Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
Holiday shoppers looking for chic new living room furniture could buy this set at Berkeley’s Ashby Furniture Co., as seen in the Dec. 12, 1924, Berkeley Daily Gazette.A century ago, in early December 1924, the Berkeley City Council concluded a long-running local zoning dispute. The issue was residential versus industrial zoning along the Santa Fe Railroad tracks that ran diagonally across West and Central Berkeley.
Councilman M.B. Driver was the lone “no” vote and argued that factories should be built along the railroad though Central Berkeley. Mayor Frank Stringham, Carrie Hoyt and Agnes Moody, the two women on the council, argued that the area “had already begun its development as a residential area, it should be allowed to continue and that the natural place for factories is along the West Berkeley waterfront.
Another speaker asserted that when the railroad bought the right of way it didn’t intend factories along the route but “was interested solely in the development of Emeryville and wanted to tap this rich manufacturing area.”“Berkeley Downtown Merchants Urge Gift Buying,” proclaimed the Berkeley Downtown Association in the Dec. 12, 2024 Gazette.
Berkeley Jewelers were promoting diamond rings for Christmas, while the F.L. Butterfield home furnishings store on Shattuck suggested a gas range for the lady of the house or at least cut glass tumblers or a 50-piece set of dishes.
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