Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/53

1962
 * Marine World (pictured) opens in Redwood Shores
 * Ramparts, a left-wing political and literary magazine, is founded in Menlo Park
 * The Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (pictured) is established in Menlo Park
 * Sproul Plaza is completed at the University of California, Berkeley
 * General Motors' Fremont Assembly plant opens