Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/74

1941
 * Treasure Island is leased to the United States Navy, which opens Naval Station Treasure Island the next year
 * World War II enlistment commences in the Bay Area (San Francisco recruiting office pictured)
 * A two-masted schooner, Benicia, built in Tahiti by a shipwright who had worked in Matthew Turner's Benicia shipyard, arrives in San Francisco under the French flag
 * The Xerces Blue butterfly is last observed in San Francisco either this year, or in 1943