Sausalito is a city in Marin County, California, United States, located 1.5 miles southeast of Marin City, 8 miles south-southeast of San Rafael, and about 4 miles north of San Francisco from the Gold
Sausalito combines hillside with shoreline, as seen in this view from Bridgeway, the city's central street.
William Richardson (1795–1856), an English-born Mexican citizen, first claimed and developed the site of Sausalito as a private rancho.
The Eureka, then the largest double-ended ferryboat in the world, carried passenger and automobile traffic on the Sausalito–San Francisco run from 1922 to 1941.
Richard Nixon campaigning for United States Senate in Sausalito in the spring of 1950
Sheldon Allan Silverstein was an American writer, cartoonist, songwriter, and musician. Born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, Silverstein briefly attended college before being drafted into the United
Sausalito, California
…Otis Redding, musician, wrote "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" while staying on a houseboat at Waldo Point in Sausalito in 1967. Shel Silverstein, poet Sally Stanford, former Sausalito City Council member and mayor, founder of the restaurant Valhalla; ran a well-known brothel at 1144 Pine Street…
Silverstein c. 1964 as featured on the back cover of The Giving Tree
Silverstein's Playboy travelogues, collected in 2007
"Now here's my plan...", Silverstein's best known cartoon of the 1950s became the title of his 1960 cartoon collection.
Ballantine Books published Silverstein's 1956 collection of cartoons from Pacific Stars and Stripes, foreword by Bill Mauldin.