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Looking northeast in 1924 at the corner of Berkeley’s Adeline and Russell streets, seen Monday, three blocks of Southern Pacific railroad freight yards would have extended in front of you. South Berkeley residents a century ago urged the City Council to take steps toward moving the freight yards.
As downtown business development progressed, merchants and the city pressured the Southern Pacific Railroad to abandon the downtown freight yard. The yard was moved early in the 20th century to a sparsely developed part of South Berkeley, a triangle between Adeline and Shattuck bordered to the north by Ward Street and to the south by Russell Street.
Officials noted at the meeting that three Berkeley businesses received more than 80% of the freight deliveries at the yards and that some business representatives wanted Adeline to be developed into a commercial, not industrial, district.Across town, West Berkeley residents started an effort to block use of the Berkeley waterfront as a dump. Berkeley had recently ended use of an incinerator for municipal garbage disposal and had started dumping the waste in the bay.
Twenty-seven private beds and a larger ward would increase the hospital’s total capacity to nearly 100 in-patients. The old Herrick Hospital is today part of the Sutter Health complex in central Berkeley, along Dwight Way east of Milvia Street.On March 14, 1924, President Calvin Coolidge nominated California Supreme Court Chief Justice Curtis D. Wilbur secretary of the U.S. Navy.
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