“A thick blanket of fog greeted Thanksgiving in Berkeley today,” the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported a century ago on Nov. 26, 1925. “At an early hour this morning, the grey mists stole into the city, and when daylight dawned familiar landmarks were blotted from view. Only the faint outline of the Berkeley hills could be discerned. The fog is declared to be the most dense of the season and has engulfed the entire bay region.”

Berkeley had many Thanksgiving Day activities a year ago. One of them was an outdoor service “in the natural amphitheatre of the Berkeley hills, near the eucalyptus grove back of the summit of the Big C hill. Dean William Frederic Bade conducted the Out-Door Thanksgiving service this morning for the members of the Sierra Club and their friends.”

Bade, from the Pacif

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