"Tom Hanks: Despite no one asking for it, a tour of arguably Alameda's biggest trio of bonafide celebs starts with its numero uno, Tom Hanks. The star of such blockbuster flicks as Toy Story, Forrest Gump and Saving Private Ryan lived from 1973 to 1976 as a teenager on a floating home (not a houseboat that has a rudder and steering wheel) at Alameda's Barnhill Marina & Boatyard, just east of the Posey Tube."
"Hanks has acknowledged on Instagram that he did indeed live on floating home number C1 when it went up for sale a few years ago. C1 is directly across from the Bay Trail that runs alongside the marina in the Oakland Estuary. During his time there, Hanks lived with father Amos, an artist and culinary instructor at various colleges, and his father's second wife (who was not Tom Hanks' mother)."
Three notable entertainers—Tom Hanks, Jim Morrison and Phyllis Diller—spent formative years living in Alameda, and their former homes are publicly identifiable. Tom Hanks lived from 1973 to 1976 as a teenager on floating home C1 at Barnhill Marina & Boatyard, located just east of the Posey Tube and across from the Bay Trail in the Oakland Estuary. He lived there with his father Amos, an artist and culinary instructor, and his father's second wife. Hanks watched classic films at the Alameda Theater, attended Skyline High in Oakland, and took acting classes at Chabot College in Hayward. Barnhill Marina, founded in 1966 by A.V. Barney Barnhill, developed a bohemian community of inexpensive floating homes that attracted artists, nonconformists and communal gatherings.
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