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