Daily Independent Journal from San Rafael, California • Page 15

Her Beloved Junk Is On The Block By MARY LEYDECKER HOT SPRINGS, Sonoma County With one hand she stuffed a wad of dollar bills into her vast purple garment, but with the other, she brushed away a tear. is breaking my said Juanita. But then she brightened and shouted at a customer hauling out a battered old chair, no extra charge for the chicken The scene was the old Hot Springs Hotel, a cheerfully ramshackle two-story frame building surrounded by six acres of green grass, barnyard animals, 1920-type cottages and a fountain that once worked. It is now the home of Galley, the fourth establishment to be operated under that name by Juanita Musson, a lady of ample proportions and indeterminate years, who once was a landmark of the Sausalito waterfront. Juanita, who sometimes is called Miss or Mrs.

Musson in dry newspaper accounts of her activities but never by anyone else, currently is embarked on a new venture. This time, as she now is billing herself, is her She explained Saturday she intends to continue her well-publicized sale and until she sells the mountain of stuff tagged for sale. The object of the often tearful enterprise is to raise enough money to purchase the Hot Springs property which she has been leasing, Juanita said. The place is worth $200,000, she said, but she only needs enough for a down payment in order to exercise a March option. In addition to the antiques, near-antiques and pure junk which are tagged for sale in a half-dozen upstairs rooms in the hotel, Juanita also was relieving each of the hundreds of visitors of a $1 THIRD SECTION SAN RAFAEL, CALIFORNIA.

MONDAY. FEBRUARY 17, 1975 17 Traveling Supervisors Run Up A $4,458 Bill CLUTTER A visitor, Rita Jordan, looks in astonishment at the mountain of clutter in Juanita's bedroom. The restaurateur sold the bed during a weekend sale but the rest of the treasured possessions in her bedroom were not for sale. donation to help buy the property. want to ask for the Juanita said Saturday, yesterday people were just coming in and picking up In exchange for the $1, the throngs of SNIFF Juanita Musson, center, bursts into tears as Dwane and Elane Pile (left background) prepare to haul away an old folding chair Juanita said belonged to her grandmother.

The sale of the chair and other objects is aimed at raising money so Juanita can put a down payment on the old Hot Springs Hotel, present site of her restaurant. LOOKERS Two of the hundreds of buyers and lookers who flocked to Galley in Sonoma County took over a small portion of the mountain of objects for sale there. Jennifer Smith holds up a ceramic box while her husband, Andrew, looks on skeptically. by jim people were receiving pictures of Juanita, showing her, bare backside up, in a tub full of bubbles. As Juanita signed each picture and exchanged comments with the visitors, a man asked if she would add his name to the picture I give you another dollar.

she responded, your Through the sunny morning they continued to come, mostly just to look at the astonishing collection of stuff for sale. But there were some serious buyers. sold my bed. .1 going to. this man came in with money in his hand.

the back to Tennessee with Juanita announced to all who could hear her voice, which would carry to the top balcony in any theater. Her prized Victorian bedroom set fetched $5,000, she said Another buyer, Carlton Coolidge, who owns the nearby El Verano Inn, got a big kiss from Juanita as he came to pick up an antique hallpiece he had puirchased for his competing establishment. love you. take all my Juanita announced to Coolidge. Lookers and buyers who flocked up the stairs to the sale rooms on the second floor were greeted with an incredible jumble, including Victorian furniture, bric-a-brac, dishes, old sewing machines and even bedpans.

Where did it all come from? From six locked rooms in the hotel where Juanita for years has been stuffing her purchases. paid for them with my drinking she said. She used to be a in her earlier days in Sausalito, Juanita explained, but when she gave up the booze, "I became a compulsive In recent years, she had time to browse through shops herself, but have brought me One of the 25 persons who works for Juanita added that we sell all that stuff, more stored in some of the Opinions varied on whether treasures were bargains or not. want to sell the stuff at these a woman said. But another commented, priced some of the furniture nearly high But it would be a mistake to imagine that Juanita will live in some kind of sterile uncluttered barrenness even if she disposes of every one of the hundreds of ticketed objects for sale.

In the downstairs portion of the hotel, which houses a restaurant featuring usual hearty food and a bar, the jumble of her possessions also bog- Dance Workshop Set By Ecumenical Group A dance workshop featuring exercises, non-verbal games and improvised movement, will be held Thursday from 7:30 to 9 p.m. at the Redwoods Presbyterian Church in Larkspur. Sponsored by TEAM, an ecumenical group of 11 Southern Marin churches, the event is designed to self-awareness through body according to Sondra Wuthnow, workshop leaders. It is for both dancers and non-dancers. She is a dance and drama teacher and a choreographer and director of liturgical dance.

Fee is $2. Interested persons may contact Mrs. Wuthnow, 214 Melrose Avenue, Mill Valley. Paintings Of Marin Scenes Being Shown Scenes of Marin are featured in an exhibit of paintings by the Kentfield Group, eight Marin artists, this month at the Redwood Bank in San Rafael. Artists represented are Janet Allen, Ann Bisazza, Glory Carlberg, Betty Lytle, Barbara Mozley, Peggy Williams, Cynthia Jacobs and Mona Verzi.

Art Is On Display Woven wall hangings by Donna Bell and ceramics by Ursula Fahner will be exhibited March 2 to 30 at the Marin Society of Craft Gallery at the Marin Art and Garden Center in Ross. gles the eye. Like upstairs, lovely old pieces are crammed in with stuff that would make the Goodwill flinch. But to Juanita, each of her possessions seems as good a friend as the people and animals with which she surrounds herself. Standing at the door of the hotel, she burst into a flood of tears as a couple hauled out an old chair.

I remember where I got. she asked rhetorically between sobs. the only thing of my I have. hauled it all over the country Oklahoma, New Jersey, San Diego. it's going to have a beautiful she said.

Then she boomed out, wouldn't refinish it. I'd just take some of that germicidal cleaner to And on that cheerful note, Juanita rearranged her purple burnoose, wiped her eyes and settled the Spanish comb (adorned with two dolls) into her wispy topknot. Marin County supervisors ran up a $4,458 bill for out-of-county travel during the first seven months of this fiscal year. Two top aides, meanwhile, submitted travel expenses to the county auditor- controller totaling $3,936 for the same period. According to the expense accounts, Supervisor Gary T.

Giacomini was high among supervisors with $1,314 worth of travel expenses. His bill includes a $1,014 trip in July to Miami Beach, Washington, and Nassau, Bahamas. During the trip, he spoke on growth control and the county general plan at a National Association of convention in Miami. Giacomini spent $256 to attend a county association convention in Anaheim last November. Another $44 is listed for miscellaneous expneses.

Supervisor Peter R. Arrigoni Jr. had $1,165 worth of travel during the seven months, including an $812 trip to Washington, D.C. last August to discuss the Golden Gate National Recreation Area with federal officials. Other expenses include a $306 tab to attend the convention in Anaheim and $47 in miscellaneous travel.

Supervisor Robert A. Roumiguiere submitted reimbursement vouchers totaling $779, including a $296 trip to the convention in Anaheim. Other expenses include a $242 trip to Crescent City to attend a convention of the Redwood Empire Association in September, $154 to attend the summit in Los Angeles last October and $85 to attend a association meeting in Sacramento in December. Former Supervisor Michael Wornum, now assemblyman, spent $655 on travel before leaving for Sacramento. His bill includes a $536 trip to Washington, C.

to discuss the Golden Gate National Recreation Area. (It was the same trip Arrigoni spent $812.) Other expenses for Wornum include a $119 bill for miscellaneous travel. Colleague Arnold M. Baptiste spent $376, all on a trip to Scottsdale, to meet with Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation architects last October. New Supervisor Thomas S.

Price has not traveled at county expense. The bills do not include routine mileage charges for Bay Area travel. Among aides to the supervisors, County Counsel Douglas J. Maloney was high with $2,144 in expenses, including $769 for a trip to Miami Beach with Giacomini in July. Other expenses include $377 for the association convention in Anaheim, $699 for trips to Sacramento as the lobbyist, $186 for a conference in Los Angeles in October, and $114 in miscellaneous expenses.

Assistant County Administrator Thomas F. Campanella was second high among the aides with a $1,566 total, includinga $904 trip to Miami Beach. (The same trip cost Maloney $769). Other expenses include a $376 trip to Scottsdale with Baptiste and $287 for the convention in Anaheim. Council Will Eye Television Spending Whether Mill Valley should spend $1,100 on the first two of a series of television programs to be filmed about the city will be discussed tomorrow at 8 p.m.

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