Solano Avenue Stroll

2009 Solano Stroll video, 09/13/2009

The Solano Avenue Stroll, also known as the Solano Stroll, is an annual street fair held on the second Sunday of September on the Solano Avenue shopping district of Albany and Berkeley, California. Stretching close to 2 miles long and bringing between 250,000 and 300,000 attendees in a single day, it has been called the oldest and largest street festival in the San Francisco Bay Area[1][2] and the "world's biggest block party".[3] In 2001, the Library of Congress's American Folklife Center in Washington, D.C. designated the festival as a "National Local Legacy".[4]

  1. ^ "Annual festival's theme a tribute to Sept. 11". Berkeley Daily Planet: 1. Autumn 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
  2. ^ "Community News: The Solano Stroll". Alameda County Board of Supervisors Community Events: 1. Autumn 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
  3. ^ "The Fairest of Them All: SF Bay Area Summer Festivals & Fairs". SF Parents: 1. Autumn 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-01.
  4. ^ "Berkeley News Main Page - City of Berkeley, CA". Archived from the original on August 6, 2009. Retrieved December 26, 2011.