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unusual facts about Marin County


Lee Lapin

Lapin reportedly lived on a small island off the coast of Marin County, California where, for relaxation, he raised wolves.


Anna Halprin

She currently does research in connection with the Tamalpa Institute, based in Marin County, California, which she founded with her daughter, Daria Halprin, in 1978.

Arequipa Pottery

The Arequipa Pottery was an Arts and Crafts pottery near Fairfax, Marin County, California, situated at the Arequipa Sanatorium.

B. Kliban

The income from Playboy provided financial security that allowed him to move his family to an old house in the town of Fairfax in Marin County.

Cruiser bicycle

During the mid Seventies, a group of enthusiasts in Marin County, California began racing bikes down the fireroads of local Mount Tamalpais, in a race they called "Repack" because the ride was so grueling that riders had to repack their coaster brakes with grease after each run.

Cupid Angling

The film was produced by Leon F. Douglass's National Color Film Company in the Lake Lagunitas area of Marin County, California, and was made in the Douglass Natural Color process, the only feature film made in this process.

David Ingram

As a keyboard player, Ingram was a member of the Marin County based group AnExchange, who toured Europe with The Platters and The Coasters, backed up Carlo Thomas, worked with record producer Bob Conti, and performed with the Las Vegas Enterprize in the Fredrick Apcar's production, The Sands Playmate Review.

Fort Baker

The Fort, which borders the City of Sausalito in Marin County and is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge, served as an Army post until the mid-1990s, when the headquarters of the 91st Division moved to Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.

Funk art

Some notable cities where the Funk movement was concentrated in consisted of Berkeley, Marin County, Big Sur, and North Beach.

Indian Rock Park

The top of the main outcropping, Indian Rock, commands a spectacular view that encompasses sights from downtown Oakland and the University of California campus to the south; central Berkeley, San Francisco Bay, and San Francisco to the west; and Marin County and Richmond, California to the northwest and north.

Johnny Colla

Like many others, Colla patronized the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore Auditorium, eventually pursuing his idols and musical dreams over the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County.

M. Gerald Schwartzbach

Schwartzbach was chief trial counsel for attorney Stephen Bingham, who was acquitted of conspiracy and multiple murder charges in a Marin County Superior Court trial in 1986.

Paffard Keatinge-Clay

Here, he built a pavilion in the desert – an elemental study of components that would later become the template for his own home on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais in Corte Madera in Marin County.

Patty Parsons

Patty Parsons (born in West Virginia) is the former soulful lead singer of AnExchange, a Marin County, California-based folk rock group of the early 1970s.

Ruth Roland

She appeared in an early color feature film Cupid Angling (1918) made in the Natural Color process invented by Leon F. Douglass, and filmed in the Lake Lagunitas area of Marin County, California.

Ruthanna Hopper

She was born in New Mexico in 1972, the daughter of actor Dennis Hopper and actress Daria Halprin, and grew up in Marin County, CA.

Savely Kramarov

He bought a home in a wooded area in Forest Knolls, Marin County, north of San Francisco, where he found freedom.

SPAWN

In 2008 SPAWN received the coveted Peter Behr Award from the Environmental Action Committee of West Marin and the prestigious Ted Wellman Award from the Marin Conservation League for their efforts towards preserving the coho salmon and their habitat.

The Hackers Conference

The first Hackers Conference was organized in 1984 in Marin County, California, by Stewart Brand and his associates at Whole Earth and The Point Foundation.


see also

Ceanothus gloriosus

porrectus (Mt. Vision ceanothus) - rare variety endemic to Marin County in the vicinity of Point Reyes

Clunker

A Cruiser bicycle built during the mid Seventies, in Marin county, California.

Dominican University

Dominican University of California, an independent university of Catholic heritage in Marin County, California, United States

Frank M. Angellotti

His father was an Italian merchant and land owner of Marin county, Calif., from 1852 until his death, and his mother was descended from Christopher Osgood, who came from Marlborough, England, on the ship Mary and John in 1633 and settled at Ipswich Mass.

Jonathan Jackson

Jonathan P. Jackson (1953–1970), brother of George Jackson and perpetrator of 1970 Marin County courthouse incident

Lagunitas Creek

Under the name Paper Mill Creek, Lagunitas Creek is referred to, and crossed several times by car, in the course of Confessions of a crap artist, the novel by Philip K. Dick, partly set in Marin County.

Marin County Airport

Most U.S. airports use the same three-letter location identifier for the FAA and IATA, Marin County Airport/Gnoss Field is DVO to the FAA and NOT to the IATA (which assigned DVO to Francisco Bangoy International Airport in Davao City, Philippines).

Moffett Federal Airfield

Again the inter-service rivalry was overruled by the War Department, citing the Navy's need for coastal defense a priority and ordered the Army to move its training headquarters to Hamilton Field in Marin County, north of San Francisco.