Barrington Hall was a legendary bastion of radical students near the Berkely campus. It became synonymous with political activisim, unorthodox lifestyles, drug use, and supporting music.

In the eighties, "Wine Dinners" were repeatedly hosted where punch was spiked with LSD. The name of the Primus album Tales From the Punch Bowl stems from these parties.

Barrington Hall served as a locus for Bay Area punk rock, with Operation Ivy, the Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, and hundreds of others playing the location.

After many successful defenses, Barrington Hall was forced to close in 1990. The USCA president stated "Barrington has a larger-than-life reputation. All across the continent, people know it as a drug den and anarchist household."

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In May of 1989, Tim Armstrong and Jesse Michaels of Operation Ivy had purchased some beer over on Telegraph Ave and walked to the volleyball courts at this intersection. As they sat, they agreed to end the band.

As Tim Armstrong recollected: "Me and him talked about how the band wasn’t really what it was when it started. It was like a mutual thing. That’s one thing that’s not usually told, it wasn’t like he quit, it was like, ‘Yeah, we’re not really into it anymore.’”

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924 Gilman St has operated as a volunteer-run, all-ages independent music venue since December 31, 1986. Primarily a pop-punk and hardcore venue, many other genres have been featured at "The Gilman" in its 25 year history.

Also known as as The Gilman Street Project or Gilman Street, the venue has a strict rule against any band playing there who has ever signed to a major label.

Notably, the bands Operation Ivy, Green Day, and Rancid have been associated with this venue (all from the Bay area). Operation Ivy played their second show here, and their second to last show here (with Green Day opening), and a whole lot of other shows in-between. They also recorded their 7" EP '69 Newport here (named after their tour vehicle).

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Despite publishing sixty-two short stories from 1951-1954, Philip K. Dick was still living in poverty in Berkeley in the '50s. This pet shop was where he reportedly bought the horse meat that he survived on. It was sold as dog food, but according to Dick, the clerk did call him out on the fact that he was eating the horse meat himself.

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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.

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