The El Cerrito Historical Society in Northern California discovers and preserves local history and informs area residents of that history through our website,...
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Remembering El Cerrito’s Model Senior Center
For over forty years, El Cerrito’s Open House Senior Center was a community fixture and homegrown triumph. With the help of up to 140 volunteers, the center…
House tour and talk: Don Hardison, Mid-Century Modernist
Don Hardison (1916-2012) was an important Bay Tradition modern architect whose firm designed such major projects as the Zellerbach-Student Union complex at UC…
Celebrate the Rialto Cerrito’s 20th!
Not many local movie palaces reopen after decades in the dark. But on November 1, 2006, years of local efforts paid off, and the curtain rose again at Rialto…
Greening the Greenway: Ohlone Greenway Hike
In the early 1990s El Cerrito’s two mile stretch of the Ohlone Greenway had exactly one tree–until someone cut it down. For the verdant landscape we have there…