in December 2019 Among various
San Francisco Bay Area properties owned by San Francisco-born civil engineer
Alfred Finnila in the 1970s was the area known as
Larkspur Landing in Marin County. In the mid-1970s, Finnila sold, leased and rented parts of Larkspur Landing to the City of Larkspur and to various businesses, including the restaurant chain of
Victoria Station. The part of the area sold to the City of Larkspur by Alfred Finnila, to be used as a major Marin County ferry terminal, is today known both as
Larkspur Landing and as
Larkspur Ferry Terminal. It is the main
Golden Gate Ferry terminal in Larkspur, Marin County. The ferry service operates daily with a Marin - San Francisco schedule tailored to both commuters and visitors. Constructed in the mid-1970s, Larkspur Ferry Terminal rose from the ashes of the long demolished Hutchinson's Rock Quarry. The Ferry Terminal was built with an open air
space frame, or
tetrahedral-octahedral tesselation, a canopy designed by architect The Ferry Terminal opened on December 11, 1976, and regular commute service started two days later. The ex-quarry-property also spawned the Larkspur Landing Shopping Center (now Marin Country Mart), with adjacent apartments and
Sonoma–Marin Area Rail Transit terminates at
Larkspur station, after a walk. The station opened for service on December 14, 2019.
In popular culture Director
Don Siegel filmed the final scenes of the
1971 movie
Dirty Harry in the vicinity of Larkspur Landing and at the adjacent East Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. After hijacking a school bus, the character of
"Scorpio" - played by
Andy Robinson - drives into East
Sir Francis Drake Boulevard at the
Greenbrae interchange, before crashing into the site of the Hutchinson Company ==References==