|
Discover Places to Go and Things to Do
|
|
Sausalito, CA
|
|
|
|
|
|
Sausalito is a city in the San Francisco Bay Area situated in Marin County, California, United States. The population was 7,330 as of the year 2000 census.
Viña del Mar, Chile, home to "Sausalito" stadium and "Sausalito" lagoon, is a sister city of Sausalito, which features a plaza called "Viña del Mar."
GeographySausalito is located at (37.857708, -122.490266).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.8 km²).1.9 square miles (4.9 km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km²) of which (15.18%) is under water.
HistoryWhat is now Sausalito was once the site of a Coast Miwok settlement known as Liuaneglua. The branch of the Coast Miwok living in this area were known as the Huimen.
In 1838 during the Mexican era, an Englishman by the name of William A. Richardson, who became a Mexican citizen and married the daughter of the Commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco, established a large ranch from which the later town acquired its name, the "Rancho Del Sausalito". Sausalito is Spanish for "little willow grove."
Viña del Mar, Chile, home to "Sausalito" stadium and "Sausalito" lagoon, is a sister city of Sausalito, which features a plaza called "Viña del Mar."
GeographySausalito is located at (37.857708, -122.490266).
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.2 square miles (5.8 km²).1.9 square miles (4.9 km²) of it is land and 0.3 square miles (0.9 km²) of which (15.18%) is under water.
HistoryWhat is now Sausalito was once the site of a Coast Miwok settlement known as Liuaneglua. The branch of the Coast Miwok living in this area were known as the Huimen.
In 1838 during the Mexican era, an Englishman by the name of William A. Richardson, who became a Mexican citizen and married the daughter of the Commandant of the Presidio of San Francisco, established a large ranch from which the later town acquired its name, the "Rancho Del Sausalito". Sausalito is Spanish for "little willow grove."
In the 1870s, the North Pacific Coast Railroad (NPC) extended its tracks southward to a new terminus in Sausalito, where a rail yard and ferry to San Francisco were established. The NPC was acquired by the North Shore Railroad in 1902, which in turn was absorbed in 1907 by the Southern Pacific affiliate, the Northwestern Pacific.
By 1926, a major auto ferry across the Golden Gate was established, running to the Hyde Street Pier in San Francisco . This ferry was an integral part of old U.S. Highway 101. It ceased operation shortly after the Golden Gate Bridge opened in May of 1937.
During World War II, a major shipyard of the Bechtel Corporation called Marinship was sited along the shoreline of Sausalito. The thousands of laborers who worked here were largely housed in a nearby community constructed for them called Marin City. The soil which supports this area is dredgings from Richardson Bay that were placed during World War II as part of the Marin shipyards for the United States Navy. A total of were condemned by the government. A portion of this total area was formed in the shape of a peninsula and this peninsula became known as Schoonmaker Point.
Following World War II a lively waterfront community grew out of the abandoned ship yards. By the late '60s at least three house boat communities occupied the waterfront along and adjacent to Sausalito's shore. But beginning in the '70s, an intense struggle erupted between house boat residents and developers. It was dubbed the "House Boat Wars."
Forced removals by county authorities and sabotage by some on the waterfront characterized this struggle. This long fight pitted the waterfront against the "Hill People" or the rich on the hill looking down on the water front. Today two house boat communities still exist: Gallilee Harbor in Sausalito and Waldo Point / Gate 6 just outside the city limit.
In 1965, the City of Sausalito sued the County of Marin and a private developer for illegally zoning of land to build a city named Marincello right next to Sausalito. The city won the lawsuit in 1970, and the land was transferred as open space to the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.
PoliticsIn the state legislature Sausalito is located in the 3rd Senate District, represented by Democrat Carole Migden, and in the 6th Assembly District, represented by Democrat Jared Huffman. Federally, Sausalito is located in California's 6th congressional district, which has a Cook PVI of D +21 and is represented by Democrat Lynn Woolsey.
TourismLocated at the north end of the Golden Gate Bridge, Sausalito receives a steady stream of visitors via the bridge and a ferry service from San Francisco. It retains one of the few ungated marinas in the Bay Area that attracts visitors.
EducationSausalito is served by the Sausalito Marin City School District for primary school and the Tamalpais Union High School District for secondary school. Grades K-6 attend Bayside Elementary School in Sausalito while high schoolers attend Tamalpais High School in Mill Valley.
PeopleOne-time Sausalito City Council member and former Mayor Sally Stanford, founder of the former restaurant Valhalla, once ran a well-known brothel at 1144 Pine Street in San Francisco.Sausalito is home to Stewart Brand founder of the Whole Earth Catalog and The WELL.Sausalito was home to actor Sterling Hayden from the early 1960s until his death in 1986. Hayden rented one of the pilot houses of the retired ferryboat Berkeley, then in use mainly as a gift shop on Sausalito's waterfront, as an office while he wrote his autobiographic book Wanderer (published in 1963).Sausalito was also home to the 20th century philosopher Alan Watts, who lived on a houseboat there. The Sausalito Library owns a permanent collection of all available audio cassettes of Alan Watts’ spoken words Indian liquor magnate Vijay Mallya maintains a home in SausalitoSausalito is the home of Ken Pontac, the author of Happy Tree Friends, an internet series.Myron Spaulding, who founded the Spaulding Boatworks at the foot of Gate 5 Road in 1951, was a concert violinist, renowned sailor, and yacht designer and builder. Myron Spaulding died in the fall of 2000 at the age of 94. His widow, Gladys Spaulding, left the Spaulding Boatworks in charitable trust in 2002, which continues to operate as a living museum, boatworks and wooden boatbuilding school under the name the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center.IndustrySausalito was the home of Genetic Savings & Clone, a company involved in cloning pets (now closed).Heath Ceramics, founded by mid-century modern ceramicist Edith Heath, has been operating in Sausalito since 1948. Antenna Audio has a branch in SausalitoIn addition to Marinship, which built ships during World War II, Sausalito has a long history of boatbuilding. These boatyards specialized in a variety of vessels, including fishing and other work boats, government-contract vessels and recreational yachts. Many boatyards came and went in Sausalito in the late 1800's and early 1900's, including G. Smith, Brixen and Manfrey, the California Launch Building Company, the Reliance Boat Company, Nunes Brothers (Manuel and Antonio), Atlantic Boatbuilding Plant, Crichton and Arques, Sausalito Shipbuilding, Madden and Lewis, Menotti Pasquinucci and Bob's Boatyard. After World War II, the best known yards are, or were, Spaulding Boatworks, Bob's Boatyard, Easom Boatworks, Sausalito Marine, Bayside Boatworks, Richardson Bay Boat, the Boatbuilders Co-op, and Anderson's Boat Yard.The Spaulding Boatworks was founded in 1951 by Myron Spaulding and has been in continuous operation since then. It is one of the last remaining wooden boat yards on the West Coast. Today, the Spaulding Wooden Boat Center is a working and living museum, with a mission to restore historically significant wooden vessels, to preserve traditional boatbuilding skills and values, and to instruct others in wooden boat building skills.Sausalito in FictionScenes in the 1947 film The Lady from Shanghai, directed by Orson Welles, take place on the Sausalito waterfront.The 1942 film China Girl has some footage of Sally Stanford's Valhalla restaurant on the waterfront. The scene shows the docks and illustrates rum running.
Many scenes in the 1965 film Dear Brigitte with Jimmy Stewart, Glynis Johns, Ed Wynn, Billy Mumy, and Fabian were filmed on the Sausalito shores of Richardson Bay. In , the fictional Cetacean Institute is located in Sausalito. Although several scenes took place there, no filming was done in Sausalito itself. The actual film location for the fictional institute was the Monterey Bay Aquarium located in Monterey, California.In the television series , a Vulcan "compound" is based in Sausalito, although it is not depicted; Fort Baker, which borders Sausalito is shown, and has become the site of Starfleet Headquarters.In Sofia Coppola's 2003 film Lost in Translation, a Jazz Band called Sausalito performs at the Park Hyatt Bar.In Jack Kerouac's On the Road, Sausalito is mentioned as "a little fishing village" and a joke is made about it being "filled with Italians."In the novel The House of God, the intern Hooper hails from Sausalito.MASH's fictional character B.J. Hunnicutt was portrayed as having completed his medical residency in Sausalito (an impossibility, as the town has never had a hospital). His peacetime address is in Mill Valley, the town adjacent to Sausalito. Sausalito is the English title of a 2000 Hong Kong film directed by Lau Wai Keung, starring Maggie Cheung.A scene from the 1972 movie, Play It Again, Sam, was shot using interiors of the Trident (later Horizons) restaurant and exteriors of the Spinnaker restaurant in Sausalito. In the film, actors Woody Allen and Tony Roberts are seen entering the Spinnaker restaurant with the ferryboat, Berkeley, then tied up in Sausalito as the retail emporium, Trade Fair, in the background. The scene then cuts to the interior of the Trident.Albert Brooks' Mother (1996), employs the town as the setting for its story, which features several shots of Sausalito throughout.
Sausalito in MusicSongs referring to Sausalito"Sausalito", George Duke, Duke, 2005."(Sittin' On) the Dock of the Bay, Otis Redding and Steve Cropper, 1967 (setting)Sausalito Summernight, Diesel, 1980-1981 (25 - Billboard, 1 in Canada)"Samba de Sausalito", Santana, Welcome, 1973 album "Mr. Don", The Disco Biscuits"Sausalito", Grover Washington Jr., Grover Washington Live in Concert, 1977"Sausalito (is the Place to Go)", Ohio Express "Best of Ohio Express""Where Pilgrims Disappear", Conor Oberst, 2008Albums recorded in SausalitoHuey Lewis and the News and the Dave Matthews Band recorded albums in Sausalito.The Real Thing, Faith No MoreLoad, Reload, and Garage Inc, Metallica (at The Plant Studios)The drums on Breaking the Silence, Heathen (at Studio D)Rumours, Fleetwood Mac]Ferro e cartone, Francesco Renga(at The Plant Studios)Live Lycanthropy by Bay Area Band Papa Wheelie was recorded at The Plant Studios.TriviaSausalito has many springs, and was a common destination for early mariners to get fresh water. The Mason Distillery once made medicinal alcohol here. The Southern Pacific ferryboat Berkeley was docked in Sausalito for several years during the 1960s after being taken out of service. It was subsequently towed to San Diego where it was restored and is a tourist attraction. The "No Stopping" signs on the entrance to Highway 101 at the north end of Sausalito were installed because in 1978–1979 prostitutes were soliciting there. Sally Stanford was quoted as saying "Get it while you can" in response to the proposal to put up the signs.Sausalito is home to one of the largest houseboat communities on the West Coast. Former Bay Area radio and television host Don Sherwood spent his last years on a houseboat in Sausalito, where he died in 1983.External links Sausalito Historical Society (SHS) ONLINE History of Sausalito article by Sausalito Historical Society Sausalito Cam - Live Webcam City of Sausalito Sausalito Chamber of Commerce Sausalito Art Artists Galleries Sausalito Artists Open Studios Spaulding Wooden Boat Center Arques School of Traditional Boatbuilding Anderson's Boat Yard Sausalito Resident goes 'Into the Wild'
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 |
|
 |
|
|
|
By Lindavir2
3 days
See the famed Haight/Ashbury district! Check out the Gourmet Ghetto then spend some time in Sausalito and Muir Woods.
|
|
|
By Ingrid
4 days
I'm staying local & heading to Sausalito for my anniversary. Sausalito is a cute little bayside town with a great waterfront area. There's houseboats & flower-lined side streets, quirky stores & plenty of places to eat. It's also very near the Redwoods (Muir Woods, about 8 miles), 3-4 beaches within 20 minutes, Angel Island & Tiburon just a tad north, and of course, San Francisco about 15 minutes south.
|
|
|
|
7 people reviewed Sausalito
|
Top
|
|
|
|
at 4:30PM September 1, 2009
|
|
at 10:30AM June 19, 2009
did not spend enough time there, going back this november
|
|
at 3:20PM May 21, 2009
Really fun town to shop and grab lunch. Ride your bike over the Golden Gate down to Sausalito. Then take a ferry back to San Fran.
|
|
at 6:50AM August 25, 2008
Beautiful city in itself.
|
|
|
at 5:29PM May 29, 2008
The view of SF is breathtaking!
|
|
|
at 2:39AM May 29, 2008
cute town close to San Francisco...
|
|
|
at 4:29PM May 28, 2008
ride a bike across the bridge from San Francisco to Sausalto and have b'fast in Sausolito with it's gorgeous boutique cafes. Continue riding on to Tiburon and take the ferry back to SF. BEST DAY OF ALL IN SF
|
|
|
|
Add to
My Places
Plan Your Visit
