SF Bay Area 1976-1999
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1976 Jan, In SF
Robert Swanson (28), a Silicon Valley venture capitalist, first met
with Herb Boyer, a molecular biologist and co-discoverer of recombinant
DNA. The 10 minute appoint-ment extended to a few hours and the 2 men
proceeded to found Genentech.
(SFC, 5/28/96, p.B1)(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)(WSJ,
12/14/99, p.A22)
1976 Mar 13, In California a jury
convicted 4 Black Muslims for 3 murders and 4 assaults out of a total
of 23 Bay Area crimes that included 14 murders. Jessie Lee Cooks, Larry
Craig Green, Manuel Moore and J.C.X. Simon were given life sentences.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W22)
1976 Apr 7, Robert A. Swanson
(d.1999 at 52), a venture capitalist, and Herb Boyer, a UCSF molecular
biologist and co-discoverer of gene-splicing in 1973, incorporated
Genentech Inc. They planned to use gene splicing to create a genre of
medicines.
(SFC, 5/28/96, p.B1)(SFC, 1/19/98, p.A10)(SSFC,
4/1/01, p.B1)
1976 May 21, A bus on I-680 in
California crashed after crossing the Benicia-Martinez Bridge, plunged
21 feet, and rolled upside down. 28 Yuba City High School students and
one adult were killed. There were 22 survivors.
(SFC, 5/20/96, p.A-20)
1976 Sep 5, On Labor Day Bess
Bair, better known as Rosie Radiator, tap danced across the Golden Gate
Bridge while carrying an American flag and her dog Lulu.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, DB p.35)(SFC, 9/5/03, p.E9)
1976 Sep 14, EPA scientists
discovered a new species of sponge growing on steel cans con-taining
low-level radioactive waste that were dumped near the Farallon Islands
from 1946-1970.
(SFC, 9/14/01, WB p.6)
1976 Sep 30, The Alameda County
grand jury returned 13 indictments against William and Emily Harris,
already serving time, in the SLA kidnapping of Patty Hearst.
(SFC, 9/28/01, WB p.6)
1976 Oct 8, Steve Dain (formerly
Doris Richards), the Emeryville High School teacher who became a male
through a sex change, won a court order directing school officials to
assign him a teaching job and give $3,200 in back pay.
(SFC, 10/5/01, WB p.6)
1976 Oct 9, The Emeryville Unified
School District suspended Steve Dain on charges of "im-moral conduct"
and "evident unfitness for service."
(SFC, 10/5/01, WB p.6)
1976 Oct 13, Benjamin Hurwitz, a
San Mateo podiatrist, was shot to death on Highway 92 at Foster City
Blvd. In 1998 police Sergeant Steve Archer traced the murder to William
Moalem, a business partner of Hurwitz, who hired Richard "Kilo"
Quilopras for the killing. Moalem and Quilopras were sentenced to life
in prison in 1999.
(SFC, 8/18/98, p.A12)(SFC, 8/31/99, p.A22)
1976 Dec 27, The Oakland Raiders
defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers 24-7 and won a trip to the Super Bowl
for the 1st time since 1967.
(SFC, 12/21/01, WB p.G16)
1976 An 88-foot-long mural, the
"People’s History of Telegraph Avenue," was created at 2455 Telegraph
in Berkeley by artists led by Osha Neumann and O’Brien Thiele.
(SFC, 12/3/98, p.A25)
1976 Eleanor Carlton Bark helped
establish the Stanford Historical Society.
(SFC, 7/17/99, p.A21)
1976 The Gray Panthers opened
their first Over 60 Health Center in Berkeley. Charlotte Knight (d.1999
at age 86) was one of the key players in the project.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A19)
1976 California appropriated
$250,000 to preserve the old Chinese detention center on Angel Island.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.7)
1976 San Mateo County, Ca.,
rebuilt the military housing by the PG&E plant east of Cow Pal-ace
in Daly City with a housing complex of 150 units called Midway Village.
The units stood over toxic soil from PG&E that was used by the
military during WW II as land fill. Dirt and groundwater in the area
contained polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (PNAs), a known
car-cinogen. No soil tests were conducted.
(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A14)(SFC, 1/5/00, p.A12)(SFC,
1/19/00, p.A4)
1976 The 1906 Folger home was sold
to Nolan Bushnell, the founder of Atari for some $500,000.
(Ind, 5/26/01, 5A)
1976 An endangered species listing
for the mission blue butterfly on San Bruno Mountain temporarily halted
the massive development plans for San Bruno Mountain.
(Ind, 4/27/99, p.11A)
1977 Jan 1, Steve Dain (formerly
Doris Richards), Emeryville High School teacher who be-came a male
through a sex change, filed a $1.7 million claim against the Emeryville
school dis-trict for invasion of privacy, malicious prosecution and
actions preventing future employment amongst other charges.
(SFC, 12/28/01, WB p.G7)
1977 Jan 9, The Oakland Raiders
beat the Minnesota Vikings in the Super Bowl 32-14 at the Pasadena Rose
Bowl.
(SFC, 12/21/01, WB p.G16)(SFC, 12/28/01, WB p.G7)
1977 Jan 19, In San Jose
developers of a $600,000 Holiday Inn hotel stopped the downtown
construction when Ohlone Indian bones and artifacts were discovered.
(SFC, 1/18/02, p.G8)
1977 Mar 17, Marin County
pharmacist Fred Mayer started the first Condom Day at UC Berkeley.
(SFC, 3/18/98, p.A16)
1977 Jun 30, Diane Yasuda and her
husband co-founded the Berkeley Bowl market in a for-mer bowling alley.
It became famous for its produce and in 1999 re-opened in a former
Safe-way store on Oregon St.
(SFC, 3/27/99, p.A18)
1977 Jul 13, A racially provoked
fight at San Quentin left 3 prisoners dead.
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.E9)
1977 Jul 16, The New World
Liberation Front took responsibility for bombing a Coors beer
distribution center at San Jose, Ca. NWLF said the bombing was an act
of solidarity with the strikers in Golden Colo. Damage was estimated at
$400.
(SFC, 7/12/02, p.E9)
1977 Aug 30, Terrorists bombed a
PG&E substation in Sausalito, Ca. Power was cut off for 6,000
customers and storm drains were flooded with some 3,200 gallons of
coolant oil.
(SFC, 8/30/02, p.E2)
1977 Sep 9, Mary Ann Quigley (17)
was killed near War Memorial Park in Santa Clara, Ca. In 2006 Richard
Armand Archibeque (47) was arrested for her rape and murder based on
DNA evidence. They had been classmates at Santa Clara High School.
(SFC, 12/30/06, p.B2)
1977 Sep 15, A 194-foot-tall crane
being towed by a tugboat crashed into the lower deck of the Bay Bridge
causing serious structural damage.
(SFC, 9/13/02, p.E2)
1977 Dec 15, Charles Finley sold
his Oakland A’s baseball team to Marvin Davis for a re-ported $12.5
million. A lease with the Oakland Coliseum was still a problem.
(SFC, 12/13/02, p.E8)
1977 The Filoli mansion was used
as a setting for the film "Heaven Can Wait."
(Ind, 3/6/99, p.5A)
1977 The open-air Larkspur Ferry
Terminal, designed by Jacques de Brer (1936-2006), opened near San
Quentin State Prison. He later designed the 280 Metro Center in Colma
(1986).
(SFC, 9/14/06, p.B5)(http://tinyurl.com/mr868)
1977 Steven Foster (d.2003)
founded Rites of Passage in Marin County. The program taught confidence
and self-reliance through wilderness treks.
(SFC, 6/5/03, p.A20)
1977 Bill Walsh was hired as the
head football coach for Stanford Univ., by a search commit-tee headed
by Frank Lodato (d.1999 at 73).
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.C2)
1977 The SF Bay Area’s Alameda
County approved a plan to protect creeks and adjacent habitat, but the
plan was shelved and forgotten.
(SFC, 6/15/06, p.B1)
1977 San Bruno prohibited the city
council from considering applications for multistory build-ings without
voter approval.
(SFC, 5/8/99, p.A16)
1977 Lionel Wilson (1915-1998)
succeeded John Reading (d.2003) as the mayor of Oakland and its first
black mayor. he served 3-terms to 1990.
(SFC, 1/29/98, p.A1,13)(SFC, 2/12/03, p.A25)
1978 Jan 24, The 1st Bay Area
music awards, the Bammies, was sponsored by BAM maga-zine.
(SFC, 1/24/03, p.E3)
1978 Mar 10, Richard Hovey (26)
abducted Tina Salazar (8) in Hayward, Ca., as she walked home from
school. He left her by a roadside with fatal wounds later the same day.
She died 8 days later. In 2006 an appeals court overturned his death
sentence saying lawyers failed to in-form a psychiatrist of his history
of mental illness.
(SFC, 8/12/06, p.B2)(http://tinyurl.com/384rtk)
1978 Mar 28, Laura Beyerly (16)
was last seen in the Los Altos, Ca., school parking lot. Her remains
were found a year later in the Santa Cruz County hills on property
belonging to the un-cle of Scott B. Schultz. In 2006 police in Colorado
arrested Scott B. Schultz, a boy friend with whom she had broken up. In
2007 Schultz faced just one year in jail in a plea deal.
(SFC, 8/24/06, p.B1)(SFC, 9/2/06, p.B3)(SFC,
6/16/07, p.B1)
1978 Apr 22, Cynthia Waxman (11)
was raped and killed whiled playing in a field in Moraga, Ca. In 2005
DNA evidence revealed that she had been killed by Charles Jackson, a
convict who died at age 64 in Folsom Prison in 2002. Jackson was linked
to at least 6 other victims.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.B5)
1978 May 11, The average home in
Marin County was valued at $91,250.
(SFC, 5/9/03, p.E5)
1978 May 16, Patricia Hearst (24)
entered the Federal correctional Institute at Pleasanton, Ca., to
resume her 7-year sentence for a SF bank robbery with the SLA.
(SFC, 5/16/03, p.E8)
1978 May 24, Gov. Jerry Brown
appointed Margaret J. Kemp (R) as judge of the Municipal Court in South
San Francisco. She became the 1st female judge in San Mateo County.
(SFC, 5/23/03, p.E8)
1978 Jun 6, California voters
overwhelmingly approved Proposition 13, the Jarvis-Gann amendment, a
primary ballot initiative calling for major cuts in property taxes. It
limited the tax-ing abilities of local governments and many city
services were reduced as a result..
(AP, 6/6/97)(LaPen, 12/86, p.8)
1978 Aug 9, A California statewide
Teamsters warehouse workers strike began.
(SFC, 8/15/03, p.E9)
1978 Aug 11-13, The 1st Mill
Valley Film Festival was held.
(SFC, 8/1/03, p.E5)
1978 Sep 6, Genentech of South San
Francisco, Ca., announced the successful laboratory production of human
insulin using recombinant DNA technology.
(www.gene.com/gene/news/press-releases/display.do?method=detail&id=4160)
1978 Sep 30, Huey Newton
(1942-1989) was convicted in Oakland, Ca., on weapons charges and
launched into a 40 minute harangue calling SF Superior Court Judge
Joseph Koresh (1909-1996) "a renegade Jew."
(SFC, 6/21/96,
p.E2)(www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/pacificapanthers.html)
1978 Oct 19, The US League of
Savings and Loan Associations reported that the San Fran-cisco Bay Area
had the highest housing costs in the nation.
(SFC, 10/17/03, p.E9)
1978 Nov 28, Armida Wiltsey (40)
of Lafayette, Ca., was found raped and strangled near the Lafayette
Reservoir. In 2003 DNA evidence linked Darryl Kemp, a Texas inmate, to
the murder. Kemp had been recently paroled from prison, where he served
time for killing a nurse in 1957. His death sentence in that case was
commuted when the death penalty was declared unconsti-tutional in
1972. In late 2008 a jury said that Kemp should be executed.
(SFC, 10/4/03, p.A15)(SFC, 1/1/09, p.B3)
1978 Dec 1, The new Antioch Bridge
was dedicated and named after Senator John Nejedly of Contra Costa
County. In 1998 about 10,000 vehicles crossed it each day.
(SFC, 2/2/98, p.A16)
1978 Dec 31, Peter Seeburg, one of
3 Univ. of California scientists who had identified the DNA for human
growth hormone earlier in the year, returned to UCSF in a "midnight
raid" and remove genetic material. Seeburg had left the university in
late 1978 to join Genentech giving up rights to his materials, for
which UCSF had filed a patent. In 1990 UCSF filed a patent
in-fringement suit against Genentech.
(SFC, 5/21/99,
p.B2)(www.mindfully.org/GE/Biotech-Born-Thief-1978.htm)
1978 The film "Heaven Can Wait"
starred Dyan Cannon and Warren Beatty. It was directed by Beatty and
was a remake of the 1943 film. It was filmed at the Filoli estate west
of Redwood City, Ca.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, DB p.55)(PI, 3/21/98, p.5)
1978 The Mill Valley Film Festival
began as a 2-day event.
(SFC, 9/10/97, p.E1)
1978 The last 60 milk cows grazing
in San Mateo County were put to pasture.
(Ind, 10/7/00,5A)
1978 Henry Doelger (b.1898), SF
and Daly City home builder, died on his boat in the Mediter-ranean. His
1st SF house is believed to be at 1419 39th Ave.
(SFC, 10/15/02, p.A20)
1979 Jan 11, In San Pablo Deborah
Pauline Palmer (24) was shot and killed with her fetus at her apartment
on Sanford Ave. In 1999 Charles Beau Jay was charged with the slaying.
(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A22)
1979 Jan 17, There was an
explosion on a BART train in the Transbay tube. One Oakland firefighter
died and at least 46 people were injured.
(SFC, 1/16/04, p.A1)(SFC, 4/2/04, p.F3)
1979 Feb 4, In San Mateo, Ca., a
robbery at the Pay Less Super Drug Store at 666 Concar Drive left 3
young employees dead. Michael Olson (23), Billy Baumgarnter (17) and
Tracy Anderson (16) were all shot in the back of the head. An estimated
$20,000 was stolen. By 2007 the case was still open with no arrests.
(SFC, 10/23/07, p.A12)(SSFC, 6/8/08, p.B2)
1979 Feb 25, James Williams and
Gene Stewart of Redwood City won the 18th world cham-pionship domino
tournament in San Francisco.
(SFC, 2/20/04, p.E4)
1979 Apr 5, BART re-opened
following the Jan 17 tube fire.
(SFC, 4/2/04, p.F3)
1979 Apr 13, A barge with 4.3
million gallons of gasoline rammed into an abutment of the Richmond-San
Rafael Bridge and spilled 42,000 gallons into the SF Bay.
(SFC, 4/9/04, p.F10)
1979 May 28, An explosion at the
Dow Chemical plant in Pittsburg killed 2 construction work-ers injured
101. Large amounts of toxic chlorine gas were released.
(SFC, 5/28/04, p.F5)
1979 May 29, Fay Stender (47),
attorney and advocate of women’s rights and prison reform, was shot and
critically wounded in Berkeley.
(SFC, 5/28/04, p.F5)
1979 Jul 31, Cesar Chavez began a
12-day march from SF to Salinas to dramatize the 6-month strike of the
United Farm Workers.
(SFC, 7/30/04, p.F2)
1979 Aug 9, In California Forrest
Silva Tucker, William McGirk and John Waller escaped from San Quentin
prison in a hand made kayak named Rub-a-Dub-Dub. McGirk (38) was
captured Oct 31. Waller was recaptured within months. Tucker was caught
after a few years in Boston in a credit scam but was released in error.
He was later identified as a member of the Massachu-setts "Over the
Hill Gang" and in 1999 was caught on suspicion of robbing a Florida
bank.
(SFC, 4/27/99, p.A1,4)(SFC, 10/29/04, p.F11)
1979 Aug 13, Rock throwing vandals
broke into the Knowland Park Zoo in Oakland, killed 6 animals and
wounded another 6.
(SFC, 8/13/04, p.F4)
1979 Aug 17, Mark Adams killed a
Modesto youth during a botched robbery. He was con-victed of murder and
robbery in 1982.
(SFC, 1/9/99, p.A15)
1979 Aug 20, Demonstrators from
the Committee Against Racism confronted a Ku Klux Klan meeting in
Castro Valley.
(SSFC, 8/20/04, p.F4)
1979 Aug 25, Cannie Bullock (8) of
San Pablo, Ca., was raped and killed. DNA evidence in 2002 identified
Joseph Cordova Jr., inmate in a Colorado prison, as the murderer. In
2007 Cor-dova was sentenced to death.
(SFC, 12/4/02, p.A1)(SFC, 5/12/07, p.B2)
1979 Sep 2, A huge SF Bay sewage
spill occurred due to problems at plants in Santa Clara and San Jose.
Problems were not reported until Sep 14.
(SFC, 1/21/05, p.F2)
1979 Sep 26, The body of a young
woman was found in Blackie’s Pasture in Tiburon, Ca., She had been
stabbed over 40 times with an ice pick and burned. In 2007 DNA evidence
identi-fied her as Tammy Vincent (17). She had testified this year
against several people arrested dur-ing a raid in SeaTac, Wash., of 2
establishments believed to be prostitution fronts.
(SFC, 10/2/07, p.B2)
1979 Sep 27, Murder charges
against Huey Newton, for the murder of a prostitute in 1974, were
dismissed following 2 mistrials.
(SFC, 9/24/04, p.F9)
1979 Nov 7, Linda Ann Jozovich
disappeared during a work break in Santa Clara County. In 1995 a hiker
in the Los Gatos Hills discovered her jawbone and some teeth. In 2004
her skull and bones were discovered in the same area. In 2007 Terry
Childs, a convicted killer serving time in Salinas, confessed to her
murder.
(SFC, 3/13/04, p.B4)(SFC, 11/2/07, p.B2)
1979 Nov 14, Developers
Foremost-McKesson Inc. and Amfac Inc. announced that they in-tend to
turn over 380 acres on San Bruno Mountain.
(SFC, 11/12/04, p.F10)
1979 Nov 16, The UC Berkeley
football team defeated Stanford 21-14 in the 82nd Big Game at Stanford.
(SFC, 11/12/04, p.F10)
1979 Nov 22, Penny Patterson led
Koko the gorilla from Stanford to a new home at the Gorilla Foundation
in Woodside.
(SFC, 11/19/04, p.F2)
1979 Dec 7, Gannet Co. bought
California Marin County’s San Rafael Independent Journal. The Gannet
chain owned 78 daily papers in 30 states.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)(SFC, 12/3/04, p.F8)
1979 Dec 7, Gloria Acronico (49)
was abducted near the Courtside Tennis Club in Los Gatos. Her body was
found in the trunk of her car 2 days later. In 1999 police identified
Troy Johnson (53) as the murderer and arrested him in Needles.
(SFC, 8/25/99, p.A24)(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A22)
1979 John Krich authored "Bump
City," a look at the demise of Oakland.
(SFC, 5/3/02, p.A20)
1979 The Mathematical Sciences
Research Institute was founded on the campus of UC Berkeley.
(SFC, 3/26/04, p.A1)
1979 Sue Rugge established
Information on Demand in Berkeley, a pioneering full service
information company. It was later acquired by Robert Maxwell and
managed through Pergamon Press. She later authored "The Information
Broker's Handbook."
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.B4)
1979 The annual Caribbean music
concert, the Carijama Festival, began at Mosswood Park, Oakland. In
2004 it was moved downtown.
(SFC, 6/1/04, B2)
1979 The Redwood City Tribune was
merged with the Palo Alto Times and became the Pen-insula Times Tribune
owned by the Tribune Co. of Chicago.
(SFC, 12/8/98, p.B6)
1979 Dave Smith and Paul Hawken of
Mill Valley, Ca., founded Smith & Hawken to provide organic
gardeners with handcrafted tools from England. Their first store opened
in 1982 and in 1993 it became part of the CML conglomerate group. When
CML went bankrupt in 1999 Smith & Hawken went to DDJ Capital
Management, a private investment firm. In 2004 Scotts Miracle-Gro
bought Smith & Hawken for $72 million. In 2009 Scotts Miracle-Gro
began closing its 56 Smith & Hawken stores due to continuing losses.
(SFC, 7/10/09, p.A1,10)
1980 Jan 11, The Oakland Raiders
defeated the San Diego Charges 34-27 in the AFC cham-pionship game.
(www.sportingchronicle.co.uk/nfl/afcchampionship.html)
1980 Jan 20, Grocery clerks in 8
Bay Area counties went on strike at 175 supermarkets. All the Safeway
stores were targeted. Supervisory staff kept Safeway stores open.
(SFC, 1/21/05, p.F2)
1980 Jan 21, Six major food chains
announced they will lock out some 5,000 checkers and clerks in
retaliation for the union’s selective strike against Safeway.
(SFC, 1/21/05, p.F2)
1980 Jan 23, A rolling earthquake
hit northern California and measured 5.5 in Contra Costa. It destroyed
25,000 gallons of wine at the Livermore winery of Wente Brothers. A
leak of radioac-tive tritium was reported from the weapons lab at
Livermore.
(SFC, 1/21/05, p.F2)
1980 Jan 24, A 2nd earthquake,
centered 8-miles north of Livermore, hit the Bay Area and measured 5.6.
(SFC, 1/21/05, p.F2)
1980 Feb 4, In Alameda, Ca., 3
former waitresses testified in Superior Court that they were
blackballed by a union hiring hall after refusing to have sex with
labor leader Ray Lane.
(SFC, 2/4/05, p.F9)
1980 Feb 5, Golden Gate Fields
introduced computerized betting for the horse races.
(SFC, 2/4/05, p.F9)
1980 Feb 15, The UC Board of
Regents appointed Ira Michael Heyman (49) chancellor of UC Berkeley.
(SFC, 2/11/05, p.F10)
1980 Feb 20-21, The Bay Area’s 3
hazardous waste dumps were shut down over concerns of their containment
systems during a period of heavy rains.
(SFC, 3/11/05, p.F2)
1980 Feb 26, Al Mills (51), his
wife Jeannie (40) and their daughter Daphene (16) were shot to death at
2731 Woolsey St. in Berkeley, Ca. In 2005 police arrested Edward
Michael Mills (43), the son and brother of the victims, based on new
evidence. Mills was soon released for lack of sufficient evidence to
try him.
(SFC, 12/8/05, p.B4)(SFC, 12/9/05, p.B3)
1980 Feb 26, Ricky Keel and
Jeffrey Taylor shot and killed Campbell liquor store owner Frank Gummer
during a robbery. Connie Keel (21), Ricky’s abused wife, remained in a
car during the robbery, but all 3 were convicted of 1st degree murder.
In 2009 Connie Keel was allowed parole.
(SFC, 3/28/09, p.B2)(http://tinyurl.com/cqtzqv)
1980 Mar 3, The submarine
Nautilus, the world’s 1st atomic ship, was decommissioned at the Mare
Island Shipyard in Vallejo, Ca.
(SFC, 3/4/05, p.F2)
1980 Mar 6, The Bay Conservation
and Development Commission approved a $150 million development on the
Alameda side of the Oakland estuary. Plans for the Alameda Marina
Vil-lage site included 1,000 residential units.
(SFC, 3/4/05, p.F2)
1980 Mar, A drug deal went bad in
Sausalito and Ricky Caponio was fatally wounded. Bruce Cerny was
convicted of 2nd degree murder and Jeri Becker received a 1st degree
murder con-viction. In 2003 Becker (52) was scheduled for parole in
2004.
(SFC, 12/23/03, p.A1)
1980 Apr 22, California health
officials released a report documenting a high incidence of ma-lignant
melanoma at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
(SFC, 4/22/05, p.F2)
1980 Apr 30, In Pinole, Ca., Rena
Aguilar was stabbed to death. 4 days later as police closed in James R.
Odle shot and killed Officer Floyd Swartz. Odle was convicted and
sentenced to death but his competency was later questioned due to a
removed temporal lobe following a car accident. Swartz was the father
of Amber Swartz, born 4 months after his death. Amber Swartz-Garcia
disappeared in 1988.
(SFC, 2/7/01, p.A19)(SFC, 7/7/09, p.C5)
1980 Apr, Filmmakers came to the
Filoli mansion to make a pilot for ABC TV that aired as "Dynasty."
(Ind, 3/6/99, p.5A)
1980 May 6, Stanford Linear
Accelerator officials announced a successful collision of matter and
antimatter in their new $78 million accelerator.
(SFC, 5/6/05, p.F2)
1980 May 8, Maxie Anderson (45)
and his son Kris (23) lifted off from Fort Baker in Marin Ct., Ca., in
a helium-filled balloon to make the 1st transcontinental balloon
crossing.
(SFC, 5/6/05, p.F2)
1980 May 12, Maxie Anderson (45)
and his son Kris (23) completed the 1st balloon crossing of the
American continent as they landed their helium-filled balloon on
Canada’s Gaspe Penin-sula. Their journey began May 8 in Marin Ct., Ca.
(SFC, 5/6/05, p.F2)
1980 Jun 23, The new $11 million,
7-story Fantasy building opened at 10th and Parker in Berkeley. Saul
Zaentz hoped to produce 2-3 films a year there.
(SFC, 6/17/05, p.F2)
1980 Jun 24, The government
General Services Administration ruled that Hamilton Air Force Base
should become a refuge for wildlife. GSA Administrator Rowland Freeman
said he will al-low 1,129 acres to be flooded for marshland.
(SFC, 6/24/05, p.F2)
1980 Jul 3, The 15-year-old
Berkeley Barb, founded by Max Scherr, released its final issue in
Berkeley, Ca. Scherr ran the left-wing paper from 1965-1973.
(SFC, 7/1/05, p.F2)
1980 Jul 10, Nepo (14), a killer
whale, was found dead in his Redwood City Marine World show tank.
(SFC, 7/8/05, p.F2)
1980 Aug 5, The San Mateo County
Board of Supervisors established a density ceiling of 10,000 people
over the next 2 decades for the rural area from Pacifica to Ano Nuevo
Point.
(SFC, 8/5/05, p.F2)
1980 Aug 11, Residents in southern
and eastern Richmond, Ca., fled their homes for several hours following
an accident at the Stauffer Chemical Co. sent a noxious cloud of
phosphorous oxychloride gas over the community. 60 people required
medical attention.
(SFC, 8/5/05, p.F4)
1980 Aug 23, Charles O. Finley
sold the Oakland A’s baseball team to Walter A. Haas, presi-dent of
Levi Strauss, Walter J. Haas and Roy Eisenhardt for $12.7 million.
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A1)(SFC, 8/19/05, p.F5)
1980 Aug 24, The Hotel Oakland
reopened as a 315-unit apartment building. Built in 1912 the structure
had sat empty for 16 years.
(SFC, 8/19/05, p.F5)
1980 Aug, In Oakland six
gang-related killings occurred over 3 days. Felix Mitchell, the 69th
Avenue Mob was in a drug war with The Family, run by Mickey Moore, and
Funktown USA, run by Harvey Whisenton. Mitchell was convicted in 1983
and was stabbed to death in 1986 in a Kansas federal pen.
(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A9)
1980 Sep 2, In the SF Bay Area US
District Judge William Ingram found Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno guilty of
conspiracy to influence witnesses before a federal grand jury
investigating the Santa Clara Valley business affairs of his 2 sons.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.F2)
1980 Sep 3, Prof. W. Jackson Davis
of UC Santa Cruz uncovered a report that indicated gov-ernment
officials had been aware for almost 20 years that nuclear waste
containers, dumped off the California coast, were damaged and leaking.
(SFC, 9/2/05, p.F2)
1980 Sep 24, California Rep. John
Burton of Marin said Air Force Reserve units may have made weekly air
drops of nuclear waste around the Farallon Islands from 1952-1967.
(SFC, 9/23/05, p.F2)
1980 Sep 30, The California Dept.
of Health Services disclosed that the state’s largest known PCB waste
contamination problem had been uncovered at General Electric’s East
Oakland re-pair yard on East 14th St. between 54th and Seminary.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.F2)
1980 Sep 30, In California
Berkeley police incinerated 1,000 pounds of marijuana following a raid
on the backyard of the Earth People’s Park Commune at 933 Addison and
2018 Ninth St.
(SFC, 9/30/05, p.F2)
1980 Oct 28, Flores Forbes, a
fugitive Black Panther and former bodyguard for Huey Newton,
surrendered to Contra Costa authorities. He was sought for 3 years in
connection with an al-leged assassination attempt that left his
companion Louis Johnson dead.
(SFC, 10/28/05, p.F2)
1980 Nov 17, In California Contra
Costa County opened a new $24.5 million jail in Martinez with single
rooms for 382 inmates.
(SFC, 11/11/05, p.F7)
1980 Nov 22, UC Berkeley defeated
Stanford 28-23 in the Big Game.
(SFC, 11/18/05, p.F2)
1980 Dec 23, California Attorney
Gen. George Deukmajian filed a petition to change the terms of the Buck
Charitable Trust that gives $20 million a year to Marin organizations.
The pe-tition argued that other counties were more in need of the money.
(SFC, 12/23/05, p.F2)
1980 Dec 24, California Gov. Jerry
Brown declared a state of emergency in Alameda and Santa Clara counties
because of the Mediterranean fruit fly infestation.
(SFC, 12/23/05, p.F2)
1980 Donald Kennedy (b.1931) was
appointed president of Stanford Univ. after serving for a time as head
of the FDA (1977-1979). He resigned in 1992 in the wake of accusations
that the Univ. had padded its accounts and received extra government
money. In 1997 he published "Academic Duty," in which he proposed a
number of hypothetical situations to explore conflicts.
(SFEC,11/2/97, BR
p.6)(www.stanford.edu/home/stanford/history/leader.html#Kennedy)
1980 The five 60-foot radio
astronomy dishes at Stanford Univ. went idle.
(SSFC, 8/14/05, p.A19)
1980 The Marin Agricultural Land
Trust (MALT) was created by Marin ranchers and environ-mentalists to
prevent urban sprawl. It was the 1st private, non-profit organization
of its kind in the US.
(SFC, 7/15/99, p.A19)
1980-1984 The Dumbarton vehicle bridge was built to
replace a 1927 drawbridge.
(Ind, 5/23/00,14A)(SMBP, 2004)
1981 Jan 5, Berkeley police
arrested 8 demonstrators protesting against draft registration. The
protest was one of the largest across the country as a 2nd round of
draft registration be-gan.
(SFC, 12/30/05, p.F2)
1981 Jan 6, California’s Gov.
Jerry Brown led some 500 fruit pickers in Santa Clara County to help
strip backyard fruit in the campaign against the Mediterranean fruit
fly.
(SFC, 1/6/06, p.F2)
1981 Jan 11, The Oakland Raiders
defeated the San Diego Charges 34-27 in the AFC cham-pionship game.
(http://nfl-playoffs,-1980-81.iqnaut.net/)
1981 Apr 23, Stacy Benjamin (19)
and Patty Geddling (23) were murdered in Redwood City, Ca., under
drug-related circumstances. In 2003 A federal appeals court upheld the
conviction of Donald Beardslee of San Mateo. Beardslee had killed a
woman in Missouri in Dec, 1969. Psy-chiatric evidence later showed that
Beardslee suffered from brain damage due to an accident in 1964.
Beardslee was executed by lethal injection at San Quentin State Prison
on Jan. 19, 2005.
(SFC, 1/21/02, p.A4)(SFC, 12/17/04, p.B4)(SSFC,
1/16/05, p.A1)
1981 Oct, A South San Francisco
measure to prevent the development of San Bruno Moun-tain failed
decisively. The Citizen's Action League opposed the development of San
Bruno Mountain and placed an initiative that would deny municipal
services to developer W.W. Dean Co. unless the southern slope and the
Juncus Ravine were donated to the county park. After the vote the
developer donated the Juncus Ravine, filed for bankruptcy and withdrew
from the project.
(Ind, 4/27/99, p.1,12A)
1981 Nov 3, In Milpitas, Ca.,
Anthony Jacques Broussard, a high school student (16), stran-gled and
killed Marcy Conrad, his girl friend (14), dumped her body on a river
bank and gave tours to his friends, who never reported the crime. The
1986 film "River's Edge" was later made based on the murder. On
December 3, 1982 Broussard was sentenced in a San Jose, Califor-nia
court to 25 years to life for the strangulation death of Conrad. He was
to be eligible for pa-role after 16 years and 8 months (July 1999).
(SFC, 5/10/03, p.A1)(http://tinyurl.com/32kdam)
1981 Nov, In California Henry Vila
(62) and his wife Edith (59) were stabbed to death in their Albany hill
home during a robbery. DNA evidence in 2002 identified Charles Jackson,
a recently deceased Folsom inmate, as her killer.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A10)(SFC, 9/30/05, p.B5)
1981 Nov, John Davies (15)
disappeared from his home in Belmont, Ca. In 1986 Jon Dunkle, while in
prison for robbery, admitted killing Davies and drew a map that led
police to his re-mains. In 2005 the California Supreme Court upheld a
death sentence for Dunkle (44).
(SFC, 8/5/05, p.B4)
1981 Dec, In California Betty Jo
Grunzweig (37) was raped and stabbed to death in her home in Oakland’s
Trestle Glen District. DNA evidence in 2002 identified Charles Jackson,
a recently deceased Folsom inmate, as her killer.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A10)(SFC, 9/30/05, p.B5)
1981 Dec, In California Gail
Leslie Slocum (34) was stabbed to death in her home in Oak-land’s
Rockridge District. DNA evidence in 2002 identified Charles Jackson, a
recently de-ceased Folsom inmate, as her killer.
(SFC, 3/19/02, p.A10)
1981 The volunteer Northern
California Book Reviewers (BABRA) group began a Northern California
Book Awards program. Fred Cody, owner of Cody’s bookstore in Berkeley,
was one of the co-founders.
(SFC, 4/15/06, p.E3)
1981 The Center for Theology and
the Natural Sciences was founded as part of the Graduate Theological
Union, a consortium of seminaries in Berkeley, Ca.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A2)
1981 In San Jose, Ca., water
supply wells were found to be contaminated due to leaks from Fairchild
and IBM storage tanks used for toxic solvents.
(SFC, 1/30/04, p.E6)
1981 In California 4 people were
asphyxiated by carbon dioxide in the old mines in the An-tioch hills.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A21)
1982 Feb 6, In Concord, Ca., Tara
Burke (2 3/4 years old) was kidnapped by Luis "Tree Frog" Johnson (33)
and Alex Cabarga (17). She was molested and held captive in a van for
ten months before being freed on Dec 18 in SF. Johnson was sentenced to
527 years in prison and Cabarga served 25 years.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.A1,4)
1982 May 28, Russell Jordan (16)
of Los Gatos went missing. In 2003 Sean Clark Viehweg, a close friend,
was arrested for his murder.
(SFC, 5/10/03, p.A1)
1982 Apr 11, Ronald Allen (32), a
member of Your Black Muslim Bakery in Oakland, Ca., was found shot to
death on Easter morning near the Berkeley dump. A day earlier the
father of 5 had gone out for a meal with his bakery brethren.
(SFC, 12/24/07, p.A1)
1982 Jul 2, A bomb exploded
in the hands of Prof. Diogenes Angelakos (d.1997 at 77) in Berkeley. It
was later attributed to the Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski.
(SFEC,11/9/97, Z1 p.4)
1982 Jul 6, Crossan Hoover (17)
beat and killed Richard Baldwin (36), the owner of a car res-toration
shop in San Rafael, Ca. Hoover and 2 accomplices robbed Baldwin’s home
and dumped his body into the SF Bay. Mark Richards (29), a contractor
who employed Hoover and another youth, was one of the three involved in
the murder plot and had told his employees that he planned to take
control of Marin County in a paramilitary coup that came to be called
Pen-dragon. Richards was convicted of murder and sentenced to life
without parole. Hoover was sentenced 26 years to life. In 2007 Hoover’s
murder verdict was overturned and a new trial was scheduled. In 2008 a
federal appeals court reinstated Hoover’s murder conviction.
(http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/lpop/etext/lsf/29-2/murderincamelot.html)(SFC,
9/14/07, p.B6)(SFC, 1/7/09, p.B3)
1982 Dec 14, Edward Hagedorn
(b.1902), graphic artist, died in Berkeley, Ca. He incised im-ages into
linoleum for sharp contrasts in black and white. His work included:
"Self Portrait with Cigarette," "You," "Sword Swallower" and "The
Rainbow."
(SFC, 7/10/96,
p.E1,4)(www.rubylane.com/shops/bassfineart/item/0927d?gbase=1)
1982 Dec 23, The Golden Gate
Bridge closed for 2 hours as winds reached 70 mph.
(http://goldengatebridge.org/research/facts.php)
1982 The erotic classic film "All
American Girls" was filmed at the 96-room Chateau Caro-lands atop Black
Mountain in Hillsborough.
(PI, 3/21/98, p.5)(Ind, 10/5/99, p.1A)
1982 UC Berkeley enlarged its
carillon from 48 to 61 bells and hired Ronald Barnes (d.1997 at 70) as
the first university carillonneur.
(SFC,11/8/97, p.A22)
1982 The city of Berkeley Ca.,
introduced commercial rent control.
(SFC, 4/29/08, p.A1)
1982 The Oakland Raiders football
team under Al Davis moved to Los Angeles.
(SFC, 10/1/96, p.A24)
1982-1986 John Walton Dinkelspiel (d.1998) served as
the mayor of Atherton.
(SFC, 11/17/98, p.B2)
1982-1989 Marian Elliott Koshland (d.1997 at 76) held
the UC Berkeley chair in the Dept. of Micro-biology and Immunology. She
had discovered variations in the amino acid composition of anti-bodies
that explained how they recognized invading organisms or other foreign
material.
(SFC,10/29/97, p.A21)
1983 Jan 23, Joseph Coogan (28),
an auditor from Pennsylvania, was swept into the sea at Pescadero
Point, Ca. His remains washed up at Point Reyes six months later but
remained unidentified until 2005.
(SFC, 4/14/05, p.A1)
1983 Aug 7, Cynthia Munoz (17) of
Campbell, Ca., was found raped and murdered with stab wounds. In 2007
prosecutors with DNA evidence charged Christopher Melvin Holland (52)
with the murder and sought his arrest. Holland was arrested in San
Jose, Ca., on Oct 18, 2007.
(http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=local&id=5710333)(SFC,
10/19/07, p.B5)
1983 Nov 19, Angela Bugay (5) was
abducted in Antioch, Ca., [see Nov 26].
(SFC, 5/29/02, p.A18)
1983 Nov 26, Angela Bugay of
Antioch, Ca., 5-years-old, was found in a shallow grave in Concord, Ca.
She had been kidnapped a week earlier. Larry Graham, who dated Angela’s
mother, was later arrested as a suspect and prosecutors in 1995
received a court order to draw his blood for DNA evidence. In 1996
police matched the DNA of Graham, with samples recov-ered from the
girl’s body and arrested him on charges of murder. Use of the DNA
evidence was cleared in 1998. Graham was convicted Aug 20, 2002, and
sentenced to death Oct 22. Graham (58) was found dead in his cell on
June 16, 2009, of apparent suicide.
(SFC, 4/26/96, p.A-19)(SFC, 5/20/98, p.A19)(SFC,
3/18/99, p.A19)(SFC, 4/15/02, p.A1)(SFC, 8/21/02, p.A15)(SFC, 10/23/02,
p.A16)(SFC, 6/17/09, p.B6)
1983 The film "Yes, Giorgio," made
at the 50-acre Hillsborough Strawberry Hill estate of Bar-rie and Ada
Regan, starred Italian tenor Luciano Pavarotti.
(PI, 3/21/98, p.5)
1983 Barbaro Mouton (1925-2007)
led a ballot for the incorporation of East Palo Alto, Ca. The measure,
which failed a year earlier, won by 15 votes. Mouton became the 1st
mayor and served to 1986.
(SFC, 3/19/07, p.B4)
1983 Robert C. Maynard (d.1993)
and his wife Nancy Hicks Maynard (d.2008 at 61) pur-chased the Oakland
Tribune from the Gannett chain for $22 million. It became the first
major metropolitan newspaper owned by an African American. He was the
founder of the Institute for Journalism Excellence in Oakland. In 1997
he was inducted into the California Press Associa-tion’s Hall of Fame.
They sold the paper in 1992 to the Alameda Newspaper Group as Robert
was struggling with cancer.
(SFC,12/8/97, p.A24)(SFC, 9/22/08,
p.B3)(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakland_Tribune)
1983 The Urban Ore recycling
operation was established on a 2-acre parcel on Gilman St. in Berkeley.
(SFEC, 6/13/99, p.D1)
1983 In Oakland Swan's Market on
10th St. closed after 7 decades of downtown operation.
(SFC, 12/3/99, p.A25)
1983 Mountain View closed the
Meadowlands garbage facility, installed landscaping and be-gan to
restore the nearby wetlands.
(Ind, 5/11/99, p.12A)
1983 A record 9-foot-6 sturgeon
was caught in SF Bay and weighed 486 pounds.
(SSFC, 10/19/03, p.A22)
1983 The Silicon Valley Toxics
Coalition was founded by Ted Smith.
(SFC, 1/30/04, p.B1)
1983 Safeways purchased the
grocery chain of Brentwood and warehouse Pak’n Save mar-kets. John
Benetti (1916-2005), Italian immigrant, had founded Brentwood around
1950 in South San Francisco.
(SFC, 9/27/05, p.B5)
1983 Lulie Nall, a Penobscot
Indian, died. She had designed a tepee-emblazoned flag for the 19-month
American Indian occupation of Alcatraz, that began in 1969. In 2008 the
flag was put up for auction and sold for $60,000.
(SFC, 1/24/08, p.A1)(SFC, 1/25/08, p.B2)
1983-1984 Victor E. Stolz (d.2002 at 88) served his
1st term mayor of San Carlos.
(SFC, 9/19/02, p.A24)
1984 Feb 23, Two oceanic
conservation groups reported that SF Bay Area fishermen have caught
only 10-12% of their 10,000 ton herring quota as they passed more than
halfway through the fishing season. Quotas had doubled since 1977 and
they were concerned that the herring stocks may be at the point of no
return. The herring was harvested primarily for their roe, which
fetched up to $500 a ton and was eagerly sought by Japanese consumers.
(SSFC, 2/22/09, DB p.54)
1984 Apr 20, Julie Connell (18), a
senior at Arroyo High School, disappeared in Hayward. Her body was
found 5 days later in Palomares Canyon near Castro Valley. In 2000 DNA
evidence revealed that Robert Rhoades (47), a Yuba City man on death
row, had kidnapped, raped and stabbed her to death. Rhoades was
convicted in 2007.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.A14)(SFC, 3/13/07, p.B3)(SFC,
4/11/07, p.B4)
1984 Apr 26, An earthquake hit the
SF Bay Area. It measured 6.2 on the Richter scale and was centered in
Morgan Hill.
(SSFC, 4/19/09, DB p.54)
1984 Jun 30, Hedayat Eslaminia, a
former government official under the Shah of Iran, disap-peared while
living in exile in Belmont, Ca. The family had reportedly fled Iran
with a fortune in 1978. Hedayat (57) suffocated and died in a steamer
trunk. His son Reza (26), a member of the "Billionaire Boys Club," was
later charged with the abduction and murder. Reza was convicted and
sentenced to life. In 1992 Joe Hunt, head of the club, was also tried
for the killing of Eslaminia, but a hung jury forced a mistrial. In
1998 Rexa's conviction was overturned based on unfair evidence and a
new trial was scheduled. Arben Dosti’s conviction was reversed in 1998.
A new trial was scheduled for Oct. in San Mateo. In 2000 charges
against Reza Eslaminia were dismissed.
(SFC, 2/19/98, p.A14)(SFC, 4/30/98, p.A24)(SFC,
11/7/00, p.A15)(SSFC, 2/8/04, p.A28)
1984 Jul 14, A small plane
(Buchanon Field Airport) crashed into an auto body shop at Con-cord
Ave. and Via de Mercados and 6 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/15/04, p.B10)
1984 Oct 8, Attorney Cherie
Barnard found Gary Grady, health club owner and drug dealer, shot to
death in Novato, Ca. Later the same day Barnard’s husband Robert Rogers
was found dead of an apparent suicide in the Berkeley Marina. In 2005
Barnard and Rogers were impli-cated in the 1979 murder of Robert Pfiel
(27) in Wisconsin.
(SFC, 10/17/05, p.A1)
1984 Oct 31, The Puerto Rican
tanker San Francisco exploded in the Gulf of the Farallones off the
coast of San Francisco spilling 2 million gallons of oil as the ship
caught fire.
(http://216.7.174.234/sandcrabs/oil.asp)
1984 Oct, Lance Turner (12)
disappeared from soccer practice at Ralston Intermediate School in
Belmont, Ca., and was soon found stabbed to death. In 1986 Jon Dunkle,
while in prison for robbery, admitted killing Turner. In 2005 the
California Supreme Court upheld a death sentence for Dunkle (44).
(SFC, 8/5/05, p.B4)
1984 Nov 2, Paul Cosner
disappeared from the area following a planned sale of a 1980 Honda
Prelude at his Marin Motors. The car was identified Jun 2, 1985 in the
hands of Leonard Lake and Charles Ng. As many as 25 people were
believed killed by Lake and Ng at a com-pound in Calaveras County.
(SFC, 10/25/98, p.A5)
1984 Edsel Matthews (d.2003)
founded the Koncepts Cultural Gallery, an Oakland forum art-ists of
color. Koncepts took up residence in Jack London Square until it lost
its lease in 1992.
(SFC, 1/7/04, p.A19)
1984 Ted Sorensen, was elected to
the Menlo Park City Council. During his 8 years there he served 2 terms
as mayor. Sorensen died Feb 14, 2006, at age 76.
(SFC, 2/22/06, p.B7)
1984 The body of Ruth Beroscope
(50) of San Jose, Ca., was found murdered and sexually assaulted in a
ditch near the Lawrence Expressway in Sunnyvale. In 2005 Luis Perez,
already in prison for rape and attempted murder, was charged for
Beroscope’s murder. He was linked by DNA and other evidence.
(SFC, 10/19/05, p.B5)
1984 Ronald Ewing was murdered by
hit man Drax Quartermain in Sausalito. Quartermain was sentenced to
death a 2nd time in 1998 after a 1989 verdict was overturned in 1998.
(SFC, 10/23/98, p.D8)
1984 Four teenage girls were
killed in southern Alameda County. Michael Ihde was later linked by DNA
evidence to the murder of Lisa Ann Monzo (18). Ihde was convicted and
sen-tenced to death in 1997.
(SFC, 1/26/00, p.A14)
1984 John Evans and Mickie King
were murdered near San Jose. Glen Nickerson was con-victed of the
murder in 1987 and served 19 years before he was released in 2003
following tes-timony that he was not at the scene of the murder.
(SFC, 5/20/03, p.A14)
1984-1987 George Sanchez, the "Ski Mask" rapist of
San Jose, Ca., attacked 26 women over this time before he was arrested.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A1)
1984-1994 At least 5 elderly men were suspected of
being swindled and murdered by the SF Tene family in the "foxglove"
murder case. The family was related to the Tene-Bimbo Gypsy clan of New
York city. In 1997 8 indictments were issued on family members.
(SFC,11/6/97, p.A21)(SFC,11/8/97, p.A11)(SFC,
6/25/99, p.A18)
1985 Feb 2, David Raley, a
caretaker at the Carolands Chateau in Hillsborough, Ca., lured 2
teenage girls inside, where he assaulted and stabbed them, killing one.
The 2nd girl survived and identified her assailant. In 2006 an appeals
court upheld his death sentence.
(SFC, 8/19/97, p.A17)(Ind, 2/26/00, p.5A)(SFC,
4/15/06, p.B3)
1985 Feb 22, In Palo Alto Abby
Niebauer, an acclaimed poet, was killed by a shotgun blast from her
husband, who pleaded that it was an accident and was released. In 1998
James Nie-bauer was indicted and convicted for murder. In 1999 Niebauer
(70) was sentenced to 27 years in prison.
(SFC, 12/29/98, p.A11)(SFC, 6/11/99, p.A18)
1985 Apr 30, The NY Times bought
the Santa Rosa Press Democrat.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1985 Jul 1, Dean Singleton, East
Coast publisher, bought the Hayward Daily Review chain of small East
Bay dailies from Floyd Sparks.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1985 Aug 22, Helena Greenwood (35)
was found dead outside her home in Del Mar near San Diego. She had been
attacked in her Atherton home in 1984 and was about to testify against
David Frediani. In 2001 Frediani was convicted in her murder following
DNA evidence that tied him to the murder.
(SFC, 1/30/01, p.A16)
1985 Sep 22, The body of Betty
Stuart (22) was found at Aquatic Park in Berkeley, Ca. In 2008
prosecutors using DNA evidence said Anthony McKnight (54), already in
prison for rape and attempted murder, was responsible for her murder.
He had been arrested in 1986 and was already serving a 63 year sentence
for the rape and murder of 3 other women. In 2008 McKnight, a former
sailor, was convicted on an additional 5 counts of first-degree murder.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B2)(SFC, 9/18/08, p.B2)
1985 Sep 29, The body of Diane
Stone (17) was found near an elementary school in Oakland, Ca. In 2008
prosecutors using DNA evidence said Anthony McKnight (54), already in
prison for rape and attempted murder, was responsible for her murder.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B2)
1985 Oct 8, The body of Talita
Dixon (13) was found on a trail in Redwood Regional Park in Oakland,
Ca. In 2008 prosecutors using DNA evidence said Anthony McKnight (54),
already in prison for rape and attempted murder, was responsible for
her murder.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B2)
1985 Dec 9, The body of Monique
Davis (18) was found behind a business in Richmond, Ca. In 2008
prosecutors using DNA evidence said Anthony McKnight (54), already in
prison for rape and attempted murder, was responsible for her murder.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B2)
1985 Dec 23, A small plane
(Buchanon Field Airport) crashed into Sunvalley Shopping Mall in
Concord, Ca., and 6 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/15/04, p.B10)
1985 Dec 24, The body of Beverly
Bryant (24) was found at an elementary school in Oakland, Ca. In 2008
prosecutors using DNA evidence said Anthony McKnight (54), already in
prison for rape and attempted murder, was responsible for her murder.
(SFC, 7/17/08, p.B2)
1985 Harre Demoro, a Chronicle
transportation reporter, wrote a 2-volume history of the Key Route
train system.
(SFC, 9/4/98, p.A25)
1985 Michael S. Malone authored
“The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley.” The PBS
documentary “Silicon Valley Boomtown” was based his book.
(http://malone-grove.com/html/malone.htm)
1985 Peninsula Hospital in
Burlingame, a taxpayer-funded operation, merged with the private,
non-profit, Mills Memorial Hospital in San Mateo. The Mills-Peninsula
Medical Group, a consor-tium of some 400 doctors, provided medical
services at the 2 hospitals.
(SFC,12/30/97, p.A14)(Ind, 10/3/98, p.5A)
1985 Sally Shlaer (d.1999 at 59)
and Stephen J. Mellor founded Project Technology, a soft-ware
consulting and training firm in Berkeley. They co-wrote "Object
Oriented Analysis: Model-ing the World in Data" (1988), and "Object
Lifecycles: Modeling the World in States" (1992).
(SFC, 1/22/99, p.E4)
1985 J. Henry Kruse (1925-2004), a
blind attorney, was elected mayor of Albany. He was elected for a 2nd
term in 1989.
(SFC, 6/24/04, p.B7)
1985 The Marin Healthcare District
transferred management authority and gave a 30-year lease to Marin
General Hospital Corp. The management group was absorbed by Sutter
Health in 1996.
(SFC, 3/29/05, p.D12)
1985 Orinda was incorporated.
(SFCM, 3/30/03, p.6)
1985 Jonathan Carol, a venture
capitalist, purchased the 1906 Folger home and 13 acres from Nolan
Bushnell for $5.5 million.
(Ind, 5/26/01, 5A)
1986 Jan 12, The nude body of
Angelo Bledsoe (25) was found off Eden Canyon Road in Castro Valley.
She had been raped and stabbed repeatedly. In 2004 DNA evidence linked
Richard Dean Wilson to the murder. Wilson was already serving a 26-year
sentence for the murder of Chester Ballard, committed 10 month’s after
Bledsoe’s body was found.
(SFC, 5/13/04, p.B5)
1986 Feb 4, Elizabeth "Sunny"
Doney, the 2nd wife of Martin Blinder, was found dead with a bullet
hole behind her ear in San Anselmo.
(SFC, 5/21/01, p.A1)
1986 Feb 19, In the SF Bay Area
water breached a levee on the 8,800 acre Tyler Island wip-ing out crops
and nearly destroying the Mello family’s farming business.
(SFC, 1/2/09, p.A1)
1986 Aug, Dr. Clifford Stoll, the
computer systems manager at Lawrence Berkeley, discov-ered computer
break-ins. He monitored them for approximately 12 months and
realized that the had confused Lawrence Berkeley with Lawrence
Livermore.'' A West German citizen used global communications networks
to secretly gain access to more than 30 computers belonging to the US
military and military contractors.
(http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/6.68.html)(Econ,
5/26/07, p.64)
1986 Nov 7, Carlene McDonald was
kidnapped from her home in El Sobrante and stabbed to death at Tilden
Park. Curtis Lee Ervin was paid $2,500 by McDonald's ex-husband, Robert
McDonald, for the murder. Ervin was assisted by Arestes Robinson.
McDonald and Robinson died in prison. In 2000 the state Supreme Court
upheld the death penalty for Ervin.
(SFC, 1/7/00, p.D4)
1986 Nov, Robert W. Halligan
(d.1999 at 72), a Caltrans information officer, organized lights strung
on the cables of the Bay Bridge suspension spans. Halligan was also
responsible for the designation of Highway 280 as "The world's most
beautiful freeway."
(SFC, 2/18/99, p.C4)
1986 Dec, In Oakland David
"Moochie" Welch opened fire on people sleeping in various rooms. The
dead included his former girlfriend Dellane Mabrey (16), her 2 children
and her 2 brothers. In 1999 the death sentence for Welch was upheld by
the state Supreme Court.
(SFC, 6/2/99, p.C14)
1986 Sculptor Fred Fierstein
dumped a statue called "The Guardian" at the Berkeley Marina. In a city
vote fans supported the statue and the term "plop art" was coined.
(SFC, 1/15/98, p.A24)
1986 The Jewish Music Festival was
begun in Berkeley at the Jewish Community Center.
(SFC, 2/28/98, p.B3)
1986 Merritt Sher opened what many
consider to be the first power center: 280 Metro Center, in Colma,
Calif.
(www.terranomicsdevelopment.com/media.html)
1986 Ron Reuther opened the
Oakland Aerospace Museum at 8260 Boeing St. off Earhart Drive.
(SFC, 2/17/98, p.A16)
1986 Residents of south San Jose
settled a suit with IBM and Fairchild over toxic chemical leaks. The
terms were sealed.
(SFC, 1/30/04, p.B1)
1986 Reformers led by James
Spering took control of the 5-member City Council of Suisun City.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A4)
1986 Brian (d.2004 at 51) and
Jennifer Maxwell of Marin Ct., Ca., founded PowerBar, an en-ergy
supplement for athletes. They sold the company in 2000 to Nestle SA for
$375 million.
(SFC, 3/20/04, p.B1)
1986 Warren L. Simmons (d.2006 at
79), developer of Pier 39 in SF, opened with his son and daughter a
restaurant named Chevy’s in Alameda, Ca. Within a decade it expanded to
38 eat-eries. The Simmons family sold the chain to PepsiCo. In 1993.
(SFC, 10/3/03, p.E3)(SFC, 6/23/06, p.B9)
1986 The Bay Area Doggie Diner
chain went out of business. The diners had numbered 30 at one time.
(SFEC, 11/14/99, p.C3)
1986 The Solano Land Trust was
created as part of the settlement of a law suit challenging development
in northern Fairfield. In 2005 the trust acquired a 4,000-acre area
from PG&E.
(SSFC, 3/13/05, p.A17)
1986 The Potamocorbula clam, or
Asian clam, was first found in Suisun Bay by a college biol-ogy class.
It is highly prolific and proceeded to devour all the plankton in the
northern part of the Bay, causing the shrimp population to drop and the
striped bass to decline. The clams accumu-late selenium more than other
shellfish causing increases in selenium levels in sturgeon, striped
bass and ducks.
(SFC,12/11/97, p.A24)(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A9)
1986 In Fremont Jennifer Ann Duey
(20) and Michelle Xavier (19) were found off Mill Creek Road. One woman
was shot to death and the other had her throat slashed. The murders
were unsolved.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A16)
1986-1987 Victor E. Stolz (d.2002 at 88) served his
2nd term mayor of San Carlos.
(SFC, 9/19/02, p.A24)
1987 May 24, An estimated
quarter-million people crowded onto San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge
to celebrate the structure's 50th birthday a few days before the actual
anniversary.
(SFC, 6/11/96, p.A21)(AP, 5/24/97)
1987 Jun 10, The Nuremberg Actions
protest over US arms shipments to Central America began at the Concord
Naval Weapons Station.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A19)
1987 Sep 1, Brian Wilson, Vietnam
veteran, had his legs sliced off when a munitions train at the Concord
naval Weapons Station ran him over during the Nuremberg Actions protest.
(SFC, 6/10/97, p.A19)
1987 Oct, Rosellina Lo Bue (18), a
photo store clerk, was stabbed 52 times and died on the floor of the
Photo Drive-Up store in San Jose, Ca. Eric Chatman fled to Texas, but
was arrested for the murder in April, 1990. Chatman’s wife, who also
worked in the store, had left earlier in the day and was replaced by Lo
Bue. In 2006 the state Supreme Court upheld Chapman’s death sentence
(SFC, 5/9/06, p.B3)
1987 Dec 30, Steve Gibbons,
California Highway Patrol officer, found a newborn infant off I-80 near
Canada and Edgewood Roads in Redwood City, Ca. Baby Jane Doe was
adopted and grew up as Ashley Wyrick.
(SFC, 6/6/06, p.A1)
1987 M.C. Hammer (aka Stanley Kirk
Burrell) released his first "rap music" single, "Ring ‘Em"/"Stupid Def
Yal" on Bustin’ Records.
(SFEC, 7/13/97, DB p.34)
1987 Anthony McKnight, an enlisted
man at the Alameda Naval Air Station, was convicted of rape, attempted
murder and mayhem for a string of nighttime attacks between 1984 and
1986. He was sentenced to 63 years in prison. In 1999 DNA evidence
linked him to the murders of 5 East Bay women during a 4-month period
in 1985.
(SFC, 6/26/99, p.C1)
1987 Oral Lee Brown, an Oakland,
Ca., realtor, adopted the entire first grade class at Brook-field
Elementary School and promised to send the 23 students to college after
they graduated. She put $10,000 a year into their college fund. In 1999
19 of the students headed for college under the Oral Lee Brown
Foundation. 14 graduated from college and 3 went on to graduate school.
(SFC, 7/28/99, p.A15)(SFC, 10/14/06, p.B3)
1988 Jan 31, Robert Mishell, UC
Berkeley immunologist, and his wife were bludgeoned at their home by
Enrique Zambrano, a waterfront commissioner, who had built them a deck
3 years earlier. Zambrano was arrested after Luis Reyna, a UC
administrative assistant, informed police that Zambrano had confessed
the crime to him. Zambrano was released on bail and hours later Reyna
vanished. Reyna’s headless body was found a week later in the Lafayette
hills. Zambrano, arrested in 1989 in Palm Springs, was later convicted
and sentenced to death.
(SFC, 4/5/08, p.B3)
1988 Feb 16, Richard Wade Farley
gunned down 7 people at ESL Corp. during an office rampage in
Sunnyvale, Calif. Farley was later convicted of murder and sentenced to
death.
(AP, 2/16/98)(SFC, 10/27/04, p.B1)
1988 Feb 26, Gretchen Burford (49)
was abducted and killed by an attacker who tried to make her withdraw
money from an ATM machine in Mountain View, Ca. In 2005 DNA evidence
identi-fied Texas inmate Tyrone Hamel (39) as the killer.
(SFC, 6/24/05, p.B4)
1988 Mar 20, Eight-year-old
DeAndra Anrig found herself airborne when the string of her kite was
snagged by an airplane flying over Shoreline Park in Mountain View,
Calif. Not seriously hurt, she was lifted 10 feet off the ground and
carried 100 feet until she let go.
(AP, 3/20/98)
1988 Apr 23, A drain valve was
left open at the Shell Marsh in Martinez, Ca., and 10,000 bar-rels of
oil (432,000 gallons) poured in the marsh adjoining Peyton Slough.
Shell cleaned the mess and paid $20 million in penalties. The marsh was
purchased with part of the funds and turned into a regional park.
(SFC, 4/21/98, p.A19-20)(SFC, 4/30/04, p.A17)
1988 Jun 3, Amber Swartz-Garcia
(7) was abducted from her home in Pinole, Ca. In 2009 po-lice
identified cab driver Curtis Dean Anderson (d.2007), the 1999 killer of
Xiana Fairchild(7), as the person who abducted Amber Swartz-Garcia,
drove her to Arizona and killed her. Amber’s body was never found.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.A18)(SFEC, 4/2/00, p.B2)(SFC,
7/7/09, p.A1,7)
1988 Jun 22, Joel Michael Davis
(26), an East Palo Alto police officer, was shot to death while
pursuing a robbery suspect. Ronald Price was convicted and sentenced to
life in prison for the killing. In 2002 a park in East Palo Alto was
dedicated to Davis.
(SFC, 8/3/02, p.A15)
1988 Jul 10, Lester Garnier (30),
an off-duty SF vice cop, was shot and killed in a Walnut Creek, Ca.,
parking lot. His murder remained unsolved and a new investigation was
begun in 1998. Sgt. Robert Guinan allegedly spread rumors that
Inspector Vince Repetto was responsi-ble. Repetto sued the police dept.
In 2008 Walnut creek police identified Catherine Kuntz (44) of Florida
as a prime suspect in the murder. Kuntz was deported to Scotland in Dec
2008.
(SFC, 5/21/98, p.A1)(SFC, 11/7/98, p.A17)(SFC,
6/4/08, p.A1)(SFC, 2/2/09, p.A11)
1988 Nov 19, Michaela Joy Garecht
(9) was kidnapped outside a market in Hayward, Ca., and has not been
seen since.
(www.geocities.com/farmgirl1032001/michaela_garecht.html)
1988 The Oakland Museum mounted a
retrospective of Granville Redmond, an early Califor-nia impressionist.
His biography was written by Mildred Albronda.
(SFC, 12/2/98, p.A19)
1988 The Stanford Theater in Palo
Alto reopened as a showcase for classic films following restoration
financed by David Woodley Packard.
(SFC, 10/1/98, p.A22)
1988 Irene Papan (d.2000) and Jane
Powell, former mayor of Daly City, co-founded John's Closet, a
non-profit organization to gather and distribute clothing to children
of poor families throughout northern San Mateo County.
(SFC, 2/22/00, p.A20)
1988 Bay Area residents voted to
standardize all tolls on the region's state-owned bridges at $1, and to
use the money to fund bridge and transit improvements. In 1997 the
California Legis-lature added $1 to fund seismic retrofit work on the
bridges.
(SMBP, 2004)
1988 Daryl Reed, aka Little D, was
arrested on a drug charge. He had taken over the Oakland gang of Felix
Mitchell. The gang was then taken over by Timothy Bluitt, who was
arrested in 1991.
(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A9)
1988 SunChase G.A. acquired a
large parcel of virgin land along the southern edge of San Bruno
Mountain when they bought a portfolio of 23 properties from around the
country following the savings and loan failures in the mid-80s. The
mountain property had belonged to Dean As-sociates, which went
bankrupt. The portfolio cost them $61 million, $85 million with
interest. In-cluded in the deal were rights to build 700 residential
units, an 18-story hotel, and a huge tech-nology trade center and
restaurant.
(Ind, 5/25/99, p.4A)
1988 Suisun City ranked as the
worst of the 98 Bay Area cities for quality of living.
(SFC, 9/3/99, p.A1)
1988-1994 Anthony Flowers ran an East Oakland cocaine
trafficking operation. He was sentenced in 1999 to 28 years in prison.
(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A1)(SFC, 2/17/99, p.A14)
1989 Jan 30, Ilene Misheloff (13)
disappeared in Dublin, Ca., while walking home from school.
(SFC, 1/29/99, p.A18)(SFC, 1/29/09, p.A1)
1989 Jan-1989 Feb, Robert Young
(20) of Oakland, Ca., shot and killed 3 people over three weeks in
drug-related incidents. He was sentenced to death in 1990, but a
psychologist testified that Young had an IQ of 75. In 2006 the
California Supreme court ordered new legal proceed-ings for possible
exemption from death due to his being mentally retarded.
(SFC, 10/14/06, p.B2)
1989 Mar 5, Kathleen Ann Noble
(23) of Mountain View was found murdered in East Palo Alto. In 1999
police arrested her former roommate, Mark Mepham Hensley, in Virginia.
(SFC, 12/14/99, p.A20)(SFC, 12/15/99, p.A21)
1989 Jun 1, The body of Nestora
McCune (61) of San Jose, Ca., was found murdered and sexually assaulted
near Highway 101 and Brokaw Rd. In 2005 Luis Perez, already in prison
for rape and attempted murder, was charged for McCune’s murder. He was
linked by DNA and other evidence.
(SFC, 10/19/05, p.B5)
1989 Jul 27, Charles Stevens (20)
of Oakland, Ca., was arrested on a freeway on-ramp while watching
police attend to the wrecked car of his last murder victim. Over the
last 4 months he had shot to death 4 people and fired at 10 others. In
2007 the California state Supreme Court upheld his death sentence.
(SFC, 6/5/07, p.C2)
1989 Aug 22, Black Panther
co-founder Huey P. Newton was shot to death in Oakland, Calif., by a
drug dealer. Gunman Tyrone Robinson was later sentenced to 32 years to
life in prison.
(AP, 8/22/97)(SFC,10/24/97, p.A15)
1989 Sep 18, A small plane crashed
at Burnett Ave. near Diamond after takeoff from Buchanon Field Airport,
Concord, and 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/15/04, p.B10)
1989 Oct 8, The Oakland A's won
the American League pennant for the second year in a row by defeating
the Toronto Blue Jays.
(AP, 10/8/99)
1989 Oct 17, The 7.1 Loma Prieta
earthquake [Watsonville] hit the Bay Area minutes before the start of a
World Series game at San Francisco’s Candlestick Park. 67 people died
and 3,000 were injured. It caused $7 billion worth of damage. The
Spreckel’s Temple of Music in Golden Gate Park was damaged and later
restored. 28,000 structures were damaged and sev-eral freeways ruined.
42 people died on the Cypress Freeway. At the train station in SF Dr.
Margaret McChesney commandeered a tour bus to take frightened
passengers home and navi-gated the driver safely through barricades of
cars and gangs of marauding youths on 3rd St. In 1999 new measuring
methods changed the magnitude to 6.9.
(SFC, 4/15/96,A-6)(SFC, 10/17/96, A15)(SFC, 7/23/97,
p.A13)(AP, 10/17/97)(AR,9/12/98)(HN, 10/17/98)(SFC, 10/7/99, p.A21)
1989 Oct 21, Rescue workers in
Oakland, Calif., pulled longshoreman Buck Helm alive from the wreckage
of the Nimitz Freeway, part of which had collapsed during the Oct. 17
earth-quake. Helm died less than a month later.
(AP, 10/21/99)
1989 Oct, In 2000 Terry Lynn Sells
confessed to police in Texas to strangling an Hispanic girl near an
Oakland or Berkeley Bart station. Sells has also confessed to 12 other
killings.
(SFC, 3/11/00, p.A13)
1989 Nov 18, Longshoreman Buck
Helm died at a hospital in Oakland, almost a month after he was pulled
from a section of the Nimitz Freeway flattened by the northern
California earth-quake.
(AP, 11/18/99)
1989 The Gladys Valley Foundation
pledged $15 million to the Univ. of California at Berkeley for the
Bioscience Capital Campaign.
(SFC, 5/29/98, p.D7)
1989 In Concord, Ca., 91 aluminum
rods were erected in a median strip along Concord Ave. by artist Gary
Rieveschl of Cincinnati and dubbed the "Spirit Poles." They became
unstable af-ter a few years and were destroyed in 2001. Rieveschi
received a payment of $75,000 to sur-render his claim to the poles.
(SFC, 6/22/04, p.B5)
1989 The Tour de Peninsula, an
informal bicycle race, was begun.
(SFC, 7/31/99, p.A14)
1989 The city of Berkeley Ca.,
passed a ban on Styrofoam.
(SFC, 4/29/08, p.A1)
1989 The city of Fremont started a
language bank with interpreters to assist foreign-speaking residents.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.7)
1989 Renovation for damage to the
Oakland City Hall totaled $85 million.
(SFEM, 1/4/98, p.7)
1989 The European green crab was
first found in the Bay waters in Redwood Shores Lagoon. The crab feeds
on commercial clams and Dungeness crabs.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A1)
1989 In San Pablo Sandra Morris
was found shot to death in her car shortly before she was to testify in
a murder trial. DNA evidence in 2000 led to murder charges against
Milburn Michael Lunghi, a friend of the murder defendant Gerald
Carpenter.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.A17)
1989-1996 The Quicksilver company at 200 Valley Drive
in Brisbane operated as a mercury recy-cling business. Owner Ritchey
Vaughn was put on probation for illegally expanding the busi-ness and
the operation was shut down. Some 2.5 gallons of liquid mercury were
found in Apr, 1998, and an estimated $369,000 was required for cleanup.
(Ind, 11/28/98, p.1,3A)
1990 Jan 1, In East Palo Alto C.W.
Roddy, an anti-drug activist, was shot in the stomach when her
Westminster Street house was sprayed with bullets.
(SFC, 1/1/00, p.A21)
1990 Apr 19, Louie "Dumptruck"
Chavez was released from Pelican Bay State Prison with a hit list
allegedly drawn up by the Mesa, the ruling council of the Nuestra
Familia prison gang. He passed the list to a parole officer.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, Z1 p.1)
1990 May 18, In the face of heated
student protests, the trustees of all-women Mills College in Oakland,
Calif., voted to rescind their earlier decision to admit men.
(AP, 5/18/00)
1990 May 24, Darryl Cherney and
Judi Bari (11/7/49-3/2/97), environmental activists in the Earth First!
movement, were injured after a pipe bomb exploded in their car as they
drove through Oakland, Ca. They were arrested while in the hospital on
charges of transporting a bomb but the charges were never filed. They
later filed a suit against the FBI and Oakland po-lice for false
arrest, illegal search and seizure and conspiracy to violate
free-speech rights. Bari died of liver cancer in 1997. In 2002 a jury
awarded $2.9 million to Bari’s estate and $1.5 million to Cherney
saying the FBI had framed them as eco-terrorists. In 2004 the
government settled civil suits for $2 million. In 2004 Kate Coleman
authored “The Secret Wars of Judi Bari.”
(SFC,10/21/97, p.A20)(SFC, 6/12/02, p.A1)(SFC,
4/23/04, p.B1)(SFC, 1/18/05, p.D1)
1990 Aug 28, In Foster City, Ca.,
police stopped a car for running a red light and found Nor-man Hsu, a
native of Hong Kong, inside with a Chinatown gang leader, who had
abducted him for not paying a debt. Hsu fled to Hong Kong in 1992
following fraud charges filed by Oakland businessman Augie Wu. In 2003
Hsu resurfaced in NYC as a major donor for Democratic can-didates. In
2007 his criminal background was revealed and candidates pledged to
give his con-tributions to charity. In California Hsu posted a $2
million bail and again failed to make his court appearance.
(SFC, 9/6/07, p.A15)(WSJ, 9/6/07, p.A3)
1990 Sep, San Mateo County, Ca.,
and PG&E held a public meeting to tell residents of Daly City’s
Midway Village about the contaminated soil on the site. Residents wee
informed that toxic wastes have been found in about one of every four
of the buildings.
(SFC, 1/19/00, p.A4)(SFC, 3/2/09, p.B1)
1990 Oct 10, The Oakland A’s swept
to the American League pennant and their third straight World Series by
defeating the Boston Red Sox, 3-to-1.
(AP, 10/10/00)
1990 Oct, Delaney Marks went on a
shooting spree in Oakland that left 2 people dead. He was convicted of
murder and sentenced to death.
(SFC, 7/25/03, p.A30)
1990 Nov 15, Maria Weidhofer (32),
an artist and baker, was raped and strangled in Berke-ley’s Tilden Park
while jogging. Her body was found the next day. In 2005 a $5000 reward
was doubled to $10000.
(SFC, 9/8/05, p.B1)
1990 Nov, San Mateo County, Ca.,
hired contractors to remove some of the soil from Midway Village in
Daly City and to cap some areas with concrete patios.
(SFC, 1/19/00, p.A4)
1990 James Delgado authored
"Shipwrecks of the Golden Gate."
(SFC, 6/11/01, p.A17)
1990 In San Jose Halfdan Hussey
started the Cinequest Film Festival.
(SFC, 2/24/99, p.E2)
1990 Time Warner bought Sunset
Magazine from Lane Publishing, co-owned by publisher and
conservationist Melvin B. Lane (1922-2007). His father had bought
Sunset, a tourist-oriented travel magazine, in 1928.
(SFC, 8/2/07, p.B5)
1990 The 260-mile San Francisco
Bay Trail had its inception.
(SSFC, 8/14/05, p.A19)
1990 Thelma Caballero and Besh
Serdahely created a tree house shelter for themselves on San Bruno
Mountain. In 2002 they received an eviction notice from San Mateo
County officials after a survey found them on county-owned rather than
state-owned property.
(SFC, 9/4/02, p.A4)
1990 The Mother House of Dominican
nuns burned down in San Rafael.
(SFCM, 8/29/04, p.4)
1990 Joan Brown, painter, died.
She taught at UC Berkeley from 1974-1990.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, DB p.31)
1990-1992 Harry Lawson (d.2000 at 82) served as the
mayor of Hillsborough.
(SFC, 7/19/00, p.B2)
1990-1992 A 3 year murder spree began in San Jose
when members of the Nuestra Familia prison gang began an internal feud.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, Z1 p.1)
1991 Jan 10, The body of Lisa
Hopewell (34) was found in a condo in Cupertino. Rick Walker (35) was
convicted of the murder and spent 12 years in prison before evidence
showed that he was not the killer.
(SSFC, 6/15/03, p.A1)
1991 Jan 27, A woman’s badly
beaten and burned body was found in a ravine off Palomares Canyon Road
near the border of Sunol and Castro Valley, Ca. In 2008 she was
identified as Vicenta Sanchez-Orellana (24) of Oakland, Ca. her husband
Oscar Manuel Orellana did not file a missing person report until he
needed paperwork to marry someone else.
(SFC, 5/30/08, p.B9)
1991 Mar 18, In unincorporated
Hayward a girl (13) was attacked and raped on East Ave. DNA testing in
2006 identified the attacker as James Dwayne Smith (45), already in
prison for raping a mother and daughter in Santa Monica in August,
1991. Numerous other charges against Smith had expired under the
stature of limitations.
(SFC, 7/19/06, p.B3)
1991 Apr 23, In Burlingame, Ca.,
Philip Jablonski (45) fatally shot Carol Spadoni (47), who had married
him in 1982 while he was in prison. He also raped, sodomized and shot
her mother Eva Petersen (72). A day earlier he had killed Fathyma Vann
in Riverside County. He was on parole after serving 12 years for the
1978 murder of his girlfriend Melinda Kimball. In 2006 the California
Supreme Court upheld his death sentence.
(SFC, 1/24/06,
p.B3)(www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/archive.cgi?noframes;read=7845)
1991 Oct 20, A major fire burned
about 3,000 homes in the Oakland Hills and killed 25 peo-ple. 2,843
homes were destroyed causing $1.54 billion in damage.
(SFEC, 10/20/96, p.C4)(SFEC, 5/30/99, Z1 p.4)
1991 Nov 13, In Vallejo 3
employees of the Loomis Armored Car company were killed in a botched
robbery attempt. Guards Martin McNumber (49), Dennis Jacobson (25) and
Alphonso Lontayo (25) were killed. Eugene Livingston, a former
employee, Thomas Young, Victor McClain and James Gary Brown (later
Assad Muhammad) were charged for the slayings in 1993. Young was
convicted in the murders but recanted a confession implicating McClain
and Muhammad. In 1996 Livingston was convicted of robbery and
conspiracy but acquitted of mur-der. In 1999 Muhammad was arrested on
DNA evidence that linked him to the crime.
(SFC, 6/10/99, p.A17,22)
1991 Dec 19, Donna Ann Morrow (37)
was murdered in Menlo Park, Ca., following an argu-ment with her
husband, Joseph Morrow, who fled the country. Her body was found in
2003 in the Santa Cruz Mountains on property that had been owned by
Joseph Morrow. Police tracked Morrow to Manila, where he was arrested
in Jan, 2003. Morrow’s trial began in 2006. In 2007 Morrow (59) agreed
to be sentenced to 25 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 12/24/03, p.A14)(SFC, 1/6/06, p.B5)(SFC,
3/7/06, p.B1)(SFC, 9/12/07, p.B4)
1991 Dec, Amanda "Nikki" Campbell
(4) was last seen alive in Fairfield.
(SFC, 1/11/01, p.A19)
1991 Two books were published on
the history of the Carolands mansion atop Black Mountain in
Hillsborough.
(PI, 3/21/98, p.5)(Ind, 2/26/00, p.5A)
1991 The Filoli mansion was used
as a setting for the film "Dying Young."
(Ind, 3/6/99, p.5A)
1991 Berkeley began its BOSS
program, Building Opportunities for Self-Sufficiency, and be-gan hiring
workers from a homeless shelter to help clean the streets.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.D1,6)
1991 Dr. Frances K. Conley, a
Stanford neurosurgeon, resigned her tenured position. In 1998 she
published "Walking Out On the Boys," An account of her reasons for
quitting Stanford.
(SFEC, 4/5/98, BR p.1)
1991 Albert Britton, the Pittsburg
"Creeper," raped 6 women before he was caught as he fled the bedroom of
a 15-year-old girl.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A15)
1991 A 1,070 pound heroin haul was
uncovered in Hayward. The deal was masterminded by Li Yung Chung, an
ethnic Chinese with Thailand citizenship. He was extradited to the US
in 1997.
(SFC, 6/6/97, p.E4)
1991 The Lucille Salter Packard
Children's Hospital was founded. It was named after the wife of David
Packard, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard.
(SFC, 6/17/99, p.A10)
1991 Commuter Checks,
employer-provided vouchers for transit passes, were introduced to the
Bay Area.
(SFC, 9/13/99, p.A1)
1991 Lorne Jackson, Oakland
zookeeper, was trampled to death by Smokey (d.2001 at 28), an African
bull elephant.
(SFC, 3/13/01, p.A22)
1991 Elmer Bischoff (b.1916),
California artist, died. He helped found the Bay Area Figurative School
with David Park and Richard Diebenkorn.
(WSJ, 12/3/01, p.A17)
1992 Feb 7, Grace Asuncion was
found stabbed to death in Eshelman Hall on Bancroft Way at UC Berkeley.
Her parents filed suit and won a $750,000 settlement in 1998.
(SFC, 5/9/98, p.A16)
1992 Sep 2, A small plane
(Buchanon Field Airport) crashed into a car on Highway 4 near So-lano
Way, Concord, and 2 people were killed.
(SFC, 4/15/04, p.B10)
1992 Sep, Andrew Martinez, the
naked man, organized a “nude-in” on the Berkeley campus to express the
right to free speech. 3 months later he was expelled for violating the
campus code of conduct. In 1997 he was diagnosed as schizophrenic. In
2006 Martinez (33) died from apparent suicide while under custody in
the Santa Rita County Jail in Santa Clara County.
(SSFC, 5/21/06,
p.B1)(www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11100863/)(SFC, 5/19/09, p.B4)
1992 Oct 15, The financially
ailing Tribune was bought by the Alameda Newspaper Group.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1992 Dec 8, Francia Young (25) was
abducted from the MacArthur BART station in Oakland. She was found the
next day raped and murdered. Keith Tyson Thomas and Henry "Rooter"
Glover were later convicted for the murder.
(SFC,10/23/97, p.C6)
1992 Magnificat, an ensemble of
voices and instruments dedicated to the performance of early Baroque
music, began an annual series of concerts in SF, Berkeley and San Jose.
(PNM, 1/25/98, p.6)
1992 The Hillsborough Chateau
Carolands was opened as a Decorator's Show House to benefit the Coyote
Point Museum.
(Ind, 2/26/00, p.5A)
1992 The city of American Canyon
next to Napa incorporated. It had previously been called Rio Del Mar,
Napa Junction and McKnight Acres.
(SFC, 9/1/99, p.A20)(SFC, 10/29/99, p.A17)
1992 SF, San Mateo and Santa Clara
counties took over the operations of the Caltrain com-muter line as a
joint powers board.
(SFC, 5/7/99, p.A20)
1992 A Navy air show at Moffet
Field attracted nearly one million people.
(SFC, 6/21/99, p.A16)
1992 Indictments against the
Nuestra Familia prison gang charged 21 defendants with plot-ting an
committing 6 murders. A jury returned murder convictions against 4
defendants in 1997.
(SFEC, 6/29/97, Z1 p.4)(SFC, 7/15/97, p.A19)
1992 Paramount purchased the Great
America amusement park in Santa Clara.
(SFC, 4/22/02, p.B5)
1992 Indian transplants in Silicon
Valley founded The Indus Entrepreneurs (TIE). By 2009 the group had a
network of 12,000 members and operated in 53 cities in 12 countries.
(Econ, 3/14/09, SR p.4)
1992 The first Chinese mitten crab
was hauled up by a South Bay shrimp trawler. Their num-bers exploded
and clogged up state water project pumps in the Sacramento River Delta.
The mitten crab, one of 9 species, is catadromous, meaning that they
spawn in brackish or salt wa-ter and migrate up freshwater streams to
mature.
(SFC, 3/17/99, p.A1)(SFC, 10/18/99, p.A22)
1992 Arthur Leigh Allen of
Vallejo, a convicted child molester and identified as the Zodiac
kil-ler, died. In 1985 Robert Graysmith authored "Zodiac" in which he
identified the killer with the pseudonym of "Robert Starr." Graysmith
authored "Zodiac Unmasked" in 2002.
(SFEC, 3/1/98, p.W20)(SSFC, 5/12/02, p.M6)
1992 Patrick Walter was killed
when his helicopter crashed in the Carquinez Strait with a group
investigating an oil spill.
(SSFC, 5/11/03, p.A26)
1993 Jan 16, Linda Scates (40) of
Walnut Creek ran down 8 cyclists on Danville Blvd. in Alamo killing
one. She was found not guilty by reason of insanity. Vladimir Quinn
(22) was killed and Dory Selinger (27) lost a right leg.
(SFC, 12/4/98, p.A21)(SFC, 3/20/99, p.A21)
1993 Mar 12, The Peninsula
Times-Tribune, serving 10 communities from San Carlos to Mountain View,
closed after the Chicago Tribune Co. failed to find a buyer.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1993 Jun, Volunteers picking up
litter in the Santa Cruz Mountains, Ca., discovered a suitcase
containing the remains of a woman later identified as Stephanie Jensen
(31). Police used DNA to identify her in 2004 and in 2005 arrested her
boyfriend Kirk Bennett (54) in Idaho.
(SFC, 7/12/05, p.B8)
1993 Jul 11, In Antioch Joel Souza
(35), distraught over the breakup of his marriage, killed his 2
children, Nicholas (8), and Cheri (5), and then killed himself
following a 7-hour negotiation with police to give up.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A12)(SFC, 5/3/99, p.A19)
1993 Sep 25, Ramon Romero was
killed by toxic gas asphyxiation in a cyanide vat at the K&L
plating factory in the 10300 block of Pearmain St. in Oakland while
saving a fellow worker. The owner, Robert McSkimming, agreed to a plea
deal in 1998 with up to a year in jail and as much as $200,000 in fines.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A15)(SFC, 1/28/98, p.A12)
1993 Dec 21, In Antioch gunmen
intruded into the home of Gene and Ruth Mayer. The ran-sacked the home
and carted off some $150,000 in jewelry and then kidnapped Ruth Mayer
(d.2000 at age 67). She was held in a San Pablo garage for 3 days
before her kidnappers got scared after their ring-leader was arrested
on a separate robbery. The last main participant in the kidnapping was
sentenced in 1997.
(SFC,10/23/97, p.A17,26)(SFC, 1/29/00, p.A19)
1993 Dec, Brian Bailey (29) was
shot to death by Robert Allen Miller near the Oakland Zoo.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A20)
1993 In Oakland, Ca., Black
Panther member David Hilliard founded the Newton Foundation to carry on
the social programs of the Black Panthers.
(SFC,10/24/97, p.A21)
1993 Fremont leaders renamed
Hillside Ave., home of the largest Sikh temple in California, to
Gurdwara Rd. The Gurdwara Sahib temple had 7,000 members.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, Z1 p.7)
1993 The Naval Base at Alameda was
ordered shut down as part of the federal government base closure
program.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.D4)
1993 The Bevatron in Berkeley,
Ca., shut down. The 10,000 ton magnetic doughnut had smashed atoms in
the Berkeley hills for 39 years.
(SFC, 6/29/06, p.B1)
1993 Rudy Henderson, a bodybuilder
with a penchant for luxury cars, was convicted on a drug charge and
sentenced to 25 years in prison.
(SFC, 2/16/99, p.A9)
1993 The San Mateo Transit
district bought the Dumbarton rail corridor between Redwood City and
Newark for future commuter rail service.
(Ind, 5/23/00,14A)
1993 In California Richard M.
Diamond (1924-2007), nuclear chemist, and lab partner Frank Stephens
developed and built the original Gammasphere at Berkeley’s 88-inch
cyclotron. It analyzed gamma rays emitted from atoms bombarded in
high-energy nuclear accelerators.
(SFC, 10/20/07, p.B5)
1993 Edgewood County Park, a
467-acre expanse, was designated as San Mateo County’s only "natural
preserve" following 25 years of work by Susan Sommers.
(Ind, 7/1/00,5A)
1994 Jan 12, In Antioch Mary Lou
Kamminga (46) was brutally raped and killed. In 1999 Dean Wilson (30)
was tried for the murder.
(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A18)
1994 Mar 7, At San Quentin prison
officer Timothy Scott shot and killed inmate Mark Adams. In 1998 a
federal jury awarded the Adams family $2.3 million following a trial
based on wrongful death.
(SFC, 12/1/98, p.A15)
1994 Mar, The body of Thomas Glenn
Shepherd (34) was found buried in the back yard of Robert Allen Miller
in San Leandro. Miller was convicted for this and another murder and
sen-tenced from 34 years to life in prison. The conviction was set
aside by an appeals court in 1999 based on incompetent representation.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.A20)
1994 Jenny Lin (14), was murdered
at her Castro Valley home. In 2006 police linked Sebas-tian Shaw, a
convicted murderer serving 3 life sentences in Oregon, to her murder.
(SFC, 5/25/06, p.B1)
1994 May 29, In Berkeley Michael
Soe shot and killed his best friend Kenzo Dix with a Beretta 92 Compact
L handgun that belonged to Soe’s father. They were playing and thought
that the magazine was empty. The Kenzo’s later sued the Beretta
manufacturer for lack of safety fea-tures.
(SFC, 10/25/98, p.A12)
1994 Jun 22, In San Pablo Raymond
Lamont Scott (18) shot and killed Oakland police officer Miguel Soto
(43) to avoid arrest for a 1993 robbery at a Baskin-Robbins ice cream
store. Scott was convicted of murder in 1999 and sentenced to life in
prison without parole.
(SFC, 5/27/99, p.A20)(SFC, 6/19/99, p.A17)
1994 Sep 20, Keelon Jenkins (21)
and Robert McDaniels (20) shot and killed Jeffrey Spencer, a Brink’s
security guard, during an attempted robbery in Oakland at the corner of
San Pablo and Univ. In 1997 a jury convicted both men of first degree
murder. Jenkins was sentenced to life in prison and McDaniels was
sentenced to 25 years.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A20)(SFC,12/24/97, p.A6)
1994 Nov 5, Evelyna LeBlanc (15)
was raped and shot in the head in San Leandro, Ca. She died the next
day. In 2007 DNA evidence led police to Inani Charles Williams (27),
who had been indicted for a 2006 residential burglary in Portland, Ore.
(SFC, 5/4/07, p.B12)
1994 Sculptor Douglas VanHowd had
his statue of Pappy Waldorf (d.1981), head coach of the UC Berkeley
(Cal) football team (1947-1956), placed in the Faculty Glade looking
across at the nude sculpture, "The Last Dryad," by Alexander Stirling
Calder. The placement was attrib-uted to landscape architect Ortha
Zebroski.
(SFC, 11/20/98, p.A24)
1994 At Stanford Univ. 10 master
artists from the Kwoma and Latmul cultures of the Sepik River of New
Guinea carved poles for the New Guinea Sculpture Garden near Robley
Hall.
(SFC, 8/18/99, p.D5)
1994 Paul DeCillis, Vietnam war
veteran, donated his collection of over 800 books and 650 videotapes on
the Vietnam War to DeAnza Community College in Cupertino.
(SFC, 2/12/98, p.A19)
1994 Oakland, Ca., adopted a
friendship agreement with Santiago, Cuba.
(SFC, 7/22/00, p.A17)
1994 The Bay Delta Accord was
signed. It promised to save the SF Bay and the delta of the Sacramento
and San Joaquin Rivers through cooperation and compromise rather than
litigation and political arm twisting.
(SFC, 6/25/99, p.A1)
1994 Polly Phleger Goodan
(1922-2005) of Pasadena oversaw the $21 million sale of her family’s
1,300-acre estate near Woodside, Ca., to the Peninsula Open Space
Trust. In 1995 it became part of the Golden Gate National Recreation
Area.
(SFC, 12/17/05, p.B5)
1994 Midway Village, east of Cow
Palace, was cleaned of toxins.
(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A14)
1995 Jun 22, Some 110,000 gallons
of sulfonation acid sludge were released and ignited at the Rhodia
facility in Martinez when a storage tank failed during maintenance. One
person was killed and sulfonation acid processing at the plant was
terminated.
(SFC, 5/13/99, p.A24)
1995 Aug 16, In Orinda Maria
Corrieo and her sister, Gina Roberts, were killed by Dalton Lolohea and
2 others during a robbery. Lolohea was tried and convicted for the
double murder in 2000 along with robbery and burglary. David Ross was
sentenced to 20 years in prison in ex-change for testifying against
Corey Williams.
(SFC, 2/8/00, p.A19)(SFC, 2/18/00, p.D3)(SFC,
8/18/00, p.A22)
1995 Oct 5, Michelle Redmond was
murdered with a hammer at the home of Michael James Flores in Redwood
City. Flores (44), struck her 28 times and was convicted for the murder
in 1998. He was still to be tried for a 1981 murder in Southern Ca. In
1999 Flores was sentenced to 171 years in prison and ordered to pay
$3,000 in restitution and $3,500 in funeral expenses.
(SFC, 10/17/98, p.A19)
1995 Oct 12, Knight Ridder Inc.
bought the Contra Costa Times and its sister newspapers from Margaret
Lesher, widow of founder Dean Lesher.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1995 Nov 20, Salon produced its
1st online issue.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1995 The film "Nine Months" with
Julianne Moore and Hugh Grant was produced. It was filmed in part
outside Talbot’s Toyland at South B and 5th St. in San Mateo.
(SFEC, 9/14/97, Par p.22)(PI, 3/21/98, p.5)
1995 The Crossings, a Mountain
View community built over the failed Old Mill shopping cen-ter, sold
its first homes at $249,000.
(SFC, 4/22/99, p.E1,5)
1995 The California Federal
Bay-Delta Program was created to protect the Northern Califor-nia
environment while still supplying water to Central Valley growers and
Southern California.
(SFC, 7/10/04, p.A3)
1995 Golden Gate Bridge officials
stopped counting deaths from suicides shortly before the 1000th person
jumped.
(WSJ, 9/10/01, p.A1)
1995 William Mandel, left-wing
activist and writer, was fired from KPFA.
(SFEC, 9/24/00, BR p.4)
1995 The Marin City Flea Market
closed to make way for a shopping center.
(SFC, 12/14/98, p.A17)
1995 Marvell Techonolgy Group was
founded In Santa Clara, Ca., by Weili Dai and brother Sehat and Pantas
Sutardja, Indonesian-Chinese immigrants who had studied together at UC
Berkeley. In 2009 the Sutardja Dai Hall, a 7-story science building,
opened in their honor.
(SFC, 2/28/09, p.B3)
1995 Salon.com was founded as an
online publisher by former staffers of the SF Examiner. The company
purchased the Sausalito online community Well in 1999 from Bruce Katz,
the founder of Rockport Shoes.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.B1)
1995 In San Pablo the Casino San
Pablo opened.
(SFC, 10/22/98, p.A1)
1995 Walter A. Haas, president of
Levi Strauss sold the Oakland A’s baseball team to Steve Schott and Ken
Hoffman for $85 million.
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A1)
1995 The SF Bay Area held its 1st
Bike to Work Day.
(SFC, 5/15/03, p.A17)
1995 Three teenagers staged a
robbery and killed Betty McKnight (58), the stepmother of one of the
teens in Brisbane. James Cavitt (19), the boyfriend of Mianta McKnight
was convicted and sentenced to prison for 25 years to life. Robert
Williams was sentenced to 25 years to life in 1999.
(SFC, 1/16/98, p.A16)(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A20)
1995-1996 Romel Reid, the "Peninsula Rapist,"
attacked 9 women over 5 months before he was arrested.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A1)
1996 Jan 18, Terena Fermenick (24)
was raped and killed by Giles Albert Nadey Jr. at an Alameda rectory.
Nadey, a convicted felon, was identified by DNA evidence and phone
calls made from the crime scene to a phone sex service. In 1999 Nadey
was found guilty of murder. Nadey was sentenced to death in 2000.
(SFC, 1/27/99, p.A12)(SFC, 2/24/99, p.A16)(SFEC,
1/16/00, p.A1)(SFC, 2/8/00, p.A19)
1996 Jan, Alameda approved a plan
to turn the shut down Naval base into a business and residential
development.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.D4)
1996 Mar, Residents in Benicia
discovered ammunition and signal flares left over from the Benicia
Arsenal. Further examination uncovered a howitzer test tunnel and
unexploded ord-nance.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.A14)
1996 Apr 1, The Mare Island Naval
Shipyard in Vallejo, Ca., was decommissioned.
(SFC, 3/10/08, p.A16)
1996 Jun 18, In California Richard
Allen Davis was convicted in San Jose, Calif., on all charges in the
1993 kidnap-murder of 12-year-old Polly Klaas of Petaluma.
(SFC, 6/19/96, p.A10)(AP, 6/18/97)
1996 Jun, Wilfred Ussery resigned
from the BART board of directors after it was revealed that federal
agents were probing contract irregularities. He had represented SF on
the board for 18 years.
(SFC, 5/7/99, p.A19)
1996 Jul 19, Eric Umali (26)
attacked and stabbed 9-year-old Bertha Valencia in Redwood City. He was
convicted of attempted murder in 1997. In 1998 he was sentenced to 21
1/2 years in state prison.
(SFC,11/13/97, p.A20)(SFC,11/22/97, p.A19)(SFC,
1/10/98, p.A13)
1996 Aug 12, In Antioch
Christopher Henriquez murdered his wife Carmen, her 8-month-old fetus,
and their 3-year-old daughter, Zuri. He feared that Carmen would tell
police of his role in a SF bank robbery. Henriquez was sentenced to
death in 2000.
(SFC, 6/3/00, p.A20)
1996 Nov 19, In El Cerrito
Christina Corrigan (13) died of congestive heart failure. The girl
weighed 680 pounds and was found in disgusting condition, naked and
covered with bedsores. Her mother was later pronounced guilty of a
misdemeanor. Marlene Corrigan was sentenced to 3 years probation and
240 hours of community service.
(SFC,12/16/97, p.A18)(SFC, 1/10/98, p.A1)(SFC,
2/28/98, p.A1)
1996 Oct, Robert Gremminger (54),
a former San Jose fireman, shot and killed Anthony Gil-bert (30) at the
Great Mall of the Bay in Milpitas. Gremminger had interceded in a
suspected shoplifting incident and retrieved a gun from his car. He
claimed to have shot when Gilbert tried to run him and a security guard
down. In 1998 Gremminger was sentenced to 9 years in prison for
involuntary manslaughter.
(SFC, 2/7/98, p.A15)
1996 Dec 26, In Vallejo Melanie
Boncato (18) was shot in the head and killed at a McDonald’s restaurant
by Jody Gordon (24), a former employee. Two others were also shot in
the head but survived. Gordon was convicted of murder in 1998.
(SFC, 4/9/98, p.C14)
1996 The Mills-Peninsula Hospital
in Burlingame became the Mills-Peninsula Medical Center, and the San
Mateo Mill Memorial became the Mills-Peninsula Health Center, largely
an out-patient facility.
(Ind, 10/3/98, p.5A)
1996 Matthew Fox, a former
Catholic priest, opened his Univ. of Creation Spirituality in Oak-land.
(SFC, 2/5/99, p.A21)
1996 In San Jose the CityFlight
magazine began with a target audience of Bay Area African Americans.
(SFEC, 5/23/99, p.B1)
1996 The San Francisco Bay Joint
Venture (SFBJV) was formed to rescue as much of the Bay’s habitat as
possible.
(SFEM, 9/17/00, p.100)
1996 Dr. Robert Steinberg (d.2008
at 61) and John Scharffenberger opened their Scharffen Berger chocolate
business in South San Francisco. They sold the business to Hershey in
2005.
(SFC, 9/23/08, p.B5)
1996 In Fremont Matthew Sutton
killed his father Jack and buried him in the back yard. In 1998 Sutton
went to Reno and confessed to the murder just before committing suicide
at the Silver Legacy Hotel.
(SFC, 7/14/98, p.A20)
1996 Richie Stachowski (10) of
Moraga invented an under water walkie talkie and founded the Short
Stack Co. to promote the Water Talkies. He sold the operations for a
reported several million in 1999.
(SFC, 2/6/99, p.A19)
1997 Jan 9, Ronald Small (20), a
Tamalpais High School football star, was shot and killed during a
birthday party at 59 Cole Drive in Marin City, Ca. Darrell Hunter was
arrested a week later and in 1998 Iman Kennedy (20) and Rodwell
Cutkelvin (25) were arrested. An Int’l. search went into effect for
Joseph Michel (26), aka Jo Jo Koulibaly, who was suspected of pulling
the trigger on Small. Hunter was found guilty of 1st degree murder in
2000. Charges against Ken-nedy and Cutkelvin were dropped due to lack
of evidence. In 2005 Michel was extradited from Germany. In 2008
Darrell Hunter was cleared of all charges and released from prison.
(SFC, 11/19/98, p.A22)(SFC, 11/21/98, p.A20)(SFC,
2/22/99, p.A15)(SFC, 2/3/00, p.A18)(SFC, 2/9/00, p.A18)(SFC, 8/24/05,
p.B1)(SFC, 5/2/08, p.B7)
1997 Jan 16, In the SF Bay Area
Peninsula Open Space Trust negotiated an agreement to purchase 1,626
acres of Bair Island for $15 million from Redwood Shores Properties.
The land would be restored to marshland with no billboards. The
Peninsula Open Space Trust was formed in this year to purchase and set
aside land for open space.
(SFC, 1/16/96, p.A1)(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A19)(SFC,
3/15/07, p.A11)
1997 Jan, A dynamite bombing of
the Vallejo courthouse and a Wells Fargo Bank branch was later blamed
on Kevin "Big Kev" Lee Robinson, a narcotics supplier and legitimate
rap pro-ducer. He was sentenced in 1998 to 110 years in prison.
(SFC, 2/10/98, p.A17)
1997 Jan, In Martinez Michael
Glanzman (41) was killed in a Tosco refinery explosion.
(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A7)
1997 Feb 2, Authorities in
Vallejo, Calif., recovered 500 pounds of stolen dynamite and ar-rested
two men in bombings that destroyed three bank teller machines and
blasted a court-house wall. Six men wound up receiving long prison
terms for their roles in the case.
(SFC, 2/3/97, p.A1)(AP, 2/2/07)
1997 Feb 19, In Hercules Susan
Abernathy returned home to find her husband Neal Aber-nathy and son
Brendan shot and killed. The police had no suspects.
(SFC,11/3/97, p.A17)
1997 Mar 26, George Post,
nationally know art teacher and watercolorist, died at 91. His work is
in the permanent collections of the Palace of the Legion of Honor, the
Oakland Museum, and the Mills College Art Gallery.
(SFC, 4/2/97, p.A18)
1997 Apr 1, Moe Moskowitz, owner
of Moe’s Bookstore in Berkeley, died at 75. He had been arrested in the
1960s for selling the ribald comic book "Snatch." He had opened his
first book-store in the late 1950s in North Berkeley.
(SFC, 4/2/97, p.A18)
1997 Apr 9, David Lemon, boat
builder and sculptor, died. His work included the 1953
Belve-dere-Tiburon Landmarks Society commissioned carving of "Christus
Rex." His statue "Hosea" was held by Grace Cathedral of SF.
(SFC, 4/24/97, p.A26)
1997 Apr 21, A fleet of 3 new
ferries was announced to begin operations from Vallejo to SF in May.
Ten daily round trips were planned. The MV Intintoli (motor vehicle
Anthony J. Intintoli, former mayor of Vallejo), MV Mare Island and the
MV Del Norte were scheduled to all be opera-tional by Nov.
(SFEC, 4/21/97, p.A1)
1997 Apr 26, A fire in East Palo
Alto left nine people dead, 5 of them children.
(SFEC, 4/27/97, p.A1)
1997 May 1, In Oakland an armored
car flipped in an accident and released some 27 bags of money claimed
to be substantially less than $500,000. People in the vicinity grabbed
much of the cash though some 20% was returned within 2 days. A total of
$106,000 was recovered and $445,000 was still missing when an amnesty
for returning cash ended on May 5.
(SFC, 5/3/97, p.A1)
1997 May 20, San Mateo supervisors
approved a concept plan for a monastery south of Highway 92 off Skyline
Blvd. by the Russian Convent of Our Lady of Vladimir.
(SFC, 5/21/97, p.A13)
1997 May 23, A train derailed near
Martinez and some 23 Sante Fe freight cars carrying grain and liquid
petroleum gas were overturned. No injuries or gas leaks were reported..
(SFC, 5/24/97, p.A1,13)
1997 May 27, In San Jose Romanian
born sculptor Paul Goreniuc placed his sculpture "Space Dance for peace
No. 4" on his front lawn. City officials later claimed that it violated
zon-ing laws and threatened to fine him $2,500 per day if he didn’t
haul it away.
(SFC, 6/28/97, p.A15)
1997 May, The Berkeley Regional
Exchange and Development (BREAD), an alternative, local currency and
barter system, was begun.
(SFEC, 9/20/98, p.C1)
1997 May, The Peninsula Open Space
Trust purchased 1,626 acres of Bair Island, a stretch of wetlands on
the Bay in Redwood City for $15 million.
(SFC, 5/31/97, p.A13)
1997 May, Charles Weldon Thomas
Jr., 52 and former manager of the Menlo Park sewer dis-trict, pleaded
no contest in a 6-year kickback scheme with a SSF company. In 1999 he
was sentenced to a year in jail.
(SFC, 1/27/99, p.A12)
1997 Jun 3, Peter Brooks Jaffe, an
army veteran with a history of mental illness, fired some 60 rounds
into the Pacific Gas and Electric Co.’s Emerald Lake substation in
Redwood City. He caused some $ 1 million in damage and was sentenced in
1998 to 3 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/24/98, p.A21)
1997 Jun 10, Lisa Smith (22) was
stabbed to death as she returned home from the Rockridge BART station.
In 2005 Oakland, Ca., jurors convicted Marques Lott (29) in the murder.
(SFC, 6/3/05, p.B5)
1997 Jun 12, The body of Herbert
Kay (38), computer scientist, was found in Palo Alto, one block from
the police station. Suspects included members of the True Blue Crips
gang based in East Palo Alto. Iapesa Simanu was sentenced to life in
prison in 1999. 5 other young defen-dants faced trial. In 1999
Christian Valdes (20), Danny Tevaga (17) and Falala Lelei (15) were
convicted of first degree murder. Tevaga, Lelei and Valdes were
sentenced to 25 years to life in prison. In 2000 Olopitoamoa Tapuloa
was sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.
(SFC, 6/17/97, p.A1)(SFC, 1/9/99, p.C1)(SFC,
12/2/99, p.A27)(SFC, 12/16/99, p.A21)(SFC, 1/28/00, p.A22)(SFC,
3/24/00, p.A20)
1997 Jun 23, Kristen Modafferi
(18) was last seen in SF. She had just moved to the Bay Area from
Charlotte, N.C., lived in Oakland and worked in SF.
(SFEC, 1/31/99, p.D1,3)
1997 Jun 26, A fiber-optic ring
was being installed in Palo Alto. It would allow Internet connec-tions
30x faster than T-1 lines. Both aerial and underground 144-strand,
single mode fiber optic cable was being put it.
(SFC, 6/26/97, p.A21)
1997 Jun, Plans for a new San Jose
City Hall projected a 17-story office building for a cost of $150-180
million.
(SFC, 7/14/97, p.A16)
1997 Jun, In Oakland Sarah
Mitchell bludgeoned to death her sister, Stevie Allman, and
dis-membered her in order to take over her identity and trust accounts.
In 2000 an Oakland jury found her guilty and in 2001 she was sentenced
to life in prison.
(SFC, 11/22/00, p.A24)(SFC, 12/20/00, p.A24)(SFC,
2/6/01, p.A20)
1997 Jul 23, A key section of the
Cypress Freeway was opened.
(SFC, 7/23/97, p.A13)
1997 Aug 3, The 4th edition of the
bicycle Tour de Peninsula attracted some 3,500 registered riders for
the 33-mile ride from Redwood City to Millbrae.
(SFC, 8/4/97, p.A13)
1997 Aug 21, A small bronze plaque
was embedded into the steps of Sproul Hall in Berkeley with the words
"Mario Savio Steps."
(SFC, 12/3/97, p.A21)
1997 Aug 22, A 13-year-old girl
was electrocuted while swimming in the apartment pool at 5 Coronado,
owned by Westlake Village Apartments, in Daly City.
(SFC, 8/23/97, p.A15)
1997 Aug, The project to extend
BART to the SF Airport was begun.
(Ind, 3/11/00, p.8A)
1997 Sep 1, Police in San Leandro
arrested Tony Lawayne Ransom (37), a former girl’s high school track
coach, as the leading suspect in 13 East Bay rapes between July 16 and
August 20. He was convicted and sentenced to at least 59 years in
prison in 1999.
(SFC, 9/2/97, p.A1)(SFC, 6/26/99, p.A17,21)
1997 Sep 15, BART trains began to
roll after a weekend agreement with the two largest un-ions.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A10)
1997 Sep 15, It was reported that
most of the money for the Colma city recall campaign was put forth by
Tom Atwood, owner of the Cypress Abbey cemetery. He originally tried to
get the franchise for the Colma casino but lost to a proposal by Rene
Medina.
(SFC, 9/15/97, p.A17)
1997 Sep 19, The state EPA locked
up the K&L plating factories in Oakland run by Robert McSkimming
due to a flouting of environmental laws and regulations. On Sep 30 a
potential tragedy was averted when leaking hydrochloric acid was found
near vats of cyanide.
(SFC, 10/2/97, p.A1,15)
1997 Sep 3, Carl Schrader, a
14-year board member, took over as director of the West Bay Sanitary
District, while still serving as a member of its board of trustees and
collected pay from both positions. He was ordered in 1999 to pay back
$71,800. Schrader resigned 5 days after the initial lawsuit was filed
and was quickly rehired.
(SFC, 5/6/99, p.A21)
1997 Oct 2, Some 200 police, FBI,
IRS and DEA agents swept over 18 homes and business in Oakland, Hayward
and San Leandro and seized 73 kilograms of cocaine valued at $70
mil-lion. Some 22 people were arrested in the drug and smuggling ring
culminating a 3-month in-vestigation.
(SFC, 10/3/97, p.A19)
1997 Oct 2, Latvian violinist
Gidon Kremer led his Astor Quartet in a homage to Astor Piaz-zolla at
the Herbst Theater in Berkeley, Ca.
(SFC, 10/4/97, p.E1)
1997 Oct 20, A teenage girl was
shot and killed and another wounded in Oakland while they sat in a van
parked outside McClymonds High School. Three men wearing ski masks
reported to have done the shooting.
(SFC,10/21/97, p.A21)
1997 Oct 24, The "Green and Blue"
ballet by Bill T. Jones had its US premiere in Berkeley’s Zellerbach
Hall by the Lyon Opera Ballet of France.
(SFC,10/27/97, p.D3)
1997 Oct 29, Yaka the killer whale
died at Marine World / Africa USA in Vallejo at the age of 32 after
performing for 27 years. The body was stripped and rendered and the
bones were bur-ied without a permit at the Coyote Point Museum in San
Mateo.
(SFC,11/15/97, p.A18)
1997 Nov 17, Tyler, the 18
month-old son of Gina Barnett (25) and James Nivette (54) was found
abandoned in San Bruno. The next day Gina’s body was found in Folsom.
James Nivettte was the prime suspect and was thought to have fled the
country. He was arrested in France on Nov 20.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A1)(SFC,11/21/97, p.1)
1997 Nov 18, The Oakland City
Council voted 6-3 to give themselves a pay raise from $37,000 to
$60,000.
(SFC,11/19/97, p.A19)
1997 Nov 23, In Palo Alto the
sculpture "Body of Urban Myth" by Brian Goggin was unveiled at a new
plaza on Sheridan Ave. It depicted a Greek goddess holding a
front-loading washing machine over her head with water pouring from the
mouth of the machine.
(SFC,11/25/97, p.A16)
1997 Nov 24, Thomas Franklin
Wheelock (20) murdered his Armored Transport partner, Rod-rigo
Cortez(30), and escaping with $300,000. Most of the money was found in
a Sacramento motel. Wheelock was pronounced guilty in 2001 and
sentenced to life in prison.
(SFC,11/26/97, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A16)(SFC,
9/21/01, p.D6)
1997 Nov 27, Thomas Wheelock was
arrested in Utah. $30,000 was found in his car along with 2 handguns.
(SFC,11/28/97, p.A1)(SFC, 11/29/97, p.A10)
1997 Nov, In Freemont the Beat, a
no-alcohol, no smoking club, opened at 37323 Fremont Blvd. for the
18-23 crowd. A shooting there on Dec 18 injured 7 people.
(SFC,12/19/97, p.A26)
1997 Dec 1, The new San Mateo
Bridgepoint Shopping Center was rising fast to replace the old Fashion
Island Shopping Center that opened in the early 1980s.
(SFC, 12/1/97, p.A19)
1997 Dec 4, The National
Basketball Association suspended All-Star Latrell Sprewell of the
Golden State Warriors for one year for choking and threatening to kill
his coach, P.J. Carle-simo, three days earlier. An arbitrator later
reduced the suspension and reinstated Sprewell to the Warriors, which
had terminated his contract.
(AP, 12/4/98)
1997 Dec 17, Federal and state
governments announced that $100 million would be spent to restore the
ecology of the SF Bay and the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta.
(SFC,12/18/97, p.A18)
1997 Dec 17, Robert and Michael
Hartmann, twin police officers, stage a burglary at Robert’s home in
Danville and then submitted false insurance claims for $40,000 worth of
items. They were convicted for insurance fraud in 1999.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.A24)
1997 Dec 19, Trent Davis, a former
model and exotic dancer from San Mateo, forced a Stan-ford woman into
his home and attempted to force sex with threats of murder after she
fell asleep on his couch. Soon thereafter he was featured in Playgirl
Magazine. In 1998 Davis’ son and daughter (ages 9&10) testified for
the prosecution. Davis was sentenced to 27 ¾ years in
prison.
(SFC, 8/21/98, p.A21)(People vs. Trent Davis)
1997 Dec 23, The bottom torso of
Catherine Theresa Massaro (48) was found on the Bay shoreline off Menlo
Park. Her upper body was found earlier on the Bay shoreline of the
Coyote Point Rec. Area.
(SFC,12/25/97, p.A22)
1997 The $1.2 billion, 8-mile BART
route between Colma and the SF Airport broke ground with completion set
for 2001. It was to pass through 7 cemeteries in Colma.
(SFC, 1/27/98, p.A20)
1997 In California a San Mateo
County Superior Court judge dismissed a lawsuit filed by 195 residents
and former residents of Daly City’s Midway Village, who claimed they
deserved com-pensation from PG&E and the county housing department.
The court said plaintiffs had not es-tablished that exposure to toxic
waste had caused their illnesses.
(SFC, 3/2/09, p.B5)
1997 Several areas of the
5,000-acre Mare Island were converted to a film studio for the shooting
of the film "Sphere" by Barry Levinson. The old Navy shipyard had
produced 513 ships and was being closed down.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.E1)
1997 The 1st Sand Hill Challenge,
a soapbox derby in Silicon Valley, was originated by Jamis MacNiven,
owner of Buck’s in Woodside.
(SFC, 9/22/98, p.A16)
1997 California proclaimed San
Leandro the state's official sausage capital.
(SFEC, 9/26/99, p.E1)
1997 Michael Rosen, a Marin
financial advisor was arrested for swindling over $7 million for 122
victims. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison in 1998 and ordered to
pay $6.5 million in restitution to his victims.
(SFC, 4/16/98, p.B4)
1997 In California Dennis
Volarvich, former Los Altos police officer, killed himself after being
cornered by police in Fremont after committing a bank robbery.
(SFC, 11/19/05, p.B3)
1998 Jan 1, State operated Bay
Area bridge tolls began charging $2, up from $1.
(SFC,12/26/97, p.A12)
1998 Jan 1, It was reported that
the Bay Area was now home to 6.6 million people.
(SFC, 1/1/98, p.A21)
1998 Jan 4, Four Vallejo residents
were injured by a bomb disguised as a batch of holiday goodies left a
front porch.
(SFC, 1/6/98, p.A14)
1998 Jan 5, It was reported that
there were 71,500 homeless people in the Bay Area. 18-27,000 were in
Alameda County which had 834 shelter beds.
(SFC, 1/5/98, p.A8)
1998 Jan 8, Larry Dixon (41)
stabbed to death his wife, Debra Gaines Dixon (41) in East Palo Alto.
Dixon was convicted of first degree murder in 1999 and was sentenced to
57 years-to-life in prison.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.A18)(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A21)
1998 Jan 17, In Palo Alto a
teenage girl (15) was raped at a party by 3 men and 2 youths. The 3 men
pleaded guilty in 1999. 8 other suspects were arrested for harassing
her. In 1999 the 3 men, Peter Mark Herndon Jr. (19), Satya Elan Pasmore
(17) and Shaun Dennis Harris (24) were each sentenced to 6 years in
prison.
(SFC, 1/27/99, p.A13)(SFC, 5/8/99, p.A19)
1998 Jan 21, Tiffany Boyce (21)
was reported missing in Oakland. 4 weeks later her body was found
buried in pieces behind the laundry shed of her ex-boyfriend Carlos
Sebastian Smith (31).
(SFC, 2/19/98, p.A14)
1998 Jan 23, Former Oakland Mayor,
Lionel Wilson, died at age 82. He was the first black mayor of Oakland
and served 3-terms (1977-1990).
(SFC, 1/29/98, p.A1,13)
1998 Jan 29, A judge recommended
to fine BART director Margaret Pryor of Oakland for vio-lating campaign
finance laws.
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A17)
1998 Jan 31, The last day of the
415 area code for most of the SF Peninsula. The new 605 area code,
which went into effect last Aug 2, was effective after the 6-month
grace period ended.
(SFC, 1/30/98, p.A19)
1998 Feb 4, In Oakland police
officer Marcus Midyett (45) shot and killed Michael Moore (23)
following a foot chase. Moore was shot in the back and a wrongful death
suit was filed in 1999.
(SFC, 9/29/99, p.A16)
1998 Feb 17, An explosion in
Pinole at 2101 San Pablo occurred when a gas line was rup-tured by an
EBMUD crew. City offices were destroyed as well as the Second Fiddle
Thrift Shop. Only 4 people suffered minor injuries.
(SFC, 2/18/98, p.A11)
1998 Feb 27, Sharon "Mama" O’Shea,
Berkeley talk show host, died. She was known for her battle cry:
"shoutin’ out and fightin’ back."
(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A17)
1998 Feb, Damage from flooding
along San Francisquito Creek in Santa Clara was later es-timated at $28
million.
(SFC, 5/15/99, p.A17)
1998 Mar 1, Latrell Sprewell,
professional basketball player, was charged with reckless driving
following an accident on I-680 that overturned Irma Feliciano's car 3
times. In 1999 damages of $104,940 were awarded to Feliciano (54) and
passenger Arnulfo Perlas (55).
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.A17)
1998 Mar 2, Sharon Leuenberger
(59) of Hillsborough was reported missing. Her body was found the next
day in a stolen cleaning service van in the SF Mission district with
evidence of an attempt to burn the insides. Cirio Valencia-Cuara (21),
the prime suspect of the murder, was believed to have fled to Mexico.
Valencia returned to SF and confessed to the kidnap and slay-ing Mar
14, and implicated two other people in the crime. Valencia’s trial
began in 2002 and he was convicted May 13.
(SFC, 3/6/98, p.A1)(SFC, 3/8/98, A1)(SFEC, 3/15/98,
p.A1)(SFC, 4/15/02, p.B1)(SFC, 5/14/02, p.A17)
1998 Mar 9, In Hayward a shooting
erupted at Manzella’s Seafood Loft where 300 people had gathered for
the release of a new album by the Delinquents, an Oakland rap group.
Davon Johnson (18) was killed and another man was wounded.
(SFC, 3/10/98, p.A14)
1998 Mar 12, Racial tensions
boiled over for the 3rd straight day at Hayward High School and 8
students were arrested.
(SFC, 3/13/98, p.A22)
1998 Mar 23, In Richmond a
chemical plant worker returned from a job suspension and gunned down 2
supervisors and then killed himself.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 23, In Daly City Megan
Hogg (25) was arrested for killing her 3 daughters, aged 2-7, on Higate
Drive. Hogg pleaded no contest to 3 counts of first-degree murder and
was to 25 years to life in prison in 1999.
(SFC, 3/24/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/25/99, p.A18)
1998 Mar 24, The Oakland City
Council voted to adopt a Jobs and Living Wage Ordnance that mandated
businesses contracting with the city to pay workers at least $8 an hour
with benefits or $9.25 without benefits. It was the 17th city
nationwide to adopt such an ordnance.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A21)
1998 Mar 24, In Lafayette Janet
Daher (46) was found murdered in her Rose Lane home. In June SF police
arrested a suspect who was found with her jewelry and led police to two
other suspects. Joseph Andrew Perez Jr. (26) was identified as the main
player in the murder. Maury O’Brien (18) of Fairfield was the 2nd
defendant and Lee Snyder (17) was a 3rd suspect. Perez was convicted in
2001.
(SFC, 3/26/98, p.A21)(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A1)(SFC,
6/10/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A22)(SFC, 6/16/98, p.A16)(SFC, 10/17/01,
p.A14)
1998 Mar 29, The homes of
Fremont’s police chief and former police chief were targeted by
firebombs. Two pipe bombs were found on Corte del Sol. In 1999 police
arrested Joel Blach (53), a former Chicago police evidence technician,
for attempted murder, arson and explosives possession. Blach was
sentenced 37 years to life in 2001.
(SFC, 3/30/98, p.A1)(SFC, 3/31/98, p.A1)(SFC,
10/6/99, p.A1)(SFC, 9/5/01, p.A13)
1998 Mar 30, A pipe bomb was found
in Fremont in the crawl space of a house under con-struction on Vista
del Sol.
(SFC, 3/31/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar 31, Another pipe bomb was
found at a water tank in the Fremont Vista del Sol neighborhood.
(SFC, 4/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Mar, Rudy Jauregui robbed and
beat up Arkady Demidoff near Redwood City. Demidoff died 3 days later
of a heart attack. In 1999 Jauregui (35) pleaded no contest to robbery
and in-flicting bodily injury on a person over 70.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A14)
1998 Apr 10, In San Leandro a
female Brink’s armored car guard was shot in the face in a robbery at
the Walgreen’s drugstore at 15500 Washington.
(SFC, 4/11/98, p.A11)
1998 Apr 11, The New African
Savannah, a $2.3 million exhibit, was set to open at the Know-land Park
Zoo.
(SFEC, 4/6/98, p.A17)
1998 Apr 21-28, Mike Kennedy (20)
dangled from the top of the Campanile at UC Berkeley to protests for
animal rights.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A16)
1998 Apr 24, Robert Berdahl (61)
was inaugurated as the chancellor of UC Berkeley.
(SFC, 4/25/98, p.A13)
1998 Apr 24, In Fremont Dan Mackay
(42) killed his wife Debby Mackay (38) and attempted to dump her body
in the Santa Cruz mountains when he was arrested by a CHP officer who
saw him along the road and found blood in his truck. Mackay was
convicted of manslaughter in 2000 and sentenced to 7 years in prison.
(SFC, 4/7/00, p.A21)(SFC, 7/22/00, p.A21)
1998 Apr 25, In Millbrae, Ca.,
motorcycle Patrolman David Chetcuti (43) was shot and killed by Marvin
Patrick Sullivan (43) during a routine traffic stop. Sullivan, a
paranoid schizophrenic, was found to be carrying a cache of pipe bombs
and rifles. Sullivan was later found to be in-competent to stand trial.
(SFEC, 4/26/98, p.A1)(SFC, 7/23/02, p.A1)
1998 Apr 28, In Redwood City
construction began on a $24 million office building to house county
services.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.C14)
1998 Apr 28, Don Fisher, founder
of the Gap, pledged $25 million to bring the private Edison Project
company to run more than a dozen Bay Area schools.
(SFC, 4/29/98, p.A15)
1998 Apr, Melville Martin,
collector of antique furniture, died. He left his extensive collection
to the Filoli Estate.
(Ind, 12/26/98, p.5A)
1998 May 4, A South Bay tornado
hit Sunnyvale and Los Altos. The Sunnyvale Congrega-tional Church UCC
and about a dozen houses were damaged.
(SFC, 6/20/98, p.A15)
1998 May 4, Police in Fremont
searched the home of Rodney Blach, as a suspect in the re-cent
bombings, in Fremont and carted away numerous items. Blach, a former
Chicago police evidence technician, sued Fremont in 1999 alleging that
police seized material that he was us-ing for a TV program to expose
local corruption. On Sept 16 police searched Blach's home in San Diego
and took items away.
(SFC, 5/6/99, p.A22)
1998 May 5, Kerry Spooner-Dean
(30), a pediatrician, was killed in her home in Oakland’s Upper
Rockridge neighborhood. Jerrol Glen Woods (50), a carpet-cleaner and
former convict, was arrested May 15 for the murder.
(SFC, 5/16/98, p.A1)
1998 May 19, Knight Ridder
announced the move of its headquarters from Miami to the Bay Area.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1998 May 26, Alameda was awarded
ownership of the 900-foot-long aircraft carrier Hornet by the Navy. It
planned a museum to be docked at the closed Alameda Naval Air Station.
(SFC, 5/27/98, p.A16)
1998 May, A 14-year-old boy was
attacked by two other teenagers in Foster City. One at-tacker hit the
boy in the head with a baseball bat. The 2 attackers were found guilty
of assault with a deadly weapon in Jun.
(SFC, 6/13/98, p.A22)
1998 Jun 2, Jerry Brown (60) won
the election for Mayor of Oakland.
(SFC, 6/3/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 5, The Hiller Aviation
Museum in San Carlos opened.
(SFC, 6/5/98, p.A19)
1998 Jun 6, In Antioch Larry
Kiepert (13) was shot and killed by a bullet wound to the head as he
played basketball. The shot was accidentally fired by an 11-year-old
neighbor, Joshua, who was playing with his father’s hunting rifle. It
was later reported that the shooting was intentional. Joshua was
convicted of involuntary manslaughter. Joshua was sentenced to 14 years
in a group home.
(SFC, 6/9/98, p.A20)(SFC, 6/11/98, p.A1)\(SFC,
8/11/98, p.A1)(SFC, 10/17/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 17, The FCC shut down
Free Radio Berkeley that was run by Stephen Dunifer and others. The
station began broadcasting in 1993 with Sunday transmissions from a
hidden loca-tion in the Berkeley Hills. He began broadcasting from an
old bathroom in a communal house on Alcatraz Ave. on the North Oakland
border.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.A27)(SFEC, 7/26/98, p.D4)
1998 Jun 17, A shooting on I-80 in
Richmond left 1 person dead and one fatally wounded in one car. The
shooter was a passenger in another car and escaped. Carl Lejohn Hopkins
(24) and Brandysha Smith (16) were killed. Hopkins had a past record of
criminal violations.
(SFC, 6/18/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/19/98, p.A21)
1998 Jun 22, Louise M. Davies
(98), SF benefactor, died in Portola Valley. Her husband was Ralph K.
Davies (d.1971), an oil millionaire, for whom the medical center is
named.
(SFC, 6/23/98, p.A1)(SFC, 6/14/05, p.E8)
1998 Jun 23, It was reported that
about two-thirds of the parking meters in Berkeley had been beheaded or
disabled or vandalized since last fall.
(WSJ, 6/23/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 24, A regional
transportation board approved a $1.346 billion, single-tower
suspen-sion span to replace the eastern half of the Bay Bridge.
(SFC, 6/25/98, p.A1)
1998 Jun 25, In Oakland the new,
22-story, Elihu M. Harris State Building at 1515 Clay St. was dedicated.
(SFC, 6/26/98, p.A21)
1997 Jun 27, The Lucky Chances
card room in Colma opened. The establishment predicted $2.7 million
annually for Colma and promised a $50,000 contribution to a scholarship
fund for Colma residents.
(Ind, 12/29/98, p.9A)
1998 Jul 2, The Oakland Youth
Orchestra performed at the Gran Teatro de la Habana in Cuba. The group
had already performed in Mexico City, Toluca and Cuernavaca.
(SFC, 7/11/98, p.B6)
1998 Jul 2, Gunfire broke out on
Yerba Buena Island as police captured Sergai Taio Daigre (20),
suspected in the Jun 26 murder of Andrew Loomis (55) in Texas. Daigre
shot himself in the head but survived. Traffic on the Bay Bridge was
shut down for some 3 hours, except for one lane.
(SFC, 7/3/98, p.A1,19)
1998 Jul 4, Gunfire broke out at
the Alameda County Fairgrounds prior to the scheduled fire-works, which
were cancelled. Nine people were hospitalized with wounds and as many
as 7 others were injured. One suspect was arrested. In 2000 Jamai
Desmond Johnson (24) was convicted in the shooting. In 2000 he was
sentenced to over 30 years in prison.
(SFEC, 7/5/98, p.A1)(SFC, 3/21/00, p.A23)(SFC,
6/10/00, p.A19)
1998 Jul 6, The Oakland city
Council approved a policy allowing medical marijuana users to keep on
hand 1 1/2 pounds of marijuana, 24 times the amount allowed by state
law.
(SFC, 7/9/98, p.A17)
1998 Jul 7, The San Jose Roman
Catholic Diocese planned to close a deal on the sale of its St. Joseph
Seminary land to a developer. A quarter of the 212 acres were planned
for residen-tial use, a small section for open space and 138 acres was
to be given to the county to enlarge the Rancho San Antonio County Park.
(SFC, 7/8/98, p.A16)
1998 Jul 10, In Antioch Carlos
Ramirez broke into the home of his ex girlfriend, Cami Vi-ramontes,
shot and wounded her father, and then barricaded himself and his 2
children inside the house. Ramirez was believed to be a member of the
Norteno gang and to have killed Martin Moya (17) of Antioch in Nov.
1995. Ramirez killed himself and his two daughters after a 42 hour
standoff.
(SFEC, 7/12/98, p.A12)(SFC, 7/13/98, p.A1)(SFC,
5/3/99, p.A19)
1998 Jul 13, A man responding to a
"roommate wanted" advertisement raped and robbed a woman in Tiburon.
Frederick Laird (38) was arrested 5 days later in Laguna Beach after
being traced there using a stolen cell phone.
(SFC, 7/18/98, p.A15)
1998 Jul 21, A freighter carrying
spent nuclear rods was scheduled to travel through SF Bay on route to
Idaho.
(SFC, 7/18/98, p.A15)
1998 Jul 21, The Nature Group
announced that it purchased 2 ranches east of Mt. Hamilton for $19
million. The Romero Ranch and the Simon Newman Ranch covered 61,000
acres and were to be preserved for open space.
(SFC, 7/22/98, p.A18)
1998 Jul 30, Teamster represented
garbage collectors went on strike in Contra Costa, Solano and Alameda
counties. Warm weather made it smelly after 3 days.
(SFEC, 8/2/98, p.D8)
1998 Jul 31, At Marine World a
Bengal tiger mauled a woman from San Jose, Jaunell Waldo (45), during a
photo shoot.
(SFC, 8/1/98, p.A1)
1998 Jul, The new DeVry Institute
of Technology was scheduled to open in Fremont.
(SFEC, 3/15/98, p.W20)
1998 Aug 3, Knight Ridder bought
the Hills Newspaper Group chain of weekly papers in the East Bay.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1998 Aug 4, Temperatures hit
record highs in the Bay Area.
(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A11)
1998 Aug 4, Spenger’s Fish Grotto
in Berkeley announced that it would cease operations on Sep. 30. On Sep
28 it was announced that a new operator was found for the restaurant.
In 1999 the McCormick & Schmick firm of Portland planned to reopen
the restaurant under a 15-year lease.
(SFC, 8/5/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/29/98, p.A13)(SFC,
4/10/99, p.A15)
1998 Aug 13, Oakland declared a
medical marijuana club a city agency.
(SFC, 8/14/98, p.A1)
1998 Aug 20, Garbage workers
approved a new contract following a 22 day-strike against
Browning-Ferris. They were scheduled to return to work Aug 24. They won
a 12% raise over 4 years. Union leaders abandoned mandatory overtime
limits and amnesty for 15 workers fired during the strike.
(SFC, 8/22/98, p.A16)
1998 Aug 21, In Oakland, Ca., Troy
Barnes robbed a Wells Fargo Bank on Fruitvale Ave. and was caught by
police, who fired 51 shots at him. A videotape showed officers kicking
him in the groin. In 2004 Oakland agreed to pay Barnes $15,000 to
settle a suit over police misconduct.
(SFC, 10/7/04, p.B7)
1998 Aug 25, Federal racketeering
charges were dropped against Anthony "Ant" Flowers of Oakland due to
inappropriate comments made by a US attorney to a Chronicle reporter in
the 1996 trial.
(SFC, 8/26/98, p.A14)
1998 Aug 28, The Motor Vessel Del
Norte made a ceremonial ride on the Bay. The $7.8 mil-lion, 325
passenger ship was scheduled to begin operations Sep 8.
(SFC, 8/28/98, p.A16)
1998 Aug 28, In Fremont four men
robbed Wintec Industries, a chip manufacturer, and killed Hsu-Pin Tsai.
They were soon arrested.
(SFEC, 8/28/98, p.C2)
1998 Sep 3, A US postage stamp
featured the Golden Gate Bridge for the first time as part of a sheet
with 14 other stamps.
(SFC, 9/3/98, p.A19)
1998 Sep 5, The Treasure Island
Blues & Art on the Bay Festival drew 15,000 people on its 1st day.
Two-thirds of the crowd arrived by public transit.
(SFEC, 9/6/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 10, Bicyclists pedaled
across the Bay Bridge from the East in morning traffic to pro-test the
lack of a bike lane on the new proposed bridge. 17 were arrested for
tying up traffic.
(SFC, 9/11/98, p.A17)
1998 Sep 20, In Palo Alto, Ca.,
the 2nd annual Sand Hill Challenge, a soapbox derby for the Peninsula
Community Foundation, was held. The world’s largest accordion band was
scheduled to set a Guinness record. The band of over 500 played "Lady
of Spain."
(SFC, 9/19/98, p.A18)(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A21)
1998 Sep 22, Valdimir Pokhilko
(44), Elena Fedotova (38) and her son Peter (12) were found stabbed to
death in Palo Alto. Pokhilko was the president of AnimaTek Int’l., a
3-D graphics software company founded in Moscow by the inventor of
Tetris and other partners. Pokhilko bludgeoned and stabbed to death his
wife and son and slit his own throat. He was reportedly overcome by his
financial situation.
(SFC, 9/21/98, p.A1)(SFC, 9/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Sep 27, In Berkeley the 3rd
annual "How Berkeley Can You Be?" parade was held.
(SFC, 9/28/98, p.A13)
1998 Oct 1, Some 2,500 high school
students rallied in San Leandro demanding more state money for schools
rather than jails.
(SFC, 10/2/98, p.A21)
1998 Oct 19, The Altamont Commuter
Express (ACE) was scheduled to begin carrying pas-sengers from the
Central Valley to San Jose.
(SFC, 10/12/98, p.A1)
1998 Oct 23, The Oakland A’s
baseball team was put up for sale by owners Steve Schott and Ken
Hoffman.
(SFC, 10/24/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 3, In Oakland the voters
approved making the mayor, i.e. Jerry Brown, the city’s chief
executive. This function replaced the appointed manager.
(SFC, 11/4/98, p.A19)
1998 Nov 6, Lisa Norrell (15) left
a party in Antioch and was not seen alive again. Two Antioch men, Garry
Lee Walton and David Michael Heneby, were arrested Jan 6. Both men were
re-leased Jan 7 for lack of evidence.
(SFC, 11/16/98, p.A6)(SFC, 1/7/99, p.A1)(SFC,
1/8/99, p.A1)
1998 Nov 14, The body of Lisa
Norrell was found at the Nav-Land landscaping business.
(SFC, 11/16/98, p.A1,6)
1998 Nov 21, A Cessna 210 airplane
hit Castlemont High School in Oakland. One passenger was killed and the
pilot was critically injured.
(SFEC, 11/22/98, p.A1)
1998 Nov 25, Marin radio station
KKHI at 100.7 FM announced that it would drop its classical format as
of Dec. 4, and move to an adult standards format due to financial
losses. That left KDFC at 102.1 FM as the only classical station in the
Bay Area.
(SFC, 11/26/98, p.C1)
1998 Nov, A 25-screen AMC 1000
film complex, the largest in Ca., was scheduled to open in Union City.
(SFC, 1/5/98, p.E1)
1998 Janet Lewis, author, died in
Palo Alto at age 99.
(SFEC, 12/6/98, p.C14)
1998 Dec 1, John Sipp (17) was
murdered in Oakland while fixing his car on 46th St. Kenneth Singleton,
who had just lost a fistfight to Sipp, was convicted and sentenced to
50 years to life.
(SFC, 8/3/04, p.B5)
1998 Dec 3, The body of Regina
Lovings (39) was found in the cellar of the home of Derick Lovings
(41), her brother. She had been missing for 2 weeks. Regina had tried
to kick her un-employed brother out of their home.
(SFC, 12/4/98, p.A21)(SFC, 12/5/98, p.A17)
1998 Dec 3, BART directors
approved raises for top managers. Gen’l. Manager Thomas E. Margro’s
salary was to increase for the next 4 years from $163,500 to $218,702
by year 2003.
(SFC, 12/4/98, p.A22)
1998 Dec 4, A 4.1 earthquake was
centered on the Hayward fault in El Cerrito.
(SFC, 12/5/98, p.A17)
1998 Dec 5, A freak tornado hit
Richmond between 16th and 23rd streets along Potrero Ave. It was
guessed to be an F-0 or F-1 on the Fuhita Scale.
(SFC, 12/7/98, p.A21,23)
1998 Dec 5, The body of Jessica
Frederick, an alleged prostitute, was found in Pittsburg.
(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A24)
1998 Dec 8, In the SF Bay Area an
electrician’s error in San Mateo caused a power outage along the
northern peninsula that lasted some 6 hours.
(SFC, 12/9/98, p.A1)
1998 Dec 11, In Dublin a botched
robbery at the Outback Steakhouse left Deputy John Paul Monego (33)
dead. Three suspects were arrested. Ruben Eliseo Vasquez (23), Miguel
Galindo Sifuentes (19) and Hai Minh (19) were held for the murder. In
2003 a jury found all 3 men guilty of murder.
(SFEC, 12/13/98, p.C1)(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A21)(SFC,
2/4/03, p.A17)
1998 Dec 13, A farmer’s market and
swap meet began on Treasure Island with a $5 parking fee. Some 75
exhibitors and a few thousand customers showed up.
(SFC, 12/2/98, p.A1)(SFC, 12/14/98, p.A17)
1998 Dec 15, The body of a woman
was found off in the 1300 block off California Ave near Loveridge Road
in Pittsburg.
(SFC, 12/15/98, p.A24)
1998 Dec 17, In West Berkeley Rick
De Vecchi (37) was deliberately run over by a man in an old Cadillac.
In 2000 the case was broadcast on the TV show "America's Most Wanted."
(SFC, 3/22/00, p.A19)
1998 Dec 20, Snow flakes fell in
SF and low temperature records were made around the Bay with 40 degrees
in SF and 35 in Fremont.
(SFC, 12/21/98, p.A1)
1998 Dec 25, In Santa Clara a fire
at 683 Malarin Ave. killed Todd Hirsch (34), his son Greg-ory (9), and
daughter Amanda (7). Kayliann (10) died 3 days later.
(SFC, 12/26/98, p.A1)(SFC, 12/30/98, p.A11)
1998 Dec 26, In Belmont a Safeway
food clerk, Ryan Williams (25) of Union City shot and killed co-worker,
Luis Chiong (29) of Castro Valley.
(SFEC, 12/27/98, p.A1)
1998 Dec 28, In the SF Bay Area
fog closed all the major airports and stranded thousands of travelers.
(WSJ, 12/29/98, p.A1)
1998 Oakland police began its
"Operation Beat Feet" in which cars used in drug and prostitu-tion
offenses were seized.
(SSFC, 5/20/01, p.A24)
1998 Paul Rice founded
TransFairUSA in Oakland, Ca., in an effort to assist coffee growers in
Nicaragua. The organization certified products as fair trade. Importers
and retailers paid a premium to farmers committed to producing goods in
accordance with standards that guarantee worker rights and
environmental sustainability.
(SFC, 11/20/08, p.A14)
1999 Jan 1, Passes for BART were
to become available over the Internet at the bart.gov site.
(SFC, 12/4/98, p.A22)
1999 Jan 2, Gov. Wilson appointed
former Sen. Quentin Kopp as judge in the San Mateo County Superior
Court.
(SFEC, 1/3/99, p.D1)
1999 Jan 4, Jerry Brown (60) took
the oath of office in Oakland.
(SFC, 1/5/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 8, Near Pittsburg the
body of a prostitute was found in a ditch outside the city limits.
Valerie Shultz, a known prostitute was found on West 10th St.
(SFC, 1/9/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A13)
1999 Jan 10, James Williams Jr.,
an Oakland police officer, was shot and killed by a sniper bullet on
I-580 near the 38th Avenue overpass. Oakland firefighter Tracy Toomey
died while fighting a blaze a 3052 Broadway. Chad Rhodes (19) of
Oakland was later arrested for shoot-ing Williams.
(SFC, 1/11/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/12/99, p.A1,13)
1999 Jan 11, Miguel Rublo (21),
Geronimo Guevara (31) and a 17-year-old pulled a man out of his car in
San Jose and stabbed him 13 times with screwdrivers and stole his car.
They were arrested the next day.
(SFC, 1/14/99, p.C3)
1999 Jan 12, Rose Jacobs Gibson
(51) became the first African American member of the Board of
Supervisors for Redwood City.
(SFC, 1/13/99, p.C2)
1999 Jan 16, Savannah Rodrigues
(13) was shot to death by a female assailant in Hayward. Ronnie Lee
Choate (21) of Hayward was arrested in connection with the crime on Feb
12 and released Feb 15 for lack of evidence.
(SFC, 1/18/99, p.A15)(SFEC, 2/14/99, p.C7)
1999 Jan 21, In Pacifica a bomb
blast in a parked minivan on Monterey Road killed LaLonna Marie Duffy
(46).
(SFC, 1/22/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 22, Charles Brown, blues
legend, died in Oakland at age 78.
(SFC, 1/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Jan 23, Munther Salman (42),
a SSF cab driver, was found shot dead in his crashed cab in North
Richmond.
(SFC, 1/26/99, p.A24)
1999 Jan, Transfer of the Naval
Base at Alameda to the city of Alameda was expected to be completed
after a 2-year delay.
(SFEC, 2/8/98, p.D4)
1999 Feb 3, Marlene Marie Bueno
(17) was last seen when she her home in San Jose. Her severely burned
body was found the next day, but was not identified for a week. Gary
Guerrero Jr. (19) And his father Gary Guerrero Sr. (38) were arrested
Feb 11 in connection with her slay-ing.
(SFC, 2/17/99, p.A13)
1999 Feb 4, Mayor Jerry Brown
undraped a Naropa sign over the 2100 block of Broadway in Oakland. The
Colorado-based Naropa Institute planned to open a branch in Oakland. It
was named after a 10th century mystic and was founded by
Chinese-Tibetan guru Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Beat poets Anne Waldman
and Allen Ginsberg created a writing program at Naropa.
(SFC, 2/5/99, p.A21)
1999 Feb 4, Native Olympia oysters
were reported to be making a comeback in the Bay.
(SFC, 2/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 6, The new San Mateo
County Historical Museum opened at 777 Hamilton St. in Redwood City
inside the old county courthouse. The old museum had been housed at the
Col-lege of San Mateo for 35 years.
(Ind, 2/2/99, p.5A)
1999 Feb 11, South SF council
members agreed to put a $20 million waste transfer plant on bay front
land at the end of East Grand.
(SFC, 2/12/99, p.A22)
1999 Feb 15, Mohammed Ali
strangled to death his girlfriend, Tracy Biletnikoff, at a San Mateo
drug treatment facility. In 2001 Ali was convicted and sentenced to
over 60 years in prison.
(SFC, 8/14/01, p.A13)
1999 Feb 16, The body of Tracy
Biletnikoff (20), daughter of football player star Fred Bilet-nikoff,
was found at Canada College. Her boyfriend, Mohammad Ali (23), was
arrested as he tried to cross Mexican border.
(SFC, 2/17/99, p.A1)
1999 Feb 23, An explosion ripped
through a tower at the Tosco refinery in Martinez and one worker,
Ricardo Emmanuel Enriquez (36), was killed and 4 critically injured. 2
of the injured workers, Ernie Pofahl (48) and Rollin Blue (35), died
Feb 24. Raynold Rodacker (49) died on Feb 25. Steve Duncan (48)
remained in critical condition. State regulators fined Tosco $810,000
for safety violation on Aug 4. Tosco agreed to pay almost $2 million in
a no-contest plea in 2000 that included $1 million for a county health
clinic at the former Los Medanos Hospi-tal in Pittsburg.
(SFC, 2/24/99, p.A1)(SFC, 2/25/99, p.A1,7)(SFC,
2/26/99, p.A19)(SFC, 8/5/99, p.A1)(SFC, 1/7/00, p.A1)
1999 Feb 27, In Oakland six men
escaped with over $100,000 in cash and jewelry. A Colom-bian ring was
suspected.
(SFC, 3/2/99, p.A15)
1999 Mar 2, Tosco CEO Thomas
O'Malley agreed to shut the plant near Martinez for an in-vestigation
and to pay some 700 workers full pay for at least 2 months.
(SFC, 3/3/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 6, The historic Black
Diamond Mines in the Antioch hills were scheduled to re-open for
visitors. Tickets: (925) 757-2620, (925) 676-0192.
(SFC, 3/4/99, p.A21)
1999 Mar 9, Stanford Univ.
received a $15 million grant from 2 Swedish foundations. The Knut and
Alice Wallenberg Foundation and the Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg
Foundation made the donations for the new Wallenberg Global Learning
Center.
(SFC, 3/10/99, p.A18)
1999 Mar 9, Richmond teacher Nancy
Peer was stabbed in her classroom by Paul Joe Gon-zales Jr., a parent
of one of her students. Peer returned to teach at Ford Elementary in
the Fall.
(SFC, 9/2/99, p.A222)
1999 Mar 10, Physicist Ian Barbour
(75) won the $1.24 million Templeton Prize for Progress in Religion. He
promised to donate $1 million to the Center for Theology and Natural
Sciences in Berkeley.
(SFC, 3/11/99, p.A2)
1999 Mar 15-18, Some 6,000 Marines
planned to participate in Urban Warrior, a military exer-cise, on the
shores of Oakland and Alameda.
(SFC, 2/5/99, p.A20)
1999 Mar 18, The 3rd annual
Webbies was held at the Herbst Theater under the direction of Tiffany
Schlain (28).
(SFC, 3/13/99, p.A17)
1999 Mar 19, The Richmond Memorial
Auditorium hosted the Rakkash Middle Eastern Dance, Music Festival, and
Convention. 2,000 belly dancers were expected to participate.
(SFC, 3/16/99, p.E1)
1999 Mar 25, A huge explosion
rocked the Chevron refinery in Richmond. 3 emergency re-sponse workers
were injured.
(SFC, 3/26/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 30, Audie Boch, Green
Party candidate, won a special election East Bay Assembly seat over
Elihu Harris.
(SFC, 3/31/99, p.A1)
1999 Mar 31, AT KPFA radio manager
Nicole Sawaya was fired "for cause." Staff members opposed the move and
an internal struggle developed. Sawaya's contract was not renewed.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.C1,3)(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A12)
1999 Apr 1, Local, state and
federal staged a predawn raid in the East Bay and arrested 18 men for
alleged manufacture and distribution of methamphetamine.
(SFC, 4/2/99, p.A19)
1999 Apr 6, The David and Lucille
Packard Foundation gave $5.25 million to the Peninsula Open Space Trust
to buy Santa Clara Valley ranch and other properties in San Mateo and
Santa Clara counties.
(SFC, 4/8/99, p.A19)
1999 Apr 9, At KPFA radio talk
show host Larry Bensky was fired for discussing internal mat-ters over
public airwaves.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, p.C1,3)
1999 Apr 13, The digital 3-D
opera, Monsters of Grace," by composer Philip Glass and direc-tor
Robert Wilson was scheduled to premier at UC Berkeley. The score was
set to English translation of love poems by the Sufi poet Rumi.
(SFEC, 4/11/99, DB p.13)
1999 Apr 23, A big rig collided
with 2 cars and a bus on 880 in Oakland and 28 people were injured.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A17)
1999 Apr 23, A light plane crashed
in Hayward and 2 passengers were killed.
(SFC, 4/24/99, p.A17)
1999 Apr 20, The state Senate
Transportation Committee passed a bill to establish a new Bay Area
Water Transit Authority. The goal was to get workers onto
high-speed ferries on the SF Bay within 5 years.
(SFC, 4/26/99, p.A17)
1999 Apr, A new 16-screen
multiplex was scheduled to open in Deer Valley Plaza in Antioch.
(SFC, 12/30/98, p.A13)
1999 May 3, In Hayward a truck
from Mack's Fish Hatchery in Fresno overturned and spilled 70,000
goldfish onto the roadway of eastbound Hwy 92.
(SFC, 5/4/99, p.A24)
1999 May 4, Police arrested 6
hunger strikers and dozens of supporters at UC Berkeley. Stu-dents had
spent 5 days encamped demanding more funding for the ethnic studies
program.
(SFC, 5/5/99, p.A16)
1999 May 6, The new $190 million
San Mateo-Hayward Bridge received final approval. Com-pletion of a 2nd
trestle section was scheduled for late 2002 and would not include a
bike lane.
(SFC, 5/7/99, p.A20)
1999 May 6, Wilfred Ussery, a
former member of the BART board of directors, was indicted by a federal
grand jury on charges of bribery, extortion and lying to the FBI.
(SFC, 5/7/99, p.A19)
1999 May 7, Hunger strikers at
Berkeley reached a tentative agreement over ethnic studies that
included 8 of 9 faculty positions and a multicultural student center.
(SFC, 5/8/99, p.A15)
1999 May 8, Juan Martinez (20) was
shot and killed in a drive-by shooting on Cortex St. in Hayward.
(SFC, 5/10/99, p.A22)
1999 May 10, Oakland and Alameda
County officials backed a group led by former A's execu-tive Andy
Dolich as the new owners of the Oakland Athletics.
(SFC, 5/11/99, p.A1)
1999 May 11, Mary Jane Brinton, a
SF philanthropist, granted UC Berkeley $1 million to sup-port the
graduate school of education.
(SFC, 5/12/99, p.C6)
1999 May 12, The SSF City Council
approved the construction of 135 new homes on San Bruno Mountain, but
turned down a proposal for 154 condominiums in the TerraBay phase II
project.
(Ind, 5/11/99, p.1A)
1999 May 13, Joy Artemis (37), a
computer instructor, was shot and killed outside a Wal-green's
drugstore in the Temescal neighborhood of North Oakland.
(SFC, 5/15/99, p.A15)
1999 May 13, Peter M. Torrente, a
Tiburon businessman, was murdered at his home. His body was found the
next day and his son, David Joseph Torrente (27), was arrested May 15
and charged with the stabbing murder of his father.
(SFC, 5/15/99, p.A1)(SFEC, 5/16/99, p.D2)
1999 May 14, Julie Christine Day
of Walnut Creek was last seen leaving the Bubble Lounge on Montgomery
St. [see May 20]
(SFC, 5/21/99, p.A15)
1999 May 16, In Los Gatos Larry
Lavell (41), recently released from San Quentin Prison, stabbed to
death Suzanne Maria Snyder (35), his estranged wife, and her boyfriend
Howard Stuart Beiderman (36). Lavell was soon apprehended but managed
to escape. Lavell was ar-rested May 18. Lavell pleaded guilty to murder
May 20.
(SFC, 5/18/99, p.A1,5)(SFC, 5/20/99, p.C16)(SFC,
5/21/99, p.A19)
1999 May 17, The EPA said the SF
Bay contains unsafe levels of dioxin, furans and the pesti-cides DDT,
dieldrin and chlordane.
(SFC, 5/18/99, p.A20)
1999 May 17, In Santa Clara police
discovered the body of Erin O'Leary Zavala (38), who was repeatedly
stabbed to death. SF police arrested Ismael Zavala, the husband of the
murdered woman, on May 18 after he accosted a 12-year-old girl.
(SFC, 5/20/99, p.A20)
1999 May 18, Gerald Lieberman,
former Stanford provost and a pioneer in the fields of statis-tics and
operations research, died of Lou Gehrig's disease at age 73. His books
included "In-troduction to Operations Research," written with Prof.
Frederick Hillier, and "Handbook of Indus-trial Statistics," written
with Albert Bowker, a former chancellor of UC Berkeley.
(SFC, 5/22/99, p.A24)
1999 May 20, Union carpenters at
SFO went on a wildcat walkout over a recent contract that gave them $27
an hour, the lowest of the craft workers at the site. A 1996 agreement
between SFO and the construction unions said that there would be no
strikes if only union companies were hired.
(SFC, 5/22/99, p.A20)
1999 May 20, The body of Julie
Christine Day (24) of Walnut Creek was found partially buried at a
construction site in China Basin, SF. Jehad Baqleh (31), a taxi driver,
was arrested for the murder and admitted that he robbed and had sex
with the victim.
(SFC, 5/21/99, p.A1)
1999 May 24, Paul Brest, the Law
School Dean of Stanford, was chosen to head the William and Flora
Hewlett Foundation based in Menlo Park.
(SFC, 5/24/99, p.A17)
1999 Jun 4, Prof. Ann Brown of UC
Berkeley, a pioneer in the field of metacognition, died at age 56.
(SFC, 6/12/99, p.A23)
1999 Jun 6, Two men and a boy from
Redwood City were killed when their van, carrying 13 people, blew a
tire on Highway 101 near the Russian River. Jose Baillon (12), Marvin
Bonilla (26) and Faustino Castaneda died when the van tumbled over 100
down an embankment fol-lowing a camping trip to Lake Mendocino.
(SFC, 6/8/99, p.A1)
1999 Jun 10, Gloria Bonilla (39)
was last seen at a Santa Clara pizza parlor. Ten days later police
searched a landfill for her body after Emilio Brotherton (28), a jailed
parolee and sex of-fender, admitted that he had dumped her body into a
dumpster. Her body was found June 23 at a Milpitas landfill.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.C8)(SFC, 6/21/99, p.A22)(SFC,
6/24/99, p.A18)
1999 Jun 12, In Oakland D'Ante
Bonds (18) was found shot to death near 96th and B streets. Separately
Danny Paige (43) was found mortally stabbed on the 800 block of 32nd St.
(SFC, 6/14/99, p.A24)
1999 Jun 12, In Walnut Creek
Lionel Figueroa Chavez (21) was stabbed to death on the 1200 block of
Newell Place. Louis Antonio Valladolid-Arreguin (25) was arrested in
connection with the stabbing. Salvador Velasco (24) was identified as
the man who stabbed Chavez. The inci-dent was blamed on a rude comment
by one man about another's wife.
(SFC, 6/14/99, p.A24)
1999 Jun 14, It was reported that
a $9.5 million agreement allowed the SF Int'l. Airport to re-store and
build wetlands at Bair Island east of Redwood City as part of the
runway expansion program. A $2.4 billion master plan required the
filling in of 14 acres of wetlands.
(SFC, 6/15/99, p.A20)
1999 Jun 15, Newt Gingrich, former
House Speaker, joined the Hoover Institution at Stanford as a
distinguished visiting fellow.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.A24)
1999 Jun 15, An ordnance in Albany
banning overnight camping on a former landfill on the East Bay shore
went into effect but was not endorsed because temporary housing was not
yet available. The landfill was scheduled to be turned into a public
park.
(SFC, 6/16/99, p.A17)
1999 Jun 16, The California High
Speed Railway Authority recommended that San Francisco and San Jose be
part of a $23.3 billion bullet train stretching from San Diego to
Sacramento. A link to Oakland was put on study.
(SFC, 6/17/99, p.A22)
1999 Jun 18, In Alameda the new
24,000-sq.-ft. Cityview Skatepark opened. It had first been proposed in
1996 during a youth conference.
(SFC, 6/19/99, p.A15)
1999 Jun 18, Peter Kirichenko, a
Ukrainian citizen, was arrested in Tiburon. He was wanted by Swiss
authorities for aiding former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko
in a money laundering scheme.
(SFEC, 6/20/99, p.C2)
1999 Jun 20, The Wings Over Moffet
Air Show was held at Moffet Field. The West Coast An-tique Fly-in and
Air Show moved in from its former location in Watsonville.
(SFC, 6/21/99, p.A16)
1999 Jun 22, In San Lorenzo Karen
Kent (48) was found by her husband beaten and stran-gled and shot to
death. Her son, Kenneth Kent Jr. (23), was missing and considered a
potential suspect. The son was found dead the next day in SF by an
apparently self-inflicted gunshot.
(SFC, 6/24/99, p.A18)(SFC, 6/25/99, p.A22)
1999 Jun 26, The Alameda County
Fair opened in Pleasanton. It was set to run through Jul 11.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.B4)
1999 Jun, In Menlo Park the former
Belle Haven Hotel was razed to make way for a $4.5 mil-lion 24-unit
complex named Haven Family House under the Shelter Network.
(SFC, 6/17/99, p.A18)
1999 Jun, A 35-acre section of
Treasure Island was scheduled to become a Job Corps train-ing center.
It was scheduled to have 780 beds for poor and disadvantaged students
from 16-24 years of age.
(SFC, 12/22/98, p.C8)
1999 Jul 2, The merger of Summit
Medical in Oakland and Alta Bates in Berkeley was ap-proved by the
Federal Trade Commission.
(SFC, 7/3/99, p.A16)
1999 Jul 3, In the East Bay a
squirrel short circuited a transformer bank and power was out for
38,000 people in 6 cities for about 75 minutes.
(SFEC, 7/4/99, p.B1)
1999 Jul 4, Jonique Williams (4)
of Oakland disappeared from a relative's pool party in Mo-desto. She
was found dead in the pool the next day. An autopsy later reported that
she died of asphyxiation.
(SFC, 8/4/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 5, Paul Gatson (22) and
Matthew Kozlowski (18) stabbed two teenager girls (18 & 15)
numerous times in the Palomares Canyon near Fremont. Kozlowski was soon
arrested. Gaston had just been released from San Quentin. Gatson was
arrested in SF on July 7. Gatson and Kozlowski were sentenced to life
in prison in 2000.
(SFC, 7/7/99, p.A16)(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A1)(SFC, 6/3/00,
p.A18)
1999 Jul 6, In Oakland longshore
workers halted work over staffing levels while union leaders negotiated
for a new contract. The walkout over safety issue lasted 2 days.
(SFC, 7/8/99, p.A15)(SFC, 7/9/99, p.A17)(WSJ,
7/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 13, At KPFA Radio Dennis
Bernstein of the Flashpoints newsmagazine was forcibly removed for
airing grievances against the Pacifica Foundation, the parent company.
53 station supporters were arrested and only taped programming was run
with all employees chained out.
(SFC, 7/14/99, p.A12)
1999 Jul 14, Hundreds of KPFA
supporters demonstrated in support of the local staff.
(SFC, 7/15/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 15, State legislators
called for a hearing on the conflict between KPFA and its parent
Pacifica Foundation led by Mary Frances Berry, who was also the
chairwoman of the US Com-mission on Civil Rights.
(SFC, 7/16/99, p.A1)(SFC, 7/17/99, p.A13)
1999 Jul 15, The first of a series
of bank robberies was committed in San Rafael by a man who escaped by
bicycle. Tracy Bittner (42), the "bicycle bandit," was caught in 2000.
(SFC, 2/11/00, p.A21)
1999 Jul 15, Gina Berriault,
Sausalito writer, died at age 73. Her 7 books included the short story
collection "Women in their Beds," "The Infinite Passion of
Expectations," and the novels "The Son" and "The Lights of Earth." Her
last book was "The Great Petrowski."
(SFC, 7/24/99, p.A21)(SFEM, 11/7/99, p.18)
1999 Jul 16, UCSF Stanford Health
Care managers agreed to a state audit.
(SFC, 7/17/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 17, Vincente Garcia (21)
was shot and killed on the Carquinez Bridge and a passen-ger was
critically wounded in a suspected incident of road rage.
(SFC, 7/19/99, p.A22)
1999 Jul 18, In Redwood City an
explosion and fire killed 4 residents at a condominium com-plex at 50
Horgan Ave. 12 condos were destroyed and 20 people were left homeless.
An au-topsy revealed a bullet wound to the head of one of the dead
males. It was later believed that Juan Escalante (44) rigged the blaze
to escape caring for his mother and mentally ill brother.
(SFC, 7/19/99, p.A15)(SFC, 7/20/99, p.A1)(SFC,
7/24/99, p.A16)
1999 Jul 23, Jaquita Mack (11) was
raped and strangled in Oakland’s Fruitvale district after she
disappeared following a bike ride. Her body was found the next day in
East Oakland, Ca. On Aug 8 police arrested Alex Demolle (24), a
neighbor on Fruitvale Ave. In 2007 Demolle was convicted of 1st degree
murder and was sentenced to death on Dec 14.
(SFC, 7/27/99, p.A13,15)(SFC, 8/9/99, p.A1)(SFC,
5/4/07, p.B5)(SFC, 12/15/07, p.B3)
1999 Jul 28, Pacifica Foundation
announced that it would reopen KPFA studios and allow employees to
resume broadcasting.
(SFC, 7/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Jul 29, Samuel Salinas (18)
and Jason Bowen (17) of Tracy, were found shot dead near Hayward Blvd
and Skyline Drive. In 2002 police arrested 3 suspects: Roneel Pilay
(19) and Mi-chael Ybarra (22) of Tracy, and Robel Fusum (20) of Oakland.
(SFC, 7/31/99, p.A18)(SFC, 5/15/02, p.A20)
1999 Jul 31, Some 10,000
supporters of KPFA radio marched in Berkeley and called for the return
of control to the community.
(SFEC, 8/1/99, p.D1)
1999 Jul, Catholic Family Radio
began broadcasting in the Bay Area. The national network was the
brainchild of Rev. Joseph Fessio of SF.
(SFC, 10/16/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 5, KPFA came back on the
air after a 23-day lockout and voiced outrage against its Pacifica
owners.
(SFC, 8/6/99, p.A19)
1999 Aug 6, The Hearst Corp.,
owner of the SF Examiner, announced that it was buying the SF Chronicle.
(SFC, 7/28/00, p.A19)
1999 Aug 7, The moth-balled troop
vessel Golden Bear arrived in Oakland with plans by artist Slobodan
Paich to convert it to a gallery, café and peace center.
(SFC, 8/7/99, p.A15)
1999 Aug 9, James William
Faasisila (13) became missing in Hayward. His body was found Aug 12 at
Huntwood and Newhall in a homeless encampment.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A15)
1999 Aug 11, Robert Thomas Jones,
a NASA aerodynamicist, died at age 89. He invented the swept-back wing
design for high-speed jet aircraft.
(SFC, 8/14/99, p.A21)
1999 Aug 17, A 5.0 earthquake was
centered near Bolinas.
(SFC, 8/18/99, p.A15)
1999 Aug 18, It was reported that
the Sempervirens fund would purchase the 160-acre Island Forest, a
ridgetop between Portola Redwoods State Park and Redtree Properties
Limited, for $800,000.
(SFC, 8/18/99, p.A16)
1999 Aug 22, Joshua Smurphat (12)
was killed when he fell from the Drop Zone "free-fall" tower at Great
America in Santa Clara.
(SFC, 8/23/99, p.A1)
1999 Aug 26, In North Oakland
Thomas Jones Hoaglin (16) was stabbed to death in an ar-gument over a
$4 marijuana deal.
(SFC, 9/4/99, p.A23)
1999 Aug 26, Three people were
shot and killed in Richmond. Two of the victims bullet riddled bodies
were found inside an idling car.
(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A22)
1999 Aug 25, In Antioch Fat Lai
(64) was shot and killed by a police officer after he was found
stabbing a woman at a house on DiMaggio Way.
(SFEC, 8/29/99, p.D4)
1999 cSep 1, The new City of
Franklin elementary school, a micro society magnet facility, opened in
Berkeley.
(SFC, 8/27/99, p.A19)
1999 Sep 4, In Hayward Marcus
Anthony Montgomery (17), beat a cabdriver, shot a theater stagehand,
stole a car and ran over and killed Evelyn Miller (88), the driver's
mother. He was later arrested in Oakland.
(SFEC, 9/5/99, p.A1)(SFC, 9/6/99, p.A1)
1999 Sep 8, The 3rd annual Bay
Area Arab Film Festival opened at the Fine Arts Cinema in Berkeley.
(SFC, 9/6/99, p.B1)
1999 Sep 14, Joel Beck,
cartoonist, died in Point Richmond at age 56. His books included
"Marching Marvin" and "Lenny of Loredo" a satire based on the life of
Lenny Bruce.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.A24)
1999 Sep 21, Deon Ferguson (29) of
Richmond was shot and killed while riding in a car on Chanslor Ave near
20th in Richmond. This marked Richmond's 27th homicide for the year.
(SFC, 9/22/99, p.B12)
1999 Sep 30, The Buck Institute in
Marin County, Ca., officially opened its doors, the first re-search
facility in the country to respond to the Institute of Medicine’s call
for research centers focused on aging and age-related diseases.
(www.buckinstitute.org/site/)
1999 Oct 2, Dr. M. Lawrence
Podolsky, a pediatric allergist and former mayor of Belmont, died at
age 78. He was the author of the book "Cures Out of Chaos," which
described acciden-tal discoveries of medical advances.
(SFC, 10/13/99, p.C2)
1999 Oct 4, The Menlo Park
Historical Assoc. voted against publishing a new history of Menlo Park
by Michael Svanevik and Shirley Burgett due to a controversy over
content.
(SFC, 10/6/99, p.A17)
1999 Oct 7, The 22nd Mill Valley
Film Festival began a scheduled 122 films. George Lucas gave the Film
Institute of Northern California, the Festival's sponsor, a $500,000
donation. The festival lasted to Oct 22.
(SFC, 9/15/99, p.B1)(SFC, 10/9/99, p.B1)
1999 Oct 10, Derrick White (30)
was shot numerous times and killed on the 9500 block of Sunnyside St.
in Oakland.
(SFC, 10/12/99, p.A20)
1999 Oct 19, Carrie Abramovitz,
sculptor and painter, died at age 86.
(SFC, 11/2/99, p.A26)
1999 Oct 25, In San Jose a police
helicopter crashed near Santa Clara Univ. and killed officer Desmond J.
Casey (38) and mechanic Herman Yee (25).
(SFC, 10/26/99, p.A1)(SFC, 10/27/99, p.A18)
1999 Oct 26, Stanford Univ.
announced that James H. Clark, co-founder of Netscape, had donated $150
million for biomedical engineering research.
(WSJ, 10/27/99, p.B4)
1999 Oct 27, In Oakland Deric West
(19) was gunned down at 65th Avenue and Arthur Street. He was Oakland's
50th homicide of the year.
(SFC, 10/28/99, p.A18)
1999 Oct 28, Stanford Pres.
Gerhard Casper called for an end to the Stanford-UCSF merger.
(SFC, 10/29/99, p.A1)
1999 Oct, Jon Hunt of Elk Grove,
Ca., won the Pumpkin contest at Half Moon Bay with a 991 pound gourd.
(Ind, 9/29/01, 5A)
1999 Nov 10, The California Budget
Project reported that raising a family in the Bay Area cost $53,736.
The Bay Area per-capita income was $38,300 and the federal poverty
level was $16,700.
(SFC, 11/10/99, p.A1)
1999 Nov 16, Michael Shen (57), a
Peninsula car dealer, shot and killed his girlfriend Emily Chan and
himself in his Lafayette home. He had recently pleaded guilty to fraud
charges and was in deep financial trouble.
(SFC, 11/18/99, p.A21)(SFC, 11/19/99, p.A24)
1999 Nov 24, In Berkeley a young
girl from India, Sitha Vemireddy (16), died from carbon monoxide
poisoning in an apartment owned by Lakireddy Bali Reddy (62). Later
investigations showed that Reddy's holdings in Berkeley were worth over
$50 million and that he had smug-gled in girls from India for sexual
exploitation and for work in his units. In 2001 Reddy pleaded guilty to
smuggling teenage girls from India. Bally was sentenced to over 8 years
in federal prison and ordered to pay $2 million to victims.
(SFC, 1/22/00, p.A1,8)(SFEC, 1/30/00, p.D1)(SFC,
3/8/01, p.A19)(SFC, 6/20/01, p.A15)
1999 Nov, Alice Sin (21) of Pinole
disappeared. The pregnant woman's decomposed and bul-let-riddled body
was found Jan 25, 2000, in Churchill County, Nevada.
(SFC, 1/28/00, p.A1)
1999 Dec 3, Spenger's Fish Grotto
restaurant in Berkeley reopened following a $5 million renovation.
(SFC, 12/4/99, p.A18)(SFC, 8/20/03, p.A19)
1999 Dec 9, Xiana La-Shay (7),
Xiana Fairchild, was last seen at a school bus stop in Vallejo, Ca. Her
skull was found Jan. 19, 2001, in the Los Gatos hills and police
focused on Curtis Dean Anderson as the primary suspect. Anderson
(1961-2007), while serving a 251-year sentence for another kidnapping,
was arrested in 2004 for Xiana’s murder. In 2005 Anderson pleaded
guilty to kidnapping, molesting and murdering Xiana.
(SFEC, 12/12/99, p.C1)(SSFC, 2/4/01, p.A1)(SFC,
5/12/04, p.A6)(SFC, 12/15/05, p.B1)
1999 Dec 27, Summit Medical Center
merged with Alta Bates after a judge denied a move to block the merger.
(SFC, 12/28/99, p.A1)
1999 In San Mateo prosecutors
charged Judith A. Gladsysz, an administrative assistant, with
embezzling close to $130,000 over 4 years.
(SFC, 12/9/99, p.A1)
1999 Matthew Lasar published
"Pacifica Radio: The Rise of an Alternative Network."
(SFC, 7/22/99, p.E1)
1999 The new $110 million Science
and Engineering Quad at Stanford Univ. was scheduled to0 be completed.
(SFC, 8/11/97, p.A11)
1999 A new $60 million,
81,000-sq.-ft. science center was scheduled to open in the Oakland
Hills in Joaquin Miller Park. The complex was to include a theater with
a domed screen, class-rooms, 3 telescopes and a planetarium.
(SFC, 2/19/98, p.A14)
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