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Shopping
Branching off the UC campus, Telegraph Ave caters mostly to students, hawking a steady
dose of urban hippie gear, handmade sidewalk-vendor jewelry and head-shop
paraphernalia. Audiophiles will swoon over the music stores. Other shopping corridors in-
clude College Ave in the Elmwood District, 4th St (north of University Ave) and Solano
Ave.
Amoeba Music
MUSIC
510-549-1125; 2455 Telegraph Ave;
10:30am-8pm Mon-Thu, to 10pm Fri
& Sat, 11am-8pm Sun)
If you're a music junkie, you might plan on spending a few hours at the original Berkeley
branch of Amoeba Music, packed with massive quantities of new and used CDs, DVDs,
tapes and records (yes, lots of vinyl).
Moe's
BOOKS
A longstanding local favorite, Moe's offers four floors of new, used and remaindered
books for hours of browsing.
University Press Books
BOOKS
510-548-0585; 2430 Bancroft Way;
10am-8pm Mon-Fri, to 6pm Sat,
noon-5pm Sun)
Across the street from campus, this academic and scholarly bookstore stocks works by UC
Berkeley professors and other academic and museum publishers.
Down Home Music
MUSIC
(
510-525-2129;
www.downhomemusic.com
;
10341 San Pablo Ave, El Cerrito;
11am-7pm Thu-
Sun)
North of Berkeley in El Cerrito, this world-class store for roots, blues, folk, Latin and
world music is affiliated with the Arhoolie record label, which has been issuing landmark
recordings since the early 1960s.
