 On summer evenings Dick Crest (1930-2010), a teacher and band director at the College of San Mateo, led a small orchestra in free concerts in the town square and at dances.By 1974, the beach had been abandoned and overgrown with weeds.The pedestrian tunnel (under the county highway) leading to the path down to the river has survived, but the path itself is virtually impassable, but some people have passed it.