Silver Lake Walks -- Edendale & the Berkeley Hills

Silver Lake Walks -- Edendale & the Berkeley Hills

Date: Saturday, October 23rd

Location: 2257 Glendale Blvd

Walk No 2 -- Edendale & the Berkeley Hills

Join us for the third in a series of six explorations of Silver Lake, organized in partnership with the Silver Lake Neighborhood Council (SLNC) at the encouragment of Friends of the Silver Lake Library!

Walkers on this route will visit Edendale, the original hub of West Coast filmmaking. Along the way we will also encounter some of the finest architectural work of Richard Neutra, as well as some less well-known but striking Streamline Moderne homes from William Kessling. The walk also includes a stroll past the home of America's first drag superstar, Julian Eltinge, as well as the home in which one of the first modern gay rights organizations (the Mattachine Foundation) was founded. There are a couple of serious hills traversed by public stair streets which we will hike, including one featured prominently in a Three Stooges comedy, and another that is the longest stair-street in Silver Lake.

One of the main goals of these walks is to assess their feasibility and identify points of interest for a guidebook the SLNC’s Outreach Committee plans to publish for public use. For this reason, your honest feedback is encouraged and greatly appreciated. Think of these walks as dress rehearsals.

We will meet at the Earl Street/Glendale Boulevard (served by Metro's 92 Line) at 10:00 am and the walk will probably take between three and four hours. The walk will also end at Earl Street/Glendale Boulevard. The route is, like the other walks, about four miles long (or 6.5 kilometers).

This route is mostly residential. There will be a bathroom break when we pass the Silver Lake Recreation Center. Sadly, there are no food options along this mostly residential route -- unless we happen encounter a food truck at a building site. You may, therefore, wish to pack some food and drink. After the walk, however, I intend to head over to the Red Lion for beer and flammkuchen and you are welcome to join me. There are also other restaurants in the vicinity of the walk's end, such as Gingergrass and Burgers Never Die.

Note: For anyone running slightly late who will want to catch up with the group, we wall be walking in a counterclockwise direction.

Note: For anyone running very late who would nevertheless want to join us, the midpoint will be the intersection of Angelus and Effie.

Tips are always appreciated!

Venmo: @Eric-Brightwell

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Host or Publisher California Fool's Gold (Eric Brightwell)