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From KQED.

Tom Roush grew up in Berkeley in the 1960s.

He has vivid memories of that time.

His mom worked at UC Berkeley Berkeley and his dad was a grad

student there, so he and his brother spent many days riding their bikes around campus. Another

memory he still thinks about to this day, actually one of his most vivid, is going to the

Berkeley dump. It really was just this big, giant pit where you backed up your car, you know, you turned around,

you backed up your car, opened up your trunk, and just shoveled whatever you had into this open pit.

It was on the west side of Berkeley right on the water. It was like the

Wild West. It smelled rank. It was loud with big bulldozers shifting and compacting the garbage.

And then there were the birds, hundreds of seagulls squawking above the roar of the machinery.

Tom says back then, it seemed like the dump stretched on for miles.

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