British photographer Carol Scott shot the East Bay's music rooms from 1976 to 1985 — Dylan at the Berkeley Community Theater, Etta James at the Greek, Fang at 924 Gilman, Muddy Waters at the long-gone Keystone. Thirty-six of her prints, eight never shown, are up at the Rockridge Cafe on College Avenue through Aug. 5.

At 5492 College Avenue, the Rockridge Cafe has poured coffee since 1973 and keeps diner hours — 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., seven days a week. On its walls right now, between the ricotta pancakes and the classic cheeseburger, hangs a map of the East Bay's music rooms as they looked forty and fifty years ago.

The map is really an archive. Carol Scott, a British photographer who landed in Berkeley in 1976, spent roughly a decade — 1976 to 1985 — carrying a 35mm Nikkormat into Oakland, Berkeley and San Francisco venues and photographing the acts passing through. Thirty-six of her prints are up at the cafe through Aug. 5, eight of them never shown before, per Berkeleyside, which first reported the exhibit in a July 30 profile by Azucena Rasilla.

Read the wall as a list of addresses and it tells you which of these rooms are still standing. Scott shot Bob Dylan playing an acoustic set at the Berkeley Community Theater in November 1980, at a Bread & Roses fundraiser — that hall, beside Berkeley High, still books shows. She caught Etta James, Joni Mitchell and B.B. King at the Greek Theatre on the UC campus, which is still selling out summer nights. And she photographed Tim Stilletto of the Berkeley punk band Fang at 924 Gilman, the volunteer-run all-ages club that has outlasted nearly everything around it.

Others on the wall are gone. Scott became a regular at the Keystone — the intimate Berkeley club that ran only from 1972 to 1984 — where she shot Muddy Waters on Feb. 2, 1980, along with John Lee Hooker and guitarist Lady Bo. That room, and the crowd in it, exists now mostly on paper like hers.

Scott herself later moved to Rockridge, a few blocks from where the prints now hang; her daughter Cameron lives in Emeryville. She learned the craft the hard way after arriving from London by way of New York and Nashville — classes at Laney College, a mentor, a darkroom built into a closet. "He taught me the basics of how to hold my camera properly, how to make a dark room out of a small closet," she told Berkeleyside of photographer Richard Blair.

A second batch — nine of her Jerry Garcia and Grateful Dead frames — is up at Equator Coffees in Sausalito through Aug. 15.

Walk into the Rockridge Cafe this week and you can eat breakfast under a decade of East Bay stages, some of them still lit, some of them only here.