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Work is to begin soon on a huge Chevrolet motor car factory in Oakland. The plant, to be the largest in the West, will turn out 8,000 cars a year and employ several hundred men. — Feb. 18
The Old Cooper School at Jones and Greenwich streets has begun an "open-air school" that can accommodate 100 children with pulmonary disorders. — March 1
San Francisco real estate sales of $3,832,364 for February are double those of the previous February. — March 4
With much fanfare, the cornerstone is laid for the city's new Civic Center public library, to be constructed of steel and granite for $1,650,000. Facing criticism of the monumental scale of the new Civic Center, library architect George W. Kellham says, "I have heard men criticize the City Hall on account of the money and space consumed in its construction, but who would tear down that beautiful dome?" — April 16
With their molds still warm, two counterfeiters are captured in their Pierce Street hideout with 100 fake silver dollars. The men's wives, out "shopping" — exchanging fake money and coins in small purchases — return shortly and are arrested. — June 1
Using the shortest route between the two cities and ignoring Yerba Buena Island (then known as Goat Island), a low-slung $22 million, 5-mile-long truss bridge is proposed to connect the city at Second and Townsend streets with Oakland at First and Adeline streets. — June 24
Ten people are injured when an explosion rips through a Southern Pacific passenger train car while at the 16th Street Station in Oakland. A conductor blames the blast on three Mexican men, one of whom he had found hiding in the car's lavatory without a ticket. — July 1
In response to a longshoreman's strike, the so-called Citizens' Law and Order Committee is formed by 1,000 leading Bay Area industrialists to "enforce the right of employers to hire union or non. — July 11
With a war raging in Europe and another in Mexico, San Francisco business leaders hold a "Preparedness Parade," vigorously opposed by labor leaders. The event, which draws 50,000 citizens marching "in deadly earnest and with the high-hearted purpose that their land and their flag shall not be the spoil and spurning of any invader, whatsoever his power or excuse," is disrupted when a bomb kills five civilians and one soldier and injures 44 other parade-goers, four of whom would later die. — July 23
In his final argument against Warren Billings, one of the five charged in the deadly Preparedness Day bombing, Assistant District Attorney James Brennan says much larger issues than one man's guilt are at stake: "Your verdict will determine whether a particular class of people who are opposed to your views and conditions of life can change them by using dynamite and explosives to bring about intimidation and fear." Billings is sentenced to life in prison. — Sept. 23
After strenuous debate, the California State Federation of Labor maintains its policy of banning Japanese workers from joining labor unions. — Oct. 5
Mrs. Antonio Pedone has become a central suspect in the attempted blackmail and murder of Gaetano Ingrassia the week before. The matriarch and "brains" of the suspected criminal Pedone family, "keen eyed and quick witted," is described by Federal investigators as "exceptionally dangerous and hard to convict because she is the mother of five young children." — Dec. 2
Bakers are asking the Board of Supervisors to authorize a smaller loaf than it is now legal to sell, since the current 12-ounce, six-cent loaf is deemed too expensive by consumers. — Dec. 15