Wow. Did you live there when he was mayor? What about the restaurant or brewery or whatever--I chuckled when I read that he was serving a brewski called "Pale Ale Rider." Well, it was funny to me...
It was a restaurant/pub called "The Hog's Breath" - with a metal sculpture of a wild boar's head on out front. You entered down a slim alley, coming into a open patio/garden with a brick English Pub on one side and the restaurant on the other. (Lot of Wild boar in Carmel Valley - and good eating.)
And yes, many of the menu items had connections to his movies - like "The Eiger Sandwich" and the "Misty Burger."
It had the best mushroom soup I've ever found in a restaurant. the food was great and I often ate there, particularly when friends came to visit.
One day, as we were having lunch, Clint came in (He had his business/movie office in a bldg behind the pub.) He walks in, wearing the blue and white jacket he wore in the Eiger Sanction, and jeans - and, as I mentioned, well over 6' (I think 6'2")...People were choking on their sandwiches. (Of course, it didn't harm my ego that he'd always give me a nod and a smile with a 'Hi, M..." ;o)
I always suspicioned that he had the restaurant mainly so's he'd have a semiprivate place to eat as well as being able to guarantee good food.
His pub was the first place I ever had a Dos Equis...
He became Mayor after I left. He was well respected and liked - Carmel was only about 5,000. In addition, there was no mail delivery, no street numbers. You went to the p. o. to get your mail - a method that allowed folk to get to know one another. (the p.o. delivered mail to the elderly or infirm via taxi.)
AT one time, a developer was going to buy a famous old nunnery - a large white adobe Spanish structure sitting back on a long acre-worths of lawn and flowers, a landmark from the 1800's.
Developers were preparing to buy it - to tear down for building condos. There was an uproar but, it seemed, nothing to be done, legally, to stop it.
So Clint bought it - to ensure it remained as it was.
He had a little red sports car but his favorite was an old green and white Carmel squad car that he bought on auction. He never pushed for special attention - he'd - well, for example: when the first Star Wars movie hit the theater, he stood in line with the rest of us to get in.
He did a lot of quiet things for people that the general public never knew about.
He lived up in Carmel mainly because he hated the whole Hollywood scene - same with Kim Novak and a few others.