Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Livermore

 

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LL Lobby


Shiva LL website


LL event announcements


LL Shiva Laser, Los Angeles Times (1988)


https://web.archive.org/web/20230425231937/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-02-29-mn-207-story.html

Shiva laser, Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiva_laser

nearby Shiva-Vishnu Temple photos:
https://tinyurl.com/hxfa9w2h



LL to temple (2 miles)


LL to Altamont (6 miles)



Back in my undergraduate days I minored in Asian religions so I was able to identify the iconography in the poster as Shiva in his form as Ardhanarishvara where he and his consort Parvati are depicted as one being.


Dancing Shiva in his form as Nataraja (below)







Parvati



Parvati




Parvati




(BELOW) Ardhanarishvara  (Half Shiva / Half Parvati, Shiva-Shakti)









The Baby










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San Francisco

Breaking Story! 5/4/23





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Mt. Diablo from San Francisco
Jitze Couperus (2010)
CC by 2.0


Still the classic source on the historical and cultural origins of San Francisco:

The history of the Barbary Coast properly begins with the gold rush to California in 1849. If the precious yellow metal hadn't been discovered ... the development of San Francisco's underworld in all likelihood would have been indistinguishable from that of any other large American city. Instead, owing almost entirely to the influx of gold-seekers and the horde of gamblers, thieves, harlots, politicians, and other felonious parasites who battened upon them, there arose a unique criminal district that for almost seventy years was the scene of more viciousness and depravity, but which at the same time possessed more glamour, than any other area of vice and iniquity on the American continent. The Barbary Coast is Herbert Asbury's classic chronicle of the birth of San Francisco—a violent explosion from which the infant city emerged full-grown and raging wild. From all over the world practitioners of every vice stampeded for the blood and money of the gold fields. Gambling dens ran all day including Sundays. From noon to noon houses of prostitution offered girls of every age and race. (In the 1850s, San Francisco was home to only one woman for every thirty men. It was not until 1910 that the sexes achieved anything close to parity in their populations.) This is the story of the banditry, opium bouts, tong wars, and corruption, from the eureka at Sutter's Mill until the last bagnio closed its doors seventy years later.

The Barbary Coast: An Informal History of the San Francisco Underworld by Herbert Asbury

https://www.amazon.com/Barbary-Coast-Informal-Francisco-Underworld/dp/1560254084

borrow for free or search inside

https://openlibrary.org/books/OL6293499M/The_Barbary_coast?mode=all

William H. Brewer, Josiah Whitney’s principal botanical assistant on the State Geological
Survey, was exploring the mountain [Mt. Diablo] in May 1862

Brewer had some interesting observations along similar lines as Asbury's Barbary Coast. 

I had been invited to lecture in Stockton on the evening of April 10, and went up the night before, arriving that morning. I was well received, hospitably entertained, and had a good time generally—got tall puffs in the three daily papers for my lecture.

The State Lunatic Asylum is there, and as the trustees were to have a meeting, I was invited to go up, which I did, and spent several hours visiting the institution while they were transacting their business. There are more insane in this state, by far, in proportion to the whole population, than in any 260 other state in the Union. I need not dilate on the reasons. High mental excitement, desperate characters, disappointed hopes of miners, the unnatural mode of life incident to mining, separation of families, and the indiscretions and infidelity to the marriage vows incident to these separations—these and other reasons have produced this frightful result.

Up and down California in 1860-1864; the journal of William H. Brewer, edited by Francis P. Farquhar, preface by Russell H. Chittenden

The Gold Rush was kicked off and San Francisco was founded by Mormon pioneers and the Mormon Battalion (during the longest military march in U.S. history)

A Legacy More Precious than Gold, contributions of the Mormon Battalion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RkdA-UMGzw

Most people know about San Francisco’s architecture, steep hills, beautiful bridges and cable cars, but few know of a group of Mormon pioneers that arrived by ship in 1846 and helped build the city by the Bay.


Scott Onstott's Secrets in Plain Sight episode about San Francisco (11 min.), an esoteric analysis of SF's architecture and city planning.







Silicon Valley's Secret Weapon - The Shadow History of Burners Part 2 - Psyop & Presidio (2 hrs. 36 min.)

San Francisco began with the Presidio military base. The Church of Satan and Burning Man both started at its edges. It used to be the Command and Control Center of the Internet, as well as home to all kinds of "out there" military concepts like Projects GRILL FLAME and JEDI. It was a major earth base in Star Trek and the headquarters of Star Wars.



Silicon Valley’s Secret Weapon The Shadow History of Burners Pt 3 – Satan's Birthday Party (2 hours)

We take a look at Satanism, and its similarities to other ideologies such as Objectivism, Scientism, and Atheism. The Church of Satan began in San Francisco next to the Presidio, and so did Burning Man 20 years later.


Inside San Francisco's Abandoned Military Bunker Opened After 30 Years (13 min.)

Long-lost tunnel found in the Presidio
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Long-lost-tunnel-found-in-the-Presidio-3250161.php#photo-2398798

A Peek Inside The Secret Graffiti Tunnels Of San Francisco
https://secretsanfrancisco.com/a-peek-inside-the-secret-graffiti-tunnels-of-san-francisco/


August 19, 1964

1970s

Watch John Lennon and Yoko Ono ride a cable car in SF with Geraldo Rivera


Addresses of Interest:

Anton LaVey's Black House
6114 California St.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_House_(Church_of_Satan)

The Spooky History Of 6114 California Street, The Black House
https://hoodline.com/2016/10/the-spooky-history-of-6114-california-street-the-black-house/

The Spooky History of the Westerfield House
1198 Fulton St.
Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Anton LaVey (and his lions!), and many other interesting characters...

Graham Nash
Bobby McFerrin
731 Buena Vista Ave. West
(within short walking distance to Haight St. and Masonic Ave.)

Janis Joplin 
122 Lyon St. #3 
and 635 Ashbury St.

The Process Church:
407 Cole St.
1820 Oak Street
2416 Geary Street

https://pdfcoffee.com/chapter-from-the-family-pdf-free.html

Alleged Zodiac victim, Paul Stine
615 Cole St.
(accross the street and three doors down from Manson, below
1965 - 1966, and possibly part of '67
Late '67
1842 Fell St.

Manson Family's Haight-Ashbury House
636 Cole St.
https://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Manson%27s_Mansion

Introducing The Haight's Charles Manson House
https://hoodline.com/2014/10/introducing-the-haight-s-charles-manson-house/

The Manson Family's San Francisco connections (92 photos)
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/The-roots-of-evil-The-Manson-Family-s-SF-11078365.php#taboola-4

The "Jimi Hendrix House"
1524 Ashbury St.

The "Grateful Dead House"
710 Ashbury St.

Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane
2400 Fulton St.  

Sid Vicious and the Sex Pistols
32 Delmar St.

The debauched story of San Francisco’s most rock ‘n’ roll house, 2400 Fulton

The most famous (and infamous) houses of Haight-Ashbury

Photo tour of Haight-Ashbury
https://www.mansonblog.com/2017/05/tour-2017-haight-ashbury.html

Who's Who of the Haight-Ashbury Era
https://wild-bohemian.com/hip-dbf.htm


by stu_spivack - Haight Ashbury Free Medical ClinicUploaded by LongLiveRock, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9579306


Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic
558 Clayton St.

Abigail Folger volunteered here:
https://www.sfweekly.com/news/yesterdays-crimes-news/yesterdays-crimes-the-helter-skelter-heiress/

(My second husband's maternal grandmother from Massachusetts  is descended from the Macy's and the Folgers. So I was married to a not-too-distant cousin of Abigail Folger.)


Hunter S. Thompson's (still bullet-ridden) House
318 Parnassus Ave.


U.C.S.F. Medical Center
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UCSF_Medical_Center

400 Parnassus Ave.

Four of my siblings were born here.

This is also the location of Langley Porter Psychiatric Hospital.

One of my siblings was committed there for a number of weeks sometime around 1990 when I was about 20 and he was in Kindergarten or first or second grade.

I was also  taken by my parents to see a medical doctor at the UCSF Medical Center once when I was in high school. I was also there for my mom's prenatal visits and wellness checkups after my siblings were born. When I was in junior high and high school I used to love to go record store shopping on Haight St. When I went to go visit my mother and my newborn siblings at UCSF, or my brother when he was at Langley-Porter later on, I used to take the opportunity to walk to Haight St. to do some shopping. 

Andrew Weil who according to Wikipedia, graduated from high school in 1959 with a scholarship from the American Association for the United Nations, Weil began study at Harvard in 1960 alongside Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert During that time period he read The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley. After graduating in 1964 he entered Harvard Medical School and in his final year completed an internship at The University of California, San Francisco Medical Center from 1968 - 1969. During that time he was a volunteer at the Haight Ashbury Free Clinic.

Photo of Jolly West in San Francisco (1976):
https://theintercept.com/2019/11/24/cia-mkultra-louis-jolyon-west/

The C.I.A.'s critique of Tom O'Neill's book, Operation Chaos (2019), says that U.C.L.A.'s Jolly West was sent to San Francisco:











We know of West's ties to the C.I.A. and the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic but so far I haven't seen anyone else mention, or look into, Jolly West's ties to UCSF.

Some of Jolly West's ties to UCSF are listed in the Online Archive of California
https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c84j0hcd/entire_text/

The founder of the HAFMC was a post-graduate student at UCSF Medical Center. He talks about walking home from UCSF, "past the Haight."


CHAOS: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties (2019) by Tom O'Neill

That's another thing that I have never seen anyone notice, the proximity of the Haight to UCSF. I have no doubt the proximity of UCSF to the Haight is a major key in understanding the hidden networks behind the Haight-Ashbury scene.

Another location within walking distance to UCSF which raises questions (even shorter walking distance than the Haight) is Hunter S. Thompson's apartment. Thompson's apartment was 1 block from UCSF Medical Center.

Map

The neighborhood where UCSF and Thompson's former apartment are located, Parnassus Heights (400ft elev.), is a named after a mountain in Greece. There also used to be a Mt. Parnassus in San Francisco about 1 - 2 miles away but it was renamed Forest Hill (800ft elev.). 

According to a Greek website, this mountain of limestone in central Greece towers above Delphi, north of the Gulf of Corinth, and offers stunning views of the surrounding olive groves. According to Greek mythology, this mountain was sacred to Dionysus and the Dionysian mysteries; it was also sacred to Apollo and the Corycian nymphs, and it was the home of the Muses.




There is also a "Saturn Street" nearby, and Masonic Ave. is two blocks from Haight St.


Retired U.C. Davis Professor on Robin Williams and the Bay Area's "neuro-triangle," UCSF, UC Berkeley and Stanford.



UCSF Apologizes for Prisoner Experiments



UCSF Caught Hiding Public Records About Its Research Using Ab0rted Baby Parts
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/06/08/university-caught-hiding-public-records-about-its-research-using-aborted-baby-parts/

UCSF Caught Harvesting Genitalia From Ab0rted Babies for Research
https://www.lifenews.com/2021/07/06/university-caught-harvesting-genitalia-from-aborted-babies-for-research/

UCSF accused of 'callous' experiments' on ab0rted babies, harvesting genitals
https://www.christianpost.com/news/ucsf-accused-of-callous-experiments-on-aborted-fetuses.html

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Sunday, April 23, 2023

Introduction / preview of upcoming episodes / Places of Interest / cast of characters (partial):

 Places of Interest / cast of characters we will explore in future episodes (partial):

I will be pinning each one of these videos and their "show notes" to the corresponding locations on Google Earth:

https://earth.google.com/web/@37.73757565,-121.8420865,186.65440416a,94988.28603895d,30y,0h,0.00000023t,0r/data=MikKJwolCiExZ2pqQnRmb2tNelVhLTNOcU1BdEg3LW9sZWRxNW9NMmUgAToDCgEw?authuser=0


EAST BAY

Dublin (Alameda Co.) My Dad maintained an office across the street from the Army base for 20 years. I worked full time for my Dad at that office for at least 2 years, during that time I was working there the base was a substation of Ft. Lewis, WA ( where Lt. Col. Jim Channon (Delta F0rce, wrote FEB manual). Dublin is the location where Army Lt. Col. Grady McMurtry resurrects Crowley's church of Thelema from near-extinction,  J. Podesta's daughter, episodes of Mythbusters filmed on Army base  

Livermore (Alameda Co.) DOE, labs, labs, labs including Lawrence, Sandia, GE, FCC listening post, and numerous other agencies, Edward Teller (real life Dr. Strangelove) and I would argue real life Stranger Things,  Altamont free concert, husband's maternal grandfather worked at LL. Took mother-in-law to Altamont, Grady McMurtry's wife was a teacher at Livermore High School. Husband's maternal grandmother was also a teacher there during the same time period. Old town of Tesla and Carnegie near where Tesla Motors is now located. Shiva statue in LL, Shiva laser, Shiva temple nearby. Shiva on the Altamont poster. Was East Bay punk / 3rd wave punk created by the DOE?

Pleasanton (Alameda Co.) Sirhan seen three days before RFK , Hearst mansion at Castlewood, mystery of the East Bay walls

Sunol (Alameda Co.) David Silvey's book, Arthichoke, biker gangs, Sunol water temple

Niles Canyon (Alameda Co.) Hollywood before Hollywood, Secret Sidewalk

San Ramon (Contra Costa Co.) Jack Parsons' company Aerojet attempted to launch the US Space program in the town where I grew up, NIKE missile base, Crash of Flight 773 in the 1960s is important, my best friend in 6th and 7th grade was the granddaughter of U.C. Berkeley president (during the riots in the1960s) Clark Kerr 

Blackhawk (Contra Costa Co.) One of my sister's best friends in high school was the granddaughter of real estate developer and Seattle Seahawks owner, Ken Behring  

Danville (Contra Costa Co.) The time I almost accidentally killed James Bond (Pierce Brosnan), lol. 

Alamo (Contra Costa Co.) Ssecret passageway in my high school friend's old money mansion..

Diablo (Contra Costa Co.) "arguably the highest of the high-end East Bay enclaves"

Walnut Creek (Contra Costa Co.) Joint Genome Inst., and where one of the members of the Grateful Dead lived for a long time. The location of some of their shows in that town are noteworthy..

Concord (Contra Costa Co.) Navy base, and all of the high strangeness surrounding it including, P. Hearst held within walking distance, SLA b0mbing, Paperclip community

Port Chicago (Contra Costa Co.) b0mb before the b0mb, A town wiped off the map by The Hidden Grove and the Manhattan Project magicians.

Byron (Contra Costa Co.) former POW camp

Martinez (Contra Costa Co.) Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe, John Muir

Hercules (Contra Costa Co.) Jack Parsons employed at the Hercules Powder Co.

Berkeley and U.C. Berkeley (Alameda Co.) Natl. Lab, underground facilities, Alice Waters, 

Oakland (Alameda Co.)

Lafayette (Contra Costa Co.) Sasha Shulgin, Glenn Seaborg, the Purple People, my second husband's grandfather, descendant of the Boston Brahmin Cooper family (invented the score mark on pharmaceutical pills. My second husband, is also a descendant of the Folgers and the Macys) my best friend in High School was the granddaughter of actor and composer Frank De Vol 

Moraga (Contra Costa Co.) Tony Po (allegedly the real-life Col. Kurtz) graduated from St. Mary's College

Orinda (Contra Costa Co.) Stanley Owsley and Mellissa Cargill

Canyon (Contra Costa Co.) E. First headquarters

SOUTH BAY

San Jose (Santa Clara Co.) Sidney Gottlieb obtained a degree at San Jose State, Rosicrucian Park is the headquarters of the English Grand Lodge for the Americas of the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis, The Truth Behind the Winchester Mystery House Albino Cannibals of Hicks Rd.

Palo Alto (Santa Clara Co.) When I went to graduate school in Palo Alto we were studying qualitative versus quantitative research methodologies. One of my professors in research methodologies was Dianne Jenett. She brought her husband, Ed May, in one day to give a talk about qualitative research methodologies used at SRI.

Menlo Park (San Mateo Co.) SRI

Moffet Field (Santa Clara County, next to Mountain View)

Mountain View (Santa Clara Co.) G00gle, NASA

Stanford University (Santa Clara Co.) "Frenchman's Tower" on the land that later became Stanford University. Jack Parsons was accepted to Stanford but couldn't afford to attend. My sister died at Stanford on 11/22/73, the ten year anniversary of the deaths of JFK, Aldous Huxley and C.S. Lewis

NORTH BAY

San Rafael (Marin Co.) Personal anecdotes about Ram Dass and Susan Sarandon
Sausalito (Marin Co,) Billy Hitchcock, Fleetwood Mac, Shel Silverstein
Petaluma (Sonoma County) Polly Klass, W. Ryder
Santa Rosa (Sonoma Co,) Alfred Hitchcock film, Shadow of a Doubt, mostly filmed on location in August of 1942. Hitchcock's favorite film of all the films he had made. I lived there for 5 years.
Bodega Bay (Sonoma Co.) Where Hitchcock's The Birds was filmed
Monte Rio (Sonoma Co.) current location of the Bohemian Grove

(northeast Bay)
Vallejo (Solano Co.) Navy, Zodiac
Vacaville (Solano Co.) My husband's great-grandfather was the head of the Masonic Lodge in Vacaville.
Vacaville Medical Facility (C. Manson, B. Beausoleil, D. Defreeze, T. Leary), next to Air Force base 

WEST BAY

San Francisco & the Peninsula

The Peninsula

Woodside (San Mateo Co.) Shirley Temple 

San Francisco (San Francisco Co.)

The Presidio (Mikhail Gorbachev)
Marjorie Cameron
Jolly West
Hunter Thompson


Culturally connected areas just a short drive outside the BAY AREA proper

Big Sur / Esalen Institute I was in an experimental classroom in 6th grade and we went on a weeklong camping trip four miles down the road from the Esalen Institute)
Santa Cruz (home of the Human Genome Project, not to be confused with the J.G.P. in WC)
Scott's Valley (where Alfred Hitchcock used to live)
Monterey / Carmel (my parents met Clint Eastwood at his restaurant) Naval installations (NPS), (NRL), (FNMOC). Army (DLI, Presidio of Monterey), former Fort Ord 

Davis / U.C. Davis (Yolo Co.) I lived in Davis for 11 years. My second husband got his bachelor's degree at UC Davis. My current Grandfather-in-law founded the economics department, aunt-in-law best friends with Ann Dunham. Ann Dunham is a distant cousin of my mother in at least two instances and the line that we are related through is in and of itelf significant in my opinion. SRI people, paranormal research, ties to DOE in Livermore, Jose Arguelles was a professor there and I would argue the most overlooked influencer of the '80s and '90s (Terrence McKenna got most of his stuff from other people including Arguelles), 

Central Valley

Sacramento (state capitol)
Manteca (San Joaquin Co.) Back in the 1990s my sister was selected to be an intern for Dennis Hastert (although after arriving in Washington D.C. she quickly defected over to work for the Democrats). 


Westpoint (Calaveras Co.) Crowley's named successor (1947-1962), Karl Germer,  
Volcano (Amador Co.) Volcano Masonic Caves, I attended traditional tribal dance ceremonies just outside of Vocano for twelve years in a row.
Wilseyville (Calaveras Co.) Leonard Lake, Charles Ng 
Sonora (Tuolumne Co.) Sonora Aero Club (secret s0ciety behind some of the mysterious airships of the 1800s)

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Gold Country / Sierra foothills (Columbia, Volcano, Sonora.....)

Westpoint (Calaveras Co.) Crowley's successor, Karl Germer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Germer


Wilseyville (Calaveras Co.) Leonard Lake, Charles Ng

Volcano (Amador Co.) Volcano Masonic Caves, I attended traditional tribal dance ceremonies with the California Indians next to Vocano for twelve years in a row.


All three of these locations are within 13 miles of each other. Note proximity to Pine Grove.

The proximity of these locations suggests deeper networks than just the characters we see on the surface.



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Mystery airship illustrated in the San Francisco Call, November 22, 1896
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_airship

Mysterious Airships of California by Olav Phillips, Paranoia (2018)
https://web.archive.org/web/20180616080600/http://www.paranoiamagazine.com/2018/06/mysterious-airships-of-california/

The Strange Mystery of the Sonora Aero Club (2019)
https://web.archive.org/web/20190909044235/https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2019/09/the-strange-mystery-of-the-sonora-aero-club/

Ghost Airships Of The 1800s (2020)

A mysterious wave of airship sightings took place in the U.S. between 1896 and 1897, and there is plenty of mystery to go around.
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San Jose

Rumors Of The 'Hicks Road Colony' Have Kept Drivers Away From The Area For Years

https://www.ranker.com/list/san-jose-hicks-road-colony-legend/laura-allan

Decades-long persistent rumors of an "albino cannibal cult" in rural San Jose. This man takes you on a scenic drive to check out the rumors for himself. He suggests the possibility that perhaps the military started the rumors to prevent people from coming too close to their facility. I would tend to agree with that theory except for an experience that my second husband told myself and others about, an extremely similar experience in the Berkeley hills (near the national laboratory) about 70 miles north. 

He told me that he was hiking in the hills one day and an albino man came up to him and said that he lived underground and asked my husband if he wanted to come and check it out (in addition to the lab with known underground facilities, there are also caves in the area) and my husband said, hell no and ran away. 

I know he wasn't influenced by these urban legends because he wasn't born and raised in the Bay Area like myself and I had never heard about this urban legend until a couple of years ago because I am from the East Bay and not the South Bay.




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Almaden Air Force Station. an early warning radar facility that operated from 1957 to 1980

SAGE Defense System The 84.5 foot tall concrete tower that remains here was the foundation of what was one of the largest rotating military radar ever built. It was part of a system of similar stations in California and among hundreds of others across the country that provided radar surveillance data into the Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) defense system. SAGE coordinated the incoming signals and processed the data with its powerful computers and networking equipment, assessed potential threats, and directed response through the North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=114625



SEE ALSO:

Other defense / aerospace companies in the area back in the day:

For decades, employees of United Technologies Corp., an early Silicon Valley aerospace company, built rocket motors in a secretive, sprawling property in the hills east of Highway 101, about 5 miles south of San Jose...

The massive engines powered Tomahawk and Minuteman missiles for the military, as well as NASA spacecraft that explored Mars, Venus, Jupiter and the sun. There were explosions, fires and occasional deaths.

Before Google, Apple, Intel, Cisco and others dominated Silicon Valley, defense giants like Lockheed, FMC, Westinghouse and UTC were kings, providing thousands of jobs from the 1950s to the 1980s, and bringing in billions in federal contracts.

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Berkeley

Berkeley is characterized by the Arts & Crafts style architecture of Julia Morgan, Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Ratcliff, and Bernard Maybeck, as well as many well-preserved Victorians


The Claremont Hotel 
CC BY-NC 2.0 via greenkozi @ oaklandwiki.org


Berkeley Victorian
CC BY-NC 2.0 via decaseconds @ flickr.com

Much of what we think of as the "California lifestyle" was actually invented not in Southern California (as commonly supposed), but in Northern California.

CC0 via Diablanco @Wikimedia Commons

Peet's Coffee, Alice Waters, Farm-to-Table and the Gourmet Ghetto

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gourmet_Ghetto

The Caffe Latte Invented at the Caffe Mediterraneum in the late 1950’s @ 2475 Telegraph Ave, in Berkeley, CA

https://probaway.wordpress.com/2008/03/11/a-day-at-the-med-coffee-shop-in-berkeley/

Aldous Huxley, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Rubin, Jack Kerouac, and Patty Hearst were once regulars, as is the unofficial poet laureate of Berkeley, Julia Vinograd.

https://blog.pshares.org/literary-boroughs-9-berkeley-california/

Hot Tubs were first invented in Walnut Creek, CA by an Italian family (who made wooden propellers under military contracts) for personal use and then later developed for commercial use as the Jacuzzi brand, just a few miles away, on San Pablo Ave. in Berkeley, CA.


Many famous people have lived in, worked in, and gone to school in Berkeley, but these individuals are of particular interest to this study:

President Obama's maternal grandfather, Stanley Armour Dunham, an Army veteran, attended U.C. Berkeley, and Obama's mother, Ann Dunham, resided here as well 

According to Berkeley Walks by Bob Johnson, Bill and Hilary Clinton lived at 2267 Derby St. in the Summer of '71

Timothy Leary received his Ph.D. in Psychology from UC Berkeley and then taught there as an assistant professor until 1955. He lived at 1230 Queens Road


Terrence McKenna obtained his bachelor's degree from U.C. Berkeley in 1975 in ecology, shamanism, and conservation of natural resources (prior to this he spent time as a professional butterfly collector in Indonesia). 

Isaac Bonewitz, author of Real Magic, is the only person ever to graduate from an accredited university with a degree in magic from U.C. Berkeley

https://www.dailycal.org/2014/03/17/looking-isaac-bonewits/

Patty Hearst was kidnapped from 2603 Benvenue

Allen Ginsberg wrote Howl in a cottage behind 1624 Milvia St. He also wrote, "A Strange New Cottage" there. Jack Kerouac stayed at the cottage for a time, and his beautiful description brings back the Berkeley that I knew when I stayed at 2607 Milvia St., and houesat for 12 years at 2905 Regent St.

https://www.berkeleyside.org/2018/03/08/flashback-allen-ginsbergs-strange-new-cottage-berkeley

Ted Kaczynski lived in a converted garage at 2628-A Regent St. while teaching at Cal (U.C. Berkeley)



https://www.diablomag.com/people-style/people/chasing-the-unabomber/article_0c6a40c6-fd12-555a-8423-23d4180a0714.html

Wavy Gravy, M.C. at Woodstock and Merry Prankster (born Hugh Nanton Romney, 1936) lives in a commune @ 1301 Henry St. I saw him outside a number of times while walking down Milvia St. in the 90s

This is an interesting article about Wavy Gravy written by the East Bay's Prince Ray:

https://mindcontrolblackassassins.com/2018/07/13/dont-drink-the-kool-aid-stanford-research-institute-wavy-gravy-jerry-garcia-grateful-dead-the-hart-witches/

According to Wikipedia, "Phillip K. Dick moved to the San Francisco Bay Area with his family at a young age...When he was five, his father was transferred to Reno, Nevada, and when Dorothy refused to move, she and Joseph divorced. Both fought for custody of Philip, which was awarded to Dorothy. Determined to raise Philip alone, she took a job in Washington, D.C. and moved there with her son. Philip was enrolled at John Eaton Elementary School (1936–1938), completing the second through fourth grades. His lowest grade was a "C" in Written Composition, although a teacher said he "shows interest and ability in story telling". He was educated in Quaker schools. In June 1938, Dorothy and Philip returned to California, and it was around this time that he became interested in science fiction.[18] Dick stated that he read his first science fiction magazine, Stirring Science Stories, in 1940.

Philip K. Dick (c. 1953, age 24)
Dick attended Berkeley High School in Berkeley, California. He and fellow science fiction author Ursula K. Le Guin were members of the class of 1947 but did not know each other at the time. He claimed to have hosted a classical music program on KSMO Radio in 1947.[19] From 1948 to 1952, he worked at Art Music Company, a record store on Telegraph Avenue.

He attended the University of California, Berkeley from September 1949 to November 11, 1949, ultimately receiving an honorable dismissal dated January 1, 1950. He did not declare a major and took classes in history, psychology, philosophy, and zoology. Dick dropped out because of ongoing anxiety problems, according to his third wife Anne's memoir. She also says he disliked the mandatory ROTC training. At Berkeley, he befriended poet Robert Duncan and poet and linguist Jack Spicer, who gave Dick ideas for a Martian language...https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_K._Dick

philip k. dick's home:
1126 francisco
berkeley, california 94702

Philip K. Dick moved here with his second wife in 1950 shortly after they were married. They would stay here for eight years. He was a prolific writer of short stories (thirty stories were published in 1953 alone) and his first novels, including Solar Lottery and The Man Who Japed, were also published by Ace books during this time.

https://popturf.com/locations/literature/philip-k-dick/philip-k-dicks-home

The infamous, James Holmes' father had degrees from U.C. Berkeley and Stanford. Holmes himself had a B.S. in neuroscience with the highest honors from theUniversity of California, Riverside. (U.C. Davis professor, Darrell Hamamoto refers to Berkeley, Stanford, and U.C. San Francisco as "the neuro-triangle."

My second husband's paternal grandfather obtained his Ph.D. in Indonesian folk art from Berkeley and published a book on the subject.

My current husband's mother was born in Berkeley. She attended U.C. Berkeley as did her father. My husband's father was born in Oakland, and his father's father and his father's sister attended U.C. Berkeley. His father's father taught there before starting the economics department at U.C. Davis. His father's sister has spent most of her adult life in Indonesia and was Obama's mother, Ann Dunham's, best friend in Indonesia.

Guided tour, map and photos of Berkeley's most famous occultists including Grady McMurtry, and Robert Anton Wilson (also the former editor of Playboy, and Libertarian activist), and historical sites of note (some of my favorite hang-out spots back in the day):

http://www.cornelius93.com/photos-berkeleytour.html

This is an interactive map of the residences and offices of additional Berkeley historical figures of note, from the Counterculture (Owsley "Bear" Stanley and Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin) to actors and writers, and famous scientists such as Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller, as well as other famous locations in Berkeley.

 

Fascinating interview on the origins and history of California, and the origins of the University of California by Jan Irvin and former U.C. Davis professor, Darrell Hamamoto:

“UC” is for “Undercover Cop” - #209
Interesting discussion and video footage of Berkeley, although only showed a few parts but not the most beautiful ones (2022)


This is the "old Berkeley" that I remember and love (from the comments section):

Denver DuBois

1 year ago (edited)

I inherited my mother's house in Berkeley but after some consideration, sadly decided to sell it because Berkeley isn't the funky, friendly place it used to be. I mean...there were a lot of homeless in the '80s, crime too, but it was concentrated in the downtown and mostly just panhandling and petty thievery. The homeless didn't LIVE on the sidewalks.

The rest of Berkeley was still edgy, rebellious and gritty, but it was beautiful too. We used to take walks on the campus as if it was a park, and the parks were great too--especially the Rose Garden with its scenic views of the Bay. But Berkeley was also a blue collar town and affordable. We paid $175 a month for a two bedroom in the mid 1970s. And Berkeley was cool, mellow and, you know, cosmic--the hippie thing, before it went bad and became the weird "me generation" ego trip this video's guest speaks of so eloquently. When I was little, my student babysitter used to do card readings for me and read me stories from "Seth Speaks". Then we'd watch "In Search Of" together and talk about aliens, lol. No lie!

Perhaps the ultimate "old Berkeley" thing was a guy on Essex Street, who, since the 1970s, had a mysterious free communal hot tub in his backyard that, if you played your cards right, you could get the gate code to--but if you were male, you could only visit as the guest of a female. It was an honor system and one transgression got you banned for life. No sex, no booze, no drugs, and no bugging women. Astonishingly, this worked--and well--for decades. I went there myself a few times. It was super heated to keep the chlorine content minimal; I couldn't stay in for long but it was so incredibly peaceful. My friend Dana and I would go late at night on warm evenings. The dude's yard was full of huge redwood trees, like a small forest. You could sit on various little benches there, chatting, or relax in the tub. When other people showed up, they'd nod in a friendly way, maybe talk to each other. Nobody acted creepy that I ever saw. There were even nice showers, and you were politely asked to rinse off before using the tub. Everyone did.

Now, it's a different world. The global elite presence in Berkeley is actually frightening. The mayor's Antifa ties, domestic terrorist and elementary school teacher Yvette Falerca of "BAMN" (By Any Means Necessary), the presence of Soros and his son in town (the son, Alex, is a Berkeley graduate and lives in Berkeley still, last I heard.) Notice how there aren't really violent demonstrations actually IN Berkeley anymore? Ha.

There's a lot of darkness in Berkeley that was never there when I was growing up. Then, it was just disgusting People's Park, occasional creepy government activities on the campus and at Lawrence Lab, and some street people with drug problems. Now the nastiness is festering everywhere just beneath the surface. Berkeley used to be a town full of hard-working ordinary people, bright-eyed young students, pioneering intellectuals and eccentric professors. There were beat era coffeehouses, the best used bookstores outside of NYC and London, jazz musicians, street poets, and the Rocky Horror Picture Show on Saturday night at the UC Theatre. There were writers, dreamers, yoga teachers, potheads, hot tubs, legendary "Top Dog" hotdogs, and fondue restaurants.

Now... it's tent cities, trash and blight by the bay and multimillion dollar homes in the hills, and angry progressives and professional radical agitators plotting the demise of America as we know it. It's real estate investors, weapons research creepers, yuppies and limousine liberals swanning around the overpriced cheese shops--didja know the word "yuppie" was invented by Alice Kahn, a Berkeley writer? It's the one percent hoarding wealth and power over their pricey dinners at Chez Panisse--didja know that Panisse's owner, Berkeley icon Alice Waters, is buddies with James Alefantis of "Pizzagate" notoriety? You can't make this shit up.

Berkeley has become everything it used to decry and fight against. We've gone from "Subvert The Dominant Paradigm" to leftist authoritarianism worship and "I bought the new Tesla". (20 years ago it was "look at my Mercedes", 10 years ago it was "look at my Prius"...and when I was a kid, it was "look at my VW bus! We're driving it down to Baja to surf this summer!" See the progression?) My late mother went to college at Berkeley in the 1940s because it was a good public university she could afford. She got a decent job and supported her widowed mother. She loved Berkeley, lived there her whole adult life and never wanted to leave. I'm glad she can't see the tent cities and fields full of garbage now. She would cry.

That hot tub owner I mentioned, the one who let strangers use his tub for free, 24/7? After 40 years of simple hippie generosity, he closed up shop. Why? Because mtf trannies attacked him for treating them as biological men and not allowing them unfettered access to his hot tub. That pretty much says it all. The Berkeley my mother and I loved is effectively dead. Thanks for doing this video, man. Nice job.

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