Dianne Feinstein's political career will end in 2024. Just how long has she been in office? Longer than these landmarks of The City.
When Dianne Feinstein was sworn into the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for fer first term in elected office, Willie McCovey was the Giants' first baseman, Lisa and Michael were the most popular children's names for almost a decade running and"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" was the No. 1 movie in the U.S.
With that kind of history, Feinstein is an institution in her own right. Her political career has spanned long enough to be older than a number of other Bay Area institutions, milestones and traditions, some of which will surely surprise you.Sly and the Family Stone are as synonymous with the San Francisco sound they helped pioneer as any other artist, but their greatest commercial success came nearly two years into Feinstein's first term on the Board of Supervisors.
Some 2,000 people marched and another 15,000 watched the parade's inaugural iteration, which unlike so many of its successors didn't have a theme. Since then, the parade has expanded and endured as a San Francisco institution. The pyramid faced criticism in its own backyard and beyond before it even opened, with nearby residents protesting its construction and architectural writers across the country panning its design. To detractors' disbelief, the Transamerica Pyramid celebrated its 50th anniversary last year.
The computer's release put a company 50 miles down the road from San Francisco on the map, brought personal computing into the mainstream and, arguably, is the point from which other subsequent developments — consumer internet, smartphones and social media, to name just three — have sprung.
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