Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/69

1946

Alcatraz shelling damage

SRI International building

Southwest Airways plane

• Two guards and three inmates die during an unsuccessful escape attempt (pictured) from Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary
• Cargo airline Emery Worldwide begins operating out of Redwood City
• Potato chip maker Granny Goose is founded in Oakland
• Overstock and government surplus Cannery Sales stores open in San Francisco
• Japanese American newspaper Nichi Bei Times begins publishing in San Francisco
• The Pacifica Foundation is created by World War II conscientious objectors E. John Lewis and Lewis Hill
• The Stanford Research Institute (contemporary building pictured) is founded in Menlo Park
• Sunset Books is founded by the San Francisco-based publishers of Sunset magazine
• Southwest Airways (plane pictured) begins operations out of San Francisco International Airport