Nate is an East Bay community papers editor for the East Bay Times and Bay Area News Group.
A century ago, on July 10, 1924, the Berkeley Manufacturers Association made a presentation to the city Planning Commission to ask that the city extend Seventh Street south of Folger Street into Emeryville.Berkeley, a Look Back: High school’s largest class ever graduates in 1924
That meant many of Berkeley’s rich movers and shakers came to see West Berkeley as a place for industrial development, not homes. They were fiercely protective of their own residential neighborhoods but could be quite indifferent to the impact on people living near their factories elsewhere in town. The evidence is seen today at Dwight Way and Seventh, where Dwight Crescent extends one block diagonally to the westto Sixth Street, which then becomes the main thoroughfare instead of Seventh.On July 11, 1924, William H. Rees, the manager of the El Dorado Oil Works, offered the city of Berkeley a “willow grove and adjoining land which will make a pond park as large as Lake Orinda.”
The facility would include a space that could seat 300, a room for “educational purposes” and a social room with an adjacent kitchen. The Tilden Lumber Co. facility at the foot of University Avenue caught fire, possibly from arson, on July 9 that year. Fire crews fought the blaze for more than 10 hours.
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