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During Prohibition, Sausalito became a base of operation for bootleggers (among them “Baby Face” Nelson) and a conduit through which rumrunners moved their goods. Basement speakeasies and backyard stills were not uncommon, and tarpaulin-draped trucks laden with contraband regularly rumbled through town to meet the midnight ferry to San ...
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Two hundred years ago the area was inhabited by Coast Miwokpeople, including a village called Liwanelowa in the area of Sausalito. The European settlers who supplanted them documented very little about the people and their pre-Spanish-colonization lives, and archaeologists continue to work today to learn more about their culture of that era. The To...
Although the Golden Spikethat signaled the connection of the railroad lines from the East Coast to California, routine rail service did not spread across the state until the mid to late 1880’s. The ability to travel here easily from the East Coast created sharp population growth up and down the west coast, and many major cities trace their roots as...
In 1941, during World War II a marshy area north of Sausalito was hastily filled in and turned into the massive Marinship Shipyards, producing merchant ships to carry supplies around the world. This large area today represents the Marinship neighborhood of Sausalito, which are largely filled with offices, parks (including the sites of the Bay Model...
50 years ago residents would talk about the “great years” between 1945 and 1960, after the massive shipyard closed down and before travelers to San Francisco added Sausalito to their list of must-see local places. For that one generation of Sausalito history, the now-old-timers would say, “the local residents had the place to themselves again, like...
In the late 1980’s the anchor-out floating home community faced a crisis. The long-time residents had always maintained a very tolerant, mutually supportive (and often self-policing) attitude in the area. New, less-committed arrivals and increased crowding, however, had combined with the rapid aging of the World War II era floating housing stock to...
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Aug 23, 2019 · The city’s unusual name is derived from the small willow trees that grew along banks in the region — saucito in Spanish — and after many iterations, including San Salito and Sousalita, the name Sausalito finally emerged. But Richardson’s time with the land was fraught — he started developing the area before his claim for it was even ...
Starting in the early 1800s, when sailors from the Azores were recruited to work on whaling ships, Sausalito saw waves of Portuguese immigrants arrive to work in fishing, boat building and dairy farms.
Sep 5, 2021 · to build a naval repair facility on the Pacific Coast. Facilitated by the demands of the U.S. Navy and independent ship captains, Sausalito got its own saw mill in 1848. Originally shipped to San Francisco, the mill was inexplicably redirected to Shelter Cove, perhaps with the encouragement of the increasingly cash-strapped William Richardson.
Nov 6, 2014 · She was part of what I call the sub-group of City Clerks that put together the process of departmental training for what would become the Certified Municipal City Clerk position. She also turned over to me the City Bible: that being a 5 x7 black 3-ringed notebook with some of the most valuable information on Sausalito, some of it dating back to ...
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The main plaza in Sausalito is named after the sister city. The second city was Sakaide, Japan, established in 1988 so the two cities could set up a youth cultural exchange. And the newest sister city is Cascais, Portugal, in 2013, to establish a youth sailing exchange.
