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3. EC Plaza, which was primarily a local project supported by the city and aimed at a local market, and the sewage plant, which was built by Stege Sanitary District which serves EC and the Annex and Kensington. Sunset View was built by and at the time for Berkeleyans; Mira Vista was originally the Berkeley Country Club.
4. From 1978-1981 the recycling center ran a buy-back program, using state funds to buy heavy equipment. When they folded the program due to community anger they shifted that equipment to the Berkeley recycling center on Gilman Street.
6. This is where the Chinese gambling halls existed in the teens, then many of the larger gambling joints, including the Wagon Wheel. The area had other problems too, including illegal (and legal – a city of EC dump was there briefly) dumping, and flooding during storms accompanied by sewage overflows.) The name came from the area between the trenches in World War I.
7. A is the former Mabuchi Flower shop, with their home behind it; Bead Biz is the former County Line Cleaners run by a Japanese-American family
8. It was the site of a dog track, not a horse track.
9. At the very end of Central Avenue, south of the sewage overflow plant, is “Tepco Beach.” If you walk beneath the bluff at low tide you are crunching thousands of TEPCO shards, dumped there decades ago. The DMV is the site of the TEPCO plant. Shards of TEPCO porcelain can be found along the lower part of Motorcycle Hill, maybe leftovers from skeet shooting?