When we were first married we lived in Berkeley.   Today we drove over the Bay Bridge and hung out there for a while.  We parked in our old neighborhood and walked around for a few hours.  Some of the stores we knew back then are still there.  The original Peet’s Coffee is just a block north of our old apartment.  It’s been there since 1966 and is going strong still.  We sat for a while and had coffee and a ‘Freddo’.  Chez Panise is gone, not sure when, but the site is a Thai restaurant now.  The Shattuck Co-op is gone too.  But many other stores are still there.

We used to eat at a place called Fat Albert’s.  It was/is a breakfast and lunch place.  Some where along the way, they changed the name to Fat Apple’s for political correctness.  But it’s still good!  We had lunch there and beat the traffic back to SF.

Our first apartment:

That’s our (former) balcony.  When we moved in, the sofa we had was too long to go in the elevator or make the bend in the stairs.  So the driver of the van propped it up on his shoulders, I grabbed on from the balcony and he raced up the stairs and we pulled it over together.  It was easier to move out!