The Berkeley Revolution
A digital archive of the East Bay's transformation in the late-1960s & 1970s
PROJECTS
The Flatlands’ War on Poverty
Berkeley Women’s Music Collective
The Asian Community Library
The Black Panthers’ Education Revolution
The Integral Urban House
The Countercultural Kitchen
A Place for Every Body
The Secret History of Recycling
Pacific Center
Threads of Rebellion
Citizens vs. Developers
The Women and Girls of Telegraph Ave
Berkeley’s Public Schools
The Rainbow Sign
The Third World Liberation Front
Transgender Berkeley
PEOPLE
Nacio Jan Brown, photographer
Mary Ann Pollar, activist and impresario
PLACES
Telegraph Avenue
The Keystone
SEARCH
ABOUT
Search for:
Documents Tagged ‘curb ramp’
A Japanese View of Telegraph Ave
Archive Entry Date: 1986
A Japanese CIL intern compared the US and Japanese experience of disability
Curb Ramping in Berkeley—1984
Archive Entry Date: 1986
What worked with the first curb cuts wasn't going to work now...
Phil Draper at Corner of Telegraph Ave and Blake St
Archive Entry Date: c. 1976
A co-founder and director of CIL cruises America's most accessible street
Resolution 45,605
Archive Entry Date: 2/13/1973
In a win for the CIL, Berkeley mandated construction on Telegraph Ave's first wheelchair-accessible route
Wheelchair Ramps 1973 Location Map
Archive Entry Date: Summer 1972
A plan, devised by Ruth Grimes and others, to make South Berkeley and downtown accessible
Hale’s Design for a Curb Ramp
Archive Entry Date: 10/1/71
For Hale Zukas, building ramps out of plywood and duct tape was just the beginning
Selection from Hale Zukas’s Oral History
Archive Entry Date: 1997
Hale Zukas recalls the first official curb cuts in Berkeley — and his role in designing them