JASON LEWIS, 37, grew up in Marin, and as a real estate agent, he drives the county every day, passing by spots he remembers happily from his childhood.

Trouble is, most of them have changed.

Where are the fields where he rode his bike or chased rabbits - tracts that now sport homes?

What ever became of Tiburon Tommie's, or the bowling alley in Greenbrae?

Why is the wooden horse statue that once stood on Lucky Drive in Corte Madera no longer there?

The Marin of his youth is history, and he wants to preserve it before it is lost.

To do so, he has created the Marin Nostalgia Web site, where he is entering memorabilia of the '60s, '70s and '80s as fast as he can.

He has a long way to go, but he hopes newspaper readers - and anyone else who lived here through the years - will help with written memories, souvenirs, and pictures of that era so he can preserve them and post them for everyone to enjoy.

"I don't want to be responsible for generating all this material," he says. "If people like it, they can participate, too."

Many of those who have already found MarinNostalgia.org have posted their own memories on a link called Forum, and are checking into listings for People, Trivia, and Arcade - where Lewis has brought back to life the video games he played as a child: Pong, PacMan, Asteroid and others.

His quest has taken him in quirky directions, checking out whatever attracts him or viewers ask for.

His curiosity about the wooden horse off Lucky Drive led him to its sculptor, Dennis Patton of San Rafael, who also created the gigantic mock-up of Sir Francis Drake at Larkspur Landing, and the lolling female on the grass at Bon Air shopping center.

Lewis interviewed him, and posted the results in the People link on his site.

His quest also led him to Bonnie Hayes, who has written songs for Bonnie Raitt, and Mike Duke at Rancho Nicasio, who wrote the Huey Lewis and The News hit, "Doing It All For My Baby."

He has posted the taped speech Robin Williams, a 1969 graduate of Redwood High, made at a class reunion, and pictures of San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, when he played basketball on the Redwood team.

Lewis has secured photos of such bygone landmarks as Blackie, the iconic Tiburon horse; the old Greenbrae School; and Zip's Drive-In at the Hub in San Anselmo, "home of the Big Dip shake and 99-cent burger." He has pictures of the interior of Tiburon Tommie's but none of the waterfall under the stairs that intrigued him when he was a child.

"There used to be an old train where Victoria Station used to be, and in east Corte Madera there were areas of open land where you could see train tracks. I wanted to see these old things again."

He's still looking for pictures of King Henry VIII and King Cotton drive-ins, in Kentfield and San Rafael respectively. Viewers have asked him for pictures of the drive-in theater and roller rink in San Rafael, the Lions Share night club in San Anselmo and Sleeping Lady in Fairfax, and Straw Hat Pizza in Larkspur, a gathering place for teens and home of the first video games.

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