Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/40

1975
 * George Moscone is elected mayor of San Francisco
 * The Marine Mammal Center is established in the Marin Headlands at a former Nike Missile site
 * Gary Snyder's 1974 Turtle Island (after the Goano'ganoch'sa'jeh'seroni name for the lands of North America) wins the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry
 * The San Francisco Review of Books is founded by Ronald Nowicki
 * The Golden State Warriors win the NBA Finals