Cool SF Chronicle profile of the Elmwood neighborhood

“Berkeley’s Elmwood: Where cool meets quirky”

“Berkeley’s Elmwood neighborhood may be compact, but its two-block radius of shops, all extending from College and Ashby avenues, is a stronghold of quirky charm. Chalk it up to an almost magical crossroads of new and old — energetic, young UC Berkeley students and freethinking, activist elders; elegant period homes and tasty newcomers like Comal-spinoff the Advocate. You expect nothing less from the village-like neighborhood that provided safe harbor for everyone from Jane Fonda, Eldridge Cleaver and the so-called “last wild Indian” Ishi to Richard Diebenkorn, Thornton Wilder and Pauline Kael, whose 1905 brown-shingle home with its rare, mystical Jess murals went on the market earlier this year.”

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