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1969
Sentinel Building, American Zoetrope HQ
Sentinel Building, American Zoetrope HQ
Children experimenting with vapor, Exploratorium
Children experimenting with vapor, Exploratorium
Logo for The Gap
Logo for The Gap
San Jose Museum of Art
San Jose Museum of Art
People's Park, Berkeley
People's Park, Berkeley

 • The Altamont Free Concert is held at the Altamont Speedway between Tracy and Livermore
 • Advanced Micro Devices is founded in Sunnyvale
 • American Zoetrope (headquarters at the Sentinal Building pictured) is founded in San Francisco by Francis Ford Coppola
 • The Exploratorium (interior pictured) is founded in San Francisco
 • Clothing retailer The Gap (early logo pictured) is founded in San Francisco
 • The Oakland Museum of California is established
 • The San Jose Museum of Art (pictured) is established
 • A "People's Park" (pictured) is created by community activists on University of California, Berkeley property, off Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley
 • The Bank of America Center building in San Francisco is completed
 • The Occupation of Alcatraz by Native American activists begins
 • Earth Day is first proposed by John McConnell at a UNESCO conference in San Francisco