Flutterby™! : Steamworks

4^th street in Berkeley contains a bunch of light manufacturing, small machine shops, and then the extremely yuppie bit of shopping for 3 blocks or so north of University Ave. At first I thought that Steamworks was another such place, maybe custom pressure fittings, but it turns out it's just a bunch of guys playing with their tools; one of the Bay Area's last bath-houses.

But it says something about my level of naivete that when someone commented "oh look, a little blue pill outside of Steamworks", my first question was trying to figure out The Matrix reference...

Other gratuitous Steamworks story: The kindly grey haired old ladies who stopped us on the street and asked "Do you know where 21[mumble] 4^th street is?" I could swear they asked about 2107, and it took me a moment to wrap my mind around that they probably weren't headed there. Probably.