Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 44

Oakland Tribune, Monday, June 26, 1 961 U.G. LIBRARY 50 YEARS OLD A Scheme By JOHN STUDLEY BERKELEY, June; 26-The many a uranaiose main library -building, at the University of California marks its 50th anniversary today. Will Fall With Old Hotel It was on June 26, 1911, dur ing the summer session, that the Charles Franklin Doe Library first opened its doors to students. buDt to-the original bunding Including the annex' housing the famed Bancroft. Library and its collection of books, manuscripts, maps, newspa pers ad other material ba western American and cohv nial Latin-American history The library's rare book collection includes a complete set of the folios of Shakespeare's plays.

Branch libraries are located in 20 departments throughout', the campus with special collections in such fields as chitecture, biology, forestry music and others. death in 1903 to. build a it opened during the i summer. of. 1311, the building was not formally ded-! icated 'unUl Charter Day in March of 1912.

Today the library is ranked among the finest in the world. It is the largest west of the Mississippi and the sixth largest in the nation. Its collection includes more thanr 2,700,000 volumes and some 4,000 manuscripts. Last year it was second only to Harvard University in the number of books acquired during the year. Several additions have been stacks.

With the San Francisco earthquake and fire' of 1906 still fresh in their architects John, Howard and Wjuiam C. Hays dfr signed a steel frame structure. 7 It was made as fireproof as possible, with interior walls and floors of reinforced concrete and exterior walls of great blocks of solid granite. The granite was quarried from the mountains in Mariposa County. The building was named after.

Doe, a San Francisco businessman, who willed to the university on his The handsome, gleaming Olympic May Vanish From Face of Oakland white granite structure was, and still is, a campus landmark and favorite meeting place of students. It took more than two years to build the first part of the building with its giant reading room and five floors of book rd jo ill' Ti ffiMf 4 P. fj. CiW A perambulating hotel which inspired grandiose schemes may soon vanish from the face of Oakland. The Olympic Hotel, a grimy, windowless, four-story structure through which the wind whistles endlessly, may be demolished.

The structure, at Second Ave. near E. 12th will make way for a 10-story apartment building for the elderly and an adjacent four-story office building, accord ing to Stephen Zellerbach Associates, owners of the real estate investment company. Zellerbach is an executive of the Zellerbach Paper Company, with which the investment company is in no way connected. The one-time hotel's troubles started in 1947 when the City of Oakland purchased it from Robert and Celestine Chardon for: $240,000, the land to be used in construction of the 12th St.

Frickstad Viaduct, designed to end a traffic ft CD i 'fTli if a if i ft 1 -M i4 i in Wibwnt ptiet STRUCTURE INVOLVED IN 1951 GAMBLE THAT DIDN'T PAY OFF Olympic Hotel may soon be replaced by 10-story apartment building or demolition and construction of a new building. The decision was for dem The Worlds Finest Bourbon sinceK95 )m ii ii. tl-i -), il let: Jmmi Xds olition. The unloved, unlovely build ing will soon be gone, says Zellerbach, if Federal Hous ing Administration approval of financing is received. In 1951, with the street improvement program in high gear, the city council ordered the structure removed or demolished.

It was then at the southwest corner of E. 12th St. and Second Ave. TAKES A CHANCE R. B.

Montgomery, a house-mover, thought the hotel building still had income potential. He paid $1,000 for it on a 240-to-l shot that he could move it, still in one piece, to its present site the east side of Second Ave. near E. 12th St Pessimists said the building would never make it. Joseph W.

Harris and Henry J. Arnaud, land investors, thought it would. They promised to put up $500,000 to turn tie Olympic into a good hotel. Move the hotel Montgomery did. He cut away the first floor, fastened cables to the structure and inched it across Second Ave.

on 600 seven-inch rollers. The pessimists were astounded. COSTLY TO MOVE The hotel structure was in place. It had cost $1,000, plus moving costs of $50,000, land cost of $51,000 and foundation work of $75,000, according to Harris. In 1952 the owners of the property were Montgomery, Harris and Bruce McCollum.

By then, McCollum explained, the hotel idea had been abandoned. So had a proposal to turn it into the headquarters of a union, and to turn it into -an- office for an Emeryville manufacturer. The triumvirate offered the property as a county Municipal Court Building, offering to make improvements of $100,000 and asking a monthly rental of $7,500. Nothing came of it. CHANGES HANDS In 1959 the vacant building was sold to Stephen A.

Zellerbach Associates of San Francisco. They announced plans for a $1 million office building. Nothing came of it. In July of last year the property was rezoned from light industrial to general business upon request of the Zellerbach group. They were weighing, they said, the advantages of remodeling into an apartment-office complex, Masonic Masters To Receive Honors RICHMOND, June 26-Mas- ters of the four Masonic lodges in Richmond will be honored when the Richmond Hi-12 Club meets at 6:30 p.m tomorrow at the Village Res taurant, 920 Nevln Ave.

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