As a young actress and model in the 1960s, Tracy “Babs” Susman appeared on The Dick Van Dyke Show and The Munsters. She would later go back to school for urban planning and worked in environmental planning, politics, and film production. Another part of her multifaceted legacy is the beachfront home she had built on the California coast in the mid-’80s.
For years, Susman’s sister and brother-in-law had a small rental cabin at Faria Beach, a small unincorporated coastal…

