Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
A century ago, on June 23, 1924, Berkeley Chamber of Commerce secretary Charles Keeler was advocating for the creation of permanent park land in the Berkeley hills.Keeler spoke at a San Francisco gathering of “commercial secretaries” representing Bay Area Chamber of Commerce and business organizations.
He described a proposal to build a “President’s Highway” that would start at the Presidio, run south through western San Francisco, along the Peninsula to Santa Cruz, then circle back across San Jose to the East Bay, northward to San Pablo, then across the bay to Marin around Mount Tamalpais, and down to the Golden Gate. That this vision statement by Keeler came a decade before the formal establishment of the East Bay Regional Parks District in 1934 is interesting.
“The steady encroachment of home building by wealthy residents of Oakland and Berkeley upon the Claremont hills has steadily obliterated what was but a few years ago one of the most famous stock breeding ranches in Central California,” the Gazette reported. The Berkeley Daily Gazette reported June 14, 1924, that the “old Claremont Ranch,” the last nonresidential property in the city’s Claremont district, would be sold and developed with upscale housing. On June 14, 1924, the paper reported “Miss Katherine Isaacson, age 25, employed as a maid in the home of Mrs. M.M. McLaughlin, 2703 Forest Avenue, committed suicide last night by hanging herself on the rear porch of a vacant house at 2709 Forest Avenue.
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