The winds of change have swept over the Bay Area like a hurricane in the past few years. And no place has changed as much as the small town of Tiburon in Marin County.
You could make the case that Tiburon is one of Marin’s crown jewels: an affluent town built on a peninsula with salt water on three sides; a climate so benign it was once a health resort; a Main Street lined with shops and restaurants; a downtown flanked with condos and expensive houses; a famously excellent school system; a population of just under 10,000; and a median annual household income of $212,794.
Yet, within living memory, Tiburon was a blue-collar railroad town. A reporter described Tiburon in 1950 as “a bundle of tracks and a clump of smoky buildings and 42 acres of land … a workshop of noise, oil, welding and hammering.”…