924 Gilman Street is an all-ages, non-profit, collectively organized music club usually referred to by its fans simply as "Gilman". It is located in the West Berkeley area of Berkeley, California about a mile and a half west of the North Berkeley BART station and a quarter-mile west of San Pablo Avenue, at the corner of 8th and Gilman Streets.
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