Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
A century ago, on May 19, 1924, the annual Berkeley Chamber of Commerce Fair and Automobile Show opened downtown. Based at the future civic center site at Allston Way and Milvia Street, the event drew 10,000 people, the Berkeley Daily Gazette estimated.“Aerial bombs, skyrockets and red fire touched off from the roofs of the YMCA building and the Pacific Gas and Electric Co. building preceded the formal opening exercises at 8:00 o’clock,” the paper reported.
Attendees then sang “Auld Lang Syne,” and Mrs. William Hale, the club’s president, offered a dedication that went, in part: “In rebuilding this clubhouse, the foundations of which have been strengthened with the stone that once formed our other fireplace, you are given the wonderful privilege of labor and love.
She then added to the contents of the stone “a brief history of the club, the constitution and by-laws, and such other records that might of interest to preserve. With these, I deposit this key which once opened to us those sheltering portals that are no more. … May it unlock to us a future bright with hope and inspiration.”A century ago, the American Legion was engaged in a fundraising campaign to remodel its new “American Legion Hall’ headquarters.
Seen in a clip from the Berkeley Daily Gazette, Berkeley’s red brick building at 1918 Bonita St., which is now 12 decades old, was scheduled to be remodeled into a local American Legion headquarters by fall 1924. A century ago this month, on May 16, 1924, the first Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad train to pass through Berkeley arrived in town. That same year the domed Santa Fe station was built on University Avenue, near Acton Street.
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