Title:
Crowd in Lytton Square watching women runners at start of the Women's Hike (Dipsea Race)
Creator:
unknown
Subject:
Racing
Running races
Runners (Sports)
Running
Crowds
Plazas
Dipsea Race
Women's Hike
Mr. Nostrand
John Rea
The Mill Valley Post Office
The Keystone Building
Bank of Mill Valley, Bank of America Building
MacLeod
Lateija creamery
Woodworth Wethered
Harvey Klyce
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
Mountain Railway
Belle Dry Goods shops
Description:
A group of perhaps 100 women runners are standing by the flagpole in Lytton Square, ready to start the Women's Hike (Dipsea
Race) to Stinson Beach. A crowd is gathered around watching the race. The pioneering Women's Dipsea Hikes were held for
five years, 1918 through 1922. On the far left is the Keystone Block. It was built in 1906 by a Mr. Nostrand for realtor
and Congregational Church minister John Rea, replacing a collection of wood buildings on the site. The Mill Valley Post Office
was one of the original tenants. A sign on the building reads "Sausage Shop". The Keystone Building was remodeled to today's
appearance in 1934. On the far right is the Bank of Mill Valley, now the Bank of America Building which was dedicated in
1911. Originally on the site was the blacksmith MacLeod from Sausalito, who set up his forge beneath the shade of the bays
to shoe the local horses. Others later on the property included a shoemaker shop and the Lateija creamery. The site was
cleared for what was called the first masonry building in Mill Valley which had opened four years earlier. The architect
was Woodworth Wethered. Harvey Klyce was the contractor. One of the two original tenants was the Bank of Mill Valley, which
had opened four years earlier. The other was the local Pacific Telephone and Telegraph office, which included the Mill Valley
exchange's switching equipment. The Mountain Railway track ran between the Renovatory and The Belle Dry Goods shops.
Publisher:
Mill Valley Public Library
Contributor:
unknown
Date:
circa 1918
1997
Type:
image;
Format:
1 photographic print: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Identifier:
CMLPL_168
photo cabinet 1, Dipsea Race; negative 1108
Source:
Selected photograph from page 200 of "Mill Valley The Early Years" by Barry Spitz
Language:
eng;
Coverage:
Mill Valley (Calif.); Lytton Square; Stinson Beach (Calif.); Sausalito;
Rights:
copyrighted
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