Transportation: Streetcars, Trains, Buses
1903 - 1912
The electric train on today’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Way
Courtesy of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association (BAERA)
Courtesy of the Bay Area Electric Railroad Association (BAERA)
The electric train on today’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Way was one of the first electric trains in Berkeley. The view in the photo above is on MLK, Jr. Way at Dwight Way looking north. The building on the northwest corner is where the two McGee sisters, Mary Ann and Kate, were living when they died in 1940.
The residents of the McGee and Spaulding Tracts were still walking to the CUF horse car or to the Southern Pacific station at Shattuck Square. Fortunately, the way was not as muddy as it had been: In 1903 - 1904 most of the street grades were established in the District. Grading, curbing, and paving (macadamizing) of the streets began around 1903.