In a very informative 2007 McClatchy article, Frank Greve reported on the universal benefit of curb ramps since the ADA and unearths forgotten history of Berkeley’s early curb cuts. Including the yarn about midnight contractors cutting curbs in the dead of night.
In the article, Michael Pachovas, a longtime disability activist who moved to Berkeley in 1972, revelas that clandestine ramping occurred after poker games between early CIL founders and attendants.