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Terry and Lenore Doran Memorial Parklet

TERRY and LENORE DORAN MEMORIAL PARKLET Terry Stephan Doran (1/26/1943-1/1/2012) Father, Educator, Humanitarian. "Nothing is too good for the working man" Lenore Merzon Doran (9/21/1943-2/15/2021)...

TERRY and LENORE DORAN MEMORIAL PARKLET Terry Stephan Doran (1/26/1943-1/1/2012) Father, Educator, Humanitarian. "Nothing is too good for the working man" Lenore Merzon Doran (9/21/1943-2/15/2021)...

  • homemade cafe
  • doran
  • berkeley

Northern Boundary of Rancho San Antonio

There's an earlier Read the Plaque entry that shows the reverse side of this marker, on San Pablo Avenue, right in front of the Wells Fargo Bank branch next to El Cerrito Plaza. To be honest, I...

There's an earlier Read the Plaque entry that shows the reverse side of this marker, on San Pablo Avenue, right in front of the Wells Fargo Bank branch next to El Cerrito Plaza. To be honest, I...

  • east bay
  • albany
  • berkeley
  • oakland
  • california
  • land grants
  • rancho san antonio

Berkeley's First Pocket Park

So, someone's having a little fun in North Berkeley (and perhaps beyond), posting a series of what I'd call parody or guerrilla plaquelets. This one is outside the Peet's on Solano Avenue and...

So, someone's having a little fun in North Berkeley (and perhaps beyond), posting a series of what I'd call parody or guerrilla plaquelets. This one is outside the Peet's on Solano Avenue...

  • berkeley
  • california
  • san francisc...
  • guerrilla plaques

Berkeley's 'Shortest Road'

A North Berkeley "guerrilla plaquelet." (Other examples here: on Solano Avenue and outside the North Berkeley branch library.) The Shortest Road North St.   On this spot, thus begins the shortest...

A North Berkeley "guerrilla plaquelet." (Other examples here: on Solano Avenue and outside the North Berkeley branch library.) The Shortest Road North St.   On this spot, thus begins the...

  • berkeley
  • north berkeley
  • guerrilla plaques

North Berkeley (Redacted) Guerrilla Plaque

One of a series of parody mini-plaques that have appeared in North Berkeley neighborhoods in the spring of 2019 (I hadn't noticed them before that, anyway). Other examples on Solano Avenue and at...

One of a series of parody mini-plaques that have appeared in North Berkeley neighborhoods in the spring of 2019 (I hadn't noticed them before that, anyway). Other examples on Solano Avenue and...

  • berkeley
  • north berkeley
  • guerrilla plaques

Let Us Never Again Fear Our Neighbors

  • concentration camps
  • wwii
  • internment
  • berkeley
  • borucki

Donald C. Lawton Park

  • 1994
  • berkeley
  • our good neighbor

Founders Rock

FOUNDERS ROCK COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA APRIL 16, 1860 INSCRIBED MAY 9, 1896

FOUNDERS ROCK COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA APRIL 16, 1860 INSCRIBED MAY 9, 1896

  • cal
  • bay area
  • berkeley
  • 1860

Carrie Hoyt

  • 1941
  • berkeley
  • first woman mayor

Cambridge Apartments

  • berkeley
  • durant
  • ratcliff jr
  • ratcliff
  • lineweaver