Berkeley Downtown+Arts District+Civic Center, with Concert & Lunch

*See the No-show policy at the bottom of this description.

There are two options to choose from after the walking tour:
After the tour described here there is (Option#1) walk through the Campus for a noon Concert of selections from Baroque concertos by Bach, Sammartini, and Vivaldi, featuring student soloists on violin, cello, harpsichord, and recorder.
The concert is one hour and will end at 1:00pm.
(Option#2) Next I like the salad bar at the Faculty Club next door to the Music Dept. so there is the option to have lunch there. (If you don't choose the options I'll give you directions for returning to the Senior Center. Earliest end time will be about noon. Latest end time with lunch and about a ,30 minute walk back to the cars, will be about 2:30pm.) But where we're meeting we don't have to worry about getting a parking ticket.

We'll explore the heritage architecture in downtown Berkeley, west of Shattuck Ave., and in the Civic Center and Arts District in Berkeley's Historic Commercial and Cultural Districts. About four miles in all and flat. (above photo, Berkeley's Italian Renaissance style main post office building, 1914)
Meet at the front door of the North Berkeley Senior Center at the northeast corner of Hearst Ave. & MLK Blvd.
We'll go, rain or shine, bring an umbrella if necessary.

A word or two about Downtown Berkeley:
Berkeley's downtown was established in 1876, when Francis Kittredge Shattuck and James Loring persuaded the Central Pacific RR to run a branch line into Berkeley. The building boom after the 1906 Earthquake, replaced wooden buildings with more substantial masonry and concrete ones. Enough remains from that period to give a flavor of an early 1900s downtown. Now over a hundred years later, we see an evolution of 20th- century commercial architectural styles here. But now with a push for greater uses and density, size and scale becomes a problem.

*There is limited attendance for this event. Don't RSVP unless you are sure you can make it if you No-show you'll be needlessly taking someone's spot who is on the Waitlist.
(Don't be a no-show.) It's good to give out name tags. I fill out the name tags just before I leave for the tour. This also gives me a way to take attendance. Name tags that are not picked up, are recorded as no-shows. If you get too many no-shows recorded in your personal Meet-up profile you'll be cancelled from this Meetup.
(To cancel your RSVP look for the, "Edit Attendance" tab at the bottom right hand corner of a notebook screen screen, left bottom for a phone.)