Timeline of the San Francisco Bay Area Gate across the bay<br> Atherton is incorporated in San Mateo County<br> California Memorial Stadium "(pictured, right)" opens in Berkeley, as the home field for the California Golden Bears football team of the University of California, Berkeley<br> The East Bay Municipal Utility District is formed to provide water and sewage treatment services to the East Bay<br> The San Francisco Opera Ballet gives its first performance, of "La bohème" "(pictured, left)", with Queena Mario and Giovanni Martinelli, conducted by founder Gaetano Merola, at the San Francisco Civic Auditorium 1924 1925 The heated, saltwater Fleishhacker Pool in San Francisco opens "(pictured, left)"<br> The
Ferries of San Francisco Bay Jack London Square is today, fronting on what is today called the Oakland Estuary, an inlet of San Francisco Bay. The estuary, which in the 1800s included what is today's Lake Merritt, was the "creek". In 1851, Captain Thomas Gray, grandfather of the famous dancer Isadora Duncan, began the first regular ferry service to San Francisco from the East Bay. The first railroad ferries on San Francisco Bay were established by the San Francisco and Oakland Railroad and the San Francisco and Alameda Railroad (SF&A) which were taken over by the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR) in 1870 to become an