Here is a song from 1970 written by a teacher at a local elementary school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-YaWE0zu-c
Old Mill Park is just the same as you can see in the 2014 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtDCYlkxbNk
Things have changed money-wise though. Rita Abrams just posted this on our local Tamalpais Next Door. It's her annual Christmas poem to her neighbors.
‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through Marin
Folks were getting in one last workout at the gym
The children all slept in their Pottery Barn Kids beds
While visions of Range Rover danced in their heads
My partner and I had begun to canoodle
When we heard anxious whinings from our labradoodle
Away to the window I flew like a flash
But couldn’t hear much through the double-paned glass
The MOON on the crest of Mt. Tam was like YIKES!!
So I posted on facebook, and got 40 likes
And that’s when I saw him—that chubby old critter
So I grabbed my new iphone and logged onto Twitter
He was feeding his reindeer 8 vegan steaks—rare
That were brought out to him by our live-in au pair
Then right through the front door he knowingly strode
Having somehow obtained our security code
He laid out his gifts and two bins—what a thrill—
When he marked one “RECYCLE” (and) the other “LANDFILL”
He ate his kale chips, drained his whole green drink glass
Then looked up the chimney and said “Think I’ll pass”
We gaped as he exited—he couldn’t see us
As he packed all 8 reindeer into his new Prius
And we heard him exclaim as we watched his wheels spin
Hey Rudy ~ next year, we retire in Marin!!
MERRY CHRISTMAS, MARINITES, from Rita