A picture of an entrance to a series of connected buildings consisting of apartments near the UC Berkeley campus. This was taken on February 10th, 2005 in Berkeley, California.
Many houses and buildings in the Bay area have been in their original condition for the last 50 years or so. These places have not been destroyed to make way for newer construction for one main reason: their owners, whether or not they were the original owners, do not like to bring down these older designs. What they do is that they simply keep improving the things inside the buildings, like newer pipelines to kitchens and bathrooms. These improvements results in the buildings looking exactly like how they did when they were first built.
This specific house is located on a street, the name of which I forgot, that runs almost parallel to Oxford street, next to the main UC campus. The rooster image on the right hand side of the image seems to have been there since the building was first built. The black box on the right side, inside the archway of the entrance itself, is the post box itself; this is where the mail for all the residents of that building comes.
this is so english man! i would love to stay there. i dont know why i have an interest towards old buildings.