Interesting article! I climb at Berkeley Ironworks which is the successor to City Rock, but didn't know all of the history. The story ends in 2000 when Ironwor

Interesting article! I climb at Berkeley Ironworks which is the successor to City Rock, but didn't know all of the history. The story ends in 2000 when Ironworks "represented the next generation of climbing gyms", but the trends have continued. IW is now old and grungy (I say as a complement) compared to the modern gyms targeted towards even more casual users.