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Sausalito

American  
[saw-suh-lee-toh] / ˌsɔ səˈli toʊ /

noun

  1. a town in W California on San Fransisco Bay: resort; formerly artist's colony.


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Motsinger, now 84, used to work as a waitress at a restaurant called the Trident in Sausalito, near San Francisco, that was a haunt for celebrities, including Cosby.

From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026

Violeta Autumn’s vertiginous redwood-and-concrete house perched along a cliff in Sausalito — a site others deemed unbuildable — demonstrates how terrain could inspire formal innovation.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 6, 2025

Adam Ratner, a sea lion expert at the Marine Mammal Center across the Golden Gate Bridge in Sausalito, described the surge as “truly remarkable.”

From New York Times • May 30, 2024

During a break in a board meeting they had dinner in Sausalito, and were soon an item.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

I saw her across the bay, from the great road that bypasses Sausalito and enters the Golden Gate Bridge.

From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck