The Daily Cal also had a column called Who’s Whooie, about what the cool kids were doing, and it was always talking about how so-and-so went out to the Claremont.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heston says there are no records of a speakeasy in the hotel, but…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There were always private rooms in hotels, that locked from the inside, that guests could rent for the evenings, that were meant for events. So…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We check out a 1922 photograph in a booklet of Claremont Hotel history. It shows jolly young men and women in suits and dresses, dancing in the ballroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It says, “Prohibition did not dampen the enthusiasm of party goers, some of whom recall carrying their portable bars to a suite for between-dance refreshment.” \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> There you go, see?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That’s what you’re talking about?\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That’s what I’m talking about. Yeah. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> So it wasn’t even like they were sleeping in the suite necessarily.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Probably not.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So on the surface, Berkeley kept it pretty lawful and wholesome. Unlike San Francisco and Oakland, which had obvious, active speakeasies and a reputation for not caring at all. But when Prohibition ended in 1933, that one-mile dry zone around the university finally started to hydrate. First, beer was permitted.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Then in 1937 the law changed again, to say that the one mile distance could be measured by road, rather than as the crow flies. According to legend…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Michelle Heston:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It was a group of students that actually went and measured it out from the closest Cal campus building.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And the hotel gave free drinks for life to the girl who showed that it was over a mile. At least, that’s how the story goes.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And so finally, after more than two decades of serving punch and tea and the like, the Claremont Hotel got to open a bar. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lesley Emmington grew up right near the hotel. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley Emmington:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I heard it always referred to, and my cousin Lorraine going, “Oh, it was so much fun.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Emmington is just 80 years old — so she was too young to go to the bar when it first opened, shortly before WWII broke out. But her cousin Lorraine was a student at Cal at the time, and she used to love going there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[1940s swinging jazz music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley Emmington:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> During the war, you see the guys would come. They’d come from Treasure Island. And you could come on the train. That would be a stop coming across the bridge. Sometimes the train would suddenly just be jammed with military guys. And then they could come to the Claremont, too, see? Because it was right on the train. It was built to be end of the line. So you could either go to the city, or you could come over to the Claremont.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wow. So, people coming to the Claremont just partying coming from the military.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley Emmington:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Yeah, I mean, the whole Bay Area was just jammed with American young men who’d never been west, of course. And they were here and they were on limited time. It was crawling with the men. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> And what did cousin Lorraine say about all that? \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley Emmington:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Well, she loved it. (laughs)\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So, a good time was had by all, both with and without alcohol. And Berkeley eventually became the wild swinging Berkeley of the hippy era, but it took its time. It didn’t even allow people to dance and drink in the same room until the 1960s!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here’s the part that’s the funniest to me: that one mile law, which dates all the way back to 1855 … is still on the books! It’s just been amended to bits, and obviously there are bars next to campus now. But the law is still there! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Ambience of a college bar, patrons can be heard and a reggae tune] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in honor of the old temperance movement and California penal code section 172, I am having one more drink, this time right across the street from UC Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheers!\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That was KQED’s Katherine Monahan.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before you go, I have a favor to ask. Could you open your podcast player and make sure you’re “Subscribed” to the Bay Curious podcast? Only a small percentage of listeners to this show are actually subscribed, and those subscription numbers really help us out. They also help you to make sure not to miss a future episode. Win-win, right? Thanks for subscribing!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made by Amanda Font, Christopher Bveale and Olivia Allen-Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana and Holly Kernan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will be dark next week so our team can rest up over Labor Day. We’ll be back on September 14th with a fresh episode.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a fantastic week!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003cem>Read a transcript of this episode.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If you haven’t been to the bar at the Claremont Hotel… it is beautiful. Light floods in from windows that overlook the San Francisco Bay, and reflects off the textured metal ceiling. From the terrace, you can see the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz and Angel Island.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for decades, even before Prohibition, the Claremont Hotel didn’t have a bar at all. Bay Curious listener Sam Hopkins lives nearby and wondered why. \u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003caside class=\"alignleft utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__bayCuriousPodcastShortcode__bayCurious\">\u003cimg src=https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/bayCuriousLogo.png alt=\"Bay Curious Podcast\" loading=\"lazy\" />\n What do you wonder about the Bay Area, its culture or people that you want KQED to investigate?\n \u003ca href=\"/news/series/baycurious\">Ask Bay Curious.\u003c/a>\u003c/aside>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s always interesting to me that you’d have this really grand hotel and it’s beautiful in every way but it operated for a long time without a bar,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Were the owners involved with the temperance movement? Was there actually a speakeasy there? How did they finally get a bar after all?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To answer all this, we’ll need to step all the way back to the late 1800s.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The temperance movement and the University of California\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>“The theory was, alcohol was the root of all evil,” explains Jef Findley, librarian at the Berkeley Public Library’s History Room.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Prohibition was still 50 years in the future, and there was plenty of drinking going on. Northern California was considered especially depraved, full of gold miners and ruffians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite this reputation, the first University of California campus was initially built in downtown Oakland. But members of the anti-alcohol temperance movement thought it was in “an unsavory part of Oakland because of bordellos and saloons,” says Findley. So in 1873, they moved it — to its present campus in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then Berkeley was much more rural.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was populated probably by more cows than people at the time,” says Findley. “It was considered an OK place to send a bunch of 20-year-old men without having the evil influences of alcohol.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To further protect the students, a state law was added — California penal code section 172, banning the sale of alcohol within two miles of UC Berkeley. In 1876 that distance was reduced to one mile.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Claremont Hotel would soon be built just under a mile away.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A business idea\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The UC trustees weren’t the only ones eyeing the East Bay hills for development. A pair of investors calling themselves the Realty Syndicate was buying up tens of thousands of acres, which they would soon develop into some of the fanciest neighborhoods in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 1900, Francis Marion “Borax” Smith bought the property that the Claremont is on today. Smith earned his fortune, and his nickname, from borax, a mineral with household and industrial uses. He mined it in Death Valley and hauled it with a 20-mule team.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Shortly after he acquired the property, however, in a game of checkers, he lost it,” says Findley. “But he lost it to Frank Havens, a business partner of his.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the property was within one mile of UC Berkeley — within the legal dry zone — Smith and Havens wouldn’t be able to sell alcohol at anything they built. But they had a much larger scheme in mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smith had used his borax fortune to buy up all the streetcar lines in the Bay Area, and some ferries. He unified all of it into a single network called the Key System. So he and Havens were selling not just sunny properties with beautiful views, but also a way to commute to work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They really appealed to the people who had a lot of money that lived in San Francisco when it was destroyed by the earthquake,” says Findley. “It’s like, this is a great place to relocate.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To entice potential homebuyers over from San Francisco, Smith and Havens built a tourist attraction at the end of their new streetcar line: the biggest hotel on the West Coast, shaped like a castle. The Claremont Hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A fairy tale hotel\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>The hotel’s opening was timed to coincide with the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a World’s Fair in San Francisco (the one the Palace of Fine Arts was built for). The original plan was for trains to pull right up into the lobby, but the station ended up being built in front of the hotel’s carriage entrance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine arriving in your corset and your umbrella and your big steamer case,” says Michelle Heston, director of public relations for the Claremont Hotel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guests would enter under a stone archway and pass through the lobby, with its marble floors and velvet couches. If they liked, they could attend concerts and dances in the hotel’s grand ballroom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is where the band would have performed,” says Heston, indicating a built-in stage with a shiny curtain. “And you’d have cocktail tables around the perimeter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But no cocktails. The hotel still couldn’t sell alcohol. But that doesn’t mean people didn’t bring it in, speculates Heston. “What would you do?” she says. “I know what I’d do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wink wink.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Prohibition and the Big Band era\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In 1920, alcohol became completely illegal nationwide. But dancing was still okay! Big bands performed at the Claremont all through the ’20s and ’30s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the UC Berkeley students came to dance! The Claremont ran advertisements in the Daily Cal, the student paper, for the college special: dancing, punch, and assorted sandwiches. All for a dollar. The Daily Cal also had a column called Who’s Whooie, about what the cool kids were doing, and it was always talking about how so-and-so went out to the Claremont.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Heston says there are no records of a speakeasy in the hotel, but “there were always private rooms in hotels, that locked from the inside, that guests could rent for the evenings, that were meant for events.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959658\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-scaled.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11959658\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-800x1067.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image in a book of people dancing.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-1536x2048.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/IMG_1642-scaled.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">80-year-old Lesley Emmington, who grew up in the neighborhood, thumbs through a book of Claremont Hotel photos. She remembers visiting this room as a girl. \u003ccite>(Katherine Monahan/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A 1922 photograph in a booklet of Claremont Hotel history shows jolly young men and women in suits and dresses, dancing in the ballroom. It says, “Prohibition did not dampen the enthusiasm of partygoers, some of whom recall carrying their portable bars to a suite for between-dance refreshment.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So on the surface, Berkeley kept it pretty lawful and wholesome — unlike San Francisco and Oakland, which had obvious, active speakeasies and a reputation for not caring at all about Prohibition. When Prohibition eventually ended in 1933, that one-mile dry zone around the university finally started to hydrate.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>At last … Cheers!\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>First, beer was permitted within the dry zone. Then in 1937 the law changed again, to say that the one-mile distance could be measured by road, rather than as the crow flies. According to legend, a female Cal student was the first to measure the distance from the university to the hotel, showing that by road, it was indeed over a mile. And the hotel gave her free drinks for life. At least, that’s how the story goes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And so finally, after more than two decades of serving punch and tea and the like, the Claremont Hotel was able to open a bar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lesley Emmington grew up right near the hotel. She is just 80 years old, so she was too young to go to the Claremont Hotel’s bar when it first opened, shortly before WWII broke out. But her cousin Lorraine was a student at Cal at the time, and she used to love going there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“During the war, you see the guys would come,” says Emmington. “They’d come from Treasure Island.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The naval base at Treasure Island was a last stop for young men heading out to Pacific battlegrounds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11959626\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 555px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11959626\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train.jpg\" alt=\"Black and white image of the end of a train, taken on the tracks. In the background a large white hotel sits on a hillside.\" width=\"555\" height=\"550\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train.jpg 555w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/08/Claremont-E-train-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An ‘E’ Line Train approaches the Claremont Hotel some time in the 1940s. \u003ccite>(Public Domain)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Sometimes the train would suddenly just be jammed with military guys,” says Emmington. “And they could come to the Claremont because it was right on the train … I mean, the whole Bay Area was just jammed with American young men who’d never been west, of course. And they were here and they were on limited time. It was crawling with the men.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And what did cousin Lorraine say about all that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Emmington laughs. “Well, she loved it!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, a good time was had by all, both with and without alcohol. And Berkeley eventually became the wild swinging Berkeley of the hippie era, but it took its time. It didn’t even allow people to dance and drink in the same room until the 1960s!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funny part is, that one-mile law, which dates all the way back to 1855 … is still on the books! It’s been amended to bits, and obviously there are bars next to campus now. But the law is still there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The historic Claremont Hotel in Oakland is nothing short of an absolute stunner, OK. It’s got a castle-like architecture that looks like nothing else in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The whole façade is brilliantly white … like even the windows and roof tiles are white! So it really pops against the Eucalyptus grove behind it. And it’s bursting with amenities — a pool, tennis courts, a spa … the works.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the one amenity it didn’t have for a very long time? A bar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Hopkins:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It’s always interesting to me that you’d have this really grand hotel and it’s beautiful in every way but it operated for a long time without a bar. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This is Sam Hopkins of Oakland. He lives near the Claremont Hotel and over the years has heard a lot of speculation about why the hotel didn’t serve alcohol long before Prohibition took hold. Were the owners a part of the temperance movement, promoting abstinence from alcohol? Was there actually a speakeasy there? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’d heard there’s a legend or a myth about a Berkeley co-ed who was part of helping them get their liquor license. So that’s an interesting story too, though I don’t know if it’s true or not. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What took so long for the place to finally get a bar? \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Sam Hopkins: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Which just seems so crazy to think of a hotel without a bar, especially one of that stature.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today on Bay Curious we’re answering Sam’s question, which was the winner of our July voting round on BayCurious.org. Today’s the last day to vote in August’s round, by the way, so be sure to check those questions out… \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I’m Olivia Allen-Price. We’ll get to it after this quick break…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We’re answering Sam’s question about why the Claremont Hotel didn’t have a bar in its early years. Well, spoiler alert, they eventually did get a bar, and we sent reporter Katherine Monahan to check it out, try a drink and get the backstory…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Sound of bartender shaking a cocktail in a crowded bar]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The light is soaking in from the bay … reflecting off the textured metal ceiling. The floor is these … tiny black and white tiles radiating into hexagons. And…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Sound of a drink being poured]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">…my drink is ready.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What was the name of this again?\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Bartender: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rosa Mexicano.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> It’s beautiful.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It looks like a unicorn’s crystal jacuzzi. It’s all pink and frothy. It goes perfectly with the fairy tale castle look of this hotel. And the terrace, where I’m about to carry my drink?\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> I can see the Bay Bridge. I can see the Golden Gate. I can see Mount Tam, Alcatraz, Treasure Island. That’s Angel Island. I mean this is spectacular.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But the terrace bar hasn’t always been here. For decades, the Claremont Hotel didn’t have a bar at all. And to understand why, we’ll need to step all the way back to the late 1800s.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Old-timey music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The theory was, alcohol was the root of all evil. So get rid of alcohol, and you’ll get rid of a lot of the evils. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jef Findley is the librarian at the Berkeley Public Library’s History Room. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The temperance movement was really taking on. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Prohibition was still 50 years in the future, and there was plenty of drinking going on. Northern California was considered especially depraved, full of gold-miners and ruffians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Saloon sound effects, someone get punched] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But that was where the first University of California was built – in downtown Oakland!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The professors and the like found that it was in an unsavory part of Oakland because of bordellos and saloons. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in 1873, they moved it — to its present campus in Berkeley. Back then Berkeley was much more rural.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was populated probably by more cows than people at the time, it was considered as an okay place to send a bunch of 20-year-old men without having the evil influences of alcohol. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To further protect the students, a state law was added: California penal code section 172, banning the sale of alcohol within two miles of UC Berkeley.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But then, cooler heads prevailed in 1876. They reduced that to one mile. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Claremont Hotel would soon be built just under one mile away.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Now the UC trustees weren’t the only ones eyeing the East Bay hills. A pair of investors calling themselves the Realty Syndicate was buying up tens of thousands of acres. Which they would soon develop into some of the fanciest neighborhoods in the Bay Area.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By about 1900, Francis “Borax” Smith acquired the property that the Claremont is on.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Smith had earned his fortune — and his nickname — from borax, a mineral with household and industrial uses. He mined it in Death Valley and hauled it with a 20-mule team. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shortly after he acquired the property, however, in a game of checkers, he lost it. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene): \u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Checkers?\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Jef Findley: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Checkers. But he lost it to Frank Havens, a business partner of his.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Katherine Monahan: \u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the property was within one mile of UC Berkeley — within the legal dry zone — Smith and Havens wouldn’t be able to sell alcohol on it. 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But her cousin Lorraine was a student at Cal at the time, and she used to love going there.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[1940s swinging jazz music]\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Lesley Emmington:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> During the war, you see the guys would come. They’d come from Treasure Island. And you could come on the train. That would be a stop coming across the bridge. Sometimes the train would suddenly just be jammed with military guys. And then they could come to the Claremont, too, see? Because it was right on the train. It was built to be end of the line. So you could either go to the city, or you could come over to the Claremont.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Wow. 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It didn’t even allow people to dance and drink in the same room until the 1960s!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here’s the part that’s the funniest to me: that one mile law, which dates all the way back to 1855 … is still on the books! It’s just been amended to bits, and obviously there are bars next to campus now. But the law is still there! \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">[Ambience of a college bar, patrons can be heard and a reggae tune] \u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So in honor of the old temperance movement and California penal code section 172, I am having one more drink, this time right across the street from UC Berkeley. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>\u003ci>Katherine Monahan (on scene):\u003c/i>\u003c/b> \u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cheers!\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Olivia Allen Price:\u003c/b>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> That was KQED’s Katherine Monahan.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Before you go, I have a favor to ask. Could you open your podcast player and make sure you’re “Subscribed” to the Bay Curious podcast? Only a small percentage of listeners to this show are actually subscribed, and those subscription numbers really help us out. They also help you to make sure not to miss a future episode. Win-win, right? Thanks for subscribing!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bay Curious is made by Amanda Font, Christopher Bveale and Olivia Allen-Price. Additional support from Jen Chien, Katie Sprenger, Cesar Saldana and Holly Kernan. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We will be dark next week so our team can rest up over Labor Day. We’ll be back on September 14th with a fresh episode.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">I’m Olivia Allen-Price. Have a fantastic week!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>SoCalGas, the nation’s largest natural gas utility, initially billed a ratepayer account more than $1 million to support the law firm that successfully challenged Berkeley’s first-in-the-nation law banning gas hookups in new buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a California Public Utilities Commission filing released last week, \u003ca href=\"https://earthjustice.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/ceja-seu-009-3rd-supplemental_q5b_12368.pdf\">the utility admitted it had paid the Redwood City-based law firm Reichman Jorgensen $1.14 million (PDF)\u003c/a> in 2021 to address several legal issues, the most specific of which involved investigating the legality of “existing and proposed federal, state and local laws, and other government actions potentially affecting natural gas service,” and determining “whether they might be preempted by federal law.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>SoCalGas claimed in the filing that “these costs do not include legal challenges to local gas bans for new construction,” like the Berkeley case.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the firm’s attorneys, working on behalf of the California Restaurant Association, a trade group that sued Berkeley over the gas ban, went on to argue that the city’s law was preempted by — or in conflict with — federal law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.ca9.uscourts.gov/datastore/opinions/2023/04/17/21-16278.pdf\">A three-judge panel\u003c/a> of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11946999/court-strikes-down-berkeleys-landmark-ban-on-natural-gas-in-new-construction\">struck down Berkeley’s law\u003c/a>, overruling a lower court’s 2021 decision to uphold it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11947856\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11947856\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut.jpg\" alt=\"A large building covered with black netting under construction.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1277\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-1020x678.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/04/RS64758_04262023_ksuzuki_warmweather-399-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A planned apartment complex under construction in downtown Berkeley on April 26, 2023. 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If you get caught, it’s, ‘Oops, I made a mistake,’ which is what they did here.’[/pullquote]It remains unclear how the 9th Circuit’s ruling against Berkeley will affect the mounting number of new gas restrictions in other cities, but it could prove detrimental if upheld on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While the decision is creating significant uncertainty for cities today, it doesn’t immediately impact the majority of local governments who have passed measures to cut pollution from buildings,” said Emeryville Mayor John Bauters, whose city enacted a gas ban largely modeled on Berkeley’s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The payment SoCalGas made to Reichman Jorgensen from a ratepayer account comprises roughly a third of the nearly $3.5 million the utility has paid the firm since it took up the case, according to company financial records from \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/SoCalGas_Annual_2020_REDACTED_GO-77-M.pdf\">2020 (PDF)\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.socalgas.com/sites/default/files/2021_REDACTED_SCG_GO-77-M_Final.pdf\">2021 (PDF)\u003c/a> that Vespa, working with the California Environmental Justice Alliance, obtained through CPUC data requests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reichman Jorgensen did not respond to multiple requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the filing, SoCalGas said it “unintentionally” attributed the payment to a ratepayer account and had since corrected the oversight.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dan Guthrie, a SoCalGas spokesperson, denied that the payment to the firm had anything to do with the Berkeley lawsuit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Reichman Jorgensen costs referenced in your question are not being funded by ratepayers and are unrelated to the CRA’s legal challenge to the Berkeley ordinance,” Guthrie said in an email. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Betty Gray couldn’t leave her apartment for seven months after a fall left her injured and needing a wheelchair. Gray developed agoraphobia due to her confinement and sometimes needed as many as nine people to get down the stairs. So she was relieved when she heard about a new apartment that had an accessible entrance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“There’s just not enough apartments that you can just slide on in,” Gray said. “I feel very humbled and blessed to be here, when there’s so many out there that aren’t.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today, she’s a proud resident of the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments, which sit next door to the 100-year-old McGee Avenue Baptist Church in South Berkeley. 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Instead of building a large new housing complex from scratch, the small-sites model buys and transforms existing buildings that are vacant or run-down. \u003c/span>[aside postID=\"news_11924697,news_11922784\" label=\"Related Posts\"]\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s one way to help meet the huge demand for affordable housing in Berkeley, where waitlists can stretch for years, according to Berkeley City Council Member Ben Bartlett.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“These small sites … exist on the marketplace right now, that are everywhere, and sort of underutilized,” Bartlett said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The small sites also fit in better with the surrounding communities than larger housing developments, said Tracy Parent, director of the Bay Area Community Land Trust, which partnered on the project.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Mostly it’s about location, being in diverse neighborhoods spread out across the city, not just all built in one neighborhood,” said Parent. “And that is the key. It’s about preserving the existing social fabric, not just the housing units.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a yellow sweater and pink and white shirt sits down by an open door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Gray sits in her new apartment in Berkeley on Sept. 14, 2022. She is a resident of the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust will continue to manage the project, and maintain it as a permanently affordable housing co-op. The land trust owns other projects in Berkeley and Oakland that are home to nearly 100 people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For people to go out of their way to be kind to help you … it’s new, and it makes you feel wanted and not hopeless,” Gray said. She said she feels a sense of community with her neighbors. The proximity of the church has allowed her to benefit from church services, like food and plant drives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stuart Street provides affordable housing to those making 80% of the average income in Berkeley. Rents in the building are below market for Berkeley at $1,300 a month for a studio and $1,900 for a one-bedroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a brown hat, sun glasses, a short-sleeved shirt and vest holds a microphone in front of several people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrin Jourdan, chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, speaks during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derrin Jourdan is chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, and led the effort from the church’s side in hopes of providing an affordable place for people of color. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I focus a lot of my unspoken attention on being able to provide a space that people who look like me could afford to stay,” Jourdan said. He said the finished product is more “amazing than I could have imagined.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McGee Avenue Baptist Church hopes to provide resources for other churches in the Bay Area interested in creating similar programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Churches are some of the last, I think, property owners of color throughout Berkeley,” Jourdan said. “If we don’t find ways of leveraging our support, we’re going to find it enormously difficult to hold on to the property.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project has a long list of funders, including the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, The Bay’s Future Fund, the San Francisco Foundation and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total cost was $3.3 million, according to the city, or $415,000 per unit. That’s 40% lower than what it costs to build new lower-income housing in the Bay Area, according to figures from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust plans to open its second small-site building on Solano Avenue in North Berkeley later this month. The building still houses residents who were facing eviction under the Ellis Act. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925693\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925693\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a business suit and glasses holds a microphone in his right hand outside.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58571_006_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín speaks during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said the city has financed over 800 affordable housing units in the last three years but the city is still in need of more housing. This November, Berkeley residents will have the opportunity to vote on Measure M to tax vacant properties, which Arreguín said could continue to fund the Small Sites Program.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“If we don’t act soon enough, there’s going to be more families that are going to be pushed out of Berkeley,” Arreguín said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Each of the apartments is wheelchair-accessible and has its own in-unit washer and dryer. The building also comes with an electric vehicle for all the residents to share.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“To come to this is nothing short of a miracle. It really is. It has changed my perspective on life because I had just about given up hope,” Gray said. She heard of the apartments by word of mouth, and another resident encouraged her to apply. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925698\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925698\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"People stand outside a blue painted house with white trimming.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58574_012_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A group of people listen to speakers during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments are the first project funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program, which the city council approved in 2018 to create more affordable housing and slow displacement. Instead of building a large new housing complex from scratch, the small-sites model buys and transforms existing buildings that are vacant or run-down. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It’s one way to help meet the huge demand for affordable housing in Berkeley, where waitlists can stretch for years, according to Berkeley City Council Member Ben Bartlett.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“These small sites … exist on the marketplace right now, that are everywhere, and sort of underutilized,” Bartlett said. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The small sites also fit in better with the surrounding communities than larger housing developments, said Tracy Parent, director of the Bay Area Community Land Trust, which partnered on the project.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Mostly it’s about location, being in diverse neighborhoods spread out across the city, not just all built in one neighborhood,” said Parent. “And that is the key. It’s about preserving the existing social fabric, not just the housing units.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925696\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925696\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A woman wearing a yellow sweater and pink and white shirt sits down by an open door.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/003_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Betty Gray sits in her new apartment in Berkeley on Sept. 14, 2022. She is a resident of the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust will continue to manage the project, and maintain it as a permanently affordable housing co-op. The land trust owns other projects in Berkeley and Oakland that are home to nearly 100 people.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“For people to go out of their way to be kind to help you … it’s new, and it makes you feel wanted and not hopeless,” Gray said. She said she feels a sense of community with her neighbors. The proximity of the church has allowed her to benefit from church services, like food and plant drives.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stuart Street provides affordable housing to those making 80% of the average income in Berkeley. Rents in the building are below market for Berkeley at $1,300 a month for a studio and $1,900 for a one-bedroom.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11925699\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11925699\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A man wearing a brown hat, sun glasses, a short-sleeved shirt and vest holds a microphone in front of several people.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/09/RS58572_011_KQED_BerkeleySmallSites_09142022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derrin Jourdan, chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, speaks during a celebration on Sept. 14, 2022, for the newly renovated Stuart Street Co-Op Apartments funded by Berkeley’s Small Sites Program. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Derrin Jourdan is chair of the McGee Baptist Board of Trustees, and led the effort from the church’s side in hopes of providing an affordable place for people of color. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“I focus a lot of my unspoken attention on being able to provide a space that people who look like me could afford to stay,” Jourdan said. He said the finished product is more “amazing than I could have imagined.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">McGee Avenue Baptist Church hopes to provide resources for other churches in the Bay Area interested in creating similar programs.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">“Churches are some of the last, I think, property owners of color throughout Berkeley,” Jourdan said. “If we don’t find ways of leveraging our support, we’re going to find it enormously difficult to hold on to the property.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The project has a long list of funders, including the Local Initiatives Support Corporation, The Bay’s Future Fund, the San Francisco Foundation and the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The total cost was $3.3 million, according to the city, or $415,000 per unit. That’s 40% lower than what it costs to build new lower-income housing in the Bay Area, according to figures from the Bay Area Council Economic Institute. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bay Area Community Land Trust plans to open its second small-site building on Solano Avenue in North Berkeley later this month. 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"content": "\u003cp>Berkeley is experiencing a 1960s flashback triggered by People’s Park, a landmark that has served as a counterculture touchstone, political stepping stone and refuge for the unhoused.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 3-acre site’s colorful history, forged from the University of California, Berkeley’s seizure of the land in 1968, has been thrust back into the spotlight as the school renews efforts to pave over People’s Park, this time for a $312 million project that includes sorely needed housing for about 1,000 students.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11922900,news_11921415,arts_13917145\"]After a judge sided with the university in a legal scrum over the project, construction finally began August 3 — only to abruptly stop a few hours later after a swarm of protesters, who had been sparring with police, toppled fences surrounding the park.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The delay was only supposed to last a few days, but the coalition fighting the university’s plans won an appeals court stay that will prevent construction until at least October.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lull hasn’t muted the contentious debate around a historic spot once hailed as “a trace of anarchist heaven on Earth” by former UC Berkeley professor Todd Gitlin and derided by former city Councilmember John DeBonis as a “hippie Disneyland.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park turned into a symbol of both resistance and mayhem during a deadly 1969 confrontation known as “Bloody Thursday,” emboldening then-California Gov. Ronald Reagan to send in 3,000 National Guard troops for a two-week occupation that evoked images of war in a city that was clamoring for peace in Vietnam.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Don Mitchell, whose father was a UC Berkeley professor during the 1969 uprising, views People’s Park as a social experiment worth saving, as more cookie-cutter communities get built in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11923879\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11923879\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"A person speaks into a mic in front of a university building and a sign for people's park\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS57527_002_KQED_PeoplesParkRally_08032022-qut.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">People’s Park supporters rally at Sproul Hall to protest the construction of UC Berkeley student housing at the park in Berkeley on Aug. 3, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it,” said Mitchell, a professor of human geography at Uppsala University in Sweden. “It’s a free and open space, a place where the rules of exclusion are very different. So people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That ethos has long made the park a way station for unhoused people, with scattered tent clusters and makeshift kitchens. Drug use and violence have helped spur support for the university’s development plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At Atmaa Das, 28, began spending time in People’s Park not long after leaving Alabama in 2014 and found his way there again a couple weeks after workers left behind construction equipment, now splattered with obscene graffiti — part of $1.5 million in recent protest damage, the university estimated. “I came here looking for the promised land and reckon I found it,” he said on a recent morning, strumming his guitar while singing parts of Woody Guthrie’s “This Land Is Your Land.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Don Mitchell, professor, Uppsala University in Sweden\"]‘People’s Park has always been a place that was made and regulated by the people who use it … so people who were poor, people who didn’t have housing, people who didn’t fit into dominant society in all sorts of different ways could find a space there. And many did.’[/pullquote]University officials say they are sympathetic to both the park’s heritage and the needs of unhoused people who have lived there since another set of fences surrounding the property were removed in 1972.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The school and city \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/rodewayinn\">moved dozens of unhoused people into a motel\u003c/a> as part of an $8 million relocation initiative, and officials promised to \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/new-park\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">keep most of the site as open space\u003c/a>. The school also hired award-winning architect \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/history-commemoration\">Walter Hood to design a memorial\u003c/a> celebrating its history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our plan will meet multiple interests to preserve the park, create urgently needed student housing, and provide permanent housing for unhoused and low-income individuals,” UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ wrote in an email sent to university alumni and other supporters earlier this week. University spokesperson Dan Mogulof declined a request to interview Christ.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Not even People’s Park supporters dispute more affordable housing is needed — the median sales price for \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-priceshttps://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/real-estate/bay-area-home-prices.\">a home near the university is $1.5 million\u003c/a>. But critics blame mismanagement for the crisis and contend the university could build on its other property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922966\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922966\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg\" alt='A sign outside that reads \"Peoples Park\" with tents outside.' width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/RS47370_036_Berkeley_PeoplesPark_02192021-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign says ‘Save Peoples Park, No More Buildings’ at People’s Park in Berkeley on Feb. 19, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Under a 2005 long-range plan, UC Berkeley estimated enrollment at 33,000 students by 2020. Instead, it had about 43,000 students that year and expects roughly 45,000 this academic year — with only 10,000 campus beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring shortage is mainly why city officials back the university’s plan, including city Councilmember Rigel Robinson, who represents the People’s Park area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a powerful symbol of resistance against government oppression, but it has since become a symbol of something else entirely: our failure as a region to respond to the housing crisis,” Robinson said. “The time has come to turn the page.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month’s protests showed that a significant part of Berkeley isn’t ready to let go, mainly because of what the park has come to symbolize since UC Berkeley seized it for $1.3 million in 1968 under eminent domain and demolished homes there. After citing a need for an intramural soccer field, the school instead let the site deteriorate into a muddy mess mostly used for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boilermaker Michael Delacour led a grassroots group to plant vegetation, turning the eyesore into a community magnet, UC Berkeley decided to fence it off on May 15, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set the stage for rebellion. At a rally outside UC Berkeley’s administration building, incoming student body President Dan Siegel urged the crowd to “take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the issues now are like 1969,” said Siegel, now a lawyer in nearby Oakland. “People’s Park is both a park and a symbol of activism that is worthy of protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infamous 1969 clash between hundreds of police, some of them dubbed “Blue Meanies,” and protesters became a flashpoint in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. During the hours-long melee, police fatally shot a man standing on a rooftop and blinded another who was struck in the face with bird shot. Dozens of protesters were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. The demonstrators were part of a group of 30,000 Berkeley residents, of a total population of 100,000, who gathered and marched to protest the May 15 killing by police of an unarmed spectator at an earlier demonstration and the subsequent occupation of their city by the National Guard. \u003ccite>(David Fenton/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Then Reagan, who had vowed “to clean up the mess in Berkeley” during his victorious 1966 gubernatorial campaign, called in military troops. Before an uneasy truce was reached May 30, 1969, hundreds more were arrested, and, in another infamous moment, an Army helicopter sprayed a crowd with what authorities called tear gas but others insisted was an even more dangerous substance.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some of Reagan’s detractors still believe he deliberately deployed strong-arm tactics to establish himself as a law-and-order leader while pursuing a political agenda that led to his 1980 election as president.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Harvey Smith, president of the People’s Park Historic District Advocacy Group that is spearheading the legal fight for preservation, likens UC Berkeley’s plan to Reagan’s 1969 crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Reagan “wanted to wipe out the social and political history of Berkeley and now the university is carrying it forward,” Smith said on August 3 while construction crews used bulldozers and buzz saws to topple most of the park’s trees, including some that predated the school’s purchase 54 years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The clear-cutting depressed Bertha Jones, who lived in People’s Park for several years before accepting the university’s offer to move into a nearby Rodeway Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My grandparents got married at one of those trees. My mom got married at one of those trees,” Jones, 43, said. “I wanted to keep the tradition going, but obviously that isn’t going to work out now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other former People’s Park inhabitants said they moved into the motel reluctantly, though they like having their own bed and bathroom. What they don’t like is not being given room keys, or being banned from leaving the premises from midnight to 6 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After spending most of his time in People’s Park for seven years, Eric Morales moved in early June to the Rodeway Inn with his dog, Bonita. But he will always consider People’s Park home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s not like any other park,” Morales, 54, said. “You can go to other parks and you say hi and bye, then you won’t ever see them again. But People’s Park is a community, you know? We are a family.”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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Instead, it had about 43,000 students that year and expects roughly 45,000 this academic year — with only 10,000 campus beds.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The glaring shortage is mainly why city officials back the university’s plan, including city Councilmember Rigel Robinson, who represents the People’s Park area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park has been a powerful symbol of resistance against government oppression, but it has since become a symbol of something else entirely: our failure as a region to respond to the housing crisis,” Robinson said. “The time has come to turn the page.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this month’s protests showed that a significant part of Berkeley isn’t ready to let go, mainly because of what the park has come to symbolize since UC Berkeley seized it for $1.3 million in 1968 under eminent domain and demolished homes there. After citing a need for an intramural soccer field, the school instead let the site deteriorate into a muddy mess mostly used for parking.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After boilermaker Michael Delacour led a grassroots group to plant vegetation, turning the eyesore into a community magnet, UC Berkeley decided to fence it off on May 15, 1969.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That set the stage for rebellion. At a rally outside UC Berkeley’s administration building, incoming student body President Dan Siegel urged the crowd to “take the park.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the issues now are like 1969,” said Siegel, now a lawyer in nearby Oakland. “People’s Park is both a park and a symbol of activism that is worthy of protection.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The infamous 1969 clash between hundreds of police, some of them dubbed “Blue Meanies,” and protesters became a flashpoint in the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements. During the hours-long melee, police fatally shot a man standing on a rooftop and blinded another who was struck in the face with bird shot. Dozens of protesters were wounded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11922963\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11922963\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of several people standing outside behind barbed wire.\" width=\"1024\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-800x543.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-1020x692.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2022/08/GettyImages-72160036-160x109.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators place flowers on a barbed wire fence in People’s Park on the UC Berkeley campus, May 30, 1969. 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