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"Loosened by the steady rains of the last two days, a huge section of earth on Bernal Hill at the end of Alabama street cascaded down a slope into the street at the curve before it joins Bernal boulevard." — Jan. 13
Ten Golden Gate Bridge workers plunge to their deaths as a scaffold tears through a safety net dropping them 220 feet into the swirling water. Two others are rescued by a fishing boat and one clings to a beam until hoisted by ropes. The $35...million project until now has a remarkable safety record — only one life lost. — Feb. 18
Prudence Penny, Examiner "In the Home" columnist, offers her cure for spring fever: "Canned fruit and vegetable juices are one way of combatting that slightly under par feeling of early spring. Tomato, grapefruit, orange, pineapple and prune juices all have their innings now." — March 6
The Golden Gate Bridge opens with 200,000 marchers swarming across after a parade inaugurates a fiesta. Autos take to the span a day later. — May 27
Classified ad for real estate in Marin County: "Sausalito: $9,500 — Sunny colonial home, 7 large rms., 3 fireplaces; extra building lot; marine view." — June 6
"City officials yesterday weighed and pondered the $160,000 traffic survey of Dr. Miller McClintock, famed traffic expert, (who) recommended the city spend $26,120,000 in girdling and piercing itself with a system of elevated and depressed high-speed roadways to ease its aching traffic pains." — Aug. 4
"Marin County's grand jury probe into the Sausalito gambling situation is a mere fact-finding expedition and will result in no charges against any officials, according to District Attorney A.E. Bagshaw, of Marin County, who said, "There is no evidence that any city official accepted a bribe. We know that several......... offers were rejected." — Sept. 12
"Adolph Spreckels Jr. yesterday filed his answer to the divorce suit of comely Geraldine Spreckels. ......... (entering) a blanket denial to the wife's charges of cruelty," and asking for dismissal. — Oct. 22
"Quiet, diffident William W. Carson, many times a millionaire, died last Thursday and was buried with only a modest funeral to mark his passing (but) last night his name was on thousands of lips, breathed as in prayer by hard-working janitors, scrub women, dishwashers, uniformed door men at Nob Hill's swanky Pacific Union Club and loggers deep in the forests of Humboldt county." All were employees of his companies, clubs and office building to whom he bequeathed $1,000 gifts. — Nov. 3
Voters defeat rapid-transit bonds to build subways under Market, Mission, Geary and Montgomery. Proponents "feel certain" voters eventually "will overwhelmingly approve this or a similar proposal for rapid transit." — Nov. 3