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The director of the San Francisco Motor Car Dealers' Association returns from Detroit and predicts "......... a return to prosperity with the spring. The motor car industry will lead the way." — Jan. 5
Quarter-inch sized shrimp are discovered in North Beach district drinking water. The fresh-water critters are dismissed by the city health director as "not at all harmful if you swallow them. Nor if you don't swallow them, either." — March 26
Stung by criticism of his lynching comments from President Roosevelt on down, "Sunny Jim" Rolph suffers several heart attacks and dies after a three-month decline. — June 3
Longshore strike erupts in violence when employers try to ram trucks through picket lines. Several die, many are injured "as the bloodiest and most widespread rioting and fighting in the recent history of San Francisco raged all over the waterfront." — July 6
"James Kinsella, 26, auto mechanic, shot and killed himself in the basement of his home at 1070 Noe street . Police said he was despondent over lack of employment." — Sept. 11
"In deep silence, like a multitude of old beholding a miracle, San Francisco greeted yesterday the coming of Hetch Hetchy water. Twenty thousand awe-struck citizens, and people of the peninsula, crowded the rolling meadow at the south end of Crystal Springs reservoir." Not on hand: City Engineer M. M. O'Shaughnessy, who died two weeks earlier after working 22 years to build the system. — Oct. 29
A girl student and a university official were struck by flying eggs and overripe tomatoes as two thousand students booed and engaged in fisticuffs during an advertised "student strike" at the University of California at Berkeley to protest the suspension of five students at the University of California at Los Angeles for alleged Communistic activities. The strike itself fizzled out. — Nov 6