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No New Posts The Jeep at Dexter Toyota
 
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Lets not forget that inimitable Larkspur landmark of days gone by, the jeep that used to be planted almost vertically in front of the Toyota dealership on Magnolia Ave - across from St. Patrick's - Dexter Toyota was the name, if memory serves... wasn't it there at least five years in the sixties-seven...
mikezee 16 1291
No New Posts My top Marin memories
 
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First of all, thanks Jason for setting this site up. I saw it mentioned in the IJ today. Here are some memories of my favorite places: -Bon Air Drugstore. I'm not sure if that's right name, but there was a drug store at the end of the old Petrini's shopping center (now the Molly Stones shopping ce...
adunne 6 2324
No New Posts Marin Town and Country Club
 
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Who remembers summers at Marin Town and Country Club? Check it out: http://www.westhill.com/mtcc/main.html
Anonymous 3 784
No New Posts If you're new to this website...
 
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Sign up for the email newsletter. I'm going to try to send something out when I make major updates to the photos and articles. Your email address will be kept private and never shared, sold, or mistreated. I've been getting some really fun photos, videos, and interviews within the last few days an...
JasonLewis 0 623
No New Posts Marin Bluegrass Festival
 
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I remember back in the 1970's at the Marin Civic Center park, east of the lagoon there was a big festival featuring top bluegrass acts, I remember hearing Jerry Garcia's voice wafting across the water as he sang the Hank Williams tune 'Jambalaya' as we were trying to figure out how to sneak in, suddenly...
Meadowsweet Rich 0 677
No New Posts Thanks for this site!!
 
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Wow! This is just perfect! I grew up in Larkspur and still live in Corte Madera. Just a couple of months ago, I was reminiscing with my best friend, who recently moved back to Corte Madera, and can't afford to buy a house to live in, about the "good old days" in Marin. We were thinking we could start a club, o...
Anonymous 9 803
No New Posts A Drummer's Tradition
 
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I just read in the paper that A Drummer's Traditon closed in San Rafael. It was a little drum shop just down from Bananas, owned by Marin native Rob Bowler. He graduated from MC a year before me. I used to take my oldest son there for drum lessons. I haven't been there in year, but I didn't know they had close...
cat 8 749
No New Posts Marin Motor Movies
 
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Here are a few photos from the last days of the Marin Motor Movies: -- Edited by Sepiatone at 07:25, 2007-03-14
Sepiatone 1 855
No New Posts Little Red Dog Motel
 
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Anyone remember the Little Red Dog Motel in the Canal area? You could see the sign from 101...
longvermont 0 614
No New Posts Obscure
 
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Here's a bit of Marin trivia. An ex-professional boxer named Sixto Rodriguez owned and operated a Texaco station on the outskirts of Fairfax, just before Wolfe Grade, in the early seventies. You can see him in a pretty good 70's movie, with Jeff Bridges, "Fat City". Any more trivia stuff?
Blackie 0 630
No New Posts San Anselmo Avenue memories - 70's and 80's
 
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Remember these? Kaufmann's for Men (Max, the proprietor?) and Kaufmann's for Women across the Street? Hilda's (when it was across the street where I think Bubba's used to be?) The Rexall pharmacy near Kaufman's (and Mr. Andrade the pharmacist?) Caffe Nuvo (one of Marin's earlie...
Anonymous 23 6147
No New Posts Marin Rod and Gun Club
 
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... anyone on this site also a member of the Marin Rod and Gun Club? Or did you have a family member that use to fish from the pier or was part of the club??????
heyrobyne 3 1391
No New Posts Chuck E. Cheese
 
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In Marinwood Plaza I have to defend this place often. Since we're all "foodies" now people say it had lousy food. It was never about the food. Period. Underline it. It was about kids and games and fun. As young parents spending time with other parents and enjoying our little kids, i...
SteveC 4 1466
No New Posts Sabella's in Mill Valley
 
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As a kid, it was always a big deal to go to Sabella's for a birthday dinner. Never mind the food, all we wanted was the sailing ship made out of seashells and to look at the lobster tank at the entrance to the dining room while our parents drank their martini's. How Marin!
Dave in Truckee 3 947
No New Posts Corte Madera fireworks and Christmas tree burning
 
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Our house was on Hickory Ave, on an up-hill lot, snuggled into the base of Palm Hill ( superb for cardboard-sliding!)So, from the uppermost back yard, we had a great view of Neil Cummins School, and the still being developed Corte Madera Town Park. The volunteer fire dept put on a passable fireworks...
rob miller 5 953
No New Posts WOLFE GRADERS THAT ARE 44 YEARS OLD
 
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I wanted to initiate an online reunion of my class from grade school. Many of my classmates started Kindergarden and finished in 5th grade. 6 - 8th was at Kent.
TAMVALLEY 2 767
No New Posts Slang terms for everything in Marin
 
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First and foremost is the term " BOAST " started by Tam High kids in the early 70's. That meant : to roast or smoke marijuana. Controlled burn : the burning of a controlled substance. Puli Paca : original Hawaiian meaning : funny smoke. Larkspur Logger : a fat joint rolled in Larkspur. Pot Sti...
Paul 4 792
No New Posts Train Tunnels inspired by rob miller
 
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We walked through the Alto Tunnel once as kids but it was so dark, wet, and creepy, plus we thought there was not enough room for us and a train so we freaked out and high tailed it through and came back on streets. We also found the entrance to a tunnel in east Corte Madera that comes out behind the schoo...
SteveC 10 3180
No New Posts Tam High Canteen (50's)
 
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Request: I'd like some information about a place behind Tam High (in the 50's) > called the Canteen, run by a woman named "Tee". It was on the other side of > the street from the school about where the gate is in the parking lot. I know > someone who went there regularly during her four year...
Speedwalker 2 769
No New Posts The Psychedellic Sixty's
 
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It's been 38 years since they outlawed the ergot to make pure LSD , I have heard stories how some people have some Sandoz pharmaceutical in the freezer. If they did I would pay $10.00 per microgram for a taste. Marin was blessed and cursed by a wide variety of psychedellic drugs and the chemists who m...
Paul 2 760
No New Posts 80's arcade
 
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Thanks for including all the arcade games we played - pretty cool. My son had a great time checking all of them out and couldn't believe they used to have them way back when I was a kid!!! :)
Anonymous 6 780
No New Posts New Spotlight Section Added
 
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Hi All, If you haven't already, send me a note in the "Leave A Comment" section if you wish to be included in hearing about new updates to the site. I recently popped in a new section on the top bar called "Spotlight". Check it out and let me know what you think! I'm always open to suggestions. Plea...
JasonLewis 9 746
No New Posts Jon's Food To Go
 
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The best fast food (circa 1969) was Jon's Food to Go near Stawberry Shopping Center. Jon was a short Japanese man from Los Angeles who made Mexican food, mostly flat burritos on a plate. Favorites included the "Sausarito" and the "Strawburrito." I can still taste 'em, and this was before the burrito c...
Anonymous 5 777
No New Posts slang terms for locations in marin
 
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As I was driving Camino Alto today headed from Mill Valley to Corte Madera I recalled that during my high school days we called that road 'One Joint Hill', since it was possible to spark 1 up at the base and be finished with it by the time you reached level ground on the other side, some others I recall from t...
Meadowsweet Rich 6 888
No New Posts Ballet Aquacade
 
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Anybody remember The Gladys Hodgson School of the Dance that met at the Knights of Columbus Hall on Tunstead in San Anselmo? We would prepare in the Spring for a dance recital out at McNears Beach and dance around the pool there?
Anonymous 3 2077
No New Posts Sundancer?
 
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"Mark" mentioned Sundancer in the "Polls" section of the site and called it the "haven of hippies". I've never heard of this place. What was it?
JasonLewis 6 846
No New Posts Santa Venetia Armory dances
 
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Does anyone remember the dances at the armory? This is were I first saw Jefferson Airplane, Moby Grape, 13th Floor Elevator, Paul Revere and the Raiders. Just a few local bands playing for the locals. Its kind of foggy but some of the best times i had!
Carp 3 928
No New Posts Meadowsweet Private School in Corte Madera
 
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In answer to SteveC, I thought I should start a new topic since this has nothing to do with the "Tsunami Scare of 1964", except for the fact I was late getting to school the day after the big scare. Yes, the Meadowsweet Private School was the old dairy. I went to school there from kindergarten through...
CMM 0 667
Poll Living in Marin
 
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How many years have you lived in Marin
Anonymous 1 744
No New Posts Tweedies General Store (Santa Venetia)
 
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Does anyone out there have any pictures of this wonderful place???????? I grew up in Santa Venetia (Scubo) and this was the greatest little store ever! You could buy anything from bread, milk, salami sandwich (25cents), a keresone lantern a handful of nails, gold pans and ice cold Deleware Punch,mm...
Carp 0 714
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