My dad did mention that perhaps one day somebody would be digging in their garden & unearth my bucket of concrete. I would love to be able to dig the old San Rafael dump again like we did in the 1970's, a lot out there still, of course now I have an electric jackhammer with spade bit & a generator, to break through that compacted top layer. Frey beers from San Rafael are getting good money on ebay now, & I recently saw a J.E Brady Sequoia Mill Valley flask sell for over $900.00.
Major mind blower...I have no recollection at all of Larkspur Dump. Paul's shot was taken the year I was born. I wonder how much flak I'd get if I cruised to Piper Park with pick and shovel and started digging. Might score some Red Mountain "lads".(seam stops)
That's how I remember it looking, when I was 4 or 5 years old & 'helping' my dad with a cement job in our backyard I put some concrete in a bucket & set it aside somewhere, the next day my dad found it after it had set up, we were going to the dump so he loaded it in the trunk of the car with the other debris, when we got there & were throwing the debris away I remember him telling me that someday they would build on top of the dump , never thought it would be a police station. Thanks for sharing your great pictures Paul.
other old dump sites, Larkspur dump where the Twin Cities PD station now sits.
This is the Larkspur dump, taken by my brother from Cedar Ave. in November 1956. Today we'd be more or less looking down Doherty Dr. toward Redwood High, which opened two years later. Towards the right, looks like a piece of earth moving equipment working on the site.
other old dump sites, Larkspur dump where the Twin Cities PD station now sits.Mill Valley dump, where Redwoods retirement center is now, older San Rafael dump, where John Irish & Seafood Peddler now sit.
There was another dump on Smith Ranch Road. The movie theaters on sitting on top of it. Also used to be a auto wrecking yard next to it where all the condos are.
I remember that old guy. I was moving into my first apartment in 1972 (behind San Rafael HS - $150/mo.) and I'd go there to get things like an ironing board for a buck, book shelves, etc. I got my first set of pots & pans from the Blud Chip store down in the Canal!
The San Quentin Dump as we used to call it was a great resource for balloon tire bike parts back in the late 1960's when we were building bikes up to race down Mt Tam, the old coaster brake bikes that pre-dated the guys who came along a few years later & put gears on them, it was mostly Larkspur locals back then, long before the 're-pack' riders found out about it.
I remember getting a free sucker when I went with my dad as a kid. Later on in high school, some friends and I had a "beer wall" that consisted of all the bottles we drank that summer. When it was time to go back to school, we loaded up his pickup and some lawn chairs and sat on the edge throwing bottles in all afternoon. Great fun.
I remember it well. That smell, not quite bad not quite good but way better than the Water Treatment Plant! I think there was this great old black guy who ran the "store".
I don't remember the San Rafael Dump. Does anyone remember George Cappella, the garbage man. He used to come up to the door and take your garbage and take it back to his truck ,dump it and return it, this was in the Kentfield, Larkspur area. He would let me ride in his smelly truck, when I was a kid, I thought it was the greatest treat ever.
Remember when the dump was out in San Rafael where Home Depot is now? Fitting, I think.
Anyway, I remember a great rummage 'store' as you drove in where you could buy all kinds of stuff they pulled out of the dump that still had some value.
