Gavin Arthur went back to San Francisco to participate in the early hippie movement, even helping organize the Summer of Love in 1967. As for the Moy Mell cabins, the dunes slowly reclaimed them.

Chester A. Arthur III, ... By 1931 Gavin had left Europe and arrived at the Oceano Dunes. Amid the drifting sand, he envisioned a utopian community south of Arroyo Grande Creek.

Just south of Pismo Beach, along California’s Central Coast, the Oceano Dunes are a popular ... when an astrologer named Gavin Arthur arrived. He organized the bohemians already living there to build ...