1912
![Sam Wo (closed, 2013)](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Sam_Wo_Restaurant%2C_2013.jpg/60px-Sam_Wo_Restaurant%2C_2013.jpg)
![Newspaper account of the first race in 1912](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper.jpg/180px-Bay_to_Breakers_1912_newspaper.jpg)
• The Bay to Breakers (news headline on race pictured, right) is run in San Francisco for the first time
• Chinese restaurant Sam Wo (pictured, left. translation: "Three Harmonies Porridge and Noodles") in San Francisco's Chinatown opens
• Sunnyvale in Santa Clara County is incorporated
• The California Society of Etchers is founded in San Francisco
• Essanay Studios opens the Essanay-West studio in Niles, at the foot of Niles Canyon