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The Berkeley Pier is in Berkeley, California. When constructed in 1926, the pier extended 3.5 miles (5.6 km) [ 1 ] into San Francisco Bay from the end of University Avenue . Due to extensive filling of the bay and the creation of the Berkeley Marina , it presently extends only 2.5 miles (4.0 km).
The Berkeley Pit in May 1984. Note the much higher water level in the more recent fisheye view, below. Composite Fisheye View of the Berkeley Pit, April 2005. The underground Berkeley Mine was located on a prominent vein extending to the southeast from the main Anaconda vein system (sometimes called "the richest hill on earth" [7]).
The park provides a westward view onto Alcatraz, the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco Bay. The grassy hills of César Chávez Park . César Chávez Park is a 90 acres (36 ha) city park of Berkeley, California named after César Chávez . [ 1 ]
ARCO closed the Berkeley Pit and shut off the deep pumps in 1982, allowing the pit and mines to fill with water. The Continental Pit, the last active Anaconda mining property in Butte, was closed in 1982, but resumed mining in the early 2000's. Six years after ARCO acquired rights to the "Richest Hill on Earth", Butte's mines were completely idle.
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The Whole Earth Catalog was preceded by the "Whole Earth Truck Store", a 1963 Dodge truck. In 1968, the "Truck Store" finally settled into its permanent location in Menlo Park, California. [1] In 1969, a store that was inspired by (but not financially connected with) the Whole Earth Catalog, called Whole Earth Access opened in Berkeley.