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may get all the publicity, but Muir Beach is Marin's great funky secluded oceanside community. It was here that Ken Kesey hosted his second Acid Test, Janis Joplin's ashes were scattered along the sands, Azorean dairymen from the other side of the world settled and prospered, and burned-out Frisco beatniks found a perfect end-of-the-continent milieu for renewal and contemplation. Migrating monarch butterflies and California red-legged frogs love the place. There's no cable television, cell phones are unpredictable, the bikini's optional at the north end of the beach and every Nov. 5 a bagpiper leads a procession to the ocean's shore for a ritual cremation of Guy Fawkes. What's not to love? This tiny unincorporated settlement is tucked into a cove with dramatic bluffs on three sides and the wide foggy Pacific lapping at its southern shore. It's entirely within the Golden Gate National Recreation Area, with Mt. Tamalpais State Park poking at its upper flanks; a mile or so to the north is Muir Woods National Monument, the Bay Area's only remaining grove of ancient redwoods. Back in the good old days the area was dominated by a 25-acre tidal lagoon that attracted bobcats, elk, jackrabbits, bald eagles, grizzly bears and the Huimen tribe, one of 600 Coast Miwok groups that flourished between the Golden Gate and Bodega Bay. Then the Spanish colonials arrived, followed by the Mexicans, who deeded the area and the rest of the massive Rancho Saucelito land grant to pioneer William Richardson. After statehood one immigrant, Constantino Bello, started the Golden Gate Dairy at Throckmorton's T Ranch in 1898; a decade later his brother Antonio purchased the hilly, cove-side parcel and named it Bello Beach. Antonio built a beachside hotel and in 1923 subdivided the hillside into graded parcels for low-cost summer rental cabins. A rustic tavern-restaurant-snack bar was built along the sands and the place was renamed Muir Beach to connect it with the nowworld-famous forest up the road. After the war the town's natural beauty, cheap housing and seductive isolation attracted bohemians disenchanted with the trap-
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pings of civilization. The beatniks added a certain artists' colony mystique to the local mix of dairymen, old-timers and the postwar suburbanites who occupied the new Seascape subdivision above the original settlement. The town really got its name on the map during the 1960s, soon after the old Tavern morphed from a restaurant into a dance hall. Ken Kesey picked the Tavern for his second Acid Test in December 1965, complete with light show, music by the Warlocks (aka the Grateful Dead), LSD aplenty and luminaries like Lenny Bruce, Wavy Gravy and Owsley Stanley. (The evening is chronicled in Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, published a few years later.) Big Brother & The MILL VALLEY Holding Company, Creedence Clearwater Muir Beach Revival, the Outfit (led by Manson Family member Bobby Beausoleil) and less iconic bands like Magenta Raindrop and Ugly Harpies also played the Tavern before California State Parks acquired the property and replaced it and its adjacent beach cottages with a parking lot. The beach itself is only about a thousand feet long, but there's plenty of room for surfing, kayaking, bird-watching, horseback riding, picnicking and sunbathing in the protected cove. (The hippies started a nude-sunbathing tradition that endures at Little Beach, a strip of pebbly sand north of the boulders, but the locals demanded a crackdown a couple of years ago; be advised.) Just up Highway One is the Green Gulch Zen Center with its meditation zendo, teahouse, organic garden and regular Buddhist services every Sunday morning at 10. To the west is Slide Ranch, an environmental education center that's been offering fun, hands-on eco-activities since 1970. Back at the cove, the Muir Beach Community Center features classes, workshops, movies, parties, seasonal events and fireside gettogethers as well as coffee and scones every Wednesday morning and beautiful ocean vistas from its decks and verandas. Up Pacific Way is the Pelican Inn (est. 1979), a cozy Tudor-style pub where you can sip a Guinness, sup on shepherd's pie, beef Wellington, fish and chips or afternoon tea, bed down for the night in a canopy bed or enjoy the annual Guy Fawkes, Burns Night and Boxing Day revels. There are no streetlights and only one public pay phone, but the water's potable no now, the septic tanks are working fine and the bookmobile visits twice am month. Getting away from it all was never so magical.
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FIRE STATION Throckmorton Ridge Station, 816 Panoramic Highway, Mill Valley; Muir Beach Volunteer Fire Department, at the Golden Gate Dairy Barn LIBRARY Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave., Mill Valley PARKS Muir Beach, Highway 1, Mill Valley POST OFFICE Sausalito Post Office, 150 Harbor Dr.
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one of the reasons Strawberry isn’t on the radar for many of us is that it’s one of Marin’s toniest neighborhoods. Homes still regularly sell for well over $1 million. OK, you might find a few priced under a million behind the Strawberry Village shopping center, but by and large, real estate sales are fixed in the seven-figure range. A county-generated document for the Countywide Plan described Strawberry as a “community on the upper end of the housing price range of the county with severe limitations on housing for those of modest means.” This unincorporated area near the city of Mill Valley is outlined by Highway 101 to the west and Tiburon Boulevard to the north, with waterfront property on Richardson Bay to the east and south. Most governmental functions rest with the county, although the Strawberry Recreation District maintains the parks, trails and public docks. It seems an ongoing struggle has been raging among neighbors in this small enclave (made up of a fair amount of waterfront property) who can’t agree whether to become an incorporated part of Tiburon, or remain associated with Mill Valley. Despite sometimes vocal Tiburon proponents, the neighborhood remains untethered from its sharky neighbor. Maybe it’s the spectacular views that have attracted harbor seals to the quiet and unspoiled coves the community offers. There was a time when the seals thrived and fished along the shores near Strawberry Point, but in the late ’80s their numbers dwindled. Still, a number of Eastern Pacific harbor seals have made the northeastern tip of the Strawberry Peninsula a regular spot to lounge beachside. In an effort to protect the seals–along with other wildlife, including herons and egrets–strict building codes have been enforced. Fortunately for them, kayakers are permitted to share the area with these frolicking sea-goers. If we didn’t mention Strawberry Village shopping center—which seems to be the hub/meeting place for most residents—we would be remiss. Just as its developers—the Shelter Bay Retail Group— intended, “it is more than a shopping center—it’s a destination.” As many as 60 merchants survived more than a year of construction time spent renovating the nearly half-century-old center. The 18-acre mall reopened in the fall of 2006 with several spiffy new restaurants, rent increases for the tenants and newly tree-lined pedestrian walkways. A range of restaurants and shops, family-oriented to upscale, caters
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STRAWBERRY AT A GLANCE F FIRE STATION Mill Valley Fire Department, 1 Hamilton Ln.; Southern Marin Fire Protection District, 308 Reed Blvd. S LLIBRARY Mill Valley Public Library, 375 Throckmorton Ave. P PARKS Brickyard Park, Great Circle Dr./Seminary Dr.; R Reggie Park, 118 E. Strawberry; Strawberry Cove Park/ B Belloc Lagoon, Seminary Dr. P POST OFFICE Mill Valley Post Office, 751 E. Blithedale Ave.
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between wild and quirky Fairfax to the west and bustling, centrally located San Rafael to the east, perched beneath the rolling hills of the Ross Valley and the majestic slopes of Mt. Tamalpais, San Anselmo is truly a place unto itself. With a slow-paced small-town vibe, well-groomed parks and quaint eateries and boutiques lining its stately downtown streets, it appears at fi rst glance to be a relatively easy-to-peg town. But that sublime exterior belies a rich, colorful history and more than a few hidden corners. The area that would one day be known as San Anselmo has always been blessed with breathtaking natural beauty. Before the arrival of European settlers, Coast Miwok inhabited the region. The Miwok, whose territory stretched as far north as Bodega Bay and covered all of Marin and part of Sonoma, no doubt favored the area because of the creek with its abundance of fish and the rolling oak-covered hills that provided both shade and acorns. The arrival of the Spanish and the establishment of the missions spelled the end of the Miwok era and paved the way for what is now downtown San Anselmo to be included in a vast land grant to wealthy friends of the Mexican government in the mid-1800s. More than two decades after California was added to the Union, the North Pacific Coast Railroad rolled through and shook things up in the mid-1870s, adding a line that ran from Sausalito to Tomales via San Anselmo, which for a few years appeared on maps simply as Junction. By the 1880s, the town had adopted its less utilitarian moniker, inspired by Juan Bautista Cooper’s original Punta de Quintin land grant, which marked the area as Canada del Anselmo. The arrival of the railroad—as well as the construction of the San Francisco Theological Seminary in 1892—predictably brought growth, development and expansion. Today San Anselmo is among Marin’s most popular and beloved burgs. In addition to the myriad restaurants and shops that make the town a topnotch Bay Area shopping and dining destination—some call it the antiques capital of the Northern California—San Anselmo also boasts a handsome, well-stocked library, several fine schools and some of the county’s best parks and outdoor
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FI STATION Ross Valley Fire Department, Station 19, 777 FIRE San Anselmo Ave.; Station 20, 150 Butterfield Rd., San Anselmo Sa LI LIBRARY San Anselmo Public Library, 110 Tunstead Ave. PA PARKS Lansdale Park, corner of Center Blvd. and Lansdale; Cr Creek Park, downtown San Anselmo; Memorial Park, Veterans Pl. of off San Francisco Blvd.; Robson-Harrington Park, 237 Crescent Rd.; So Sorich Ranch Park, end of San Francisco Blvd.; Faude Park, top of Br Broadmoor Ave. between Indian Rock Rd. and Tomahawk Dr. PO POST OFFICE 121 San Anselmo Ave.
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northwest neighborhood of central San Rafael Ope Mount known as “Sun Valley”–unimaginatively called Cre nS st w pa c Tamalpais Neighborhood 13 in the San Rafael General Plan–includes ood e Cemetery most of Fifth Avenue, from H Street to the end. From there it meets Mount Tamalpais Cemetery, as well as K Street Dr. and the residential area extending west and including the streets of Humboldt and Solano. But Sun Valley carries So Sun H u la no the kind of “location cache” that will spur folks from the mb Valley outlying Rafael Highlands, Fairhills, Forbes and Racquet 5t h o l d t Pk. Club communities to claim Sun Valley as their place of residence Av . as well. And why not? The oldest section of Sun Valley was built up between 1882 and 1900; the San Francisco earthquake brought another wave of setThe neighbor5t h Forbes tlers north in ’06. hood has its J Hill Res. In 1914, the area became Marin’s own mini-Hollywood, as the own shopping California Motion Picture Corporation set up shop at the end of center/ K Street. Under the auspices of San Francisco entrepreneur George community Middleton and his would-be-It-Girl, wife Beatriz Michelena, the gathering spot 4t h CMPC utilized the rustic Sun Valley hills to produce a series of at the corner of S t. country melodramas; one of its more sophisticated productions, Fifth and Calian opera-inspired silent called Mignon, was filmed at what is now fornia; included is a laundromat, a the playground of the Sun Valley Elementary School, at Fifth and needlepoint shop, computer services center Happy Lane. Alas, Marin was not Tinsel Town North and by the and a hair and nails salon. Just past Scenic Avenue on early ’20s CMPC had gone bankrupt, its Sun Valley studios sitting Fifth is the West End Nursery, a family-owned shop that vacant until burning down in the early 1930s. provides the area’s gardening and landscape supplies. At the opposite The area remained relatively unchanged until the post-World end of Fifth Avenue is the Marin Monument Company—a monuWar II baby boom birthed with it a need for more housing, with ment itself since the early 1920s—which outfits granite and bronze hillside development occurring steadily throughout the 1960s and memorials for next door’s full-service, 130-year-old Mt. Tamalpais ’70s, leading to the neighborhood’s much-discussed architectural Mortuary & Cemetery. diversity. (Though in general, Sun Valley is comprised primarily of Sun Valley Park, on Solano Street between California Avenue and large, single-family homes, with a smattering of some duplexes and K Street, is a 2-acre recreation area with a playground and jungle gym, small apartments.) basketball court, sheltered picnic tables and—although signs calling While friendly, the idyllic residential community of Sun Valley for leashes are prevalent—a moderately sized open plot of grass just is not quiet about issues concerning its peaceful habitat, and the ac- perfect for playing catch with your dog. Another prized amenity is the tive neighborhood association regularly holds meetings to discuss Rafael Racquet and Swim Club, found up Racquet Club Drive, where changes to the cemetery and nearby school, traffic flow, park renomembers can still have lunch and enjoy the beatific views of Sun Valley vations, market updates and the like. with a backdrop of Mt. Tamalpais and the surrounding East Bay hills. Strolling through the neighborhood today, it’s easy to see why turnof-the-century residents originally flocked to Sun Valley. It’s the kind of place where the local market displays two public bulletin boards, mostly touting dog-walking services and job postings. It’s where residents will argue over the loss of a hiking trail or debate whether the cemetery should restructure its borders. Where a momma deer and her two offspring can silently trot across the street, impervious to residents mowing their lawns or children scooting by on their bikes.
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