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Sausalito History and Information

Sausalito has been an oddity for well over one hundred years. Despite its well-established appearance today, odds were against it ever becoming a town in the first place. It’s unlike most of the other small towns in Northern California in its beginnings and its growth, and probably its future.

Sausalito

When, in 1838, William Richardson, an [...]

Golden Gate Park

What’s larger than New York’s Central Park, once consisted of sand dunes, is now covered with more than one million trees and is bison-friendly?

To the people in 1870 out of the prescient notion that San Franciscans would one day feel overcrowded. This foresight proved invaluable, as 75,000 people now visit the park on an average [...]

San Francisco Earthquakes

October 17, 1989
A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Bay Area just before the third game of the World Series at Candlestick Park; the worst earthquake since 1906. The tremor collapsed a section of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Six of the deaths occurred when the exterior of a brick building collapsed at 6th and Bluxome [...]