Here are the results, with the number of votes for each item. Earthquake and fire destroy much of San Francisco in 1906. The Bay Bridge links the East Bay with San Francisco in 1936, curtailing the Bay's network of ferries. Golden Gate Bridge opens Marin County to development, 1937. Loma Prieta earthquake in 1989 collapses Cypress freeway structure in Oakland, damages and shuts down Bay Bridge and causes widespread damage.
Silicon Valley leads the nation's high-tech development.
BART trains cross San Francisco Bay, link East Bay, San Francisco, Peninsula. Oakland hills fire destroys 3,400 homes and kills 25 people in 1991. United Nations formed in San Francisco. AIDS takes a heavy toll in San Francisco in the 1970s and 1980s, but health workers and volunteers set up model prevention and treatment system. Richmond becomes a major shipbuilding center during World War II, and wartime industries boom throughout the East Bay.