13171_SFMA2760_berkeley_fifties8
1950s
This clip contains footage of various buildings, restaurants and companies throughout Berkeley. Begins with various shots of buildings in Berkeley, demonstrating the variety in architecture. Cuts to various signs for restaurants, featuring: True Blue Cafeteria, Sign of the Paper, Lichee Hwan, Black Sheep Restaurant, the Red Barn, Tin Mai Chinese American Food, and Spenger’s Fish Grotto. CU of 2 decorative anchors. WS from across a lake of an industrial building. One is named Cutter Laboratories. WS of Buick and United Motor Service. CU of National Canners Association Western Branch Research Laboratories. Cars pass through an intersection. PAN down from a water tower to cars parked in front of Durkees. MS Durkees Margarine building. MS Northrup King & Co and Stauffer building as a truck drives past. PAN of Challenge Dairy Foods building, cars drive past in FG. MS Armco Drainage & Metal Products Inc., Hall-Scott Power, Wesco Waterpaint Co., and Colgate Palmolive Company. WS of a building across a lake. A man stands in front of wooden dividers and sorts objects from them. CU man’s hands on a typewriter. MS of a printing press with yellow ink. WS PAN of a printing company building. MS of James J Quick & Co. Painters. A window display promotes Fall. MS of Standard Process and Engraving Co. sign.