Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/56

1959
 * The Embarcadero Freeway (pictured) opens in San Francisco, the same year the San Francisco Board of Supervisors votes to cancel seven of ten planned freeways
 * The Montgomery Block building (pictured) in San Francisco is demolished
 * Henry W. Coe State Park (pictured), in the Diablo Range in Santa Clara and Stanislaus counties, is established
 * Jack London State Historic Park, on the eastern slope of Sonoma Mountain, is established
 * The Crown-Zellerbach Building in San Francisco is completed
 * The San Francisco Mime Troupe is formed in San Francisco, performing (despite its name) musical political satire
 * Union City is incorporated in Alameda County
 * Owen Chamberlain and Emilio Segrè at the University of California, Berkeley are awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for their discovery of the antiproton