"A mammoth public holiday celebration was planned for the Greek Theatre on Dec. 20, 1925. Firemen at Berkeley's Durant Avenue station had built a sleigh for Santa to arrive in, and a fire captain had taken a special municipal truck to an area near Cloverdale to cut down a 40-foot tree for the event. Another (tree) of the same type will be illuminated with incandescent globes in front of the City Hall, the Berkeley Daily Gazette reported."
"New building: On Dec. 19, 1925, the new Mercantile Trust bank opened at the northeast corner of College and Ashby avenues (today it's a Wells Fargo Bank branch). Striking in its combination of the utility and the aesthetic, the spacious banking room evoked many expressions of admiration from the visitors (during an open house), the Gazette reported. Modified Spanish might be taken as the term best fitted to describe the building."
Christmas preparations in Berkeley in December 1925 included public celebrations at the Greek Theatre on Dec. 20, featuring community singing, a children's Christmas pageant, and a parade up Telegraph Avenue with Santa Claus arriving in a sleigh. Firemen constructed a sleigh and cut a 40-foot tree near Cloverdale, while another tree was to be illuminated with incandescent globes in front of City Hall. On Dec. 19 the Mercantile Trust bank opened at College and Ashby, described in a Modified Spanish style with a spacious banking hall, stuffed heads of buffalo, elk and caribou, a furnished ladies' rest room, and red Missouri granite pillars. A robbery shooting was reported on Dec. 17, 1925 involving an unidentified man believed to be a bandit.
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