Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/28

1987


 * Art Agnos is elected mayor of San Francisco
 * Punk rock band Green Day (Billie Joe Armstrong pictured) forms in the East Bay, with early gigs at 924 Gilman in Berkeley
 * Security software company McAfee is founded in Santa Clara
 * Biotech pharmaceutical company Gilead Sciences is founded in Foster City
 * The Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority light rail system (logo pictured) begins operation
 * The Sonoma Coast AVA is established
 * Nancy Pelosi is elected to California's 5th congressional district
 * Cleve Jones and Mike Smith begin work in San Francisco on a quilt project to memorialize people who had died from AIDS