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Mayor Roger Lapham urges Public Utilities Commission to get rid of our cable car system as promptly as possible. Declares: The Municipal Railway still continues to be the Number One headache of my administration. — Jan. 28
Sales of real estate in San Francisco during 1946 totaled $265,138,669, the highest in history topping the record volume year of 1925. A total of 19,579 mortgages and deeds of trust were recorded against San Francisco real estate. — Feb. 4
Jackie Robinson, first Negro to play in modern big league ball, signalized his official debut in Brooklyn sprinting home with the deciding run. — April 15
Free concerts and operas again will be a traditional summer outdoor attraction at Sigmund Stern Grove on fifteen Sunday afternoons starting June 8. — May 16
A May-December wedding of a 13-year-old Chico schoolgirl and a 74-year-old unemployed farm hand, performed in Reno, was revealed here today. The couple said they had "known each other for about a year" and "had gone steady" before deciding to be married. — June 7
8 Freed in East Bay Abortion Case Trial: Oakland's marathon-like illegal surgery trial ended yesterday with eight defendants acquitted and the jury deadlocked on the fate of five others. The weary jurors, seven men and five women, were out ninety-five hours. The trial itself had dragged on for three months and one week. All thirteen defendants were charged with nineteen separate counts — one for conspiracy to commit illegal surgery, and eighteen for performing such operations. — July 22
Mrs. Minnie A. Elsey of 523 Webster Street in Palo Alto, who remembers Abraham Lincoln as "the ugliest man you ever saw," today will celebrate her 103rd birthday. Mrs. Elsey was born in 1844 in Springfield, Ill., and remembers hearing a debate on the courthouse steps between Lincoln and Douglas. "I was with a group of school chums, but we didn't pay much attention. We weren't interested in politics then." — Aug. 14
Polk Street, from Post to Green, gets city's first parking meters. The fee is one cent for each twelve minutes, up to a maximum of one hour for a nickel. — Sept. 3
The O'Connor Moffatt department store officially changed its name to "Macy's San Francisco" yesterday, and celebrated the occasion by laying the cornerstone for an addition that will practically double the size of its present building. — Oct. 17