Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/76
![Poster from the Golden Gate International Exhibition](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fa/Flickr_-_%E2%80%A6trialsanderrors_-_Pueblo_turtle_dancers%2C_New_Mexico%2C_WPA_poster_for_Golden_Gate_International_Exposition%2C_San_Francisco%2C_1939.jpg/100px-Flickr_-_%E2%80%A6trialsanderrors_-_Pueblo_turtle_dancers%2C_New_Mexico%2C_WPA_poster_for_Golden_Gate_International_Exposition%2C_San_Francisco%2C_1939.jpg)
![Top of the Mark](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/2009-0722-TopoftheMark.jpg/100px-2009-0722-TopoftheMark.jpg)
• The Golden Gate International Exposition (poster pictured, left) opens at newly created Treasure Island
• The Neptune Beach amusement park closes in Alameda
• Hewlett-Packard is founded in a garage (pictured) in Palo Alto
• Blue Shield of California is founded in San Francisco by the California Medical Association
• Consumers' Cooperative of Berkeley opens, having formed from the Berkeley Buyers' Club, which was associated with the End Poverty in California movement
• The Top of the Mark rooftop bar (pictured) is established at the top of the Mark Hopkins Hotel on Nob Hill in San Francisco
• Nuclear scientist Ernest Lawrence at the University of California, Berkeley wins the Nobel Prize for Physics for his invention of the cyclotron