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
Ballet San Jose 2006 shortened its name to simply Ballet San Jose. In 2003 the company gained benefactor and current chairman of the board John Fry, co-founder of Fry's Electronics.with a 1 million dollar contribution. Fry helped the company survive the dot-com crash and continued to support the company until he closed it in 2016. Over the years Fry became personally involved and Ballet San Jose faced increasing Fry's support, prompting Karen Loewenstern, founding board chair of Cleveland San Jose Ballet to say "...he bought himself a ballet company." By 2007, still lead by founding artistic director, Dennis Nahat, there was a resident