10 a.m. - 12 p.m., Sunday, Aug. 18, 2024
Join Dave Weinstein to learn about El Cerrito's raucous past. From the teens into the 1940s El Cerrito was a center for gambling, dog racing, entertainment and music, drinking and other vice.

The walk starts at the former Wagon Wheel club and passes the sites of other nightclubs and gambling halls including the Rancho, the Hollywood Club and the It Club.
Meet by Bayview Eagles Hall (the former Wagon Wheel), 3223 Carlson Blvd. near Central Avenue.

2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024

The Castro Adobe in El Cerrito was destroyed by fire in 1956 but we can still visit the Alvarado Adobe in San Pablo, a reconstruction of an adobe built in 1842 for Dona Gabriéla Berryessa de Castro, mother of Victor Castro, who settled in El Cerrito. Victor’s sister and her husband Governor Juan Bautista Alvarado lived in the San Pablo home.
The Alvarado Adobe was recently stripped of its historical collection by thieves, and the city had contemplated leasing it to a private business. But our friends at the San Pablo society have won permission to continue running it as a museum.
We will also visit the adjacent Blume House, a beautifully furnished 1905 farmhouse.

Meet at the Alvarado Adobe, on San Pablo Avenue just north of Church Street in San Pablo.

This is a free presentation by the San Pablo Historical Society.

Watch this site for news about upcoming events to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the historical society. If you have suggestions or would like to volunteer to help celebrate this milestone, please write to echistorical@gmail.com.