Research Catalog
Sausalito /
- Title
- Sausalito / Sausalito Historical Society.
- Publication
- Charleston, SC : Arcadia, ©2005.
- Supplementary Content
- Publisher description
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- Additional Authors
- Sausalito Historical Society.
- Description
- 128 pages : chiefly illustrations, map; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Sausalito got its Spanish name, meaning little willow grove, from British seaman William Richardson. He hoped that this deep-water anchorage, so close to the Golden Gate, would become the entrance to a busy city. But the tall ships mostly rushed past his Whaler's Cove to anchor in San Francisco. Later Sausalito's gentle hills and sun-washed harbor became a favorite playground and retreat for wealthy San Franciscans, and large hotels like the El Monte prospered. Before construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito was a transportation nexus for trains and ferries, and in a sudden mobilization during World War II, 22,000 people a day worked three shifts building liberty ships at Marinship. Sausalito was homeport for many seafaring adventurers, daring rumrunners during Prohibition, and later for beatniks, poets, hippies, and artists drawn to Sausalito's spectacular vistas and relatively rural atmosphere. Making their abodes on riotously rickety houseboats or in cabins perched on steep slopes, they left an artistic legacy to the community.
- Series Statement
- Images of America
- Uniform Title
- Images of America.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biography.
- History.
- Pictorial works.
- Contents
- Rancho del Sausalito / Margaret Badger -- Old town, new town, downtown / Phil Frank -- Ferryboats, trains and traffic / Wood Lockhart -- To the bay in boats / Charter Keys -- Where tempererance never caught on / Phil Frank -- World War II : 93 ships in 1311 days / Carl Nolte -- Habitat houseboat / Larry Clinton and Phil Frank -- Quirky, contrarian, creative / Phil Frank.
- ISBN
- 0738530360
- 9780738530369
- LCCN
- 2005929111
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library