Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/69
Appearance
1946
![Alcatraz shelling damage](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/46/Battle_of_Alactraz.jpg/100px-Battle_of_Alactraz.jpg)
![SRI International building](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5c/SRI_International_Building.jpg/100px-SRI_International_Building.jpg)
![Southwest Airways plane](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Douglas_DC-3%2C_Southwest_Airways_JP7765769.jpg/100px-Douglas_DC-3%2C_Southwest_Airways_JP7765769.jpg)
- 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