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Allen Lindskog rented houses on both sides of Grove St. before he built this house in 1927. He operated a music store on Lytton Square until he died in 1929 at the age of 37. In the 30s the property was rented to the Perkins and O'Brien families (the wives were sisters). O'Brien managed a successful Mill Valley baseball team. Baseball was very important to the early youth of Mill Valley. The quiet streets were the playing fields for improvised "sandlot" games and the windows were the victims of many a misdirected fly. In an early attempt at social integration, Alonzo Coffin, Mill Valley's third mayor and builder of the "Steamboat" house on Tamalpias Ave., donated a trophy to be awarded to the winner of a game between the hill dwellers and the flatlanders of this area. The hill dwellers won and the contest was never repeated. For the more serious athletes, two acres of property, belonging to Carmelita Boyle, daugher of Hilarita Sanches Reed Garcia (John Reed's widow), became a playing field in 1906 which is now part of Boyle Park."
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