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Mich: "Every day was fun at the Crab Cottage!"

Saturday, July 4th, 2009

Story by Mich

Email Mich [michmag@aol.com]

Hi June,

 I finally found the pics of Crab/Cottage/Princeton!!…see attached.

 the people in the photos are…..

 Outside the Crab Cottage, Noah Smith (Leah’s dad) in Greek Fisherman’s cap, and Warren who had the Nissen hut next door.

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Inside the Crab cottage, me in white apron, Noah’s wife Marjorie and a friend of their’s whose name I cannot remember.  Every day was fiun in the Crab!!!!

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The first picture was taken from outside the Princeton Inn, with Tom’s Market on the left and looking towards the ‘Shorebird’.  I’ll send another pic, a postcard of Princeton looking down from the top of the hills towards Pillar Point and Princeton in my next mail.  They were all taken in around Christmas 1976, due to the Poinsettias in the window! 

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Hope you find good use for them in your next newsletter.

Best wishes,

Mich

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Hi again June…here is the postcard I mentioned in the last mail.  Also, the view from Princeton Inn (in last mail) was actually taken from inside, (where we were living at the time, so that must be in 1975-6, because we moved into the ‘Ship’s Chandlery’ house after that (behind Tom’s Market).

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Best wishes,

Mich

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Tom Monaghan: From the Crab Cottage Back to Exotic Abalone

Saturday, February 7th, 2009

Tom Monaghan came to my book signing (Princeton by the Sea, published by Arcadia)  at Kevin Magee’s  Bay Book store in Half Moon Bay in 2007.

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Tom was there with his Mom, and he gave me a lovely necklace on a cord. The pendant was made of abalone in the shape of a half moon. Beautiful!

In the 1970s Tom, an abalone diver, owned the legendary Crab Cottage (CC), once the center of social life in the funky fishing village of Princeton.  The CC was the ultimate breakfast place and home to the occasional “moving on” party. I’ve told you about those—anyone who tried to “move on” ended up “moving back.”

We who were here then call it the “magical time.”

Today Tom Monaghan has returned to his abalone roots but in a different way.  Love his goldengateabalone website designed by Coastside artist Deb Wong.

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"Now The Story Can Be Told" or "The Legend of Who Burned Down the Crab Cottage?"

Sunday, January 6th, 2008

Princeton-by-the-Sea is a place filled with legends and tall tales.

An oft-asked question: Who burned down the beloved Crab Cottage?

As the legend goes, John and Slim were two characters that slept in a wood pile. They didn’t bother anyone….unless having way too much to drink counts. One day John and Slim woke up and heard from a passerby that the Crab Cottage wasn’t open for breakfast that morning. The Crab Cottage was always open for breakfast and it not being open on that particular morning irritated all three men.

John and Slim didn’t work at a regular job unless walking around and checking on the goings on in Princeton counts.

As the day turned from light to dark, John and Slim kept talking about the Crab Cottage being closed for breakfast. They bought some cheap wine and bought some more and by the time the moon was up, the men were outraged.

Something had to be done, they said. So they took matters into their own hands, and with plenty of matches zig zagged their way to the Crab Cottage….and burned it down.

In John and Slim’s mind, they had solved the problem of the Crab Cottage being closed for breakfast. They would never be disappointed again.

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