Spent a Sunday afternoon wandering in and out of shops and chatting with street vendors. Amazing variety of international and handcrafted jewelry and goods, as well as some fun Beserkeley elements. Paid $12 for parking garage as there were no spaces on street, but recieved more than $12 of cost-free fun, so I consider that breaking even. Immensely impressed with... More

Telegraph Avenue runs from the very south side of the UC Berkeley campus down to Oakland. In the first few blocks south of the campus, you get a flavor of the more exotic Berkeley. Back in the day of Vietnam war protests, the protestors used to run down Telegraph Avenue to avoid the oncoming police. Today the place is far... More

Telegraph Avenue is always fun for the teens and tweens to walk around. Artisans selling their jewelry, tie dyed clothing and antiestablishment bumper stickers. But over the years, it's gotten almost impossible to walk down. There are so many homeless and drugged-out people just sitting on the street, asking for money that it's not pleasant to visit. More

Many places around the world have a Telegraph Ave.......this one is reminiscent of a certain era, that's all. More

We walked from our hotel to visit Telegraph Ave and were shocked to find so many stores boarded up and empty blocks where book stores such as Cody's once stood. It looked like a ghost town slum. More

Telegraph avenue is student and aging hippie central. There are stands with tie die, jewelry and all manner of street vendor kitsch. There are some inexpensive places to eat on Telegraph and slightly off it, for example "The Asian Ghetto" which is an outdoor food court with mostly cheap Asian food just north of Telegraph on Durant. There are also... More

Really the only thing on telegraph worth heading up there are the bookstores, and Ameoba if you are interested in music. Otherwise, it's too busy, too crowded, and too much crappy stuff sold for too much money. More

It was fun to look at all the stalls and talk to the people who show their goods. It is so Berkeley. We loved it. More

No, actually, that Mothers of Invention line was Frank Zappa's way of making fun of Upper Grant Avenue in San Francisco... Head shops and incense. But seriously, from Bancroft to Dwight near the UC Beserkely Campus is busy with homeless, students, artisans, and counterculture icons. In the Sixites it was more Protestor & Hippie-prone. Now, the City Council is trying... More