September 2017 – Sausalito resident Mike Moyle joined us at Driver’s Market to present the history of Caledonia Street. In a talk titled “Golfers, Gangsters and Garages” Mike used historical photographs to tell the stories of Sausalito’s buildings and local characters. In April 2016, Mike gave a similar talk as part of the Sausalito Historical Society that included an exhibit and the Caledonia Street Walking Tour. The Walking Tour featured a numbered photograph identifying the buildings that remain largely unchanged today, more than 85 years later.
Here is a listing from the Caledonia St Walking Tour of buildings that still stand:
1 – #33/#35/#37 Caledonia – Now Sausalito Optometry; Caledonia Street Barbers and Cafe DeVino.
2 – #36 / #40 Caledonia – Now Experience Salon; Lesneski Chiropractor.
3 – #46 Caledonia – Now Sausalito Market (Perry Building)
4 – #101 Caledonia – Now a vacant theatre
5 – #108 Caledonia – Now offices
6 – #113 Caledonia – Apartments
7 – The Intersection of Turney and Caledonia – all four buildings were in place in the late 1920s — Today #116 Isabel Allende Foundation; #117 Apartments; #200 Driver’s Market; #201 Fine Framing Tyray Jewelers.
8 – #212 / #214 / #218 Caledonia – Now L&L Property Management / Smitty’s Bar / Sausalito Bright Cleaners.
9 – #307 / #309 Caledonia – Residences
10 – #310/#314/#318 Caledonia – Now Sausalito Picture Framing; Rimma’s Hair Design; Waterstreet Hardware.
11 – #420 Litho Street – Then and Now: Sausalito City Hall
A copy of the PowerPoint that Mike used during his talk last year can be found here. On the same Sausalito Historical Society page are links to two other documents that Mike prepared as part of the project – an extensive commentary that is keyed to the PowerPoint slides, and a list of many of the businesses that have operated on Caledonia Street over the years.
Following up:
After Mike’s talk at Driver’s, a few people asked about the history of the more recent garages that occupied 200 Caledonia (now Driver’s Market) in the post-WWII period. Mike shared his full list of past businesses for the building:
• Day and Night Garage (R.M. Cantwell) [1922]
• Rosa Garage [1924]
• Marinship Recruiting Hall [1942-45]
• Frenchy’s Garage [1947]
• Hank’s Auto Repair [1956]
• BRM Motors (Craigie Gould) [1963-77] ; Robert Winkelmann Racing, Ltd. shared the space [1968 – 1977]
• Real Foods [1980 – 2011]
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