Open floor plans and clean lines might be trendy, but historic homes will never go out of style. With decorative details like wainscoting and intricate millwork, these five properties, which are currently on the market, have stories to tell. (Four of them are roughly a century old.) Thankfully, thoughtful renovations have modernized these homes without […]
The west’s first racially integrated summer camp was here in Marin.
Get to know the community garden space in the center of Marin County, where the Marin County Fair was held for over 20 years.
For now, and likely for the foreseeable future, concerts, plays and sporting events, are a thing of the past – a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experience still feels a bit surreal, but it’s not unprecedented. When the Uptown Theatre opened in August of 1925, for example, the public was finally getting back to […]
For now, and likely for the foreseeable future, concerts, plays and sporting events, are a thing of the past – a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The experience still feels a bit surreal, but it’s not unprecedented. When the Uptown Theatre opened in August of 1925, for example, the public was finally getting back to […]
There are certain things in life that we tend to take for granted as they are so commonplace. Probably one of the biggest ones? Getting our mail delivered. And when it comes to mail, the USPS is king. It is the only delivery service that reaches every address in the nation — meaning 160 million […]
The Record Plant, 2200 Bridgeway, Sausalito Few locations in Marin holds as much musical significance and lasting reach than what had been known as the Record Plant recording studio located at 2200 Bridgeway in Sausalito. From the studio’s first recordings of Sly and The Family Stone in 1972 to the last by the Fray in 2009, […]
2020 is considered to be the first digital census, offering the option of responding online, by mail or by phone. The federal government uses census numbers to know where to allocate more than $675 billion in funds annually. Undercounting on the census can lead to loss of a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. […]
IT WAS THE era of “making out,” not “hooking up,” and Marin was not to be left behind. According to Marin IJ’s History Watch writer Michael Kilgore, “the 600-car-capacity Marin Motor Movies drive-in featured ‘hook-on’ speakers with volume that was adjustable depending on the amount of attention the car’s occupants wanted to devote to […]
Filmmaker Frances Reid recounts her experience documenting the first March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights in 1979.
