Memorial Stadium image gallery 
image 9 of 11: Oaks-houses.jpg
Credit: Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, Clinton Day collection
Image size (in pixels): 867 x 372
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Image size (in pixels): 867 x 372
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This image, circa 1885, is taken from Bancroft Way, looking east towards the stadium site. The house in the left foreground is on the current site of Simon Hall at Bancroft and Piedmont. The two houses in the background are the “Palmer Houses” that stood on top of the ridge west of the stadium site; the area below them, down to the dark hedge along Piedmont, is the slope where the current oak grove stands. No large, old oaks are evident in this photo although some of the smaller mounded trees may be oaks. (Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association, Clinton Day collection)