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1956
Caffe Trieste interior
Half Moon Bay State Beach
- Caffe Trieste (pictured) opens in San Francisco
- The Republican National Convention is held at the Cow Palace in San Francisco
- The Argonaut ceases publication in San Francisco
- Half Moon Bay State Beach (pictured) is established in San Mateo County
- The Hayward Area Historical Society is founded
- Williams-Sonoma opens its first store in Sonoma
- George Christopher is elected mayor of San Francisco
- While living with poet Gary Snyder outside Mill Valley, Jack Kerouac works on a book centering around Snyder, which he considers calling Visions of Gary
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