Did you know … ?
- Baby Face Nelson tended bar at a German Beer Garden, the Walhalla, during prohibition.
- Robin Williams was a busboy at this local restaurant, the Trident, which had the world’s top bands and comedians in their “Fern Bar.”
- Sally Stanford, a former brothel owner, was our mayor and jokingly named her dog after a famous university.
- Janis Joplin lived on Bridgeway, right in the middle of town and parked her colorfully painted Porsche in front.
- Films such as The Lady From Shanghai with Rita Hayworth and Orson Wells & Woody Allen’s Play it Again Sam were shot here.
- Jack London was inspired by Sausalito when he wrote his novel “Sea Wolf.”
- All of Sausalito was once purchased for $440,000.
- Can you hum that Sausalito song with the lyrics, “Sittin’ on the dock of the Bay, watching the tide go away…? Who sang it?
Golden Gate Bridge
Beautiful
Pleasant
Old Town
