Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/102

1913
 * Chauncey Thomas opens The Tile Shop on San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley to make and sell faience tiles (Hearst Castle tower, decorated with tiles from California Faience, pictured)
 * Dewing Park in Contra Costa County is renamed Saranap after the local inter-urban commuter rail system developer's mother, Sara Napthaly
 * John Swett, former Superintendent of the San Francisco Public Schools, and "Father of the California public school", dies