The Solano Avenue Association puts on several events a year... the Solano Stroll and Lunar New Year Celebration are favorites. The Lunar New Year Parade and Performance is today! The parade starts at 10 am at the top of Solano Avenue, and works its way down to the Albany Continue Reading
We always enjoy strolling down Berkeley's Fourth Street Shopping District - Manhattan Bagels (our favorite), Spenger's Fish Grotto, Builder's Booksource and Books Inc... and the frequent whistle of trains a block away. The holiday season is particularly festive ... so we Continue Reading
Tuesday night we had a Pie Party to give thanks to our wonderful clients (we bought 40 cherry or apple pies!) and our friend Nora Wong told us the Tilden Park Carousel was decorated for the holidays! Last night Carol and I went up to Tilden Park, and we're glad we did. The Continue Reading
The Richard Avedon Photograph Exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) ends Sun 29 Nov 2009 We always enjoy visiting the museum - and it's easy to take BART into San Francisco to visit. While in the city, be sure to check out the holiday window displays - Continue Reading
About five years ago we were in Victoria, British Columbia, on Remembrance Day. We refer to it as Veterans Day. I was touched by all the people wearing red poppies on their lapels. When I was young, many people wore poppies - but now I rarely see them. Many of our Continue Reading
We've got our eye on fun things for you to do on Halloween There are lots of events on Friday 30 Oct. Friday morning the Thousand Oaks School has a parade at the top of Solano Avenue - there's no parking 9 am to noon, but I'm not sure of the parade time Friday evening Continue Reading
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