Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/43

1972

Playland in San Francisco

Early model BART car

Gay Firefighters float at Gay Pride 1983

• The Stanford marshmallow experiment results are published
• The Tiffany Building in San Francisco is completed
• Playland (pictured) in San Francisco closes
• Bay Area Rapid Transit (early car model pictured) begins operations
• The Haas-Lilienthal House in San Francisco opens to the public
• Venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is founded in Menlo Park
• Stag's Leap Wine Cellars in the Napa Valley produces its first vintage
• The first San Francisco Pride festival, then called Christopher Street West, attracts an estimated 54,000 attendees (1983 parade pictured)
• The Oakland A's win the World Series
• The pornographic film Behind the Green Door is released, directed by the San Francisco based Mitchell Brothers