San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose

The Oakland Stompers played in the original North American Soccer League for just one season. Founded as the Hartford Bicentennials??in 1975, the team moved to Oakland in 1978. In 1979, the team was purchased by Peter Pocklington, who also owned the Edmonton Oilers hockey...

It was pretty much everyone's first web browser.??The company's first product was the web browser??Mosaic Netscape 0.9,??released on October 13, 1994. Within four months of its release, it had taken three-quarters of the browser market. It was further boosted when Vice President Al Gore...

Remember kids, Electricity is your friend, but he can kill you. Check out the sticker!

Boomerang Bay was the former name of four different water parks in the U.S. Operated in conjunction with the Paramount's amusement parks, the name was derived from one of the company's movie properties. They were later rebranded after Paramount sold its amusement park division,...

The DuMont Television Network began broadcasting on June 28, 1942, the nation's third TV network behind NBC and CBS. Regular network service began on August 15, 1946. It was started by DuMont Laboratories, a maker of TVs. Financial strains and fierce competition from NBC,...

Musicland was founded in Minneapolis in 1955.?? In 1964, it merged with music distributor JL Marsh followed by merger in 1968 with record label and distributor Pickwick International. In 1977, American Can Company bought Pickwick and a year later, famed New York record store...

The Fresno Falcons were a minor league hockey team founded in 1946. The played in several leagues over the years but spent most of their existence in the played in the Pacific Southwest Hockey League (1972-1995). They joined the West Coast Hockey League (WCHL)...

After a few seasons in the West Coast Hockey League, the Fresno Falcons opted for a new logo and color scheme in 1998, before changing logos again in 2003.

The original Flying Saucer restaurant operated in the 1960s at 27th Avenue and Geary Boulevard in San Francisco. Open 24 hours a day, it featured??an all-day breakfast service and three-hour lunch service. Dinner was served until 11:00 p.m. In between, customers could purchase sandwiches,...

Fatt Dog had locations on Post Street and Pine Streets in San Francisco. Diners were advised to have napkins at the ready, as they would be soaked with dog juice after just one bite.

The Koffee Kup was a hip place to grab a cup of joe, 24 hours a day, in San Francisco.

The Crane Steak House was located on Powell street in San Francisco and was part of the Crane Hotel.

The Black Cat Bar, also known as the Black Cat Cafe, was a popular counter-culture hangout in the 1950s and early 1960s in San Francisco. It first opened in 1903, closing in 1921. It re-opened in 1933 and operated until 1963.

Neptune Fish Grotto opened in 1936 on Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco.

Opened in 1947, Biffs were a chain small coffee shops located next to gas stations mostly in the San Francisco Bay Area but with several locations in Los Angeles. They closed up shop for good in 1996.

Established in the 1950's, Tic Tock eventually had four locations in the San Francisco area.

Sambo's was a chain of sit-down, casual dining restaurants that at its peak had over 1,100 locations in 47 states. The San Francisco??location??on Lombard Street was attached??to the Motel Lanai.

Fat Boy Drive-In opened its first location in San Francisco in 1925 at the corner of??corner of 46th Street and Sloat Boulevard.??It closed in the 1970s.

Penny for your thoughts! Buy 12 CDs or tapes (or LPs), for a penny and buy just four more at "regular club prices." Not many did that last bit.

Before Spot, there was Fresh Freddie who first introduced kids to 7-Up back in the 1950's.

Founded in 1912 as Standard Oil of New Jersey after the breakup of the larger Standard Oil corporation, Esso gas stations were found all over the Northeastern United States and parts of the South starting in the 1930s. In 1972, most were re-branded Exxon....

What could be more convenient? Drive up to the little booth, drop off your film, come back the next day and see your pictures. Mail them to friends and family! Established in the early 1960s in Southern California, Fotomat grew to over 4,000 locations...

The original North American Soccer League (NASL) was formed in 1967 when the competing United Soccer Association and the National Professional Soccer League decided to join forces. For the next 12 seasons, it was the top-level league for outdoor soccer in the U.S. and...

Introduced in 1982, the Commodore 64 is the single best selling computer model of all time. Along with the Apple II, it helped usher in the era of home computing for millions.

Australia's Wonderland opened on December 7, 1985, as the sixth member of the Kings Entertainment amusement park family. At 219 acres, it was the largest amusement park in the Southern Hemisphere. The park's design was based mostly on Canada's Wonderland. It was also a...

It's one of the world's most famous ice cream bars.

In the early 1950s, between 20,000-60,000 people a year were becoming afflicted with polio. Jonas Salk and his team at the University of Pittsburgh developed a polio vaccine in 1952. By 1955 a campaign to vaccinate children in the U.S. was launched. ALbert Sabin...

There was no dad quite like Danny Tanner.?? *A portion of proceeds benefits the Scleroderma Research Foundation.??

Go retro with this mid-century leprechaun.

California was admitted to the union on September 9, 1850. Settled over 13,000 by some of the continents first inhabitants, it??one of the most culturally and linguistically diverse areas in pre-Columbian America. Today, it's still rich in culture and natural wonders.??