Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/56

1959

Embarcadero Freeway

Montgomery Block, 1862

Henry Coe skyline

The Embarcadero Freeway (pictured) opens in San Francisco, the same year the San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes to cancel seven of ten planned freeways
The Montgomery Block building (pictured) in San Francisco is demolished
Henry W. Coe State Park (pictured), in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara and Stanislaus counties, is established
Jack London State Historic Park, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain, is established
The Crown-Zellerbach Building in San Francisco is completed
The San Francisco Mime Troupe is formed in San Francisco, performing (despite its name) musical political satire
Union City is incorporated in Alameda County
Owen Chamberlain and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.