{"id":1059,"date":"2007-07-10T09:52:32","date_gmt":"2007-07-10T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/angrypirate.dreamhosters.com\/wordpress\/?p=1059"},"modified":"2007-07-10T09:52:32","modified_gmt":"2007-07-10T16:52:32","slug":"bay-area-history-a-timeline-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/bay-area-history-a-timeline-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Bay Area History &#8211; A Timeline, Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1886 Leland Stanford bought 700 acres from Southern pacific railroad for his university. Palo Alto is a dry town.<br \/>\n1891 Leland Stanford opens Stanford University.<br \/>\n1892 Sierra Club is founded with John Muir as president.<br \/>\n1898 The San Francisco Ferry Building is built.<br \/>\n1906 San Francisco Earthquake.<br \/>\n1908 Muir Woods Preserved.<br \/>\n1911 Women get the vote in California state and local elections.<br \/>\n1912 Santa Clara College becomes Santa Clara University.<br \/>\n1929 Stock market crash begins the Great Depression.<br \/>\n1934 Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard graduate from Stanford University<br \/>\n1935 City College in San Francisco established as two year public school.<br \/>\nSan Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge opens.<br \/>\n1937 Amelia Earhart leaves Oakland to fly around world.<br \/>\nThe Golden Gate Bridge opens.<br \/>\n1939 Hewlett-Packard is founded<br \/>\n1941 U.S. enters World War II.<br \/>\n1942 Japanese Americans moved to internment camps<br \/>\n1948 The first long playing record on vinyl is produced<br \/>\n1951 Stanford Industrial Park is built. Varian Associates was its first tenant.<br \/>\n1961 Santa Clara University admits its first female students, <a href=\"http:\/\/saleviagrawithoutperscriptionusakk.net\/\" style=\"text-decoration:none;color:#676c6c\">purchase<\/a>  making it the first coed catholic university in California.<br \/>\n1970 Xerox PARC founded<br \/>\n1976 Apple Computer is incorporated with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak as it\u00e2??s founders.<br \/>\n1977 Apple introduces the first personal computer, the Apple II.<br \/>\n1980 Hewlett-Packard release their first personal computer, the HP-85<br \/>\n1984 the Apple Macintosh computer launched<br \/>\n1985 Jobs and Wozniak leave Apple.<br \/>\n1989 The 7.1 magnitude Loma Prieta Earthquake hits the Bay Area. Part of the Bay Bridge collapses as well as parts of the 101 freeway overpass in the SOMA district.<br \/>\n1997 Steve Jobs becomes interim (permanent) CEO<br \/>\n2001 First iPod is launched by Apple Computer<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1886 Leland Stanford bought 700 acres from Southern pacific railroad for his university. Palo Alto is a dry town. 1891 Leland Stanford opens Stanford University. 1892 Sierra Club is founded with John Muir as president. 1898 The San Francisco Ferry Building is built. 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. 1908 Muir Woods Preserved. 1911 Women get the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}