Marin County takes steps to monitor its sheriff’s office. San Francisco’s mayoral candidates’ game the odds with rank choice voting. Dozens of striking hotel workers stop traffic in Union Square. Paul Pelosi’s attacker gets life in prison.
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Five candidates compete for three seats on the Sausalito city council. The U.S. Dept. of Justice goes into watchdog mode ahead of the elections. San Francisco Superior Court clerk go on strike. The city of Oakland faces service cuts as payments on its coliseum sale are delayed.
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Marin county is on the road to electrification. There’s a high number of local electoral races that are uncontested. San Francisco has its day in the Supreme Court. New testimony is heard in the murder trial of tech mogul Bobby Lee.
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California sends more first responders to hurricane-ravaged Florida. Hotel workers ask San Francisco ask leaders for support in a nationwide strike. A list of the city’s public schools at risk of closing is released. San Francisco supervisors want their own attorney to drop Supreme Court case.
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Marin County sees a slight drop in homelessness. The summer heat may lay the ground for winter flooding. Payments for the sale of Oakland’s coliseum are slower than expected. Governor Gavin Newsom honors the banana slug.
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Marin County Board of Supervisors disagrees that it needs a new jail.[KR1] California sues ExxonMobil for plastics pollution. Allegations fly between San Mateo’s sheriff and county executive. And the Oakland Athletics say goodbye to the Bay with a farewell win.
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Marin County advances an affordable housing project, while Governor Gavin Newsom signed a flurry of new housing bills. In Sonoma County, opposition grows against a ban on large animal farms. In San Francisco, public school closures are looming.
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Marin County advances an affordable housing project. The Bay Area hosted an assortment of presidential debate watch parties. The city of Oakland struggles to manage a lead abatement program. Antioch might keep its Amtrak station.
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Few shoppers at Gene Hiller Menswear realize there’s a jail cell in the basement of the store.
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Exclusive on Radio Sausalito! Hear Louis Armstrong rehearsing with his band live just prior to his broadcast from Club Hangover in San Francisco back in January 1954. This recording has been remastered for high fidelity and reissued as part of Radio Sausalito’s historic rebroadcast of the most complete collection of Club Hangover broadcasts.
We’re making available on demand, this mp3 of the remastered high-fidelity rehearsal recording made on stage at Club Hangover recorded the evening of his historic San Francisco broadcast.
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To borrow a phrase from the sixties, if you remember the notorious dry docks of Richardson’s Bay. . . you were probably never aboard them.
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Next time you’re enjoying tequila sunrise, don’t forget: that delicious cocktail was created right here in Sausalito.
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The last train pulled out of Sausalito on Thanksgiving Day, 1971 ending 96 years of service here.
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The Ice House moved to Bridgeway and Bay Streets in 1993, but it almost never got there at all.
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Despite long odds, Rumors came true in Sausalito in 1976.
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What weighs 4500 pounds and can dive a mile deep in the open ocean? It’s not a submersible.
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The Alta Mira Hotel, perched high on Bulkley Avenue, was once the grande dame of Sausalito hotels, known for Sunday brunches featuring Ramos Gin fizzes.
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Otis Redding’s famous song (Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay was inspired by Sausalito. But do you know the reason why Redding was sittin’ on one of our docks?
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When you think of Dagwood, do you imagine the comic strip character or his enormous sandwiches? Well, in Sausalito, at least for a short time, Dagwood had a very different meaning.
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The ferryboat Berkeley has had a long and varied history, some of it here in Sausalito…
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Did you know that Gumby got his start in Sausalito? Well,almost…
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Throughout Sausalito’s history, lots of things have happened, but just as interesting is a long list of things that DIDN’T happen here.
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Marinship, which changed the face of Sausalito forever, became operational in just a few months in early 1942.
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The Floating Homes Community celebrates the 32nd anniversary of it annual Open Homes Tour on September 30.
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Listen to the Radio Play!

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75 years ago, America turned on its radio sets…and heard Sausalito. A live coast-to-coast radio broadcast commemorated the opening of the Marinship Plant which changed our community forever and employed 20,000 people through World War 2. We relive this historic broadcast through a live, modern dramatization featuring songs, stories, and comedy!
Use the player below to listen to the broadcast as it occurred live from the stage of the Sausalito Woman’s Club! (The audio should start playing automatically) This radio play is a production of the Sausalito Historical Society and the Sausalito Woman’s Club. It was directed by Roberta Maloy and recorded by Joe DeBellis. Here are pictures and a full list of the cast and crew that brought the performance to life.
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