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I called him Mr. Charles. He passed away 23 years ago this week, just before his 92nd birthday.</p><p>Before that, though, every morning for exactly 30 years — from Oct. 6, 1962 to Oct. 6, 1992 (Mr. Charles was very precise about this) — he stood in front of his house on the city’s northeast corner of Oregon Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Way from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Mondays through Fridays and waved to commuters, calling out, “Keep smiling!” and “Have a GOOD day!”</p><p>In so doing, he became beloved. He was the grand marshal of the Berkeley and Albany’s Solano Stroll and the How Berkeley Can You Be? parade. He was featured on the 1980s TV show “Real People” and on CBS news with Walter Cronkite.</p><p>People drove for miles out of their way so they could wave back to Berkeley’s Waving Man. That includes two mayors, Loni Hancock and Shirley dean, political rivals who found common ground in their love for Mr. Charles.</p><p>“He was a joyful person who loved people, and we loved him right back,” says Hancock. “Seeing him every morning was a great way to start the day.”</p><script id="79591a052b8b49439eb3b8ff6a3f6ab2"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ec91a7ad-8940-4a89-a852-bef784553c29&cid=1ffe15d6-eb53-11e9-b4d2-06948452ae1a'; cnx.cmd.push( function() { cnx( { playerId: "ec91a7ad-8940-4a89-a852-bef784553c29" } ).render( "79591a052b8b49439eb3b8ff6a3f6ab2" ); } );</script><div class="article-slideshow" id="mng-gallery-54a27245697f1a126643563fc63c1da2"><button class="icon-close mng-gallery-fullscreen-close" aria-label="Close fullscreen slideshow"></button><ul class="mng-gallery-initialized mng-gallery-slider"><button id="mng-gallery-prev" class="mng-gallery-prev mng-gallery-arrow" aria-label="Previous" type="button"></button><div class="mng-gallery-list draggable"><div class="mng-gallery-track"><li data-index="1" class="mng-ge mng-gallery-active" id="mng-ge-0" aria-hidden="false" tabindex="0"><div class="image-wrapper"><img alt="Family of the late Mr. Joseph Charles, aka Berkeley's famous..." class="size-article_inline" sizes="(max-width: 40em) 620px,(min-width: 40em) and (max-width: 50em) 780px,(min-width: 50em) and (max-width: 65em) 810px,(min-width: 65em) and (max-width: 80em) 1280px,(min-width: 80em) 1860px,1860px" srcset="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-2.jpg?w=620 620w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-2.jpg?w=780 780w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-2.jpg?w=810 810w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-2.jpg?w=1280 1280w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-2.jpg?w=1860 1860w"><p class="slide-credit"></p><p class="slide-caption">Family of the late Mr. Joseph Charles, aka Berkeley's famous Waving Man, from right, Charles Kimball, great grandson, Antoinette Ratliff, great grand daughter, Quinn Benson-Yates, a neighbor to Charles, and Tino Ratliff, in-law of the family, gather with community members and city officials to wave at commuters on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in Berkeley, Calif. On Joseph Charles birthday, the City of Berkeley is rededicating the tennis courts named after Charles with a new sign bearing his name. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)</p></div></li><li data-index="2" class="mng-ge" id="mng-ge-1" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><div class="image-wrapper"><img alt="Family of the late Joseph Charles, aka the Berkeley Waving..." class="lazyload size-article_inline" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-2.jpg?w=620" data-srcset="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-2.jpg?w=620 620w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-2.jpg?w=780 780w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-2.jpg?w=810 810w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-2.jpg?w=1280 1280w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-2.jpg?w=1860 1860w"><p class="slide-credit"></p><p class="slide-caption"> Family of the late Joseph Charles, aka the Berkeley Waving Man, on March 22, 2018 (Charles’s birthday), gather with community members and city officials in Berkeley at the tennis courts across the street from his house that were named after him. The crowd spent the morning waving to commuters to celebrate and remember Charles. (Laura Oda — staff archives)</p></div></li><li data-index="3" class="mng-ge" id="mng-ge-2" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><div class="image-wrapper"><img alt="The late Joseph Charles, aka Mr. Charles and the Berkeley..." class="lazyload size-article_inline" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-1.jpg?w=620" data-srcset="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-1.jpg?w=620 620w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-1.jpg?w=780 780w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-1.jpg?w=810 810w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-1.jpg?w=1280 1280w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/HLA-L-SNAPP-COL-0311-1.jpg?w=1516 1860w"><p class="slide-credit">Nick Lammers — staff archives</p><p class="slide-caption"> The late Joseph Charles, aka Mr. Charles and the Berkeley Waving Man, waves June 26, 1998, to drivers and pedestrians on Berkeley’s Martin Luther King Way. (Nick Lammers — staff archives)</p></div></li><li data-index="4" class="mng-ge" id="mng-ge-3" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><div class="image-wrapper"><img alt="Family of the late Mr. Joseph Charles, aka Berkeley's famous..." class="lazyload size-article_inline" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-4.jpg?w=620" data-srcset="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-4.jpg?w=620 620w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-4.jpg?w=780 780w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-4.jpg?w=810 810w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-4.jpg?w=1280 1280w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-4.jpg?w=1860 1860w"><p class="slide-credit"></p><p class="slide-caption">Family of the late Mr. Joseph Charles, aka Berkeley's famous Waving Man, gather with community members and city officials to wave at commuters on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in Berkeley, Calif. On Joseph Charles birthday, the City of Berkeley is rededicating the tennis courts named after Charles with a new sign bearing his name. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)</p></div></li><li data-index="5" class="mng-ge" id="mng-ge-4" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><div class="image-wrapper"><img alt="Family of the late Mr. Joseph Charles, aka Berkeley's famous..." class="lazyload size-article_inline" data-sizes="auto" data-src="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-1.jpg?w=620" data-srcset="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-1.jpg?w=620 620w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-1.jpg?w=780 780w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-1.jpg?w=810 810w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-1.jpg?w=1280 1280w,https://www.eastbaytimes.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/voj-l-wavingman-0330-1.jpg?w=1860 1860w"><p class="slide-credit"></p><p class="slide-caption">Family of the late Mr. Joseph Charles, aka Berkeley's famous Waving Man, gather with community members and city officials to wave at commuters on Thursday, March 22, 2018, in Berkeley, Calif. On Joseph Charles birthday, the City of Berkeley is rededicating the tennis courts named after Charles with a new sign bearing his name. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)</p></div></li></div></div><button id="mng-gallery-next" class="mng-gallery-next mng-gallery-arrow" aria-label="Next" type="button"></button></ul><div class="caption mng-gallery-information-container"><button class="caption-expand mng-gallery-caption-expand" aria-expanded="false" aria-label="Show caption">Show Caption</button><div class="slideshow-credit mng-gallery-image-credit"></div><div class="slide-count"><span class="current mng-gallery-current-image-number-display">1</span> of <span class="total">5</span></div><p class="slideshow-caption mng-gallery-image-caption">Family of the late Mr. Joseph Charles, aka Berkeley's famous Waving Man, from right, Charles Kimball, great grandson, Antoinette Ratliff, great grand daughter, Quinn Benson-Yates, a neighbor to Charles, and Tino Ratliff, in-law of the family, gather with community members and city officials to wave at commuters on Thursday, March 22, 2018 in Berkeley, Calif. On Joseph Charles birthday, the City of Berkeley is rededicating the tennis courts named after Charles with a new sign bearing his name. (Laura A. Oda/Bay Area News Group)</p><a href="#" class="icon-enlarge mng-gallery-fullscreen-expand" aria-label="Expand fullscreen slideshow"><span>Expand</span></a></div></div><p>She wanted the city to build a life-sized statue of him on that corner, waving to the traffic. The city’s Public Works Department vetoed the idea, though, saying it would cost too much, so they named the tennis courts across the street after him instead.</p><p>I don’t know if Mr. Charles ever played a game of tennis in his life; his game was baseball. Growing up in Louisiana, he played in the Negro leagues as a second baseman for the Lake Charles Black Yankees, even batting once against Satchel Paige when the great pitcher came through town on a barnstorming tour. He struck out on three straight pitches.</p><div class="dfp-ad dfp-cube_article" id="div-gpt-ad-cube_article" style="visibility:hidden"> <div class="htlad-cube_article" data-unit="eastbaytimes.com/local-news/cube_article" data-targeting=""></div> </div><p>“But at least I got a foul tip,” he always insisted proudly, “which was better than anyone else did that day.”</p><p>Mr. Charles was born on March 22, 1910.  When he was 22, he joined the great African American migration out of the South to, among other places, the East Bay’s Richmond shipyards, where he helped build the ships that won World War II.</p><p>After the war he worked as a stevedore at the Oakland Naval Supply Center until he retired on Oct. 5, 1962. The next morning, he embarked on his true calling, donning orange construction workers’ gloves (which are now the the Berkeley Historical Society’s proud property) and stood in the aforementioned time and place waving to cars passing by.</p><p>He kept it up every weekday for the next 30 years, rain or shine. He was also a surrogate grandfather to several generations of kids who grew up in the neighborhood. Many parents who couldn’t get off work until 5 would tell them to play in Mr. Charles’ front yard because they knew they could trust him to look after them.</p><p>I remember the day the tennis court was dedicated. Some city officials were escorting Mr. Charles through a group of teenagers who were doing what teenagers always do: trying to look as cool and disdainful as possible. Then they spotted Mr. Charles and instantly reverted to the little kids who used to play in his yard.</p><p>“Hey! It’s Mr. Charles!” “Hi, Mr. Charles!” “Keep smiling!” “Have a GOOD day!”</p><p>After he died, people started gathering in front of his house each year on his birthday, March 22, and waved to the morning traffic in his honor. However, they won’t be back this year because March 22 falls on a weekend. Ditto for 2026. They’ll be back in 2027.</p><p>In the meantime, how can we get our Waving Man fix? It’s obvious: Mr. Charles lives within us. Wherever you are on March 22, stand in front of your home and give a friendly wave to whomever drives by.</p><p>If anyone freaks out and calls the cops, you’ll be in good company. That’s what happened the first day Mr. Charles began waving, and when the police arrived they smiled and said, “Just keep waving, Mr. Charles.”</p><p>Keep smiling, and have a GOOD day!</p><p><em>Martin Snapp can be reached at <a href="mailto:catman442@comcast.net">catman442@comcast.net</a>.</em></p></p> <div class="time mng-originally-published">Originally Published: <time datetime="2025-03-11 05:00:28">March 11, 2025 at 5:00 AM PDT</time></div></div></div><div class="article-bottom-share"><div class="article-share" id="sharing-bottom" ><div class="sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled"><div class="robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon sd-sharing"><h3 class="sd-title">Share this:</h3><div class="sd-content"><ul><li class="share-facebook"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="sharing-facebook-10130542" class="share-facebook sd-button share-icon no-text" href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/11/snapp-shots-remembering-berkeleys-waving-man-ahead-of-his-birthday/?share=facebook" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Facebook" ><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-twitter"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="sharing-twitter-10130542" class="share-twitter sd-button share-icon no-text" href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/11/snapp-shots-remembering-berkeleys-waving-man-ahead-of-his-birthday/?share=twitter" target="_blank" title="Click to share on Twitter" ><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-print"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="" class="share-print sd-button share-icon no-text" href="https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/11/snapp-shots-remembering-berkeleys-waving-man-ahead-of-his-birthday/#print" target="_blank" title="Click to print" ><span></span><span class="sharing-screen-reader-text">Click to print (Opens in new window)</span></a></li><li class="share-email"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" data-shared="" class="share-email sd-button share-icon no-text" href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Snapp%20Shots%3A%20Remembering%20%27Berkeley%27s%20Waving%20Man%27%20ahead%20of%20his%20birthday&body=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eastbaytimes.com%2F2025%2F03%2F11%2Fsnapp-shots-remembering-berkeleys-waving-man-ahead-of-his-birthday%2F&share=email" target="_blank" title="Click to email a link to a friend" data-email-share-error-title="Do you have email set up?" data-email-share-error-text="If you're having problems sharing via email, you might not have email set up for your browser. 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