Streets of Berkeley in 1969
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2013
- This is 16mm film shot by my father in 1969 of Telegraph and Shattuck avenues in Berkeley, CA.
For video geeks:
- Originally shot with 16mm Beaulieu R16
- Scanned as 2K DPX (2048 x 1536) @ 24fps
- Videos created with Adobe CS6 (PP, AE, EN, AU, SG)
- No filters or adjustments applied except for Adobe warp stabilizer
- Encoded using Premiere Pro preset: H.264 UA-cam 1080p (1920 x 1080) @ 23.976fps
This is the wonder of youtube. A random library of Americana. I recognize nearly every shot in your father's video, having grown up there. In fact, saw that very movie The Reivers (starring Steve McQueen) at that very theater right at that time. It's very special to see this. Your father did a nice job filming. Wonderful musical score you added. Thanks so much for sharing and posting this!
I too am born and raised in Berkeley. This warms my heart, yet chills my spine because I know it will never be the same. As a native of the most free thinking community on earth, we can't just ride these changes out, let alone embrace the change, we must become the changes we seek. So many people and places gone, but the most beautiful songs in their spirits were given to us freely, and we must carry them as torches for all to see.
In 1969 I was a Cal student and lived above La Fiesta on Telegraph and Haste. This was a wonderful stroll down memory lane for me. Thanks for sharing this footage!
Oh cool, you lived in the Sequoia Apartments? I had a friend who lived there when I was at Cal in the '80s. That was when the Berkeley Inn was still there too, right across the street! My friends and I used to eat at La Fiesta all the time. I wish it was still there, such tasty food. The owners retired in 2009 or so. The place became "Remy's", moved, and subsequently closed altogether. And sadly, the next year, in late 2011, there was a terrible fire and the Sequoia had to be demolished. The building they put up in its place is predictably bland and ugly.
Wow. I was the delivery boy for Berkeley Market in 1978, my first job. Lots of memories here.
For those of you who wanted to know the music in the video...
Remains from the Past - Grigor Iliev
Sleep Away - Bob Acri
Photo theme: Window like - Antony Raijekov
wonderful, thanks for posting this !!
YES!!! THANK YOU!!!
Thank you so much for posting these so nostalgic films. And the music really added to the feeling.
My family are English but I still find this very evocative.
During the sixties my Dad worked for BOAC/Bahamas Airways and in 68 or 69 when I was five or six we used some travel allowance to fly up from Nassau to Vancouver to visit my Mum's aunt.
We stopped over in San Fransisco and hired a car to look around. My Dad took us into Haight Ashbury to see what was going on even though my parents were anything BUT hippies. He took quite a bit of 8mm which still hasn't been digitised but I am quite sure it hasn't deteriorated.
Looking at stuff like this makes me feel like I really must get it done soon.
This is such a great transfer and the film was shot very well. The music is also really great.
I lived at 2222 Durant a couple blocks off Telegraph, 1969-71. Escaped from Van Nuys for UC Berkeley. An adventure for me, new friends and a changing lifestyle. Politics, Holy Hubert, pot and even a little therapy. The birthplace of my nostalgia.
Wow, thanks for all the comments! I'll post the names of the songs when I can get back into Premiere Pro... my monitor stopped working yesterday and I have a new one on order. Of course I remember Unison World!
My dad used to take us to the Mediterranean coffee joint on Telegraph in the 60's and 70's. I remember being nervous when I was around 10 walking up the street and smelling weed and my dad asked me what was wrong and I said I was afraid someone would inject me with heroin 😆. He said "no one's going to waste their drugs or money injecting you with heroin!"
The Med, as people called it :)
@@frankyu553 Lots of political meetings at the Med.
Thanks for posting this, I live in Berkeley now and its fascinating to see what it looked like back in the day. This was shot 9 years before I was born so I sadly missed out on the amazing things going on here in the sixties.
for Mugg Muggles et al: I returned to Berkeley just after this was filmed (JAN 70) following my stint in the US Army (Korea) - first place I went was likely the brand new Freight & Salvage Music Coffeehouse on San Pablo, where I met many many friends. I busked in front of Pepes Pizza in 1964, as I was first learning a bit of guitar and music playing. This film clip brought back many many memories, fuelling my memoir ideas. Thank you Fred & "Dad" very much sharing. db
Was there several times on Telegraph and University around 1969. Remember one afternoon walking by this black guy on the east side of Telegraph standing/playing an acoustic who seemed to know every Jimi Hendrix lick like he had dropped the needle on vinyl a thousand times. A friend took me up to Strawberry Canyon tree house one day. Sweet time at Xanadu Palace on University, I think that's what it was called. Christmas time no less, innocent commercialism, what a feeling. Despite the Vietnam War, looking back on those days, there was hope. The film is so alive, with all the casual angles and subjects, like a stream of unashamed consciousness. Love the music too, has an aura, as we used to say. Truly an unusual and talented cinemagraphic experience. I watched it the first time at 1.25 speed, not realizing it. It's even more interesting x 1.25. Sure it was your dad who shot this? My mom used to look in the lens of her 9 mm to see how much film was left, as lots of people did in those days, and the eye at 4:38-44 is a woman's eye, unless your dad was part of the SF trans curve.
This is awesome. I've left my heart in Berkeley.
Wonderful! I graduated in 2016 and I barely recognize any of the signs on Telegraph, save for Moe's. That other bookstore that became the Rasputin overflow looked amazing in '69.
I was playing with an 8mm movie camera at about the same time. Great work! The old cars really take you back . . .
I live in Berkeley and it's interesting to see it as it was back then. Moe's on Telegraph is still here but Cody's bookstore on the corner at 0:49 closed a number of years ago, as did Cafe Med in 2016. The United Artists theater on Shattuck is still there but is temporarily closed.
This is great. I lived in Berkeley at the time this film was shot. Great images. Thanks for this!!!
Zedwoman were you on the Socrateses patrol station?)
Some great architectural gems in this video. Many American cities large and small had great charm in the 60's, but there was also a lot of older, rundown drab sights to go with it. One California city that has retained much of it s charm is San Luis Obispo, as well as Santa Barbara. While Sunset Blvd from West Hollywood to Beverly Hills has been 95% remodeled or rebuilt in the last 40 years.
I wish it were like this now, for a day, a week maybe even a month. Such a wonderful treasure, thanks for sharing.
The Headdog Wouldn’t that be something! I came of age in Berkeley in the 60s and can still smell the incense and hear Buffalo Springfield’s For What It’s Worth, hear the bell necklaces tinkling as we walked, remember the sunlight filtering through Pooh’s Corner on campus. Oh yeah, and drinking espresso at the Mediterranean wreathed in a cigarette smoke! Folks these days would probably be horrified! 🌈❤️✌🏼
"Free The Park" - they're still saying that today in 2022!
love these old home videos... time capsules that feed my imagination whilst listening to the bands from then and there ♥️✌️💀🌹
Remember Larry Blake's on Telegraph with great fondness.
Their French Dip sandwiches were awesome - as was their famous salad dressing.
Spent many an hour in the Rathskeller sipping beer and reading beat poetry.
Fond memories indeed!
👍👍👍
This is absolutely marvelous - thanks for posting!
Gosh, so elegant, clean and cosmopolitan. When I walked these streets in the late 90s for college, it was an entirely different experience.
great post Fred. your dad would be proud. I lived in Berkeley and worked at Rasputin Records on Telegraph Ave.
I visited Berkeley in early 1969 and remember going into a record store where they had listening booths. It was the first time I'd ever seen them. I wonder if it was the one you worked at. I stayed at Eddie Mahoney's apartment. He eventually changed his last name to "Money", and I've always wondered where his apartment was. It was all so long ago, but I have such great memories of that trip!
@@chikkipop I knew Eddie M. in 1971 because I worked with his then-girlfriend at Leopold's Records, Students of Berkeley coop.
Looks like we all love the music. Please share.
Nice little art film-thank your dad for me. I got here about two years after this was made.
its surreal. i grew up walking this street and it basically looks the same
Thanks, especially for the opening part. I was there then, helped build People’s Park. Busted THERE for rioting. Busted THERE for drugs. Crashed THERE out of my head on PCP. Fun times.
Beautiful! He was there early on Telegraph-so empty and quiet. La Fiesta! Pepe’s! Moe’s Books! Cody’s! “Save the Park” poster. I helped pull up a portion of the cement at People’s Park. Ate at La Fiesta. Whatever else happened at that time, many people were moved by a shared vision. Shattuck was where we went with Auntie to eat French Dip at Edies and shop for fishnet stockings at Hinks. Thank you for these lovely movies. Not shot on an iPhone! 😉
Thanks for reminding me of those wonderful sandwiches at Edy's and good times at Hink's Department Store! I'd always go there with my Mom and Grandma back in the 70s....
Thank you! This just knocks me out.
hey there fellow BHS grad of '71. a mutual friend of Jeff Fentress.
I was there at that time, I was a 12 skateboarding punk... I know everyone of those places... all the best ones are gone....Robbie's Cafe, Mario's, etc.
My hometown! Glad this was captured!
Thanks very much!! Awesome music with it as well!
Thanks for sharing this. Great stuff.
This is great! I went to middle and high school in Berkeley. It's crazy to see how much it's changed.
Magnificent editing and music!
This was really rad. Thanks for the share.
This is really cool. The roads you see in this video are the exact same roads I drive on in 2021. No seriously - like literally - I don't think they have been repaved for 50+ years.
This is amazing! Thank you. I grew up in the area.
Thanks Fred for the footage.. It was See's Candies across the street from Palmers Cameras. It was the hub for transferring bus lines. I remember an older Gent always selling newspapers on the corner Rain or Shine. Can you imagine the in cove at Hinks now? This was my first year at BHS and wouldn't trade it for anything!
Thanks for posting!
Great image quality.
Thank you. This is wonderful.
Love the film and the music choice!
Berkeley just as I remember it when I first came in 1969. Wow!
Nostalgic... I grew up in these streets in the 90's. Haste St, but most memorable Ellsworth St right next to UC Berkeley. It's so different now.
That's where I live, at the corner of Ellsworth and Durant. The sporting goods store on the corner of Ellsworth and Bancroft closed a couple of years ago.
@@videomaniac108 Didn't know they had closed. The Indra Bhavan building at the other corner still stands, there also used to be preschool to what now is a parking structure, used to live right in front.
The world was such a NICE place before the massive throngs and crowds of people started appearing ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Anna Purna opened in 1969.
magic, thank you for sharing ❤️
thanks for posting
Thanks for posting, Fred! Nice music too. Can you post the names of the pieces?
Thnak you! Just pure poetry! Whats the music?
Man I miss those days! so familiar!
March 202i--you would barely recognize Telegraph Ave. Cody's Bookstore, Shakespeare Bookstore--both closed. Irv's Shoe Repair, Pepi's--long since gone. A huge hole in the ground at the corner of Telegraph & Haste that had been there for more than 30+ years was finally developed into a residential building. A fire destroyed a building on the corner of Telegraph & Dwight Way about 6 years ago. Mediterranean Restaurant that had been a fixture for at least before 1990--had closed down. Moe's Bookstore still open.
That hole at Telegraph and Haste was once a big red brick hotel called The Berkeley Inn. You can see it briefly in this film at :37, on the right side of the street--the sign is clearly visible. The building on the left across the street from it was the Sequoia Apartments, circa 1916, which burned down in 2011. The ground floor had Cafe Intermezzo and Mario's La Fiesta and a great burger place, all much missed. I'm still shocked that Cafe Mediterranium is gone. That place was a legend since the 1950s. The original beatniks used to hang there. So sad.
@@denverdubois5835 I used to hang at the Med, too, in 1969.
This is breathtaking. 🌹
Who would of thought this looks like Heaven
wow. i love this so much.
Awesome! TY!
which music is featured?
The music is 💯🔥🔥
Very very cool footage. Thanks for sharing. What’s the music piece? It’s very good. Thanks.
I love the music too...
Remains from the Past - Grigor Iliev
Sleep Away - Bob Acri
Photo theme: Window like - Antony Raijekov
This was so nice watch! I was a kid in Europe then. Now that I live in North America this becomes so meaningful.
An $18.99 dress in 1969 @5:52 would be valued at $135 in 2021 dollars.
Love the music 🎶 too.
On the corner of Shattuck and University, there's a UC Theatre marquis. (At the site of the old MacFarlane's Ice Cream, or rather the future MacFarlane's) Does anyone know about an extra one? I don't recall ever seeing that.
thank you
My Dad delivered Liquid Oxygen and Liquid Nitrogen to UC Berkeley when he worked for Pacific Oxygen Company.
This is scary to me.
1:00 Moe’s Books!! 🔥📘
I lived in Berkeley in 1969 on Walnut Street in a communal household. But I spent that Christmas in Queens, New York.
i live on this street!!! wow!, such a view
I’m now in Berkeley. The area back then was not much different from what it looks like today!
I was a TA at Cal that summer. It was very vibrant, lots going on and much of it not so great.
So much history.
So many things look the same!
I'm not sure if I saw Larry Blake's or the Berkeley Inn in the movie, was it there?
Yes, Berkeley Inn at :37, I think I saw Larry Blake's as well.
Everyday American history. Thanks for posting.
watching the video was like "home cooking"
Hink's at 3:53 !
Hink's!! Thanks for caring. Hink's!
Wow! you get to see the 'Mysery Machine' at 2:00 before Fred & Daphne painted it! (heh heh)
This is how I remember Berkeley.
I was born in 90 so this era well out my way but I remember Berkeley in the 90’s and 2000’s and man it was so different from how it is today
Before gentrification, in the 90’s and 2000’s they’re were still hippies and cool drug kids all crust punks on the streets
So many people selling cool stuff and just very strong alternative and indie vibe everywhere
Very communal and outdoorsy yet also punk indie and alternative
Think the band deelite meets mazzy star meets minor threat
The porn magazines at those underground magazine shops lol
Skateboarders
Then the whole hyphy vans movement on 06-07 blending rap culture with punk
It’s so different now
So corporate
A lot of the artists were either driven out or left
Sad really
The hippie movement from the 60’s stayed for so many decades but very recently seems to have finally let up
It
Last the 60’s 70’s 80’s 90’s 2000’s even 2010’s up till around 2018 then the bay art culture got purged
I wonder if it’ll ever be back to the true Bay Area ever again
I miss the memories I had of me and my sister hitting up magazine stores and rasputin and cafes and cool quirky Tibetan trinket stores you could get drugs from in the back if you knew a guy lol
Things just seemed very special
I feel every description u give
The rents in Berkeley rose in the mid 1990s and never really fell, even after the first dot com bubble burst around 2001. My sense is they plateaued for a few years after 2001, then rose again and again. Berkeley prior to about 1994 must have been a very interesting place to live as a young person. But even in the late 90s and early 2000s there were remnants of the 1960s counterculture in the city, such that by living there you could get a sense of what that time and place was like. I've not been back since 2009 or 2010, but my sense is that the remnants of this past are gone now. Even in 2010 it felt very different: cleaner, more corporate, more generic, like it had been spruced up by a committee for an event. I was there from 1997 to 2003 and very little changed during those 6 years. From what I remember, Berkeley was the same in 2003 as it was in 1997. I don't think you can find in the world a more beautiful city than Berkeley, California.
@@gltwn 😭
True
Makes me deeply sad
I’m from the bay born and raised and Berkeley has always been such a gem for me
One of the greatest places in the whole world in my opinion
And it rapidly changed in the course of a decade
If you think 2010 it was bad man you should see it now
Wayyyyy worse
2010 still had a sense of community and art indie culture
Now the street vagabonds are gone cause of the way they redesigned everything intentionally to make it hard to be there
So many new condos
Icis ice cream is gone
Lane splitter closed it’s best locations on Telegraph
Just doesn’t feel like the magical city it was
Lost its art and soul
Looks like Mr. Fisher's film class student project but well done.
Hinks !!
Cynthia Baker-Smith Hinks!
Socrates,s and Dan s places from "The Way of a Peaceful Warrior")
awesome neon world...i want to be here
Telegraph in the afternoon was lots of foot traffic with a culture of it's own.
I was and raised in Berkeley.
Born in Alta Bates on Telegraph Avenue and spent my first years at The Carlton Hotel above Blondies Pizza. Berkeley is who I am. This video truly exemplifies the beauty of my dear hometown. Today, police in riot gear pushed people out of their homes within Peoples Park, which should have been marked as a landmark years ago, yet the University of California Berkeley has decided to go the way of Ronald Reagan and destroy one of the truly free and last vestiges of an intellectual and free thinking society. So that students can live in closet spaced set-up shop condominiums the size of the road ridden drug dens of old for and arm and leg.
Instead of building nearby homes for the poor and seeing the forest for the trees, UC Berkeley has decided to build uniform shit-hole conformist closet dorms for the rich
over the bones of what made this city shine.
Fuck every single one of these awful people who would bulldoze an epicenter of critical thinking and freedom in favor of a corporate coffin kingdom.
Berkeley discovered that atom, dark matter and changed the world.
Our once beloved institution of brilliance has become a joyless junk yard of dead ideas;
a machine built to destroy itself.
I truly and sincerely pray with every inch of my being that this building is surrounded by headless zombies who talk about the weather and stab each other in the back while they gnaw at the grisly leftover viddles of their humanity.
These armor clad police people wouldn't know the meaning of freedom if it came on their face. Freedom is NOT a capitalist idea and being a slave to money does not make someone any less a slave. Berkeley, and more importantly Telegraph Avenue and People's Park are one of the greatest microcosms for conversational diversity and thought in the world. UC Berkeley has more than enough money and space to build outside of a place so important to those of us who grew up there.
I can understand if you disagree with me, but please understand that I am actually from here. I'm a Harvard alumnus and have a full-time job in Boston.
Imagine one of the most important places in your life being demolished for such a ridiculous reason as "A Multi Billion Dollar institution paid for by tax payers wants to put up a large condominium so that children can have easier walk to school then they have in the past 100 years." it's utterly ridiculous.
I truly pray that anyone in favor of this chokes on the rotten bits of Ronald Reagans bony cock.
Check out the price of the cheeseburgers. 85 cents
Has that Peanuts kind of a feel like a live action Peanuts special, just waiting for Snoopy to appear ;)
Woww even the mannequins were happier then.
16mm?
Just to add he might have felt something in common with the hippies because it was around this time that he was called up to go to Vietnam.
The reason was that in order to work in New York in the early sixties he had had to pledge allegiance to the flag to get a green card.
Because he had already done national service and had two small children he of course decided this was not necessary and went to a draft office in Miami to renounce whatever citizenship status he had at that stage.
Perhaps unfortunately for me this meant I may have lost one of my three nationalities when he did that.
Taken early in the morning?
The elegent Hinks Dept. Store Shattuck st
❤
WoW!
this is what the internet is good for, history.
Back when the LSD was still good
Telly is beige today ..