commercialism of jazz, Robinson focused on the Bay Area hardcore punk scene and Ruthie's Inn, a small club, on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, California to present these bands. By the 1980s, Robinson then became interested in the thrash metal and early death metal bands in the area, and would promote those bands as well. From 1982 to 1988, the club was an early local venue for Metallica, Megadeth, Death, Slayer, Exodus, Possessed, Death Angel, Testament, Suicidal Tendencies, Vio-lence, Forbidden and D.R.I., in addition to presenting punk rock groups. Cliff Burton had also been a regular in the audience. The club was eventually converted into a restaurant, Rountree's, in 2002. On December 31, 2006, the venue's original founder, Wes Robinson, died at age 77. In a Berkeley Daily Planet op-ed, Robinson was remembered for focusing on "freshness and originality of the music and passion of its artists rather than the commercial appeal." In 1982, Bob Baldock, Bob Brown and Don Pretari co-founded Black Oak Books in the Gourmet Ghetto in north Berkeley. In 2008, Gary Cornell, a former math professor at the University of Connecticut, who sold his company, Apress, paid off the IRS and bought the bookstore’s name, moved the business to the former Rountree R & B club, and ended business, at the end of January 2016. Aquatic Park, Berkeley From, at least, 1981 to 1984, Wes Robinson held a music festival at Aquatic Park known as "Eastern Front" or "Day on the Dirt". The 1984 Eastern Front featured Suicidal Tendencies, Exodus, and Slayer, which became known as "the Woodstock of Bay Area thrash metal". This show may be an early crossover thrash show. The Stone, San Francisco The Stone is attributed for hosting Burton's first concert appearance with Metallica, and would lead to repeat performances from other thrash acts, such as Megadeth and Dark Angel. The Warfield, San Francisco The 1920s vaudeville theatre the Warfield featured a myriad of thrash metal bands during the 1980s and was the exclusive location for Slayer's War at the Warfield video in 2003. The Omni, Oakland Testament, Vio-lence and Forbidden: May 6, 1988 Testament and Vio-lence: August 18, 1989 Death Angel: November 3, 1989 Death: March 30, 1990 San Francisco Civic Auditorium, San Francisco Metallica, Exodus, Metal Church & Megadeth: December 31, 1985. Henry J. Kaiser Auditorium, Oakland Suicidal Tendencies, Exodus, Possessed & Verbal Abuse: July 26, 1985. Show is also