Portal:San Francisco Bay Area/Years/54

1961

Aerial photograph of Chabot College

• The Moore Dry Dock Company in Oakland ceases operations
• Chabot College (pictured) is established in Hayward
• The Frontier Village amusement park in San Jose opens
• Melvin Calvin of the University of California, Berkeley, Andrew Benson and James Bassham are awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of the Calvin cycle