Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
Berkeley planned to celebrate Independence Day a century ago with festivities “similar to the kind that was prevalent in every town in California years ago and will be revived on a larger and more interesting scale by Berkeley this year,” the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported July 2, 1924.The celebration included a morning parade up Shattuck Avenue, down University Avenue and back to Berkeley High School, where musical entertainment was to be provided on the school playing field.
“She spoke chiefly to the naturalized citizens, the foreign-born, who, she said, were a vital part of the country’s organization, congratulating them for the fine work they had done.” This estimate was based on the city’s number of telephones in use. Remember that these were all “land lines” physically connected by wire. In June 1924, Berkeley had 18,388 telephones registered.Cross-country air mail service was inaugurated from San Francisco’s Crissy Field on July 1, 1924. The eastbound mail was expected to reach New York at about 5 p.m. July 2, while a westbound set of mail was scheduled to land in San Francisco close to 6 p.m. local time.
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