Sausalito California developed rapidly as a shipbuilding center in World War II, with its industrial character giving way in postwar years to a reputation as a wealthy and artistic enclave, a picturesque residential community, and a tourist destination.
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Name of Sausalito California comes from the Spanish sauzalito, meaning "small willow grove", from sauce "willow" + collective derivative -al meaning "place of abundance" + diminutive suffix -ito; with orthographic corruption from z to s due to seseo.
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When Sausalito California was formally platted, it was anticipated that future development might extend the shoreline with landfill, as had been the practice in neighboring San Francisco.
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Sausalito California has a Mediterranean climate with far lower temperatures than expected because of its adjacency to San Francisco Bay and the resultant onshore breezes.
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Sausalito California was once the site of a Coast Miwok settlement known as Liwanelowa.
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Sausalito California is believed to refer to a small cluster of willows, a moist-soil tree, indicating the presence of a freshwater spring.
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Sausalito California was a center for bootlegging during the era of Prohibition in the United States.
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In 1965, the City of Sausalito California sued the County of Marin and a private developer for illegally zoning 2, 000 acres of land to build a city named Marincello adjacent to Sausalito California.
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Sausalito California has three sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:.
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Several decades Sausalito California had a local newspaper called the MarinScope, owned at times by Paul and Billy Anderson, and Vijay Mallya.
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Sausalito California retains a small radio station founded by Jonathan Westerling, Radio Sausalito California 1610 AM, which serves as the city's Emergency Broadcasting System.
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Sausalito California is served by the Sausalito California Marin City School District for primary school and the Tamalpais Union High School District for secondary school.
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Sausalito California has a municipal fishing pier and the Turney Street Boat Ramp.
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