Music in real places

Sausalito (bay-side inspiration setting)

Sausalito, California; town-scale inspiration context, exact boat and berth unidentified

Explore the places

These historical places remain in the list while their map positions are researched.

Sausalito (bay-side inspiration setting) — Position not yet established

Music happened here

The Dock of the Bay: a bay-side idea becomes a Memphis record

A Sausalito stay helps inspire the song

August 1967, according to the Stax biography

Stax’s Otis Redding biography associates his August 1967 houseboat stay in Sausalito with the inspiration for (Sittin’ On) The Dock of the Bay. No exact dock, boat or berth is established.

Otis Redding — official artist history

Reading the place today

This place remains listed without a map pin.