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=== Post-WWII === On March 12, 1974, San Anselmo officially became a town. In 1963, a cast iron statue of a deer affectionately known as "Sugarfoot" by locals was donated to the town by Joeseph Dondero. This statue still stands today and children enjoy riding on his back after trips to the library next door. The town features in the song "[[Hard Nose the Highway|Snow in San Anselmo]]" by Irish-born singer/songwriter [[Van Morrison]], about an unusual bout of winter weather that occurred when he was living in Fairfax, near San Anselmo, in the 1970s. San Anselmo's most prominent resident, movie director [[George Lucas]], used some of the proceeds from his film ''[[American Graffiti]]'' to buy an old [[Victorian house]] in San Anselmo; his then-wife [[Marcia Lucas]] named it "Parkhouse."<ref>[[Biskin, Peter]], ''Easy Riders Raging Bulls'', Simon & Schuster, 1998, p. 557.</ref> Lucas worked on his ''[[Star Wars]]'' script for two and a half years, writing much of it at the back of his San Anselmo house in a room he shared with a gaudy [[Wurlitzer jukebox]]. In 1977, Lucas screened an early version of ''Star Wars'', without completed special effects, at his San Anselmo home for a small group of Hollywood friends, including the producer [[Alan Ladd Jr.]], directors [[Steven Spielberg]], [[Brian DePalma]], and [[Martin Scorsese]], and screenwriters [[Jay Cocks]], [[Willard Huyck]], and [[Gloria Katz]].<ref>''Easy Riders Raging Bulls'', p. 582</ref>
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