Editing Tiburon, California (section)

===World War II===
As World War II loomed, the coaling station site was transformed into the [[United States Navy Net Depot Tiburon]].<ref>[http://www.militarymuseum.org/Tiburon.html California State Military Museum]</ref> This facility was used to manufacture and service [[anti-submarine net|nets]] used to stop enemy torpedoes and submarines from entering San Francisco Bay. Later, the [[U.S. Bureau of Mines]] and the [[U.S. Bureau of Fisheries]] established research facilities on the site, and the [[United States Coast Guard|Coast Guard]]'s icebreakers made this their summer home. It is now the [[Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies]]<ref>[http://rtc.sfsu.edu/ Romberg Tiburon Center for Environmental Studies]</ref> operated by [[San Francisco State University]].

With all the seamen, sailors, railroad workers, cannery employees, and local dairymen in Tiburon, the taverns and other attractions of Main Street were popular on Saturday night. Prohibition did not interrupt Main Street activities as the railroad workers were able to signal the Tiburon depot as soon as revenuers boarded a train or ferry headed for town. By the time they got to Tiburon, prayer meetings were being held in the taverns. The volunteer fire department organized spirited baseball games, and the Corinthian Yacht Club was in full swing, so Main Street was not the only activity center.

World War II brought more people to Tiburon as the Navy built housing for NetDepot workers on the site of the present Hilarita Housing, for sailors from submarines at an annex to the Net Depot (now Paradise Beach County Park). Real estate development was minimal until after the war. The descendants of the Reed family still controlled most of the land that was used for cattle ranching. Small areas of filled land were sold to create the Bel Aire and Belveron Gardens subdivisions. The Little Reed Ranch was sold and Hawthorne Terrace, Del Mar, and Reed Heights subdivisions were under way by the time the County finally began preparing a Master Plan for the Tiburon Peninsula.

After several years of public hearings and discussions with the primary landowners, a Master Plan was completed in 1956. It included freeways on both sides of the peninsula, a four lane "ridge route" down the center of the peninsula (with a high-level bridge over Trestle Glen Boulevard), a shopping center on the crest of Ring Mountain, and a bridge to San Francisco (via [[Angel Island (California)|Angel Island]] and [[Alcatraz]]) off the end. A land-use density of two homes to the acre, plus areas zoned for apartments and duplexes, would have permitted 50,000 to 60,000 people to live in Tiburon.