Regarding Berkeley - I havent heard much on the thread about the folk scene there.   I know that San Francisco had places like the Hungry I and Purple Onion where the Kingston Trio and Smothers Brothers started in the late 1950s   - but I dont have much feel for whether the Bay Area really had many forums (fora?)for the same type of music and on the same scale as the Village/Cambridge.   When I got out there in 1965 the music was changing a lot. While there were coffee shops where people played folk I cant say that I was ever aware of any of them at the time having the same hallowed status as some of the places back east mentioned in the thread - Club 47, Gaslight, etc.   The only specific spot I remember with that type of "name" was Ferlinghetti's City Lights Book Store in San Francisco which occasionally had singer/songwriters (like Leonard Cohen).   I'm not sure if the Hungry I and Purple Onion were still doing folk music (or were even open) then - I never went there as if they were doing folk it was on a pretty commercialized basis. I know from hearsay that Berkeley did have coffee shops with folk music in the early 60s but I just dont know any details - other than something about the alcohol ban near campus lent the area to foster coffee chops rather than "clubs".   I went to some of them in the later 60s but I dont rememeber any names - the places I played at were farther south. Telegraph Avenue was a sight to behold but I remember more music being played outdoors than anywhere else   - as I said before my memory of the Bay Area in the mid and late sixties is a bit impaired.

Can any one fill in on this?