Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/27
Appearance
1988
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- A sculpture of Ashurbanipal (pictured) is installed at the Civic Center, San Francisco
- The Niles Canyon Railway is reopened in the East Bay
- The Oakland East Bay Symphony is established
- Beat Generation and San Francisco Renaissance poet Robert Duncan dies