Sausalito, California Webcam

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Sausalito (from Spanish: sauzalito “small willow grove”) is a San Francisco Bay Area city and is next to, and largely bounded by, the protected spaces of the Golden Gate National Recreation Area.

Developed rapidly as a shipbuilding center in World War II, the city’s industrial character gave way in postwar years to a reputation as an artistic enclave and as a picturesque residential community incorporating large numbers of houseboats. Today two house boat communities still exist: Gallilee Harbor in Sausalito, Waldo Point and the Gates Cooperative just outside the city limit.

Sausalito was a center for bootlegging during the era of Prohibition in the United States. Because of its location facing the Golden Gate and isolated from San Francisco by the same waterway, it was also a favorite landing spot for adventurous rum runners.