Lucasfilm (Original HQ) in San Anselmo - Celebrity Points Of Interest

The little upstairs apartment at #6 Bank Street was one of the original offices of Lucasfilm in the 1970s— it was Marcia Lucas’ “Design Division” where she began the planning for Skywalker Ranch.

“When George returned from London, Ed needed a place to work. Since Lucasfilm Ltd. was cobbled together in spaces that were found as needed, it looked as though one of Marcia’s investments after Star Wars would solve the problem.

It was a small two-story structure on Bank Street in San Anselmo, a tree-lined eddy of calm, off the more frantic river passing on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. There was a host of small antique shops on the street, leading up to Number 6, and only private residences as you moved further away from
the Boulevard.

The property had one tenant downstairs and a pair of vacant apartments above. Marcia turned the apartments into offices, the center of the new Lucasfilm “Design Division.”

She took the larger apartment as her domain and set up an accountant and some design assistants across the hall in the
studio. Ed Catmull moved out of Parkway and joined Marcia in the apartments. As he looked over the sketches in Marcia’s
office, he was once again struck by the contrast between his new place of employment and his last. NYIT was an assortment
of grand estates with the blueblood of wealth in every corner; the evolving aesthetic of Lucasfilm was blue jeans
Victorian. “I always thought it was cool,” said Catmull, “that George and Marcia had a sense of taste.”

(From: “Droidmaker” by Michael Rubin, pp 145)